Hung Hung is a poet as well as a director of theatre as and of film. Originally named as Yen, Hung-ya, he was the chief editor of two journals, Performing Arts Review and Modern Poetry and established Stalker Theatre Group in 1994 and Happy Sheep Film Studio in 1998. He has published anthologies of poetry, essays, fictions, plays and drama reviews. He has also edited a twenty-volume serial of Chinese Translations of Contemporary Western Plays published by Tang Shan Publisher and co-edited with John Hu and Chi Wei-jan the second volume of Contemporary Compendium of Chinese Literature: Drama published by Chiu Ko Publishing Company. He was the chief planner of several drama festivals in Taipei, including The Data of Theatre Drama Festival, Taiwan Literature Theatre, and Shakespeare in Taipei. His works of performing arts, including theatrical pieces, operas and dances, are around twenty in total. They are, to name just a few, The Cloned Man, The Damnation of Dr. Faustus (Opera), I met an Angel in the Subway, Memorial Day in Far Away Place, European Dinner, Alice on Bed, Leaving the City, Zhang Cheng-kung (Opera), Clouds in Mt. Mu(Driving by the Left Side). His Quartet of Dangerous Liaison was nominated as one of best ten performing arts by China Times. He was invited to participate in the Venice Film Festival with his first film, Love of Three Oranges. This film wan the International Film Critic Award at the Chicago Film Festival and the best director at Nantes Film Festival. His second film, Human Comedy, was awarded the Audience’s Best Choice at Nantes Film Festival and the Best Picture at Muscat Festival. His third film, The Hanging Garden, wan two prizes for Best Art Direction and Stylizing and was premiered at Moscow Film Festival. His documentaries include Fifteenth Anniversary of NSO (produced for PBS), Cultural Personas: Stanley Lai, Rhapsody of Love, Visual Poetry 2003, Bohemian Taipei, The Family Contact Book of Shia Shia.

The Lesson
  (課堂驚魂)

date of debut: 1995.12
place of debut: Taiwan Walker Cafe Theatre

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Quartet for Dangerous Liaison
           (危險關係四重奏)

date of debut: 1999.1
place of debut: Theatre of Data

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A Number
  (複製人)

date of performance: 2004.06.4-6
place of performance: N/A

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Goethe: Faust
  (歌德浮士德)

date of performance: 2008.5.16
place of performance: N/A

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