Jarita Wan

M.A. (Hons) in Creative Writing in English (HKU) and B.A.(Hons) in Music (CUHK), Jarita starred in hermusical debut in Actors’ Family’s The Passage Beyond in 2009 and had received wide recognition. She touredaround Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou for this production for years, including the Musical in Concertwith The Hong Kong Sinfonietta and its Decca Records soundtrack recording, where SCMP describedher voice as “beguiling”. She portrayed the leads over 20 musicals produced in Hong Kong and Macau, andshe staged her original musical The Nightingale, being the music director, playwright, composer, lyricist andprima donna for it, and was nominated, the first artist in Hong Kong drama history, at the 29th Hong KongDrama Awards both for ‘Best Leading Actress’(Comedy/Farce) and ‘Best Original Score’ (Musical Theatre)at the same time.She also performed in numerous concerts, including those with Bamberger Symphoniker, Hong KongPhilharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Ponte Singers & Orchestra. 

She also vocally coachedmany staged productions. For screen, Jarita wrote the movie theme for The First Girl I Loved, performedin the Guangzhou television sitcom The Best Is Yet To Come (Season 4) as the supporting actress, sang theCantonese movie theme for Monster Hunt and voiced for the leads in numerous animations, plus singingcommercial themes for brands including Darlie, Merci and Trolli.

Jarita co-founded Theatre Hikari in Hong Kong, advocating performing arts education for schools andcharity organisations. She is also a guest tutor for Actors Workshop Spain, currently residing in London,now a freelance performative, creative and educative artist.