About Me 

Billy Wong

Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majored in Lighting Technology. Billy was awarded the ‘Outstanding Lighting Design’ of the year with ‘Sweep’ in the 19th Hong Kong Dance Awards (2017). And ‘Honourable Mention’ with his invention ‘The Portable Colour Filter cutting track’ in the Technical Invention Prize 2017 organized by the OISTAT.

During his studies, he was given some scholarships. He was also sponsored by the Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) to the LDI, one of the world’s biggest lighting Expositions, becoming the first Asia studying student who got this sponsorship.

Artistically, he took part in the ‘Setouchi International Art Festival 2010’, ‘Ichihara Art x Mix 2014’ in Japan, ‘Optical Effect’ (2019) and ‘The Private Room’ (2020); self-initiated lighting installations ‘Project•Graduation’(2011) and ‘Imitate’(2013).

For Theatre and Concerts, he had been touring as Lighting Programmer, Assistant/Associate Lighting Designer around Asia, including: Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and PRC. He was touring with teams and companies such as: Edward Lam Dance Theatre, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Dionysus Contemporary Theatre, Watoto Children’s Choir (Uganda, as Volunteer Lighting Personnel) and Akira Takimoto Ministry (Japan).

His Lighting Design works include: Dance: ‘Sweep’, ‘Children of War’; Musicals: ‘Am I King?’ ; Drama: ‘Bonhoeffer in Love’ ; MultiMedia Concerts: ‘Sculpturesque’, etc.. His other works in lighting include ‘A tale of the southern sky’, ‘Aria’ , ‘Frankenstein: Relive’, ‘Pavilion of a Hundred Flowers (Reboot)’, ‘Avenue Q’ (Hong Kong, English Version), ‘Peter Pan’(Peking, Immersive Theatre),…

Billy is now freelancing as Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer.
Enjoy! And God bless.