OzAsia Festival’s 2024 Artistic Producer shares career insights and what to look out for in this year’s program

What took Joon-Yee Kwok from a young POC actor dreaming of becoming the next Nicole Kidman to producing OzAsia Festival? ArtsHub finds out.

2 Aug 2024 13:43

Celina Lei

L: OzAsia Festival 2024 Artistic Director Joon-Yee Kwok. A portrait photo of a middle-age Chinese Australian woman with chest-length black hair wearing black rimmed glasses and a spotty top. R: OzAsia Festival 2024 cover art by Jessie Hui. An illusrtation featuring cratoon cats and dumplings.

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L: OzAsia Festival 2024 Artistic and Executive Producer Joon-Yee Kwok. Photo: Simon Rogers. R: OzAsia Festival 2024 cover art by Jessie Hui. Image: Supplied.

Brisbane-born Joon-Yee Kwok is the new Artistic and Executive Producer of OzAsia Festival, taking over from Annette Shun Wah who was in the position from 2020-2023.

Kwok is a second generation Chinese Australian who grew up in the 1980s, attended a multicultural school and once had the dream of pursuing acting as a professional career.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_