Tina Tao

Founder & Artistic Director, Leran Performing Arts Center, Leran Performing Arts Center

Tina Tao is the Founder and Artistic Director of Leran Performing Arts Center and a musical theatre producer and director. She is a Trinity College London-certified senior musical theatre educator, a guest lecturer at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, a mentor at Shanghai Lida University, and a member of the Shanghai Musicians Association.

She holds a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree in Directing from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (UK), along with bachelor’s degrees from Shanghai International Studies University and Wuhan Conservatory of Music.

In 2012, she founded Leran Performing Arts Center, pioneering English-language musical theatre training and performance for youth in China, and in 2015 introduced the Trinity musical theatre examination system to China.

She has directed and produced numerous musical theatre and concert works, including The Other School, A Chorus Line, Cats, Chicago, The Secret Garden, Mulan, The Lion King, Peter Pan, and Tarzan. She has also organized international cultural exchange programs, leading students to perform in the U.S., UK, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Bali, and Bhutan, including participation in the Edinburgh Festival and performances in London’s West End. Her teams have received multiple awards at the World Peace Choir Festival.

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