Cheuk Tong, Moon Yip

 

Born in Hong Kong, Yip is a cross-disciplinary artist who engages in specialties including theatre scenography, media art, visual design, game concept art, and music composition.  

 

Yip graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), majoring in Theatre Set and Costume Design. He received multiple scholarships, including the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship, the Doris Zimmern Scholarship for Artistic Achievement, and the Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Fund Undergraduate Scholarship.  

 

Currently, he is the Artistic Director of Who Tells the Story and a founding member of Tree Phoning. He also serves as a guest lecturer for the Master of Fine Arts programme in Theatre and Entertainment Arts at HKAPA.  

 

In 2011, his stage design work for La Demande d’emploi (part of the 2010 Le French May Arts Festival) led to his participation in the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture (PQ2011) as a Hong Kong representative.  

 

From 2012 to 2013, he collaborated on the set and costume design for the non-verbal physical comedy Detention by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio. After its Hong Kong premiere, the production toured internationally, including performances at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and cities across China such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen, totalling over 94 shows.  

 

From 2014 to 2016, he served as Creative and Art Director at Billiongame Company Limited, overseeing concept artwork production for online games.  

 

In 2017, his stage designs for Skylight (Gold Blue Limited) and Lazy People Are Always Busy (Windmill Grass Theatre) were finalists at World Stage Design 2017, selected among 40 top global entries.  

 

Between 2016 and 2019, he composed music for Heaven Behind the Door by CHLOEOGRAPHY PROJECT, with performances at international festivals including the internationale tanzmesse nrw 2016 (Germany), the 9th Busan International Dance Market 2018 (South Korea) and the 14th Prague Quadrennial- PQ Studio Festival 2019 (The Czech Republic).

 

In 2018, as creative director and production designer for Maybe Tomorrow, he explored interdisciplinary dance, original music, and site-specific scenography through 30+ performances in public spaces and universities.  

 

From 2019 to 2022, he was Creative and Art Director at HORIZON TECH, developing corporate training games for over 20,000 employees in Hong Kong and Greater China.  

 

In 2023, he represented Hong Kong at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ2023) with Our Atlas by CHLOEOGRAPHY PROJECT, an interactive art installation with spatial scenography and music composition.  

 

In 2025, the design work (including spatial scenography, installations, costumes, and music) for Maybe Tomorrow@Freespace, performed at the West Kowloon Cultural District in 2020, has been selected as one of the 14 global finalists in World Stage Design 2025- Performance Design (Professional). The work will be exhibited publicly in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

 

Key Theatre Design Works (Recent):

  

- JOEY．MY SECRET．LIVE Concert (2017, Emperor Entertainment Group)  

- Elisa Chan Private Music Room Concert (2018, Mei Ah Entertainment Group Ltd x Art Connect)  

- Maybe Tomorrow (2018) and Our Atlas (2020, CHLOEOGRAPHY PROJECT)  

- A Tale of the Southern Sky (2020, Hong Kong Dance Company and Actors’ Family)  

- Murder in San José (2020, Dharma Workshop Limited)  

- Cinematic Memories on Train No. 5 (2021, Actors’ Family)  

- Confrontations (2022), Liu Rushi, My Dear (2023, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre)  

- The Truth About Lying (2024, Love Production)