Stage Designer: Cao Lu

Resident Stage Designer, San Tuo Qi Theatre Company
Ph.D. in Theatre and Film Studies, Department of Stage Design, Central Academy of Drama

 

Awards & Honors

• Night Walker – Winner of the 2025 Best Stage Visual Presentation Award at the Shanghai Jing’an Modern Drama Valley’s One Drama Awards

• Dreams of Mountains and Seas – Selected for the Professional Designers Section (Performance Design category) at the 6th World Stage Design Exhibition (WSD2025)

• The Bold Mother and Her Children – Winner of the Asian Arts Special Production Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

• Notes on Rouge – Winner of the Excellent Set Design Award at the 4th Zijin Kunqu & Peking Opera Art Festival

• Red Camellia – Winner of the Production Award at the 8th Yunnan Theatre Camellia Awards

• Kingdom of Rakshasa – Winner of the Best Production Award at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre

• Kingdom of Rakshasa and No Borders for the Walker – Both awarded Best Production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Selected Works
The Bold Mother and Her Children, Dreams of Mountains and Seas, Night Walker, Notes on Rouge, Red Camellia, Kingdom of Rakshasa, No Borders for the Walker, Murder at the Corridor Pavilion, The Life of Disdained Matsuko, Shui Sheng, Untitled Love Rhapsody, One Light Year, The Lost Song, To Love, Thus Far, My Grandfather’s Rice Field, The Dōkeshi of Illusions, Six Records of a Floating Life, My Youthful Vow, Reply Scroll, A Man’s Motto, among others.