Ho Ka Kei

Ho Ka Kei, sometimes credited as Jeff Ho, is a Hong Kong-born Canadian stage actor and playwright.Marilla Steuter-Martin, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jeff-ho-trace-play-1.6038836 "Playwright traces 4 generations of his family history in musical one-man play"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520001221/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jeff-ho-trace-play-1.6038836 |date=2023-05-20 }}. 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{{Cite web |title=2023 Winners |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2023-winners/ |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}} and were shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General's Award for English-language drama.[https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-finalists-for-the-2022-governor-general-s-literary-award-for-drama-1.6612921 "The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for drama"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205174005/https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-finalists-for-the-2022-governor-general-s-literary-award-for-drama-1.6612921 |date=2023-02-05 }}. CBC Books, October 12, 2022.{{Cite web |last=Lopez |first=Rich |date=2023-03-21 |title=Read all about it: Lambda Literary's 35th annual LAMMY Award finalists |url=https://dallasvoice.com/read-all-about-it-lambda-literarys-35th-annual-lammy-award-finalists/ |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=Dallas Voice |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514230213/https://dallasvoice.com/read-all-about-it-lambda-literarys-35th-annual-lammy-award-finalists/ |url-status=live }}

A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada,Lynn Saxberg, [https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/nac-preview-jeff-hos-trace-a-one-man-play-inspired-by-family-history "NAC preview: Jeff Ho's trace, a one-man play, inspired by family history"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214144921/https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/nac-preview-jeff-hos-trace-a-one-man-play-inspired-by-family-history |date=2019-12-14 }}. Ottawa Citizen, November 8, 2019. Kei's other plays have included trace and Cockroach.Joshua Chong, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/review/2022/09/26/ho-ka-keis-cockroach-a-dense-and-poetic-exploration-of-survival-identity-and-migration-is-one-of-the-strongest-new-plays-this-season.html "Ho Ka Kei’s ‘Cockroach,’ a dense and poetic exploration of survival, identity and migration, is one of the strongest new plays this season"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520001214/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/review/2022/09/26/ho-ka-keis-cockroach-a-dense-and-poetic-exploration-of-survival-identity-and-migration-is-one-of-the-strongest-new-plays-this-season.html |date=2023-05-20 }}. 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, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2019/02/06/actor-and-playwright-jeff-ho-explores-his-chinese-identity-via-the-greeks.html "Actor and playwright Jeff Ho explores his Chinese identity via the Greeks"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520001213/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2019/02/06/actor-and-playwright-jeff-ho-explores-his-chinese-identity-via-the-greeks.html |date=2023-05-20 }}. 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, [https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/awards/2020-dora-mavor-moore-award-winners/ "2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners"]. Intermission Magazine, June 29, 2020.