Asian Art Awards 2025

Group photo from our awards at the MOXY Fountainbridge on 19th August
2025 award for Outstanding Show was won by Chai Wan Rabble from Hong Kong with Hahaha-Hamlet
Here is the cast of Hahaha-Hamlet with Asian Art Fund Scotland trustees Chelsea and Richard.

Mayuri Bhandari of the Anti “Yogi” took home the award for Outstanding Female. Here she is with her percussionist Neel Agrawal, plus Richard Lewis of the awards and Lyndsey Jackson of the Fringe.

Jeremy Rafal won Outstanding Male Performance for The Boy from Bantay “a heart-warming journey of growth and self-discovery”. Jeremy could be with us but sent us a lovely message from NYC and this nice gentleman in green collected the award on his behalf.
Niall Moorjani’s 5 star show Kanpur 1857 won the award for Outstanding Production. Here they are with Lyndsey Jackson of the Fringe and then with co-star Jonathan and musician Sodhi.
The Asian Arts Special Award was given as a Joint Award with two winners this year. The award was shared between Up-cycle Music by Creative Art of Korea..
and GENDAI TOKYO from Japan with their amazing laser show.
Outstanding Youth Performance was won by “Landscape of the Other Shore” from Shenzhen University, inspired by a European classic: Géricault’s painting and Georg Kaiser’s play The Raft of the Medusa. This young lady from Shenzhen called Ricky was there to collect the award.
Annie Cheung from the wonderful DOTS picked up the Highly Commended award for Outstanding Show on behalf of the Theatre Ronin guys for “Practice of Zen”. They’d returned to Hong Kong but also sent us a nice video message.
Eden Choi won a Highly Commended award for Outstanding Male Performance
Outstanding Production – Highly Commended: The Time Painter (ACC, ACCF, Haddangse of Korea). A drama centred around the Gwangju massacre.
Outstanding Production – Highly Commended: 1457, The Boy at Rest (Poem and Star from Korea). “A Musical Requiem for a Lost King” (with Goblins).
Elisabeth Gunawan: Highly Commended for Stampin’ In the Graveyard
Dancer Chi-An Chen and Creator/Director Wei-Wei Wu won a Highly Commended award for Outstanding Female Performance for Sole to Soul under the Asia Base season (combining shows from Hong Kong and Taiwan).
Dream Space by Creative Group SSAK from Korean won a Highly Commended award under the Outstanding Youth Performance category.
Casts of the Proust Effect (Eden Choi), Boy at Rest, Time Painter and Dream Space celebrate together.