Also Co-Founder and Festival Director of Wuzhen Theatre Festival.

Stan Lai is "the best Chinese language playwright and director in the world" (BBC); "Asia's top theatre director" (Asia week); and “Asia’s flagship playwright” (China Daily). Beginning in Taiwan in the 1980s, Lai’s plays have greatly influenced theatre in the Chinese speaking world, including his most famous play, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, which was performed in English at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015. His The Village has been described by Beijing News as "the pinnacle of our era of theatre." His epic 8-hour A Dream Like A Dream (2000), has been called by China Daily "possibly the greatest Chinese-language play since time immemorial." One One Zero Eight is Lai's 39th original work as playwright and director, and his 4th offering at Wuzhen Theatre Festival.

Lai is Artistic Director of Performance Workshop, Taiwan; Theatre Above, Shanghai; and Co-founder and Festival Director of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China.

Also Co-Founder and Producing Director of Wuzhen Theatre Festival.

Huang Lei is one of the most prominent actors in China, in theatre, television and film. He is also a screenwriter, theatre producer, and a TV & film director and producer. Hang Lei has been teaching at the Beijing Film Academy for 22 years. During his many years of teaching, and with his sound knowledge of literature and artistic practices, Huang Lei has creatively formulated his diversified methods of training actors, nurturing much outstanding young talent for the TV and film industries.

Huang Lei’s acting is popular with audiences and acclaimed by critics. His theatre credits include Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and The Yellow Storm; TV and film credits include April Rhapsody, A Love for Separation, A Little Reunion, Hey Daddy!, Honey Bee Man, Between Husband and Wife, Guys Clan, When Tangerines Turn Red, Life on A String. He has also written and directed many works for television and film, especially the TV series Lost Time, which he wrote, directed and acted in, and which was shot in Wuzhen in 2003 and won him great popularity and warm appreciation all over China, while at the same time introducing the timeless beauty of Wuzhen to the public.

In 2013, Huang Lei co-founded Wuzhen Theatre Festival with Chen Xianghong, Stan Lai and Meng Jinghui.

He is also part of the jury for this year’s Festival.

He Jiong is a celebrated Chinese host, singer, actor and director. He has won a number of awards, including Best Host of China TV Golden Eagle Award two times, Best Host in China 2004, Favorite Host of China Student Television Festival, Mainland Audience Favorite Male Singer Award of Global Chinese Music Top 10, Pepsi Music Chart Top 10. He has played in over 20 television and film productions. He has also played in 300 performances of Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land since 2006. In 2016, he was starring in Writing in Water, directed by Stan Lai.

Raymond Zhou is a prominent bilingual writer and cultural critic, especially in the fields of film, theatre and cross-cultural interpretation. For more than a decade he contributed columns for China Daily and Movie View, and he now writes and hosts a weekly segment for CCTV’s Movie Channel.

Zhou is the author of 21 books, published since 1998. Of these, three are in English. The Los Angeles Times calls him “China’s Roger Ebert.”

Zhou has been on the jury for the Competition section of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival and has often participated in the Forum section. His play The Ring Road uses China’s road structure as a metaphor for today’s Chinese society and its stumbling blocks and pitfalls. The original English version premiered in Los Angeles in 2010, and the updated Chinese version toured China in 2014 and 2015.

Zhou is a prolific writer with over 100 articles published each year and the same number of media appearances. He has been invited to several BBC Culture polls as a culture expert from China. The cover story he wrote for American Theatre, with critical reflections on contemporary Chinese theatre, has just won the Critics Award conferred by the International Association of Theatre Critics, Chinese section.

Zhou is a graduate of Hangzhou University, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Cheng Er is a prominent director, writer and author. He graduated from the Director Department of Beijing Film Academy. His works have a unique film aesthetic style. The exquisite lens composition and non-linear narrative structure have become a unique romance in Chinese language movies. His graduation short film, Criminal, is considered the most outstanding graduation work in the history of Beijing Film Academy. His debut film Unfinished Girl, Lethal Hostage, The Wasted Times, Hidden Blade, these have all received recognition from the industry and audiences.

Cheng Er has won Annual Dirctor of China Film Director’s Guild, Best New Director and Best Film at Chinese Film Media Awards, Best Screenplay and Best Film at Beijing College Student Film Festival, Outstanding Youth Drama Award at Huabiao Film Awards, Outstanding Screenplay at China Film Association and so on.

Wu Bi is an actor of the National Theatre of China. He won the Best Actor Award at the Theatre Production Showcase of National Performing Arts Companies in 2012. Static, the play he wrote, directed and played in 2015, won the Best Play Award of the Emerging Theatre Artist’s Competition. His other theatre credits include Those Stories of the Ming Dynasty, The Yellow Storm, Green Snake, Romeo and Juliet, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, Jack the Ripper, Beijing Fayuan Temple, and Writing in Water. Musical credits include Why Should I Love You, Song of Light and Shadow, and Winter of Three Hairs.

Li Bo graduated from the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy and is now an acting teacher in the College. He has written and directed many state, provincial and district level, award winning stage plays. He has starred in many TV and film productions that have won the China TV Flying Goddess Awards and The Shanghai Film Critics Association Awards. Untitled, Death or Glory, and Montage, the three theatre productions he wrote, directed and played in, have all been among the top three in the Emerging Theatre Artist’s Competition for three consecutive years.

Jess Chiayi Seetoo is a performance artist and scholar who instills rationality into the intuitive mind and embodied action, working in fields across dance, theater, film, sites, and digital interactive mediascapes. She is dedicated to the integration of performance art theory, practice, and education. Seetoo holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and is a Professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Recently, she received a National Teaching Award with her colleagues at STA. She had served on the boards of directors of Performance Studies international (PSi) and Dance Studies Association (DSA). Her recent works include Invisible Cities, Déjà vu Sonata, Realms of the Liminal, Time-Infinity, Myself and I in the Virtual Subconscious, Avatar-Mythology, Stories in the Flow in “An Ecosystem of Alliances” at the 13th Shanghai Biennale, among others. Her artist studio Realms of the Liminal aims to initiate and support cross-disciplinary creation, production, and education around dance and performance from a body-mind integrated approach.