UNFINISHED FAREWELL

Chan Ping Chiu is a director, playwright, and theatre programme curator and currently the artistic director of On & On Theatre Workshop. During the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, he staged a series of plays about the identity crises experienced by the people of Hong Kong and founded the first non-government run independent theatre, the Cattle Depot Theatre. Chan Ping Chiu joined the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in 2019. Among his most important works are hamlet b, The Post-modern God of Food, and Tête-bêche.

Betty Yi-Chun Chen is dramaturg and translator. She studied English Literature and Theatre Studies in Taipei and Bochum. From 2012 to 2022, she worked with the Taipei Arts Festival. As a freelance dramaturg she has worked with artists and curators from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Germany. A constant emphasis in her work is the friction between individual and collective narratives. She writes about contemporary practices of political theatre and has translated books and plays from German/English to Chinese. Betty Yi-Chun Chen is co-curator of this year's SPIELART Theatre Festival.