BILLY CHAN is one of the renowned theatre lighting designer in Hong Kong.

 

His design works include opera & Chinese opera, ballet, modern dance, drama and concert. Apart from lighting, his passion for theatre also made him to become technical director and production manager in different projects and performing companies.

 

He was one of the featured designers representing HK at the Prague Quadrennial Scenography Design Exhibition, in 2007, 2011 & 2015, with the lighting design works of Colour Fugue 逐色 [PD07] by City Contemporary Dance Company, My Life As a TV    萬千師奶賀台慶 [PQ11] by Edward Lam Dance Theatre & PIP Theatre, and What is Success? 三國 [PQ15] by Edward Lam Dance Theatre respectively. 

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He has been awarded Best Stage Art (Lighting Design) at Shanghai Modern Drama Valley One Drama Awards in 2017, with Edward Lam Dance Theatre’s What is Sex? 紅樓夢. And apart from Secret of Resurrection 梨花夢 (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre) in 2008, he was awarded again Best Lighting Design at the Hong Kong Drama Awards by Rashomon 羅生門 (Chung Ying Theatre) in 2019, and Outstanding Lighting Design at the Hong Kong Dance Awards by Waiting Heart 紫玉成煙 (Hong Kong Dance Company) in the same year.

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He was one of the two curators of the Hong Kong Theatre Design Exhibition 2013-15: PARALLEL SPACE and the Hong Kong Exposition in the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space [PQ15]. 

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