Bonnie Chan

Bonnie is a theatre maker, researcher, educator and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Little Bean Theatre (London), an organisation catering for Cantonese-speaking children and families in the UK. She has toured Little Bean Theatre performances in schools and community centres that support non-Chinese speaking students in Hong Kong. Her research interest covers theatre and education as well as community cultural development. She is also an experienced Cantonese teacher.

Bonnie received her MA in Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and received an MA in East-West Drama from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She worked in the Literary Department of the Royal Shakespeare Company on the Chinese Classics Translation Project. Between 2004 and 2015, she was a core member of FM Theatre Power. She has also worked with a number of other Hong Kong-based theatre groups. Bonnie has worked as Senior Researcher in the Performing Arts Department at West Kowloon Cultural District and as Research Executive in the Cantonese Opera Education Research and Promotion Project in the University of Hong Kong.