颜永祺博士，资深戏剧导演、新纪元大学学院博士生导师 兼 木卡空间艺术总监。

他是首位在中国获得戏剧博士学位的马来西亚人，迄今出版了 8 本戏剧著作。他拥有 18 年导表演教学经验，学生多达上千人，在国内外编导近 50 部戏剧作品，演出场次多达 1500 场，获得 7 次马来西亚戏剧奖项的最佳导演。除了戏剧，他也担任中国诸多大型文旅演出的戏剧导演，也是 2008 年北京奥运会的体育展示导演和 2022 年杭州亚运会开幕式的戏剧导演。2022 年，被北京戏剧家协会等权威机构评为 “中国当代小剧场戏剧 40 年” 最具影响力导演之一。

Dr. Deric Gan is a director, playwright, composer, set designer, as well as an acting and directing instructor.

He is the first Malaysian to obtain a PhD in Performance Art from the Central Academy of Drama in China. He has 18 years of experience teaching theatre and acting to thousands of students, written 8 theatrical plays, choreographed and directed nearly 50 theatre productions locally and abroad, performed in 1,500 plays, and won the Best Director 7 times in the ADA Drama Awards. Besides theatre, Dr. Gan also directed the after-competition shows at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. He was named one of the most influential directors by the Beijing Theatre Association in its 2022 list of “40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Small Theatre”. Dr. Gan is also a Ph.D. supervisor at New Era University College and the artistic director of Muka Space.