HeYan, male, professor, Director of the Acting Department, actingteacher and performance director of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Heis visiting professor at the Ernst Bush Higher Performing Institutein Germany and the Rome Film Experimental Center in Italy, certifiedteacher of "Fitzmorris Sound Training Method" in New YorkWorkshop training teacher, academic evaluation expert of Hong KongAcademy for Performing Arts, member of Chinese DramatistsAssociation, director of Shanghai Dramatists Association, founder of"STA-Performance Education International Forum". Thirtyyears of teaching, he has cultivated a large number of talents indrama, film and television, and won important international andnational drama, film and television performance awards. The completedscientific research projects include: Shanghai Municipal EducationCommission’s key curriculum projects BasicPerformance Trainingand PerformanceExcerpts Training,Shanghai Universities’ Key Undergraduate Teaching Reform ProjectInternationalPerformance Experimental Teaching Studio -Master's Practice andTheory, Shanghai Theatre Academy Performance ProfessionalComprehensive Reform Project, ShanghaiCity-level Undergraduate Excellent Course, PerformanceExcerpts Teaching, Shanghai"High Peak Plateau" discipline construction project, etc.
Heis the author of PerformanceExcerpts Training Course,Odin'sDrama Culture Research-Odin Week Theater Festival InvestigationReport, etc,and published academic essays such as: RepetitiveExercises in Meisner Methodand MichaelChekhov Methods: "Body-Psychological" Performance TrainingMethod Research,TheLiberation of the Natural Sound of the Heart-Research on LinklaterSound Training Method,director’s words of ThePlace of Death Without Burial.He was the editor-in-chief of Seriesof 20th Century Theatre Masters' Performance Methodsand Seriesof New Thinking in Performance Education.
Presidedover the performance practice and theory research project of the 20thcentury drama masters: the training method of the drama masterTadashi Suzuki; the training method of Jerzy Grotowski; the dramaanthropology master Eugenio Barba and Odin Practical and theoreticalresearch; Michael Chekhov method research; Meissner method research;Linklater voice training method research; Fitzmorris voice trainingmethod research; Fedenquist body training method research, etc.
Hewon the first and third prizes of China's first drama schoolperformance teaching essay competition, the Shanghai Literary TalentGardener Award, the Shanghai Yucai Award, the First prize of Shanghai"Four Ones" Innovation System of Theatre Teaching Project,the Gardener Award of the Golden Lion of Chinese Theater, the firstprize of Educational Achievement of Shanghai Theater Academy.
