A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Changsha City, Hunan Province, China
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chen Shi-Zheng (born in 1963 in Changsha, Hunan, China) is a New York-based theater director. Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Chen's directorial debut film, Dark Matter, was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's operatic stage adaptation of Monkey: Journey to the West at the Manchester International Festival in June–July 2007. In 2008 he directed the premiere production of Stewart Wallace's opera The Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shi-Zheng Chen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Director:
2001 Ye Tang - The Peony Pavilion
2008 Dark Matter
2010 High School Musical China: College Dreams
2011 Yulu
2012 John Adams: Nixon in China
Stage Director:
2001 Ye Tang - The Peony Pavilion
2008 Dark Matter
2010 High School Musical China: College Dreams
2011 Yulu
2012 John Adams: Nixon in China
Story:
2001 Ye Tang - The Peony Pavilion
2008 Dark Matter
2010 High School Musical China: College Dreams
2011 Yulu
2012 John Adams: Nixon in China
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