Lee Xiao-Pin

Cross-genre director of opera and contemporary drama, Lee gained his master degree in directing from the Graduate School for Theatre Arts of the TNUA, he is the winner of 15th Taiwan Award For Arts, and Chinese Writers Artists Association Opera Director Award recipient. Former member of Lu Kuang Opera Troupe and the Fu Hsing Dramatic Arts Academy (now the TCPA), founding member of contemporary Legend Theatre, he creates in a wide range of genres, with works that span multiple  categories, fields, and cultures.

Representative works include: (For Guo Guang Opera) Kangxi and Oboi; Liao Tianding; Journey Through Hell; Sing, Pray, Pasibutbut – A Bunun Musical; Li Shi Min and the Upright Official; Three Persons Under Two Lamps; The Golden Cangue; Sunlight After Snowfall; Meng Xiaodong; The Lonely Spirit; One Hundred Years on Stage; Butterfly Lovers; Queen Yan and Her Clowns; Water Sleeves and Rouge; (for Beijing opera) Farewell My Concubine – In Search for a Lost Afternoon; Mister Goodman Dumps His Wife; Whispers at a Tombstone, etc.

In recent years, Lee has been invited to direct the 2010 Sichuan opera The Sun Sets on Qi Mountain; contemporary Kunqu 2012 Peony Pavilion, 2013 Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe Smoke In the Temple; 2014 Shanghai Grand Theater Golden Thread Song; 2015 contemporary Kunqu Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring; 2016 contemporary Kunqu I – Hamlet; 2019 musical theatre production Emperor Zhao’s Expedition; 2022 stage drama Love In a Fallen City, and other productions that met with wide acclaim, and earned Lee renown as a director from both sides of the strait. His 2016 production of the gaojia opera Dadaocheng also received the prestigious ‘Five Works of Excellence’ award.