Ho Ka Kei

Ho Ka Kei, sometimes credited as Jeff Ho, is a Hong Kong-born Canadian stage actor and playwright.[1] He is most noted for his plays Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) and Antigone: 方, which won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Drama[2] and were shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English-language drama.[3][4]

A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada,[5] Kei's other plays have included trace[5] and Cockroach.[6] As an actor, he is most noted for his performance as Ophelia in Ravi Jain's gender-flipped adaptation of Hamlet, opposite Christine Horne as Prince Hamlet.[7]

Alongside Colin Asuncion, Hume Baugh, Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, Keith Cole, daniel jelani ellis, Daniel Krolik, Michael Hughes, Indrit Kasapi, Eric Morin, G Kyle Shields, Chy Ryan Spain and Geoffrey Whynot, he was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Independent Theatre in 2020, for Buddies in Bad Times's production of Brian Francis's Box 4901.[8]

  1. ^ Marilla Steuter-Martin, "Playwright traces 4 generations of his family history in musical one-man play" Archived 2023-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. CBC News Montreal, May 25, 2021.
  2. ^ "2023 Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
  3. ^ "The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for drama" Archived 2023-02-05 at the Wayback Machine. CBC Books, October 12, 2022.
  4. ^ Lopez, Rich (2023-03-21). "Read all about it: Lambda Literary's 35th annual LAMMY Award finalists". Dallas Voice. Archived from the original on 2023-05-14. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
  5. ^ a b Lynn Saxberg, "NAC preview: Jeff Ho's trace, a one-man play, inspired by family history" Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine. Ottawa Citizen, November 8, 2019.
  6. ^ Joshua Chong, "Ho Ka Kei’s ‘Cockroach,’ a dense and poetic exploration of survival, identity and migration, is one of the strongest new plays this season" Archived 2023-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, September 26, 2022.
  7. ^ Karen Fricker, "Actor and playwright Jeff Ho explores his Chinese identity via the Greeks" Archived 2023-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, February 6, 2019.
  8. ^ Mae Smith, "2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine, June 29, 2020.