Nick Rongju Yu is the Director if Programming and Marketing for the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. Since 2000, he has been a professional playwright who has authored more then twenty works for stage and screen with performances in other countries as well as in China.  He has also translated works from other lands which have been performed in China and other countries. His plays have been presented in English and Japanese as well as other languages and dialects with performances in the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Egypt, Hong Kong, Taipei and Macao. As the manager of the Arts Theatre, Drama Salon, and the D6 Studio of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Nick hosted more than three hundred projects for three stages in Shanghai. Such projects included productions from all the major theatre companies in China as well as more then sixty productions from abroad. He has also facilitated more than ten plays of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center to tour world-wide. Since 2003 as a dramaturge and producer of the SDAC, he also has co-produced several productions with theatre companies from abroad. From 2004 until the present time he has been the director of the Shanghai University Theatre Festival. Nick is also the organizer and chief director of the Asia Contemporary Theatre Festival, which is an annual festival for all theatre companies from all over Asia.