Wu Fenghua

Biography

Wu Fenghua is a Chinese Yue opera performance artist from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, born in July 1970. She is a first-grade actress specializing in the Fan school of young male roles and a close disciple of performing artist Fan Ruijuan. At a young age, she entered the Shaoxing Opera Art Vocational School to study acting, and after graduation joined the Shaoxing Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe. She joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1994. In 2005, she established her own art studio. Over more than twenty years of artistic career, she has won numerous provincial and national awards, including the Gold Award at the Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Festival in 1994, the 13th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award in 1996, the Outstanding Performance Award at the 7th Zhejiang Drama Festival in 1997, and the Outstanding Performance Award at the 9th Zhejiang Drama Festival in 2002. She has performed in over thirty Yue opera productions, most notably "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and "The Peacock Flies Southeast." She is a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association and a representative of the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.