Tam Hung-man, Alex

Tam Hung-man, Alex, is a stage director, set and costume designer, and instructor all in one. He is currently Artistic Director of Theatre Ronin and a Guest Lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong. 

Tam graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with two Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees, one in Directing and another in Stage and Costume Design (with First Class Honours). His directorial works are mostly cross media productions imbued with poetic imageries; and his simple, unadorned but imaginative staging has come to be his signature style. He is known for his adaptations of Hong Kong literature for the stage, notably Tête-bêche, i-City, P.E. Period, Landscape in the Mist, Sew & Soul, Hong Kong Trilogy, Androgyny, Romance of Sewing Bear, Mourn Over the Breasts, Poetry Collection of Xi Xi etc. Many of them have been taken on tour to Beijing, Taipei, Shenzhen, Edinburgh in the UK, Avignon in France, and Argentina, among many others. He was awarded for Best Space at the 10th Taipei Fringe Festival with Playing with Xi Xi. In 2019, he participated in the global experience - sharing event presented by Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague with the theme ‘Karesansui - Scenography of Hong Kong Literature’.