About
Ao Li is a set designer based in Shanghai and New York
His recent designs include:
Drama: Border Town, The Lonesome West, Precursor, After Immortality, Tales in The Marsh, A Summer’s Day, Be Seen, Shall I Compare You to A Spring Breeze, Of Mice and Men, Away From The Unknown, Traces and Lau I/II/III, Li Zi-Zhou in 1929, The Door of Zanzibar, Kiss, Redwood, Tis Pity She’s A Whore, All My Fathers, Airline Highway, Titus Andronicus, Waiting For Godot, Scraps, As You Like It
Dance: Journey To The Heart, Magpies On The Tree, Secret World, 25sqm Rhapsody, Bei You, The Ark, Fengqi Dachen, The Invisible Cities
Immersive Theatre: Dream of The Red Chamber, Alphaville, £¥€$ 2.0, Dream Langfang, NBA On Show
Musical: Panda, Reborn, The Legend, Murder Ballad, Vampire Arthur, Sherlock Holmes: Secrets of the Anderson Family, Once Upon A Time in Our Youth, Forever Love
Acrobatics Theatre: Elysium Tower, Stop For A While
Huajixi: I Return to Wuxi
Concert: Omnipotent Youth Society 2023
Event: The 15th First International Film Festival Awards Ceremony, 31 Show
Ao’s work was featured in exhibitions include:
Tbilisi Biennale of Stage Design 2024
2023 Beijing Quadrennial Invited Exhibition of Stage Design
2022 CISD China Contemporary Young Scenographer Nomination Exhibition
World Stage Design 2022
He holds an MFA in Set Design from Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Stage Design from Shanghai Theatre Academy. He is also the founder of MAKEASCENE Studio and the council member of Shanghai Institute of Stage Design