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Chia-Ming Wang is currently the head of “Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group”. His creative works feature complicated forms and the integration of experiment and popularity. Through the special designs of performance styles, he works with performers to jointly explore, embrace and deliberate on the possibilities of theater. In 2018, his "Café Lumière" was invited to the Tokyo Festival, and in 2019, his work "Dear Life" was invited to the Festival d'automne à Paris, the first Taiwanese contemporary theater work presented in the festival. In 2009, he directed the third stage of the opening ceremony of the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, served as a juror for the second and final screening of films for the 51st Golden Horse Awards in 2014, and from 2014 to 2016 was the curator and ceremony director for the Golden Melody Awards.


Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group（莎士比亞的妹妹們的劇團）
Founded in the summer of 1995, Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group owes its name to fictional characters in Virginia Woolf’s novel "A Room of One’s Own," and aims to liberate female talent from the oppression of patriarchy.
Limiting itself to no specific issues or conventional aesthetics, SWSG uses materials from all arts to create original theatrical works. Having been to Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing, Shanghai, Busan, Tokyo, Berlin, Singapore, Kobe, Paris, and New York, SWSG has been invited by various cities and countries to perform since 1997. In addition to the exchange of art and culture in Taiwan and abroad, the company continues to operate creative platforms, to promote theater education, and to participate in cultural policy.

Born in Toyama prefecture in 1976. Founding Director and Playwright for Niwa Gekidan Penino (Garden Theater Company Penino). A Senior Fellow of the Saison Foundation (until 2015), he founded the company in 2000 while still in medical school. Since then, he has written and directed all of the company's productions, being invited to many major theater festivals in Japan and abroad, especially in Europe. Tanino won the 60th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Jigokudani Onsen Muyo no Yado" in 2016, received the Art Encouragement Award from the Kitanippon Shimbun in 2016 and the Excellence Award at the 71st ACA National Arts Festival, and won the Toyama Himawari Award in 2018 and the 36th Toyama Award for Culture and Arts in 2019. He has been Toyama City Policy Counselor since July 2022.


Niwa Gekidan Penino (Garden Theater Company Penino)
In January 2000, members of the Showa University Drama Club formed the “Niwa Gekidan Penino (Garden Theater Company Penino)”. Kuro Tanino, the leader of the group, writes and directs all performances.
A meticulously crafted stage design with a keen sense of the performance space appears in the theater space “Hakobune,” which was converted from a private apartment building, as well as in their outdoor performances.
They have been invited to many major international performing arts festivals in Japan and abroad. In recent years, they have expanded their activities, performing a VR theater piece, "Dark Master VR".