Ho Ka Kei, sometimes credited as Jeff Ho, is a Hong Kong-born Canadian stage actor and playwright. [1] He is most noted for his plays Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) and Antigone: 方, which won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Drama [2] and were shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English-language drama. [3] [4]
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, [5] Kei's other plays have included trace [5] and Cockroach. [6] As an actor, he is most noted for his performance as Ophelia in Ravi Jain's gender-flipped adaptation of Hamlet, opposite Christine Horne as Prince Hamlet. [7]
Alongside Colin Asuncion, Hume Baugh, Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, Keith Cole, daniel jelani ellis, Daniel Krolik, Michael Hughes, Indrit Kasapi, Eric Morin, G Kyle Shields, Chy Ryan Spain and Geoffrey Whynot, he was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Independent Theatre in 2020, for Buddies in Bad Times's production of Brian Francis's Box 4901. [8]
Ho Ka Kei, sometimes credited as Jeff Ho, is a Hong Kong-born Canadian stage actor and playwright. [1] He is most noted for his plays Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) and Antigone: 方, which won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Drama [2] and were shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English-language drama. [3] [4]
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, [5] Kei's other plays have included trace [5] and Cockroach. [6] As an actor, he is most noted for his performance as Ophelia in Ravi Jain's gender-flipped adaptation of Hamlet, opposite Christine Horne as Prince Hamlet. [7]
Alongside Colin Asuncion, Hume Baugh, Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, Keith Cole, daniel jelani ellis, Daniel Krolik, Michael Hughes, Indrit Kasapi, Eric Morin, G Kyle Shields, Chy Ryan Spain and Geoffrey Whynot, he was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Independent Theatre in 2020, for Buddies in Bad Times's production of Brian Francis's Box 4901. [8]