Liu Libin
Director
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Liu Libin (born 1953, China) is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, where he also held the concurrent posts of Vice-president and Director of the Acting Department. Professor Liu Libin is a doctoral supervisor, Executive Chairman of the Performance Art Committee of the Chinese Drama Art Institute, Vice-chairman of the Asia Theatre Education Centre (ATEC) and member of the Art Review Group of the State Degree Office and of the International Committee of Theatre Olympics.
Liu Libin is the recipient of the Innovation Award and the Golden Lion Award (directing honour) from the Chinese Ministry of Culture. His teaching course, Creation of a Full Figure, was named Beijing Excellent Course and won the first prize of Beijing’s Education and Teaching Achievements, and the Famous Teacher Award. His directorial credits include: Thunderstorm, Beijingers, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Servant of Two Masters, Wet Paint, Turandot, Wen Na Came down from the Tree, Japanese musical A Cat Wants to Become a Man (Chinese executive director), British children’s musical The Gingerbread Man, musical Hypocrite (chief director, script adaptation), one-man show Double Bass, Red Sky and Country Memories. He is the author of: An Exploration of the Creative Psychology of Actors, On the Creation of Characters, On the Concept of Performance, On Nature and Adhere to the Principles and Methods of Realism to Construct and Practise a Rigorous Performance Teaching System.
Since he began teaching in 1977, Liu Libin has been mainly focused on the teaching of drama students as well as on creative work and theoretical investigation of acting.
