All Theatre Art Association www.alltheatreco.com
Co-Artistic Directors：
Hoi Chiu (Hong Kong) & Maggie Blue O’Hara (Canada)

All Theatre Art Association (formerly known as All Theatre Company) is an international multimedia production company founded by Hoi Chiu and Maggie Blue O’Hara. Their mission is to create quality, multimedia productions that honor creativity, beauty and inspiration. All Theatre is dedicated to producing challenging, experimental and innovative performances by fusing eastern and western traditions. Their storytelling combines new forms of sacred theatre: movement, music, poetry, puppetry, masks, visual arts, video and ritual ceremony. All Theatre aspires to help spread the message of peace through artistic expression.

In October 2007, their original multi-media puppet theatre– “YuYuMiMi”, was presented at The Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre during the 2007 Asian Contemporary Theatre Festival.

A new 20-minute live production exploring the precious moments in life will be presented in the Fringe on Campus this year. It is an original mask drama created by All Theatre, combining handmade masks, storytelling, contemporary dance and mime, both humorous and dramatic.

In 2002, he taught and performed Playback Theatre at the International Playback Conference in Japan. He is the founder of the Hong Kong Puppet Centre and continues to refine his puppet mastery with his Hoi Chiu Art gallery at The J.C.C.A.C in Shek Kip Mei, Hong Kong. Hoi Chiu has been a teacher in puppetry at various schools, such as the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation. His collaboration with Prince Wong on Yulan (Contemporary Chinese Ghost Festival) was a four year project ranging from the sensational and provocative to the spiritual and meditative. Yulan performed in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. Hoi Chiu was invited to participate in the World Arts Conference and Festival in Taiwan, and in 2003 he created TRA-P-ART, a multimedia theatre piece as part of the On and On Theatre Series in Hong Kong and at the Macau Fringe Festival.

In 2004 Hoi Chiu directed The Five Elements, an award-winning, musical, magic show that premiered at the Hong Kong International Arts Carnival and toured Canada’s summer children’s festivals. While touring in Canada Hoi Chiu and Maggie Blue O’Hara met and founded All Theatre Company. He is the co-artistic director, puppet master, set and props designer as well as a featured performer.

In 2005, YuYuMiMi premiered at the International Puppet Festival in Birmingham, England, and in the same year the Company brought Unity Consciousness Theory and Shambhala Warrior to the Macau Fringe Festival.

In January 2006, Hoi Chiu worked with Chung Ying Theatre Company and wrote a modern adaptation of the classic Chinese mythology Journey to the West.

All Theatre was commissioned to create Kadoorie Farm’s first puppet theatre, The Firefly Puppet Theatre, and a musical, environmental puppet show, The Far Away Tree. Hoi Chiu was commissioned by the International Festival of Inclusive Arts to design and build 18 giant puppets and also 18 rod- puppets for the opening ceremony parade in November 2006 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Hoi Chiu continues to Direct, creating innovative productions and is focused on making masks, puppets, paintings and illustrations.

In 2004, Maggie Blue O’Hara and Hoi Chiu created All Theatre Company. O’Hara is the co-artistic director, scriptwriter, songwriter, choreographer and a featured performer. O’Hara was invited by the Macau Fringe Festival in 2004 to perform the world premiere of Chun: Heaven Human Earth — a fire-dance/ theatre show. While in Macau, she also attended the World Arts Conference, an international artists’ collaboration in which she directed and performed in numerous projects.

Maggie Blue and Hoi Chiu also performed their show Shambhala Warrior, which O’Hara wrote and directed. Unity Theory Consciousness, a dance / theatre duet, was also performed and choreographed by O’Hara at the Macau Fringe Festival.

In 2006, O’Hara wrote the story, music and performed in The Far Away Tree, a musical puppet show about the importance of trees and our connection to nature, which was commissioned by and performed at Hong Kong’s Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Garden. In 2007, Maggie Blue performed YuYu Mimi at The Hong Kong Arts Festival. In 2008, The Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival hired O’Hara as a Dance Choreographer for their Urban Dance Festival. She was recently hired by KRUG Champagne as Dance Choreographer for the Asian Premiere of their VIP Moon Nite events. Maggie Blue is focused on writing feature film projects, song writing and developing new productions for All Theatre Art Association. Please visit www.alltheatreco.com for more information on workshops, performances and touring.