Luna SHAW
Luna graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a higher diploma in drama, majoring in acting. She has won the Best Supporting Actress award five times for her performances in W Theatre's Superman Forever, Shuraba, Acting Family's Under Construction, Prospects Theatre and Theatre Ensemble's 虎鶴雙形, and Windmill Grass Theatre's Shadow Box. She has also won the Best Actress award four times for her performances in Windmill Grass Theatre's Almost, Maine and Di-Dar, W Theatre's Love is Shit, and Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and Acting Family's The Good Person of Szechwan. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Actress award at the Hong Kong Theatre Libre for her performance in Theatre Horizon’s Requiem.
She co-founded Windmill Grass Theatre in 2003 with Joey Leung and Edmond Tong, serving as the artistic director. She has performed in productions such as A Taste of Home, SuBeDoWa in Concert (4 runs), The Perfect Teamwork, Fragments of Solitude, Di-Dar (2024 premiere and 2025 re-run), ANA (2024 premiere, 2025 re-run and 2025 London tour), The Restaurant, Parting is Never Easy (also playwright for the scene Bed Time Stories), Never-ending Hong Kong (2019 premiere, 2021 re-run, 2022 re-run and 2023 London tour), Little Mermaid in Sam Shing Estate, Switch Off, Rent A Human, Bye-Bye Your Tale, War of Tung Choi Guys (2021 premiere and Spiced Up Edition), Falsettoland (also lyricist), No News is True News 2, The Normal Heart, Death on a Road Trip, Boy Gets Girl, No News is True News, No Place Like Home, The Massage King, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! (5 runs), Almost, Maine, Lazy People Love Traveling (also playwright and director), Third and Oak: The Laundromat (also director), Lazy People are Always Busy (also as playwright), Super Mama Market (also as director), Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, A Taste of Love and Horror, Avenue Q (2013 premiere and 2014 re-run), Proof, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Crave, Sand and a Distant Star, I Love You Because (2011 premiere and 2012 re-run), Peacock Man & Durian Woman, The Pillowman, Shadow Box, The Cat in Red Boots (2007 premiere and 2008 re-run, also as composer, lyricist, playwright and director), Pine Tree under the Moon (2003 premiere and 2007 re-run at the Chinese Drama Festival) and Softly A Zephyr.
Other performances include: Actor's Vision's Nessie; HKSAR Leisure and Cultural Services Department's The Originals Reimagined and The Originals; Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and Acting Family's The Good Person of Szechwan; Theatre Horizon’s Requiem; Hong Kong Art Festival's The Truth About Lying (3rd run), Show Flat and Smear; Princess’ Blackbox's The Truth About Lying (re-run); Sunfool Lau's Mr. HALF Dwells...; W Theatre's Hate You in a Second, Little Hong Kong (Season 1-6), Paranoia, Unknown, Les Hommes et les Femmes, Shuraba, Love Is Shit (2011 premiere and 2013 re-run), Octave, Love Dies Slowly, Naturally and Silently (2009 premiere and 2010 re-run), Superman Forever and EMPTY; Theatre du Pif's A Doll's House; Prospects Theatre's To Those who Deserve to Die, The Memorable and the Forgettable, The Massage King, The Cockroach that Flies like a Helicopter (re-run), Spider in Meditation, Dragon Head etc.
She also performed in Chiu Tsang Hei Life in Concert.
She has also actively participated in film and television projects in recent years, including Hell Barrister, COURT!, All Shall Be Well, The Lyricist Wannabe, The Moon Thieves, and Time Still Turns The Pages. In 2022, she served as the acting coach for Louise Wong in A Guilty Conscience.
She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2014 to 2018, and instructed the course Acting: Theories and Practice at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University, actively engaging in theatre education. In 2024, she directed the musical Bernarda Alba for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
