SHU Chi Yee

Jack Shu obtained his BA in English Language and Literature, MPhil in Translation, and PgDE in Liberal Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University, MA in Drama Education and Cultural Studies and PhD from the University of Warwick (thesis titled “The ‘Unthinking Thinker’: the Reflexive Teacher for Integrated Drama Education”), and MFA in Drama (Directing) at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Jack had been Lecturer for “Performing Arts in Communication” programme at Caritas Institute for Further and Adult Education (Caine Road), Researcher and Tutor for “Drama-in-Education Seed Project” by EMB, Drama Teaching Artist at EMB (implementing “Secondary School Drama Education Seed Project”), Graduate Master for QualiEd College teaching Drama and Liberal Studies, part-time Lecturer for Master of Drama Education jointly offered by Griffith University (Australia) and Hong Kong Art School, part-time Lecturer for B.A. in Humanities at Hong Kong Baptist University, Co-investigator for “Drama Education in Hong Kong Schools—Research and Evaluation of Outcomes” project commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Chairperson for Academic Programme Committee for IDEA Congress 2007, Examiner at Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Subject Specialist at the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications.

Over the years he has occupied various positions in stage projects for different theatre troupes and schools, involved in works such as Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ibsen’s Ghosts, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Friel's Molly Sweeney, Abbot & Bissell’s The Pajama Game, Beckett's Act Without Words, Stoppard's Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and Strindberg's The Stronger and Pariah or The Outcast etc. His publications include Applied Drama: The Praxis of Daily and Educational Drama; the Chinese translation of Structuring Drama Work and Gavin Bolton: the Essential Writings; Planting Trees of Drama for Global Vision in Local Knowledge: IDEA 2007 Congress Dialogues; The Journal of Drama and Theatre Education in Asia; Drama Education in Hong Kong Schools: Research and Evaluation of Outcomes, etc.

Jack is now Associate Professor for School of Education and Languages of Hong Kong Metropolitan University (formerly the "Open University of Hong Kong"), offering postgraduate and undergraduate drama courses including the MEd in Drama and Language Education. He was also Chairperson of Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum (2010-2014).

• Applied Theatre
• Forum Theatre
• Reality Theatre
• Drama Education
• Drama across the Curriculum

Funded Research Projects

Principal Investigator

"Script-writing Methodology of Ethnodrama", 2019-2020, OUHK Research & Development Fund. (R6320, $79,982)

“Once Under the Lion Rock Oral History Theatre Project”, 2017-20, as Principal Investigator, OUHK in collaboration with Chung Ying Theatre Company, sponsored by Hong Kong Jockey Club. (40017 $225,600)

Recent Applied Theatre Performances

Devising Director for 《我的兼職女友》 (My Part-time Girlfriend by group devising, a forum theatre in Cantonese, 2019, as Open Day showcase for CHINE366CF student assignment), Open University of Hong Kong

Deputy Director for 《小城風光》 (Our Town by Thornton Wilder, a play in Cantonese, as part of “From Death to Life” death education project, 2017), S.K.H. Holy Carpenter Church District Elderly Community Centre.

Playwright and Principal Investigator for 《「睹」出我未來》 (an ethnodrama in Cantonese performed by a group of ex-gambling addicts, 2016), Just Education Services Organization, co-organized by Caritas Addicted Gamblers Counselling Centre and commissioned by Ping Wo Fund, research supported by OUHK

Director for 《迷‧悟》 (Astray, Awakened, a play in Cantonese by inmates from Stanley Prison, 2016), Ding Theatre, organized by Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong Lay Prison Evangelical Organization and Hong Kong Correctional Services

• 2006-Present Subject Specialist (Performing Arts), Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ)
• 2005-Present Examiner and Assessor (Drama), Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC)
• 2004-2014 Chairperson (from 2010), Vice Chairperson (from 2007) and Executive Committee Member, Hong Kong Drama / Theatre and Education Forum (TEFO)