Rongjun YU, also known as Nick, Doctor of Arts, is China’s most-produced living playwright, an award-winning playwright, as well as the artistic director of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, the Vice President of Shanghai Performing Arts Group, the director of Shanghai International Comedy Festival and Shanghai ACT festival. 

He has about 80 plays, musicals and operas produced in China and overseas including "Behind the Lie", "Perfume", "1977", "Captain", "Das Kapital", "The Insane Asylum Next to Heaven", "The Crowd", "House Guests", "Beyond the words" and "WWW.COM". His writing has been staged and published in English, Turkish, Spanish, German, Japanese Italian, Hebrew and other languages and dialects. Nick has also translated and/or adapted foreign-language works into Chinese that have been performed in China and abroad. He has written dance theater, physical theater, and screenplays for film and television as well. As the manager of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, he hosted more than 400 projects for three stages in Shanghai. Nick received Asian Cultural Council Fellowships in 2004 and 2007 to conduct research on cultural exchange programs in the United States and was a fellow for International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in 2008. Received the 7th Fellowship in Russia Program by Likhachev Foundation of the First President of Russia Boris N. Yeltsin. He participated Iowa IWP (International Writing Program) in 2019.

Being the 1st Chinese professional Puppet and Alternative Theatre group in Macao, ROLLING PUPPET strives to promote the art form of Puppetry and Alternative Theatre through theatre performances, art education, publishing and other media. By cooperating and bridging artists and organizations from different fields, we explore different possibilities in creativity. We work as a platform for Macao Puppetry Arts, and provide channels for Puppet Lovers to get connected to the world.

We explore innovative ways in Performance-Making, among which Puppet and Object are elements that we are passionate with as a creative media. To recall the meaning of everyday objects around, we strive to discover the possibilities to transform objects and structure into metaphors in theatre.

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OTTOsonics is a multi-channel sound system for immersive audio experience. Originally developed at the University of Arts, Linz (Austria), the University of Saint Joseph, Macau is now a partner in the development of this revolutionary project. 

OTTOsonics is an Ambisonics open platform to make immersive audio formats accessible to sound and performance artists, as well as cultural and educational institutions, and to facilitate their use in the arts and culture across all fields from acoustic to electronic music. Together with our international collaborators, we're pushing the boundaries of what's possible in immersive audio experiences, and we can't wait for you to join us on this sonic journey.

OTTOsonics website: https://tamlab.kunstuni-linz.at/projects/ottosonics/