Check out this segment on Wild Swans from WGBH:
China, at the heart of the 20th Century, became a nation transformed beyond recognition. Through the eyes of one fiercely courageous family, Wild Swans takes us on a journey from the early days of Communist hope and struggle, through the chaos and confusion of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, to the birth of a superpower. An astonishing human story, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China has sold more than 13 million copies in 36 languages. This first ever stage version brings together author Jung Chang with playwright Alexandra Wood, director Sacha Wares, designer Miriam Buether and Beijing video artist Wang Gongxin.
2012 Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award recipient
An A.R.T./ Young Vic/ Actors Touring Company co-production.
Read the features on Wild Swans in the A.R.T. Spring 2011-2012 Guide.
Notable dates
Recommended for ages 12+
Run Time: 90 minutes with no intermission.
ASL perfomances:
Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 PM
Tuesday, February 28 at 7:30 PM
Audio-described performances:
Wednesday, February 29 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 3 at 2:00 PM
Discussions
To accompany Wild Swans, the A.R.T. has organized a discussion series in collaboration with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. For more information about the series, please click here.
The upcoming dates are:
Wednesday, March 7, following the 2:00 p.m. performance. Discussion with the cast of Wild Swans.
Saturday, March 10, following the 2:00 p.m. performance. Discussion with the cast of Wild Swans.
Also presented in conjunction with Wild Swans:
Photos & Videos
Press
Credits
Creative team
Written by
Jung Chang
Written by
Jung Chang
Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) she worked as a peasant, a barefoot doctor, a steelworker and an electrician before becoming an English-language student. In 1978 she moved to Britain and in 1982 became the first person from the People’s Republic of China to earn a PhD from a British university. Wild Swans and her other best-selling book, Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Adapted by
Alexandra Wood
Adapted by
Alexandra Wood
Alexandra’s play, The Eleventh Capital, was produced by the Royal Court as part of their Young Writers’ Festival in 2007, for which she won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. She was one of the writers to contribute to Decade, directed by Rupert Goold, which explored the legacy of 9/11 ten years on. Other plays include: The Andes (a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); Thirty Two Years Is Nothing and Expecting, BAC; Unbroken, Gate Theatre; Miles To Go, Latitude Festival; The Lion’s Mouth, Rough Cuts at the Royal Court; and the radio play Twelve Years, BBC 4.
Directed by
Sacha Wares
Directed by
Sacha Wares
Sacha is an Associate Director of both the Royal Court and Young Vic Theatres in London. Her recent work includes Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch, debbie tucker green’s random, and Mike Bartlett’s My Child (all at Royal Court). Other work includes debbie tucker green’s generations (Young Vic) and trade (Royal Shakespeare Company), Michel Houllebecq’s Platform (ICA), Caryl Churchill’s A Number at Theatre Project Tokyo. She was also co-director of Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” at the Tricycle Theatre in 2004, which transferred to London’s West End and New York.
Scenic Design
Miriam Buether
Scenic Design
Miriam Buether
Theater: King Lear, Public Theater; Decade, St Katherine’s Dock, Headlong; Earthquakes in London (2011 Olivier Award nomination, 2010 Evening Standard Award), National Theatre; Sucker Punch (2010 Evening Standard Award), Get Santa, Relocated, My Child, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004/5 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland), Way to Heaven, Cock, Royal Court Theatre; Judgement Day (2009 Evening Standard Award nomination), When the Rain Stops Falling, Almeida Theatre; Everybody Loves a Winner, Manchester International Festival; Government Inspector, In the Red and Brown Water (2008 Evening Standard Award Nomination), The Good Soul of Szechuan, generations, The Bee, Red Demon, Young Vic; Six Characters in Search of an Author, Chichester, WE, Sidney; The Bacchae, Realism, National Theatre of Scotland, EIF; Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Tricycle Theatre, WE, New York and San Francisco; Red Demon, The Bee, written/directed Hideki Noda, Japan; Long Time Dead, pool (no water), Theatre Royal Plymouth; Trade, RSC at Soho Theatre. Dance: Body of Poetry, Komische Oper Berlin; Hartstocht, Introdans, Neatherland; Possibly Six, Tenderhooks, Canadian National Ballet; Opera: Anna Nicole, ROH; Trittico/Suor Angelica, ROH; Turandot, ENO; The Sacrifice, WNO. Additional awards: 2008 Hospital Club Creative Award for Theatre; Overall winner of The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999. Born in Germany, Miriam trained in theatre design at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London and in costume design at the Akademie für Kostüm Design, Hamburg.
