Patrick Lau

Born and brought up in Hong Kong. I trained at Granada Television , UK and directed many major television drama and documentary films for the BBC,ITV & C4 that have taken me to Hungary, Cambodia, Madagascar, India, Mexico, Czech Republic, Australia, France, Berlin, & Ireland. Artists I have worked with include Sir Ian McKellen, Richard E Grant, Toby Stephens, Sir Nigel Hawthorn, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Robert Carlyle, Janet McTeer, Jack Dee, John Thaw, Iain Glenn & Sir Ian Holm. After winning the Independent Television Authority Award as a university undergraduate, I became one of the very few ethnic Chinese who directed professionally both in the theatre and on television in the 1970's onwards including a wide range of classical and contemporary plays in over 60 theatre productions in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge & other UK cities as well as in Australia and Hong Kong. I have been the creator & instructor for the Moving Image in Performance course (FPN200) at the Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. I frequently give master classes for the University of the Arts, St Martins, The Actors Centre & DSL in London UK and has been in the accreditation panel for the drama school LAMDA in London