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Cheng Zhaoxiang
Executive Director
czx@pku.edu.cn
Cheng is also professor of English Department of
Peking University, and dean of School of Foreign
Languages of Peking University. His specialist fields
are British drama, American drama, Shakespeare
study and western liberal education. He has given
courses in Elizabethan drama, Shakespearean
drama and Readings in Liberal Education. His
current research subject is focused on “Shakespeare
and the Modern World.”
Executive Director
czx@pku.edu.cn
Cheng is also professor of English Department of
Peking University, and dean of School of Foreign
Languages of Peking University. His specialist fields
are British drama, American drama, Shakespeare
study and western liberal education. He has given
courses in Elizabethan drama, Shakespearean
drama and Readings in Liberal Education. His
current research subject is focused on “Shakespeare
and the Modern World.”
Joseph Graves
Artistic Director
joseph.graves@beijingrep.com
Over the last twenty-seven years, Joseph has directed
over fifty stage productions, including classical,
contemporary, musical theatre and opera, in America,
Great Britain and China, such productions include:
Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, A Midsummer’s Night
Dream, The Alchemist, The Sea Gull, Three Sisters,
The Private Lives of The Master Race and Fiddler on
the Roof at such notable venues as: The Welsh
National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, and The
Haymarket Theatre (West End) in Great Britain and
numerous theatres throughout America as well as
several in China.
He has appeared as an actor in over one hundred stage roles, and dozens of television
productions, performing such famous characters as Hamlet, Henry V, King Lear,
Richard III, Tartuffe and Uncle Vanya to name but a few. Graves has also written
extensively for film and stage, including such films as Sweetwater for Viacom, and
Hannah and Jack for Academy Award winner, Sir John Mills, along with many others.
His plays, such as Revoco, Bunyan, and Word Circus, have received productions at
such venues as The Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles, Perth Repertory Theatre in Great
Britain and The Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia. His latest play, Revel’s World of
Shakespeare, was given its world premiere in Beijing in the summer of 2005.
Joseph received his formal theatrical training at The London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and currently lives in Beijing, China and Los Angeles, California.
Artistic Director
joseph.graves@beijingrep.com
Over the last twenty-seven years, Joseph has directed
over fifty stage productions, including classical,
contemporary, musical theatre and opera, in America,
Great Britain and China, such productions include:
Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, A Midsummer’s Night
Dream, The Alchemist, The Sea Gull, Three Sisters,
The Private Lives of The Master Race and Fiddler on
the Roof at such notable venues as: The Welsh
National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, and The
Haymarket Theatre (West End) in Great Britain and
numerous theatres throughout America as well as
several in China.
He has appeared as an actor in over one hundred stage roles, and dozens of television
productions, performing such famous characters as Hamlet, Henry V, King Lear,
Richard III, Tartuffe and Uncle Vanya to name but a few. Graves has also written
extensively for film and stage, including such films as Sweetwater for Viacom, and
Hannah and Jack for Academy Award winner, Sir John Mills, along with many others.
His plays, such as Revoco, Bunyan, and Word Circus, have received productions at
such venues as The Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles, Perth Repertory Theatre in Great
Britain and The Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia. His latest play, Revel’s World of
Shakespeare, was given its world premiere in Beijing in the summer of 2005.
Joseph received his formal theatrical training at The London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and currently lives in Beijing, China and Los Angeles, California.