Costume Design
Tom Rand
Costume Design
Tom Rand
Costume credits: West End: The Philadelphia Story; Boston Marriage, Donmar Warehouse; Medea; Twelve Angry Men; Ashes to Ashes - world premiere; The Hothouse; What The Butler Saw; Three Tall Women; A Letter of Resignation; Taking Sides; Burn This; and Holiday. Regional: Quartermaine’s Terms, Tour. Set and Costume credits: Off Broadway: Beau Brummell and Cooking For Kings, The Ideas Foundry/59E59. West End: The Birthday Party; Relative Values; A Kind of Alaska, The Lover, The Collection, Donmar Warehouse. Regional: An Ideal Husband, Moonstone, The Importance of Being Ernest, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Over thirty feature film costume credits including: The Count of Monte Cristo; Un Pont Entre Deux Rives, directed by Gerard Depardieu; A Business Affair; The Power of One; Young Toscanini, directed by Franco Zeffirelli; Eleni, directed by Peter Yates; The Pirates of Penzance; The Shooting Party; The French Lieutenant’s Woman (nominated for a BAFTA and Oscar), directed by Karel Reisz and The Duellists (nominated for a BAFTA), directed by Ridley Scott. First Prize at the Bandiero D’Argento Festival in Italy for contribution to the art of costume design.
Lighting Design
D M Wood
Lighting Design
D M Wood
A.R.T.: Romance, Romeo and Juliet. Recent credits: Werther, Minnesota Opera; Die Liebe Der Danae, Bard Summerscape; Il Trittico, Anna Nicole (world premiere Co-Design), Royal Opera House. Ms. Wood has also designed productions for Virginia Opera, Long Beach Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Colorado, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Opern-Haus Graz (Austria), and the Savonlinna Opera (Finland). Her work in theatre includes designs for Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), Primary Stages - NYC, NYSF - The Public Theater, Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Centerstage, Trinity Repertory Company, and Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Sound Design
Gareth Fry
Sound Design
Gareth Fry
A.R.T.: Barber Shop Chronicles, Wild Swans. Recent US Theater: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; The Encounter (with Pete Malkin); Shun-kin, The Noise of Time, Complicité; Black Watch, Let The Right One In, National Theatre of Scotland. Gareth’s work includes over twenty productions at the National Theatre, over twenty at the Royal Court and countless more, including the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. Awards include two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, and an IRNE award, as well as three Olivier Awards, an Evening Standard Award, and two Helpmann Awards.
Video Design
Wang GongXin
Movement Direction
Leon Baugh
Movement Direction
Leon Baugh
Dancer: In Your Rooms, Uprising, Political Mother, Hofesh Shechter; Lullaby, Park, Jasmin Vardimo; Masurca Fogo (Walrus), Pina Bausch. Leon has also worked with with Stan Wont Dance and Frantic Assembly. Choreographer: Sucker Punch (2010 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography), Royal Court Theatre. He is also a sports injury therapist and training Osteopath.
Projection Design
Tim Reid
Projection Design
Tim Reid
Tim has designed video effects and playback systems for shows that range from experimental small-scale works to full-scale opera, ballet and theater productions. He has designed video for Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Ballet, The Edinburgh International Festival, DV8 Physical Theatre, Wee Stories, David Leddy, Dogstar, Theatre By The Lake, The Arches, Random Accomplice, Dancebase and TAG. He has worked as Head of Video for the National Theatre of Scotland and toured internationally as a video technician with DV8 Physical Theatre. More information and images of his work can be found at www.timreid.info.
