2022TCAF:Punctum Creative Who Stole My Words?

"The story begins with a smart young boy Gao Bai-Sheng who always scores 100 at every subject. He is so proud of himself that he doesn’t want to befriend with the other classmates. Until one day, fairy Hui-Hui steals his words, having him make a fool of himself in front of the class. His mother is also very angry about his poor school performance. One day, Bai-Sheng catches this mischievous fairy and hands her to his mother as proof, but she thinks Bai-Sheng is only trying to make excuses. They have a big quarrel. In the course, Bai-Sheng’s mother is hit by magic accidentally, turned into a dumb mom who thinks she is a duck. Hui-Hui has no choice but to bring Bai-Sheng and his mother back to the fairyland... 

Will they recover Bai-Sheng’s mother’s intelligence? Will Bai-Sheng reclaim his stolen words? Why would fairy Hui-Hui steal people’s words?

Who Stole My Words? was awarded the 2nd place of “Playwright Project for Kids and Above” at 2019 Taipei Children’s Arts Festival. Chang Yuan blended his traumatic schooling experience, as the result of his dysgraphia, with the imagination of a spiritual fairyland, and wrote a fantastic musical.

"Punctum Creative

Punctum Creative was founded in 2011 by Tien-Heng Kao and Soonyew Chong. Our core mission is making original Mandarin Musicals. Punctum Creative is dedicated to creating various types of musicals, including The Shadow Kingdom: Magical Travel with Grandma, The show must go on, The Letter, etc.  In 2018, we organized City Musical Festival and invited other troupes in Taiwan to 
remake their classic musicals. By holding musical festivals, performing art lectures and children’s musical summer camps, we hope to promote our brand value and develop the musical culture in Taiwan.
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"Director | Kao Tien-Heng
Kao Tien-Heng is the Artistic Director, a playwright, and director of Punctum Creative. He also serves as an instructor of stage play and musical theatre performance for the Godot Theatre Company. Kao has great passion for musicals. His creative efforts are mostly focused on original musicals in Chinese language. Since founding the theatre troupe Punctum Creative, Kao has written many original Chinese-language and family musicals, his works having run for more than 500 performances to date. He has received awards at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival Emerging Theatre Artists Competition, Quanta Arts Foundation musical festivals, and the Daegu International Musical Festival in Korea, etc.

Playwright | Chang Yuan
Chang Yuan is a contracted playwright of Story Nerd as well as a core member and lyricist of the emerging band FloodingBridge. He is committed to honing his creative skills for the ultimate goal of becoming a musical director and playwright. Chang's original musical script Who stole my words? was awarded second prize in the Playwright Project for Kids & Above of the 2019 Taipei Children's Arts Festival.

Composer | Kang Ho-Shiang
Kang Ho-Shiang is the Music Director of Come On Creative Studio. His music compositions range among theatre, film and TV works. Recent important roles include musical director and co-arranger for Eat Drink Man Woman, co-arranger for The Edge of Heaven, arranger for What Lies Beneath, arranger for Daylight, and music director for Her Middle Finger.
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