- Sherwood Hu
Sherwood Xuehua Hu (born 1961 in
Shanghai , China) is aChinese American stage andfilm director .Career
Hu studied theatre and film in China and the
United States of America . He has a masters degree in theater and film production fromState University of New York , and a Ph.D. in directing from theUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa . He also studied underJoseph Papp at New York's Public Theater.Hu began his professional career directing theatre, including "Rashomon", "Constant Prince", "The Chairman's Wife". He also acted in the lead role of Song Liling in several productions of
David Henry Hwang 's "M. Butterfly ".Hu created "The Legend of Prince Lanling", a lavish stage production set in ancient China; this received an Honorable Mention from the
Kennedy Arts Center . He later adapted this into his first feature film, the epic "Warrior Lanling", which was launched at the 1995Telluride Film Festival ,San Sebastian Film Festival ,Hawaii International Film Festival and others.In 1998,
Francis Ford Coppola andWayne Wang were executive producers of his second feature, one of the first co-productions between American and China. "Lani Loa - The Passage " was aHawaii an ghost story/cop movie/spiritual love story, shot in Shanghai and Hawaii, and starredAngus Macfadyen ,Ray Bumatai andChris Tashima . Tashima also starred in his next film, "On The Roof" (2002), a small indie DV ensemble piece filmed in Pasadena, California.In 2003, Hu returned to China to direct a 40-episode television series, "Purple Jade" for
China Central Television . He returned to epic costume period film work with "Prince of the Himalayas" (2006), his own adaptation ofShakespeare 's "Hamlet ", set in ancientTibet , and performed entirely in the Tibetan language.Hu also has continued with theatre work, recently directing stage productions of
A.R. Gurney 's "Sylvia",Jean-Paul Sartre 's "Dirty Hands " and a modern ballet, "Shakespeare and His Women", for the 8thShanghai International Arts Festival (2006).Hu has served as guest professor at the
Shanghai Drama Academy where he supervises and mentors graduate students.Trivia
*Hu is sometimes credited as Sherwood X. Hu.
*He has a sister who is an actress and a brother who is also a filmmaker.External links
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