Music Direction
Joanna Zenghui Qiu
Music Direction
Joanna Zenghui Qiu
Principal musician for Mei Lanfang Beijing Opera Company and London Jing Kun Opera Association. Performed inconcerts at the Royal Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and WOMEX & WOMAD world music festivals. Music director/performer in stage productions including Golden Dragon, ATC; Why the Lion Danced, Yellow Earth; Slippery Mountain, Not So Loud; contributor to Monkey: Journey to the West. Graduate of Tianjin Opera School and the China National Beijing Opera College. Plays thirteen different instruments.
Puppet Design
Michael Fowkes
Associate Director
Ramin Gray
US Casting
Zoe Rotter
US Casting
Zoe Rotter
Casting Director credits include: Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, Two River Theater Company; Breakfast At Tiffany’s (co-cast with Ilene Starger); upcoming remount of Einstein on the Beach; and BEARCITY. She is also casting her second season of Selected Shorts at Symphony Space. She has worked on films such as X-Men: First Class, Cold Souls, Kickass, Notorious, Music Lyrics, Night at the Museum, and School of Rock.
UK Casting
Julia Horan CDG
UK Casting
Julia Horan CDG
A.R.T.: Wild Swans. For Kiln/Tricycle: Girl on an Altar; Pass Over; Red Velvet, St. Ann’s Warehouse. Recent theater: A Little Life, West End; A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, The Doctor, Three Sisters, The Wild Duck, Machinal, The Writer, The Treatment, Oil, Uncle Vanya, Medea, Game, Mr Burns, Before the Party, Almeida Theatre; Sons of the Prophet, Hampstead Theatre; The Jungle, Young Vic/West End/Curran, San Francisco/St Ann’s Warehouse; Blood Wedding, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Fun Home, Yellowman, Wings, Life of Galileo, Once in a Lifetime, Blue/Orange, The Trial, Ah, Wilderness!, Man, Happy Days, Public Enemy, The Shawl, Young Vic; Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse; Summer and Smoke, The Twilight Zone, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, Chimerica, Almeida Theatre/West End; All About Eve, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End; Yerma, Young Vic Theatre/Park Ave Armory; The Inheritance, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Young Vic/West End; Obsession, Hamlet, Barbican; City of Glass, 59 Productions; Tipping The Velvet, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre; Martyr, ATC; The Seagull, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Chichester Festival Theatre; Hope, Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Wolf from the Door, Adler & Gibb, Birdland, Khandan, The Mistress Contract, The Pass, Pigeons, Gastronauts, Royal Court Theatre; The Nether, Royal Court/West End; A View from the Bridge, Young Vic/West End/Broadway; Spring Awakening, The Seagull, Headlong; Another Country, Chichester Theatre Festival/West End; The Events, Actors Touring Company/Young Vic; A Doll’s House, West End/BAM; The Lighthouse Keeper, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; The Winslow Boy, The Old Vic. TV/Film: Together, BAFTA Winner Single Drama 2022), Hamlet, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, The Exception, Departure, The Trial – A Murder in the Family.
Hair & Wig Design
Campbell Young Associates
Hair & Wig Design
Campbell Young Associates
Broadway: Ghost the Musical, Private Lives, Spider-Man, La Bête, Mary Stuart, Rock ’n’ Roll. Touring USA: Les Misérables. For the Young Vic: Hamlet, Government Inspector, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, Vernon God Little, Six Characters Looking for an Author. London: Sweeney Todd, Ghost, Betrayal, Million Dollar Quartet, The Children’s Hour, La Bête, Love Never Dies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Priscilla, Oliver, Billy Elliot, An Inspector Calls. Opera: Prima Donna, NYC and MIF; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WNO; Der Freischütz, Baden-Baden; Tristan und Isolde, La Scala; From the House of the Dead, Vienna Festival.
