Ho Ka Kei, sometimes credited as Jeff Ho, is a Hong Kong-born Canadian stage actor and playwright.Marilla Steuter-Martin, "Playwright traces 4 generations of his family history in musical one-man play" . CBC News Montreal, May 25, 2021. 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 and were shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English-language drama."The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for drama" . CBC Books, October 12, 2022.
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada,Lynn Saxberg, "NAC preview: Jeff Ho's trace, a one-man play, inspired by family history" . Ottawa Citizen, November 8, 2019. Kei's other plays have included trace and Cockroach.Joshua Chong, "Ho Ka Kei’s ‘Cockroach,’ a dense and poetic exploration of survival, identity and migration, is one of the strongest new plays this season" . Toronto Star, September 26, 2022. 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.Karen Fricker, "Actor and playwright Jeff Ho explores his Chinese identity via the Greeks" . Toronto Star, February 6, 2019.
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.Mae Smith, "2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine, June 29, 2020.
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