Yoki Lai earned her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in the USA in 2008 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with 1st class honors in 2001. She won the Donald and Zorca Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design in 2008 and The Eldon Elder Fellowship in 2007 & 2008 from Yale University; The Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council in New York in 2007. Yoki engaged as the resident design in Chung Ying Theatre Company in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2005, where she won The Best Set Design in 2006 and The Best Make-up & Image Design in 2005 from Hong Kong Drama Awards 

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She worked in New York for 3 years after graduated at Yale, her selected set credits includes From Mao to Met for Public Broadcasting Service,This is way beyond my remote control for Great Scott Films,Othello for Princeton University; Broadway selected set assistant for Santo Loquasto credits includes Fence,Collected Stories, Man for all Season, American Buffalo and Onegin for The National Ballet of Canada. 

 

She actives in Hong Kong theatre after back from the States. Her recent selected set and costume design credits include theDouble bill operas L’enfant prodigue/et les sortileges for Queensland Conservatorium in Australia; musical Dim Sum Warrior for Theatre Above in Shanghai; Scrooge the musical for The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, set credits includes Confucius 63 revisited for Chung Ying Theatre Company, Sour Angeica, Gianni Schicchi, Semele for HKAPA, 1894 Hong Kong Plague for The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. Her costume credits includes Carmen, Lucia de Lammermoor, I Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, The story of La Traviata for Musica Viva Hong Kong, the musical Bug Symphony for City Chamber Orchestra for Hong Kong. She was Ming Cho Lee’s personal assistant for his 2011 World Renowned Prominent Set Designer Ming Cho Lee Design Retrospective in Shanghai and Ningbo. She was the Artist in Residence in HKAPA between 2012 to 2013 and part time lecturer between 2014 and 2016.