Artistic Director of Edward Lam Dance Theatre, Lam founded Zuni Icosahedron with friends in the early 1980s, and established Edward Lam Dance Theatre during his residence in London (1989 – 1995). Since returning to Hong Kong in 1995, he has devoted himself to theatre and directed more than 60 original works. Lam was awarded Best Director at Modern Drama Valley’s One Drama Awards for his works Men and Women, War and Peace (2010), The Doppelgänger (2012) and What is Sex? (2017), and was named Artist of the Year (Theatre) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2017. A firm believer in education, Lam has given lectures at the University of Hong Kong, The Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2015, four of his adaptations of literary classics were presented as the cinematic showcase ELDT On Screen. Books of Lam’s collected essays include Waiting for Hong Kong, The Meaning of Entertainment, Evil But Glamorous, My TV Dinner Years and Leading Ladies in the Mandarin Cinema. Who is Afraid of Edward Lam, Hsu Yen-mei’s analysis of Lam’s stage works from 2006 to 2015, was published by the Taiwanese journal Performing Arts Review (2016).
