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Who's Teng, Cheng-WeiCheng-Wei was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is now a lighting designer mostly focuses in theatre. He is now a full-time faculty at Department of Drama Theatre in National Taiwan University. He is also teaching in the Taipei National University of the Arts. Cheng-Wei holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatrical lighting design from the University of Texas at Austin Dep. of Theatre and Dance in the U.S.A, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Taipei National University of the Arts Dep. of Theatrical Design and Technology in Taiwan.
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What he's been doing |
Cheng-Wei has been working in theatre since 2000, his freshman year in college. He focused on learning scenic design before he met the fascinating light. Since then, Cheng-Wei started his lighting life. Before pursuing his master degree, he worked as an associate lighting designer and assistant lighting designer where he learned what the real world was. In the US, he started developing the lighting design of site-specific performances, and collaborated with the The Duplicate Theatre Company working on non-theatrical lights for performances. Returning back to Taiwan, he kept working in theatre lighting, dance, play, musical and installation concerts. In 2017, Cheng-Wei received World Stage Design Professional Lighting Design Gold Award for his work "Serenade". Other 3 lighting design works have also been nominated for World Stage Design in 2017 and 2022.
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What he is going to do |
Cheng-Wei is working not only on traditional theatre lighting and also on developing lighting movement, lighting decoration and LED objects. He started using a light as a language in theatre. Light is mysterious, it stands out only with the objects or even surfaces. Cheng-Wei is playing the light by manipulating the objects in order to have the texture reacting from the objects.
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