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Founded in 1982, Zuni Icosahedron is one Hong Kong’s most iconic professional experimental theatre groups, and one of its nine major professional performing arts groups. 

Zuni’s theatre-based experimental spirit has pioneered the integration, inheritance, and innovation of Chinese and Western art, promoting international exchange in areas that are cross-boundary and cross-category.

Zuni Icosahedron is financially supported by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Chan Ho-Kei is a graduate in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an international member of the Mystery Writers of Taiwan. In 2008, his short story The case of Jack and the Beanstalk was shortlisted for the 6th Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. In 2009, he won the 7th Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award with his short story, The Locked Room of Bluebeard. In 2011, he won the 2nd Soji Shimada Mystery Award with his first novel, The Man Who Sold the World. 

As the co-Artistic Director cum Executive Director of Zuni Icosahedron, Mathias Woo is a scriptwriter, director, producer as well as curator. His works construct aesthetics in theatre through strong visual images, and have toured in cities such as Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Hangzhou, Krakow, Milan, Nanjing, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo, among others. Woo's theatre works explore a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to literature, history, current political affairs, architecture, spirituality, and traditional arts’ development. His recent productions include Read Sing Eileen Chang at the Aranya Theatre Festival 2023, HK: A Theatre of Life and Death, Bach is Heart Sutra, Hua-Yen Sutra, 1587, A Year of No Significance, A Tale of Forbidden City, The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn, Dream on Dreams (Kunqu), among many others. Woo is also in charge of multimedia stage design, and has cooperated with various Chinese theatre masters such as Stan Lai, Edward Lam, Meng Jing-hui and more.

In 2009, Woo curated the ever first Architecture is Art Festival dedicated to exploring the aesthetics and dialectics brought forth when architecture meets theatre, through a series of theatre performances, exhibitions, talks and seminars. Woo is also the mastermind behind the Zuni Innovation Lab launched in 2017.

Woo has received several awards throughout his career. To name a few, Looking for Mies was awarded DFA Merit by the Hong Kong Design Centre in 2012; Woo was awarded the Arts and Cultural Figure of the Year in Shenzhen and Hong Kong Lifestyle Award by Southern Metropolitan Daily in 2013; The Architecture of The City won the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2018 – Silver Award and the Silver A' Design Award in Performing Arts, Style and Scenery Design Category in 2019. With Z Innovation Lab 2019, Woo received the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2020, and Bach is Heart Sutra clinched the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2021 – Merit Award. In 2023, the Countryside Cultural Innovation Project - Lai Chi Wo Children Play Theatre Lai Chi WOW! won the Golden Pin Design Award (Taiwan).