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Shiu Hei Larry Ng, now based in Toronto, is a theatre practitioner (actor, director, movement coach, mask maker), drama educator (drama-in-education and applied theatre) and a registered drama therapist (RDT, North American Drama Therapy Association). He is also a certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner, as well as a certified Jeremy Krauss Approach Therapist for children with developmental disabilities. He has also completed professional diploma trainings in Satir Model family therapy (Level 1&2), Psychodrama (1-year dipolma), and Dr. Sue Jennings' Neuro-Dramatic-Play (Level 1&2). He is also now in training of Therapeutic Spiral Model of Psychodrama (Level 1 completed). He is also a full graduate of Playback Theatre under Centre for Playback Theatre (New York).
As an artist he has his full-time professional training in Physical and Devising Theatre (Lecoq approach) and Corporeal Mime (Decroux system), and is specialized in using mask, designing mask and making mask; he was the first Chinese artist invited by Warsaw International Mime Festival to perform and to give masterclass, and to teach in Warsaw Mime Center’s Summer School of Modern Mime during 2015 and 2018.
Clinically, he has worked as therapist (with over 1500 hours of clinical practices) to serve teenagers with special educational needs in school settings and youths in crisis in shelter house settings, besides emotionally disturbed adults and highly stressed parents with challenging children in NGO settings as well as private practice setting. He serves also mental health rehabilitants, people suffering from a variety of mental health issues (anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia, addictions, etc) and other minority groups.
For community theatre work, he has also been providing different kinds of applied theatre workshops to a wide range of population, and, based on field researches and interviews, developed different performances and interactive theatre works for housewives, youths and specific region in the city, via devising method.
Larry was academically trained in Philosophy (BA, 1st hon.; MPhil), in Drama Education (Master), in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (MA) and in Sociology (PhD candidacy). He has published several papers on drama education and on using masks in drama therapy and trauma healing.
He has been teaching in universities for more than 10 years in different departments. From 2016 to 2022, Larry has been invited as a guest lecturer in Hong Kong University’s department of Social Work and Social Administration for the lecture about "Psychological Assessment through Drama", and since 2022, has been invited to work as practicum supervisor for the module “Use of Drama in Clinical Settings” and as guest lecturer for teaching “Fundamentals of Drama Therapy”. For many years, he has been invited internationally to teach physical theatre, mask theater and playback theatre in different countries in Europe (Germany, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom), Russia, Palestine, India, Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan.