Kwong Loke

Kwong has been teaching at Regent's University London for 14 years. He was trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Recent work includes plays at the National Theatre, West End (Noel Coward Theatre), Royal Court, Arcola, the Almeida and Bristol Old Vic amongst many other theatre venues, as well as appearing in several TV series (BBC, ITV, HBO, Disney+).  He co-founded Yellow Earth Theatre, devoted to East Asian theatre writing. 

After obtaining an MA researching into classical Asian and Greek theatre forms at University of London,  Kwong studied Balinese mask movements in Bali supported by a bursary from the Fox Foundation (New York). He also held a grant from the Arts Council England to work as a director with the Birmingham Rep and Hampstead Theatre. Directing credits include Aeschylus' The Oresteia, Chekov's Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters, Gogol’s A Government Inspector, Edgar Allan Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart & other Stories, Mishima’s Hell Screen, Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money (in Hong Kong), Nelson Rodrigues’ All Nudity Shall be Punished and Our Lady of the Drowned (TimeOut Critic’s Choice), East Asian plays Festival for Fish, Rashomon, DOGS, Darkness in the Wooden Bell, Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, and several play readings at SOHO, Hampstead, Oval House theatres, and the Birmingham Rep.

Kwong regularly runs directing and acting workshops in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, as well as directing at drama conservatories. His approach to acting training embraces a holistic approach of mind, body and spirit: a complete engagement of the actor’s creative imagination through their physicality and the inner life.

• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Regent’s University London, UK, 2018
• Diploma in Acting, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1990
• MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1995

• Rose Bruford College
• Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
• StoneCrabs Theatre
• Hong Kong - Academy for Performing Arts
• Tokyo - Caramel Box Theatre
• Kuala Lumpur - KL Performing Arts Centre

Directing: 2001 to present - various theatre productions:

• 2023 - MingHun (Wonder Films, Poland)
• 2022 - The Apology (Arcola Theatre) 
• 2022 - Biff & Chip (BBC) 
• 2022 - What Remains of Us (Bristol Old Vic)
• 2019 - Gangs of London (HBO) 
• 2019 - Pah-La (Royal Court Theatre)
• 2018 - The Great Wave (National Theatre)
• 2017 - The Feed  (ITV/AMAZON)
• 2017 - Labour of Love (Noel Coward Theatre West End)
• 2016 – You for Me for You (Royal Court Theatre)
• 2015 - The Orestreia (E15)
• 2014 - Caucausain Chalk Circle (E15)
• 2013 - An Inspector Calls (ALRA Wandsworth)
• 2011 - Edgar Allan Poe stories (ALRA, Wandsworth)
• 2010 - Electronic City (Soho Theatre)
• 2009 - Mishima (Oval House)
• 2008 - All Nudity Shall be Punished (Union Theatre)
• 2007 - DOGS  (Oval House)
• 2006 - Our Lady of the Drowned (Southwark Playhouse)
• 2005 - O chang Gun's Toenail  (Soho Theatre)
• 2004 - Festival for the Fish  (Wimbledon Studio)
• 2003 - Darkness in a Wooden Bell (Rose Bruford)
• 2001 - The Soldier's Tale (Purcell Room, Southbank)

Running a professional theatre company:

• StoneCrabs Theatre
• 3Co-founder: Yellow Earth Theatre

• Shakespeare in international practices
• Innovation in theatre directing
• International influences on theatre staging
• International play writing and translation
• Acting tools and skills for an international practitioners

• Balinese Mask training - $12,000 - Fox Foundation New York
• Directing training - £10,000 - Arts Council England
• Stanislavski/Chekhov training programme with Moscow Art -  £3,500 - Regent's University London    

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Equity