User:Mkyin/Lam Lap Sam

Lam Lap Sam, is a Hong Kong actor, theatre director and theatrical arts educator. Hong Kong's first professional mime artist. Lam worked in the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and had been teaching there since 1984. Lam is currently teaching at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Film Academy and the College of Liberal Arts. He also serves as the program coordinator and lecturer of the Diploma in Theatre Studies program of the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKUSPACE), artistic consultant of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Drama Session), Hong Kong Labour Department Employees Retraining Board for Film, TV, Cantonese Opera and Stage Performance and of Film, TV & Entertainment Industry skills Upgrading Scheme, Education & Manpower Bureau.

Biography
Lam earned a Bachelor of Arts in acting and Master of Arts in directing and acting from the University of Winnipeg. He then earned a Doctor of Dramatic Studies and Theatre Performance from the Maryland Rochville University, graduating summa cum laude.

After graduating from the University of Winnipeg, he taught in the same university and also worked as an actor and participated in some professional theatre companies in Manitoba and Ontario before returning to Hong Kong, where he decided to develop his career.

Lam was recognized as one of the four most influential persons in the Hong Kong theatre by the Oxford University Press committee. He has also been put into the book "Who's Who in The Contemporary World Theatre" published by Routledge in 2000.