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Mixed Media Artist who directs, designs and devises new works for film, theatre and opera.
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HAUI is an award-winning mixed-media artist whose work defies categorization. Like his DNA, his art is diverse and blurs lines between artistic mediums. Since graduating from X University, HAUI's work has ranged in disciplines from directing (stage and screen), designing (video projections and visual arts), and devising (performing, playwrighting/poetry, and producing) works in film, opera, theatre, dance, and visual arts. In addition, HAUI's work explores themes of race, gender, and orientation, often bridging arts and activism, sharing stories relegated to the peripheries.

As a director, previous stage credits include associate director on the Toronto production of Choir Boy (Canadian Stage). Previously HAUI has directed as part of the Stratford Festival Meighen Forum (Lizzie Siddal) and in VR in partnership with Relative Motion UK and the Stratford Lab. In addition, HAUI was assistant director to associate director Estelle Shook for the sesquicentennial production of Harry Somer's Louis Riel at the National Arts Centre. He also participated in the inaugural bud's program as part of Stratford Festival's Michael Langham Directors Program for Classical Theatre. HAUI was also a recipient of Theatre Ontario's Professional Theatre Training Program to assist in directing and design on the premiere of Trina Davies's play Silence. Previous screen credits include HAUI's award-winning feature-film debut, Mixed↑, produced by trans filmmaker Jack Fox and the world's first LGBTQ+ television network, OUTtv. HAUI also directed and composed his award-winning film, C'est Moi. Screening at over 30 film festivals worldwide, including Vues D'Afrique, Montreal, Houston, and Hollywood Black Film Festivals, the film explores the history of slavery in 18th-century New France. Haui also directed the viral music video Sikhokele by DRFTR.

As a designer, HAUI has worked as a video projection designer at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Shaw Festival, National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, Luminato Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop, Neptune Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Great Canadian Theatre Company. In addition, Haui's visual arts photography has been exhibited as part of the stage design for Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor's opera Hadrian at the Canadian Opera Company and won awards at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Wildseed Centre for Arts and Activism, Art Gallery of Kelowna, the Tarragon Theatre lobby gallery—international photography publications include Harpers Bazaar UK, BBC, Greystone Books, The Hollywood Reporter and more.

As a deviser, HAUI was selected to partake in the inaugural Crow's Theatre and Mongrel Media Loughborough writers retreat as a playwright, creating a new plurilingual work with சாரதா ஈஸ்வர் Sharada Eswar and 黃巧文 Alison Wong. Haui's playwrighting has been workshopped with TYA company Carousel Players with upcoming support from Roseneath Theatre and the Theatre Direct. In addition, HAUI's poetry work was performed as part of Freedom: A Mixtape, produced by Suitcase in Point, and was later part of Freedom Cabaret, curated by Beau Dixon at the Stratford Festival. HAUI's work will also be published in 2023 as part of an anthology by Playwrights Canada Press. As a performer, HAUI has worked for companies including the Shaw Festival, Factory Theatre, Outside the March, Convergence Theatre, Sheep No Wool, and Cahoots Theatre, and was a cast member of the Canadian premiere of Alice Walker's The Colour Purple at Neptune Theatre. HAUI is also part of the Young Creator's Program at the Young Vic Theatre in the United Kingdom. As a producer, HAUI was selected as part of EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) supported by the National Screen Institute and Canada Media Fund and was the assistant of Métis/Dene filmmaker Marie Clements on her feature film debut, Red Snow produced by APTN and CBC.

Upcoming, HAUI will direct Private Flowers (a site-specific art installation exploring queer history), produced by Toronto History Museums supported by the National Ballet of Canada's Open Residency Program and the Ontario Arts Council. He will also direct a psychological thriller, Happy, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2024 Haui will direct his libretto Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White, created in collaboration with Sean Mayes and Neema Bickersteth, produced by the Canadian Opera Company and supported by the National Arts Creation Fund, Canada Council, and Ontario Arts Council.

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