Jiao Juyin

Who is Jiao Juyin?

Jiao Juyin was a Chinese director, translator, and theater theorist. He was born in Tianjin on December 11, 1905. His original name was Chengzhi, and had used several pen names such as 居颖,居尹 and 亮俦. He used Juying as stage name， and later changed it into 菊隐.

Jiao was very poor when he was young, and had to do a lot of work while to maintain studying. At the early 1920th, he organised a literary society named the "Green Waves Society". In 1928 he and Xiong Fuxi organized a performance of the cricket, that offended a warlord, made him wanted.

In 1939, he took part in the founding of the Traditional Opera College of Peiping, later became the first principal of it, and implemented a series of reforms.

In the autumn of 1935, he went to study in France，observed the performance of various schools of Western Theater. In 1938 he received a Ph.D. from Paris University, and returned to China.

He worked in Guilin till 1941. During this time he once directed Cao Yu's Thunderstorm. Later he took part in the reform of Guangxi opera with Ouyang Yuqian.

In 1947, he founded the Peiping art library. In 1950, he directed Lao She'e Dragon Beard Ditch for Beijing People's Art Theatre. In 1952, Jiao became the first vice-president of Beijing People's Art Theatre.