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Shadow Zen
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She is currently working on a world-wide stage by living both in Europe and Shanghai. She began her stage training at the age of nine at Shanghai Children"s Theatre. After graduating from Shanghai International Studies University, she went on to train at Chicago College of Performing Arts (Roosevelt University) majoring in Musical Theatre Performance.
She returned to China in 2005 after her graduation from Chicago College of Performing Arts.
Leading roles in both original production and national tour of Challenge 3 VS. 3 (2002, Shanghai Children"s Theatre), Drinking with the Stranger (2003, Shanghai Hardhan Theatre), Musical of the Night (2004, Shanghai Yi Hai Theatre), Jin Sha (2005, Beijing Poly Theatre), Sunrise (2006, Beijing Tian Qiao Theatre), The Beautiful Warrior (2007, Beijing Music Hall). Leading roles and playwright in both original production and national tour of I Dreamed A Dream (2009, Beijing Capital Theatre), Maine (2011, Shanghai 800 show Theatre) and Mission Shanghai (Bilingual, 2012, Shanghai Center Theatre).
From 2011 to 2013, Shadow played Donna Sheridan in Little Star"s Chinese production of Mamma Mia!, which has already run 400 shows for the whole three seasons. As a concert artist, Shadow has appeared with Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra in New Year Concert of Opera and Musical Experts at Great Hall of the People, with China Opera and Dance Drama Theatre Orchestra in solo concert Shadow of Musical at Beijing Concert Hall, with Beijing Symphony Orchestra in Concert featuring Composer Jin Xiang’ s Opera and Musical Works at Beijing Music Hall, with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in Classic and Famous Broadway at Shanghai Music Hall, and with Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra in solo concert Best of Musicals at Shanghai Grand Theatre.
Shadow is a guest professor at Beijing Dance Academy, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Queens College New York (City University of New York) of their Musical Theater Performance Department (major), and she is currently hosting her musical production label, the Modern Shadow Company of Performing Arts.
