Elton Lau
 

Elton Lau graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) degree majoring in Acting in 1996. He was a resident actor with the Chung Ying Theatre Company between 1997 and 2007, before becoming an instructor in theatre and a freelance artist. He is one of the editors of the web sited iStage.hk and a host on the iStage Podcast Channel on www.istage.hk.

He was on the cast of dozens of productions, including Watcher (first run and re-run of Lo Theatre);A Funny Thing Happenede on the Way to the Forum (A Musical of Chung Ying Theatre Company); Blogway Show and18 Minutes Per Second(Wanchai Theatre); Waiting for the Match (First run and re-run of Cinematic Theatre); The Chaozhou Groom (A Musical of Chasing Theatre X iStage); and Our Bad Magnet, Modern Jouney to the West and Les Miserables (Chung Ying Theatre Company). He dominated four times Best Leading Actor(Comedy/Farce) at the Hong Kong Drama Awards with his peroformance in The Professional, Little Shop of Horror(Musical), Eleven Cats(Musical) and The Last Bet and My Dead Aunt.

He wrote the script for Very True Story,A Knack Click, Far Away-Yet So Close, Men and Dogs, Kung Fu Clan, La Luna, The Legend of Mulan,The Legend of Nu Wa and Waiting for the Match. He co-worte Why Losing? And The Show Must Go Wrong. He won the Best Script Award at the 17^th Hong Kong Drama Awards withWaiting for the Match. The Production also represented Hong Kong in the 7^th Chinese Drama Festival Taipei 2009.

His directorial efforts have been in the Chung Ying Theatre Company’s Men and Dogs (first run and 2004 Version), Drama Onions’s Heaven on Earth, We Draman Group’s Why Losing? Springtime Creative Media’s Dragon Inn, Chasing Theatre X iStages’sThe Chaozhou Groom, Harmonic Theatre’s Please Stop at Sun Fun and Avenue The Home of Cai Yuen Pai Revisitedpresented by Hong Kong Baptist University. The joint production of La Luna , The Legend of MulanandThe Legend of Nu Wa between the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the Chung Ying Theatre Company. And co-direct The Hands of Time presented by All Theatre Art Association’s.

Lau also wrote the lyric for the songs in When Snow Falls, Born to Be?! And The Show Must Go Wrong.