Veronica Needa
Actress
Arts.
Culture.
Education.
Theatre.
International Playback Theatre Network
Playback AME
Face
Yellow Earth Theatre
Veronica Needa was born and grew up in Hong Kong of Eurasian parents (England, Hong Kong, Japan, and Syria) and is bilingual - English/Cantonese. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (1983-5) and is a graduate of the School of Playback Theatre (NY, USA). Now based in London, she has wide-ranging experience in the performing arts as performer, producer and teacher, with a particular commitment to community theatre & cross-cultural bridging; and maintains close professional and personal links to Asia.
For Yellow Earth she has performed in The Magic Paintbrush, Behind the Chinese Take Away, Face, and The Butcher's Skin. Over the years she has worked as storyteller, workshop leader and host for many Chinese festival & community events in the UK, and continues this work as Outreach & Education Coordinator for Yellow Earth. Recent performance work includes Mappa Mundi (Border Crossings), Macau 123 (Asian People's Theatre Festival Society), Snow Lion, and Snow Queen (Polka Theatre for Children). Film - Rogue Trader, Radio - Joy Luck Club.
She is an active practitioner of Playback Theatre - an original form of improvisational theatre which re-enacts real stories from the audience (see www.playbacknet.org and www.playbackame.co.uk) - and works internationally as a playback trainer and performer.
Her solo show - Face - was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre for their 1998 Festival Now. About bi-cultural identity & belonging, Face was directed and designed by Tang Shu Wing, and is performed in two language versions. English and Cantonese. FACE toured England for Yellow Earth Theatre in 2002; arts centres, schools & universities in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau; and the Singapore Chinese Festival in 2003.
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For Yellow Earth she has performed in The Magic Paintbrush, Behind the Chinese Take Away, Face, and The Butcher's Skin. Over the years she has worked as storyteller, workshop leader and host for many Chinese festival & community events in the UK, and continues this work as Outreach & Education Coordinator for Yellow Earth. Recent performance work includes Mappa Mundi (Border Crossings), Macau 123 (Asian People's Theatre Festival Society), Snow Lion, and Snow Queen (Polka Theatre for Children). Film - Rogue Trader, Radio - Joy Luck Club.
She is an active practitioner of Playback Theatre - an original form of improvisational theatre which re-enacts real stories from the audience (see www.playbacknet.org and www.playbackame.co.uk) - and works internationally as a playback trainer and performer.
Her solo show - Face - was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre for their 1998 Festival Now. About bi-cultural identity & belonging, Face was directed and designed by Tang Shu Wing, and is performed in two language versions. English and Cantonese. FACE toured England for Yellow Earth Theatre in 2002; arts centres, schools & universities in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau; and the Singapore Chinese Festival in 2003.
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