Sound Associate
Dominic Bilkey
Sound Associate
Dominic Bilkey
Sound Design credits include: Dr Marigold and Mr Chops, Masterclass, Bath Theatre Royal; Twelfth Night, See How They Run, Dancing At Lughnasa, Original Theatre; Pandora, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants; After Troy, Lifeblood Theatre; Journey’s End, Icarus/Original Theatre; In The Solitude of Cotton Fields, Young Vic; The Space Between My Head and My Body, Gin in the Tea; The Only Girl in the World, Fractured Venus; The Railway Children, Sevenoaks Playhouse; Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy, Rapunzel, Kneehigh Theatre; Souterrain, Cornwall, WildWorks. Associate Credits include: The Government Inspector, Young Vic; The Hound of The Baskervilles, Ian Fricker; Voyage Round My Father, Donmar Warehouse.
Movement Associate
Joanne Fong
Movement Associate
Joanne Fong
Rambert Dance Company; Rosas, Belgium; Royal Exchange Theatre Company; National Theatre,London; Quarantine Theatre; National Dance Company Wales; Robin Dingeman Productions; DV8 Physical Theatre; Bock and Vincenzi; Jeremy James and Company; Mark Bruce Company; Arc Dance Company; Reflex, Holland; Ricochet. Winner of Best Female Award by the Critic’s Dance Circle for the role of Nastasya Flippovna in Elegy. Choreographer and co-director for Snag Project; Independent choreographer Welsh Independent Dance; Wales Millenium Centre; Arnolfini, Bristol; Opera production of Nabucco, Japan; National Dance Company Wales. Joanne is an Associate Choreographer for Welsh Dance Productions.
Research and Promotion Assistant
Hong Yane Wang
Research and Promotion Assistant
Hong Yane Wang
Film: Red Cliff (Assistant to Line Producer, directed by John Woo); The Warrior and the Wolf (Interpreter, directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang); The Blue Bone (AD, directed by Cui Jian); The Monkey King (VFX Assistant, directed by Cheang Pou-soi). Hong Yane Wang was born in Beijing and now lives and works in London. She has an M.A. in Film Studies, Beijing Normal University and an M.A. Filmmaking, Goldsmiths College.
Assistant Director
Kate Hewitt
Assistant Director
Kate Hewitt
Currently one of the Jerwood Assistant directors at the Young Vic, Artistic Associate Electra (Gate Theatre 2011 & Latitude festival 2011), Assistant Director on the following productions: Clybourne Park, Wyndhams Theatre West End 2011 and Royal Court 2010; Through a Glass Darkly, The Almeida 2010; Breathing Irregular, The Gate, 2010. Co-creator with You Need Me theatre company: How it Ended, Arcola 2009 and Edinburgh fringe; Certain Dark Things, 2010 Tabacco Factory and The Underbelly, Edinburgh; two years Lecoq physical theatre training at L.I.S.P.A, B.A. Hons in Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths University London.
Stage Managers
Vicky Berry
The Glass Menagerie, I Am Yusuf and This is My Brother, Amazonia, You Can Se the Hills, A Respectable Wedding, The Enchanted Pig, Tobias and the Angel, THe Knight of the Burning Pestle, Sleeping Beauty, Cruel and Tender, Young Vic; The Comedy of Erros, The God of Soho, Doctor Faustus, The Bible, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Love's Labours Lost, Helen, Romeo and Juliet, The Frontline, King Lear, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; Major Barbara, Women of Troy, National Theatre.
Stage Managers
Chris De Camillis
A.R.T: thirty productions in fifteen years at A.R.T. as Artistic Coordinator/Resident Stage Manager. Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Misery, It’s Only a Play, The Glass Menagerie. Off-Broadway: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven; The Hard Problem, Pride’s Crossing, Lincoln Center; Much Ado About Nothing, NYSF/Delacorte; The Total Bent, Public Theater; Parable of the Sower, Public Theater Under the Radar Festival; Oliver Twist, TFNA. For Esch, Tommy, Jeremy, and Jan.
Cast
Yu-Fang
Julyana Soelistyo
Yu-Fang
Julyana Soelistyo
A.R.T: Children of Heracles directed by Peter Sellars. New York: The Glorious Ones (Armanda), Lincoln Center; On The Town, City Center; Pericles (Marina), BAM; Golden Child (Tony nomination, Drama League, Clarence Derwent Award), Broadway. Regional: Iphigenia At Aulis (Yale Repertory Theatre), Macbeth (Center Stage), Cymbeline (Intiman), Naomi's Road (SCT). More recently, Julyana played Ariel in The Tempest with Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Film: The Tempest, Earthly Possessions, Bringing Out The Dead. Julyana received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater. She lives in New York with her husband and their children, Coco and Leon.
Actors’ Equity Association member
De-Hong
Ka-Ling Cheung
De-Hong
Ka-Ling Cheung
National Tour: The King and I, Theater Under the Stars. Regional: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Weston Playhouse, Portland Center Stage; Metamorphoses, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Artists Repertory Theater; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; An Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory; A Christmas Carol, American Conservatory Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, American Conservatory Theatre - Zeum; The Tempest, L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Co.; Once on this Island, Flower Drum Song, The Western Stage; It’s a Bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman, 42nd St. Moon. New York: Othello, Twelfth Night, Leviathan Lab; The Tempest, Theater1010; 7.11 Convenience Theater, Desipina & Co. Film/Television: “Law and Order: SVU,” “One Life to Live,” China Dolls. Graduate of American Conservatory Theatre. Proud member of Leviathan Lab and Homunculus Mask Theater.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Shou-Yu
Orion Lee
Shou-Yu
Orion Lee
U.K. credits: The Wheel (winner of Fringe First and Amnesty International Awards), National Theatre of Scotland; Enron (winner of TMA Best New Play Award), Headlong; The Peddler’s Tale, In Extremis. Appeared in multiple productions at LAMBDA, including The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, Our Boys. Film/Television: Macbeth (title role), The Shorthouse Organization; Creeping Zero, “The Jury,” “Silent Witness.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Ting
Celeste Den
Ting
Celeste Den
Regional: Laws of Sympathy, Playwrights’ Arena; The Joy Luck Club, East West Players; Othello, The Boston Court; Between Two Friends, Island, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville; The Merchant of Venice, L.A. Women’s Shakespeare. Film/Television: Larry Crowne; “The Doctor,” Warner Brothers; “Criminal Minds,” CBS. Graduate of the California Institute of the Arts.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Bolin
Jon Kit Lee
Bolin
Jon Kit Lee
Film/ Television: Shanghai Hotel, A Crime, Romeo Must Die, The Corrupter.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Heng
Victor Chi
Heng
Victor Chi
Regional: Angel Street, Lizard Theater; Layover in L.A., Alexandria Hotel Black Box; Making It Big, Raven Playhouse; Persimmons in Winter, MACLA San Jose; The Waiting Room, The Visit, Studio Theater, Riverside. Film/Television: Heartburn, My Name is Charlie Wong, Internal Behaviors, “Tim and Eric Awesome Show.” Graduate of the University of California, Riverside.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Zhen
Joanna Zenghui Qiu
Zhen
Joanna Zenghui Qiu
Principal musician for Mei Lanfang Beijing Opera Company and London Jing Kun Opera Association. Performed inconcerts at the Royal Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and WOMEX & WOMAD world music festivals. Music director/performer in stage productions including Golden Dragon, ATC; Why the Lion Danced, Yellow Earth; Slippery Mountain, Not So Loud; contributor to Monkey: Journey to the West. Graduate of Tianjin Opera School and the China National Beijing Opera College. Plays thirteen different instruments.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Huifen
Joanne Fong
Huifen
Joanne Fong
