Dance, Sing, Act….
Build your musical theatre technique at this intensive 12-hour workshop. You’ll integrate singing, choreography, and acting in songs and scenes—mapping your path from practice to stage-ready performance skills.
If you wish to improve your technique across voice, dance, and acting, and are seeking a clear pathway from fundamentals to performance, please prepare a 16–32 bar song excerpt (no longer than 1.5 minutes) for the audition.
Date & Time: 1 Dec 2025 (Mon), between 10:00 to 17:00 (approx. 20 mins.)
Venue: WLB301 (iCafe)
Originally from Marseille, France, Mr. Drissi received professional training in France and New York City with distinguished mentors, including Matt Mattox, Kathleen Marshall, Chet Walker, Christopher Chadman, Bob Rizzo, and Phil Black, at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater School and Broadway Dance Center. He has performed with companies such as Manuel Alum, Anthony Morgan, Diane Jacobowitz Dance Theatre, and Forces of Nature Dance Company in modern, jazz, and theatre dance.
Mr. Drissi holds a Master of Fine Arts in Drama and a Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Education from Queensland University of Technology (Australia). He has taught musical theatre and jazz internationally and has created, premiered, and choreographed numerous musicals, including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Pippin, Myth of Fox, Hello, Dolly!, Once on This Island, Next to Normal, and The Enchanted Bookshop, among others. From 1991 to 2005, Mr. Drissi served as Senior Lecturer and Head of Musical Theatre Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and he continues to teach and choreograph across Asia.
Currently, he is the Artistic Director and founder of The Hong Kong 3 Arts Musical Institute and Musical Dreams Theatrical, organisations dedicated to producing professional musical theatre and delivering education throughout Hong Kong.
In 2017, Mr. Drissi received an award from the Hong Kong Drama Federation for his contribution to the development of musical theatre in Hong Kong. In 2025, he was honoured with the Best Choreographer Award at the 33rd Hong Kong Drama Awards.
Ms. Ho holds a BSc. in Speech from the University of Hong Kong and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Vocal Pedagogy at the Voice Study Centre, affiliated with the University of Essex. She received opera training from Sae-kyung Rim and Brian Montgomery, and studied Broadway performance under Mohamed Drissi. Ms. Ho was a young artist under the Jockey Club Opera Hong Kong Young Artist Development and Education Programme.
As a vocal coach, Ms. Ho has worked with a variety of musical theatre productions in Hong Kong, including Blood Brothers and The White Collar Principle (HK3AMI); Rudolph Christmas Adventure (Pop Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Chung Ying Theatre Company); Toasty’s Graffiti Singing Adventure and Little Star and the Great Prairie (JumboKids); and Agent Q (Musical Trio), and others.
Co-Curricular Learning (CCL) recognised
1. Successful applicants will receive a confirmation email.
2. Workshop quota will be assigned on a first-paid, first-served basis.
3. UGC students will receive a CCL record after participating in the workshop and completing the event survey and reflective notes.
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