Kyung-Sung Lee

Kyung-Sung Lee is a young Korean theatre director. He founded Creative VaQi and works as the artistic director in 2007. His past works I include TheDream Of Sancho, The History Of Gangnam and the Theatre Practice series. He won an award of the Chuncheon International Mime Festival in 2009 and became the youngest winner of the prestigious East Asia New Conception Theatre Award for Let Us Move Your Sofa(2010) and Doosan YonKang Artist Award for Namsan Documenta(2014). He is a director with exceptional abilities utilising a diverse range of sensory stage languages to convey the problems of modern society. His works engage in genreꠓdeconstructing, multimedia experiments and reducing our dependence on text, maximizing the possibilities of the message's multisensory transmissibility with an exacting and critical mindset while actively utilising media, installation, and performance on the contrary. His work was also presented in Festival Tokyo in 2014(The Conversations) and he did a residency in Kinosaki art center with his company Creative VaQi in 2018.
Kyung-Sung Lee is now artistic director of Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival and professor at department of Theatre Directing at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul