Hyoung-Taek Limb is a former professor of Theatre Directing & Acting at Seoul Institute of The Arts and the Artistic Director of Seoul Factory for the Performing Arts in Seoul, Korea. He used to work as an artistic director of LITE or Laboratory for International Theatre Exchange, Inc. based in New York. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University, a M.A. in Theatre from Dongguk University and a M.F.A. in Theatre Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts. He was chosen as the Theatre Artist for the Next Millennium by Korea Times in New York, 2000 and won the Best Directing award at the 19th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre in 2007. As an artistic director, Limb’s theatrical activities are strongly focused on actors’ movement and voice coordinated with live music. His artistic productions are loosely adapted from classical works of Oriental and Occidental plays with contemporary perspective. Limb has also been working as an actor for several plays and films in U.S. and Korea. He was a member of Screen Actors Guild of America. He is currently working as an artistic director for several festivals including Suwon-Hwasung Festival in Korea, India Sarang Festival in Korea and PADAF(Play and Dance Arts Festival). His most prominent works include: Medea and its Double toured worldwide (La Mama in New York, Santiago in Chile, Chennai in India, Shizoka World Theatre Festival in Japan); Hamlet_Avataar (a collaboration between Korea and India premiered in Seoul in 2014); Three Sisters Lost in Time (premiered in Seoul in 2004 and toured to Warsaw in Poland and New York); as well as other intertextual pieces, such as: The Cherry Orchard_Comedy Nostalgia, The Idiot and The White, La Dispute.