Rambert Dance Company; Rosas, Belgium; Royal Exchange Theatre Company; National Theatre,London; Quarantine Theatre; National Dance Company Wales; Robin Dingeman Productions; DV8 Physical Theatre; Bock and Vincenzi; Jeremy James and Company; Mark Bruce Company; Arc Dance Company; Reflex, Holland; Ricochet. Winner of Best Female Award by the Critic’s Dance Circle for the role of Nastasya Flippovna in Elegy. Choreographer and co-director for Snag Project; Independent choreographer Welsh Independent Dance; Wales Millenium Centre; Arnolfini, Bristol; Opera production of Nabucco, Japan; National Dance Company Wales. Joanne is an Associate Choreographer for Welsh Dance Productions.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Dr. Wan
Eric Chan
Dr. Wan
Eric Chan
Original Broadway companies: Flower Drum Song (Mr. Lee, Broadway revival company), Miss Saigon (Assistant Comissar), SHOGUN The Musical (Omi-san), Anything Goes (Louie), revival, Lincoln Center. New York: Take Me America (Winner Best Actor 2006, Midtown International Theatre Festival). Film/Television: New York I Love You; 3 A.M., Showtime; “Life On Mars,” ABC; “Fringe,” FOX; “Lipstick Jungle,” NBC; “As The World Turns,” CBS.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Governor Lin
Ron Nakahara
Governor Lin
Ron Nakahara
New York: Rashomon, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre; Earth and Sky, Second Stage; The Three Sisters, Pan Asian; Romeo and Juliet, NYSF/Public Theatre; As You Like It, NYSF/Public Theatre; Danton’s Death, LaMama E.T.C.; The School for Wives, NATCO; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pan Asian. Regional: The Merchant of Venice, Hartford Stage Co.; Comedy of Errors, The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.; The Screens, The Guthrie Theatre; Othello, Alliance Theatre Atlanta; The Empress of China, Cincinnati Playhouse; Cyrano, ACT, San Francisco; Taming of the Shrew, ACT; Diary of a Scoundrel, Hawaii Public Theatre. Film/Television: College Road Trip, I Think I Love My Wife, Sleepwalk With Me (upcoming), The 22, “The Good Wife,” “Fringe,” “3 LBS.,” “Whoopi,” “Cosby Mysteries,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order SVU,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns,” “All My Children,” “Pearl, The Miniseries,” “Hawaii 5-O” (the original). Studied acting at University of Hawaii. Trained with Kristen Linklater (Voice), Kikunobu Onoe (Kabuki acting and dance), and National Treasure of Japan in Kyogen, Nomura Mansaku.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Team Leader Chi
Les J.N. Mau
Team Leader Chi
Les J.N. Mau
New York: Tibet Does Not Exist, Theatre for Human Rights; Rashomon, The Joy Luck Club, Forbidden City Blues, Wilderness, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Empress Asian Repertory; Pacific Overtures, York Theatre Company; Dragonwings, Lincoln Center Institute; The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Purgatory, National Asian American Theatre. Regional: The King Stag, Yale Repertory; No Foreigners Beyond This Point, Baltimore Center Stage; Dragonwings, Syracuse Stage, Children’s Theatre Company, Fulton Opera House; Legacy Codes, Hanger Theatre; Twelve Angry Men, Merrimack Repertory; Offshore, San Francisco Mime Troupe; Annie Get Your Gun, Depot Theatre; Where It Came From, O’Neill Theatre Center. Film/Television/Animation: Too Big To Fail, Au Pair III, Corn, Martin & Orloff, Face, A Bright Shining Lie, Deadline, “Gideon Oliver,” “The Onion News Network,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent, “Naked Brothers Band,” “Madigan Men,” “As the World Turns,” “Macy’s ‘Little Spirit’,” “Grand Theft Auto III,” “Grand Theft Auto IV.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Teacher Shu
Jennifer Lim Ai Hua
Teacher Shu
Jennifer Lim Ai Hua
London: The Good Person of Setzuan, Royal National Theatre; Daughter of the River, Mulan Theatre Company; Pork Bellies, Theatre Centre. Other theater: Speaking to Him, Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Hecuba, Foursight Theatre. Film/Television: Piercing Brightness; Womb; Act of Grace; When Evil Calls; Hostel (Kana); Code 46; Rogue Trader; Red; Happy McGee; “Spirit Warriors,” “City,” “The League of Gentlemen,” BBC; “Waves of Courage,” “The Broadcaster,” TCS. Radio: “The Story of the Stone,” BBC World Service; “And the Rain my Drink,” “The Flower Room,” BBC Radio 4.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Er-Hong (Child)
