Chew Hee-chiat is currently the Associate Conductor of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Chew received higher education in the United States and graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a double bachelor’s degree in cello performance and computer science in 1994. Subsequently, he obtained his Master of Music in orchestral conducting from the University of South Carolina in 1996. Before joining the HKCO, Chew has been the Music Director of Professional Cultural Center Orchestra (PCCO) of Malaysia since 1996.

In 2004, Chew guest conducted the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in a highly successful concert, A Nanyang Musical Voyage II. In 2005, he conducted the Opening Rally of the Hong Kong Dizi and Xiao Festival organised by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 2005. More than 500 players performed his work A Celebration of Dizi under his baton. The event made the Guinness Book of Records as having the largest number of people playing the dizi at the same time.

Chew's compositions are greatly influenced by his Southeast Asian cultural heritage. This style has reflected on his original works, which include Orchestra Suite No.2, The Third, Fantasy Dance, dizi and small orchestra - Tradition?.

Originated from the auspices of the British Council in 1979, Chung Ying Theatre Company (Chung Ying) became an independent non-profit organization in 1982. Chung Ying is now recognized as one of the leading professional theatre companies in Hong Kong, which is financially supported by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and generous support from individual and commercial sponsors. Under the leadership of artistic director, Ko Tin-lung, Chung Ying strives to connect people with drama through stage performances, drama education and outreach programmes.

Chung Ying dedicates to produce excellent and energetic theatrical productions in pursuing the goals to promote theatrical arts, explore cultural exchanges and enrich cultural life. Its repertories are not only with international vision, but also with local colour and style. Over the past 28 years, Chung Ying has staged more than 170 performances and enjoyed over 100 nominations and 66 awards in the past seventeen Hong Kong Drama Award.

Chung Ying has a great ambition to fostering drama education, in keeping with the mission of modern education: enhancing youth’s multi-dimensional thinking, stimulating creativity and promoting language ability. Being the first theatre company introducing “Theatre-in-Education” (TiE), Chung Ying had held over 3,200 touring performances, with over 380,000 audiences. Chung Ying also organizes a wide range of outreach and professional trainings for the tertiary institutions, schools and local organization throughout the territory.

Elton Lau graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.) Degree majoring in Acting. He was a resident actor in the Chung Ying Theatre Company between 1997 and 2007, before becoming an instructor in theatre and a freelance artist. He is one of the editors of the web site iStage.hk and a host on the iStage Podcast Channel on www.istage.hk. He was on the cast of such recent productions as The Chaozhou Groom, Our Bad Magnet, Music Factory, The Last Bet of My Dead Aunt, Modern Journey to the West, Les Miserables, Hong Kong Mansion is Falling Down, Little Shop of Horrors etc..

He wrote the script for Very True Story, A Knack Click, Far Away---Yet So Close, Men and Dogs and Kung Fu Clan, and co-wrote We Draman Group's Why Losing? .

He was Assistant Director in the Chung Ying Theatre Company's A Knack Click, The O Alquimista, Action! Mr. Lai! One of the Lucky Ones (Step I) and The Postman; Co-director in Chung Ying's Men and Dogs (first run and 2004 Version), Drama Onion's Heaven on Earth, and We Draman Group’s Why Losing? ; and Director in Springtime Creative Media's Dragon Inn and Chasing Theatre X iStage's The Chaozhou Groom.

Lau also wrote the lyrics for the songs in When Snow Falls and Born to Be?!