A Brief Introduction to the Director of the Forbidden City in Dawn

Fredric Mao was born in Shanghai, China and grew up in Hongkong. In his early years, he went to the University of Iowa in the United States to study for a master's degree in drama art. He studied under meissner, a famous performance tutor in new york, and participated in the work of several professional theatrical troupes and film and television performances or directors in the United States. At the age of 27, he became the artistic director of the Napoli Theatre in California. At the age of 29, he staged the musical "Pacific Overture" on Broadway in New York. During his seventeen years in the United States, he got a precious opportunity to cooperate with many top artists and creators in the theater at that time.

1985 At the beginning of the establishment of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Fredric Mao returned to Hong Kong to teach and became the head of the Performance Department of the Theatre Academy, thus cultivating many outstanding successors for the performing arts in Hong Kong. Over the years, Fredric Mao has directed many stage plays in Hong Kong, including a series of world classic plays and different types of local original plays, all of which have achieved excellent results. Fredric Mao became the artistic director of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre on 200 1, and devoted himself to giving full play to the artistic effect of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. In 2003, he planned and directed a local original musical "Sweet and Sour Hong Kong Land", which caused a craze. In 2004, he was invited to represent Hong Kong in the 7th China Arts Festival and raise money for Shanghai Charity Foundation. In 2005, Fredric Mao's adaptation/director's Love in a Fallen City was repeated, which not only received enthusiastic response from the Hong Kong audience, but also premiered a Cantonese stage play in Shanghai and Beijing for the first time, and gained great response in China. The play also toured Toronto and new york, winning high praise from overseas audiences. In April 2008, Fredric Mao gave up his job as artistic director of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and was awarded the title of "Director Laureate". Fredric Mao has won several stage awards, including the Hong Kong Drama Association's five-time Best Director Award for Stage Play and the Hong Kong Artists Union's Artist of the Year Award 1999 (Stage Director). In 2004, Fredric Mao bronze bauhinia star was awarded by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in recognition of his great contribution and outstanding achievements in promoting the local drama art. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary academician by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary university academician by Hong Kong Baptist University. In academic research, Fredric Mao visited local theaters, watched performances and collected teaching materials at the invitation of Goethe Institute and British Council. He has also served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, University of Toronto, Peking University, China and Beijing Central Academy of Drama. In 2005, he was invited to be the guest judge of Taiwan Province Taixin Art Award Finals; In 2007, he was invited to give a keynote speech at the "Leaders Forum" organized by the Union of European Art Colleges in Hong Kong. In 2008, Fredric Mao was selected as one of the representatives of "Hong Kong and Britain" by Time Out magazine, and was invited by Phoenix TV to participate in the first "China-Europe Cultural Summit Forum" held in the UK in the same year. Fredric Mao's current public positions include the Committee of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Performing Arts Committee of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Programme and Development Committee of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and the Programme Committee of the Hong Kong Arts Festival.