Joyce Cheung is a Hong Kong theatre producer. She graduated with an advanced diploma from the School of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing arts; a Bachelor of Arts (1st class honours) in directing from the School of Drama; and a Master of Arts in comparative and public history from the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been actively involved in the radio, film, theatre and publishing industries, working both on- and off-stage in theatre production, distribution and promotion as a producer, book editor and writer.
Cheung was the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Film Awards Association (1993-2000). She has been involved in planning and producing many theatre projects, include "Legend of the Mad Phoenix", *Shanghai Blues* and "Enigma Variations". More recently, she was the producer of "EQUUS, God of Carnage" (premiere and re-run) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and executive producer of "Tonnochy".
Cheung founded the renamed SCHOOLMATES.CC in 2003 as a publisher of performing arts-related books and cultural events planner. She is currently its production director and chief editor. In 2013, she co-founded
Dionysus Contemporary Theatre with
Anthony Wong and
Olivia Yan, and is its administration director. Besides supervising the theatre's productions, she has conducted two terms of courses for theatre producers.
Cheung was the Chairman of the HKAPA alumni association (2014-2016) and was selected as a drama-arts advisor by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Productions
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EQUUS
Equus may refer to:
* ''Equus'' (genus), a genus of animals including horses, donkeys and zebras
* ''Equus'' (play), a play by Peter Shaffer
* ''Equus'' (film), a film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play
* Equus (comics), a comic book characte ...
(May 2014)
* Tonnochy (2014-2015)
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Le Dieu Du Carnage (August 2015)
* Le Dieu Du Carnage (Re-run) (January 2016)
* Le Dieu Du Carnage (Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts) (February 2016)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...
(September 2016)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts) (February 2017)
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Speed the Plow
''Speed-the-Plow'' is a 1988 play by David Mamet that is a satirical dissection of the American movie business. As stated in ''The Producer's Perspective'', "this is a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films ''Wag the Dog'' (1997) and ''St ...
(September 2017)
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Hong Kong theatre people