Emme Fuzhen Ricci
Er-Hong (Child)
Emme Fuzhen Ricci
Theater: Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (Baby Rudolph), Taylor School; Willy Wonka (Matilda, Oompa-Loompa), Foxboro Recreational. Print: Disney’s Family Fun Magazine (February 2012, April 2011), Disney’s Family Fun KID’s Magazine (Back Cover, November/December 2011), Vantel Pearl Catalog (2011, 2009). Arts and Special Skills: Boston Ballet School (2006 - 2009), Foxboro Classical Ballet Academy (2011 - Current), Sharon Chinese School (2007 - Current), U.S. Figure Skating Basic Skills Member (2006 - Current), Dynasty Models & Talent, Boston, MA. Loves her family and dogs.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Niu
Nekhebet Kum Juch
Regional: The King And I, Gypsy, North Shore Music Theatre. Community: Winter on Broadway, Wakefield Repertory Theatre; Footloose, Millis Theatre Group; A Christmas Carol, Attleboro Community Theatre; The Nutcracker Suite, Terpsichore. Television/Film: I Hate You Dad. 6th grade student at Beverly’s Briscoe Middle School.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Dai
Annie Chang
Dai
Annie Chang
New York: Decade, La Mama, Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts; The Burkinis, Abingdon Theatre; A Name Without a Game, Looking Glass Theatre; T.A.B., Manhattan Theatre Repertory; Equity Fights AIDS Shakespeare Benefit, The Connelly Theatre. Regional: The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Camino Real Playhouse; Miss Saigon, Starlight Bowl. Film/Television: “One Life to Live,” “Girlhattan.” B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Stella Adler Studio.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Weimin
Oliver Biles
Weimin
Oliver Biles
Theater: Why the Lion Danced?, Yellow Earth Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Three Sisters, The Man of Mode, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Pillowman, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Television: “House of Anubis,” Nickelodeon. Graduate of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Er-Hong
Katie Leung
Er-Hong
Katie Leung
Films: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Cho Chang). Television: “Agatha Christie’s Poirot - Cat Amongst the Pigeons.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Community Chorus Members
Kevin Lin (Chorus Leader), Christine An, Christina Chan, LinAnn Ching, DeAnna Choi, HyoJeong Choi, Kenneth Chung, Lily Hong, Mariko Kanto, Lester Kim, Steven Lee, Michelle Merry, Roxanne Morse, Katherine Sao, Jeff Song, Yi-Jun Tan, Michael Tow, Andrew Tung, Giselle Ty, Paul Sung Ventresca, Jie Wang
Production Staff
Deputy Stage Manager
Tamara Albachari
Deputy Stage Manager
Tamara Albachari
West End: Calendar Girls. London: Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Coram Boy, Southwark Fair, The Overwhelming, The Life of Galileo, Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, Henry IV Part 2, National Theatre; Sucker Punch, Rhinoceros, My Child, Food Chain, Royal Court Theatre; Crave, Royal Court Theatre Bonn Germany; Comedians, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; Aladdin, New Wimbledon Theatre; Mercy, Soho Theatre; The Browning Version, South Downs, A Month in the Country, Calendar Girls, Chichester Festival Theatre; Beautiful Thing, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Roots, Pretend You Have Big Buildings, Harvey, Rutherford & Son, Volpone, Six Degrees of Separation, The Seagull, Secret Heart, Habitat, On My Birthday, American Buffalo, Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester; Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour; The King and I, Curve, Leicester; The English Game, Headlong Theatre/UK Tour; Romeo & Juliet, ETT/UK Tour/Hong Kong; Johnny Vegas: And Another Thing, Manchester International Festival 2011.
Assistant Stage Manager
Terri K. Kohler
Assistant Stage Manager
Terri K. Kohler
A.R.T.: Oedipus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Dispute, The Sound of a Voice. New York: Angel Reapers, The Joyce Theater; The School for Lies, CSC; In the Footprint, Brooklyn at Eye Level, The Civilians; Tell the Way, St. Ann’s Warehouse; Orange, Hat & Grace, Soho Rep; The Forest, CSC; Orpheus X, Tfana; Killers and Other Family, Rattlestick; Garden of Earthly Delights, 2 Step Productions; The Civilians Paris Commune, In Darfur, Public LAB; The Black Eyed, NYTW; Milk-n-Honey, Lightbox; When the Messenger is Hot, 59E59; Broadway Bares 2007–11, BC/EFA; Don Juan in Prague, BAM; Hell, the opera, PS 122. Regional: Angel Reapers, ADF; Quixote, Stillpoint Productions; Carmen, Madison Opera; I Just Stopped By to See the Man, God’s Man in Texas, Geffen Playhouse; Moscow: Cherry Tree Towers, The Tenderland, Offenbach!!!, Bard Summerscape; The Tales of Hoffman, New Orleans Opera. Ms. Kohler is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
Production Supervisor
Diane Willmott
Deputy Production Supervisor
Lloyd Thomas
Assistant Production Supervisor
Mike Ager
Dialect Coach
Majella Hurley
Costume Supervisor
Fizz Jones
Chinese Costume Advisor
Dai Guijiang
Assistant Costume Supervisor
Rose Love
Assistant Set Designer
Lucy Sierra
Props Buyer (China)
Chen Fengyan
Wang Gongxin's Video Team
Zhou Chen, Zhijun, Yao Yu, Yuguang, Young Fu, Shaun Wang, Guoer Lin, Alice and Yao Wang
For The A.R.T.
Chorus Coordinator
Allegra Libonati
Chorus Coordinator
Allegra Libonati
A.R.T.: The Pirate Princess, The Light Princess, Hansel and Gretel (Director); The Snow Queen (Director/Adapter); The Donkey Show (Resident Director); The Tempest, Prometheus Bound (Associate Director), Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Best of Both Worlds (Assistant Director). OBERON: Once In Hell: Dante’s Inferno in 10 Dinner Courses; Matchmaker, Matchmaker, I’m Willing to Settle: A Musical Guide to Internet Dating. Broadway: HAIR (Assistant Director, Tony Award-winning Revival). Summer Theater of New Canaan: South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, H4 (an original adaptation of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2).
Production Intern
Kevin Lin
Props Craftsperson
Chris Fields
Costume Crafts
Eric Propp, Jeffrey Burrows
Dressers
Brian Choinski, Robin Rittenour
Wigs Runner
Emily Damron
Swing Dresser
Amber Voner
Light Board Operator
Kirk Miller
Video Operator
Matthew Houstle
Carpenters
Nathaniel Drake, Dan Lincoln, Paul Mayer, Garrett McEntee, Heather Morris, Jon Seiler, Matthew Sebastian, Bartley Stevens, Ben St. Louis
Paint Intern
Benji Boudreau
Stage Crew
Brian Melcher
Harvard Office of Career Services Art Fellow
Bryan Kauder, Jiayi Li
For the Young Vic
Props Construction Supervisor
Emma Hayward
Props Buyer
Nafeesah Butt, Ian Andlaw
Props Makers
Anna Bruder, Penny Spedding, Bella Lagnado, Natasha Piper, Ed Wirtz, Bob Weatherhead, Fiona Ryan, Nick Benjamin, Anna Tan
Puppet Makers
Jan Zalud, Julia Jeulin, Michael Fowkes
Puppet Workshop Assistants
Amber Donovan, Fiona Gourlay, Elizabether Peck
Rehearsal Carpenter
Dario Fusco
Rehearsal Crew
Jack Harding, Stuart Farnell
Stage Management Assistant
Tamykha Patterson
Production Assistant
Ben Brown
Dyeing
Nicola Killeen Textiles
Bound Feet Shoes
Lewis Jones
Trainee Directors supported by the Boris Karloff Foundation
Meline Danielewicz, Ola Ince
Wild Swans plays at the Young Vic in April 2012 as part of the World Stages London, a season of exceptional new shows celebrating the cosmopolitan diversity of London. It is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between 8 leading London theatres and 12 UK and international co-producers, including the A.R.T. and the Young Vic.
Wild Swans is part of the Young Vic’s International Programme and is supported by Bloomberg.