藝術總監・馬照琪

沙丁龐客劇團藝術總監，紅鼻子關懷小丑協會創始人及秘書長。劇場編導、演員、戲劇講師、戲劇書籍翻譯。

台灣大學經濟系畢業，在校期間即參與戲劇演出及製作，1997年赴紐約大學進修教育劇場（Educational Theatre）碩士，並參與倫敦及愛丁堡社區劇場及教室劇場工作研習營。

1999年進入法國賈克樂寇國際戲劇學校（École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq），專研默劇、小丑、體操、義大利即興喜劇、希臘悲劇、中性面具、半臉面具、通俗劇、即興、丑角(Bouffon)等…同時接受導演與編劇的訓練。曾於台北藝術大學與台灣藝術大學戲劇系兼任講師，並不時受邀至各處主持短期戲劇工作坊。累積的編導與演出作品至今已經十幾齣。

馬照琪2014年自法國微笑醫生協會學習小丑醫生專業課程，並且得到法國政府頒發專業小丑醫生證照。回到台灣後開始推動「紅鼻子醫生計畫」，並且培訓本國小丑醫生投入工作，固定而長期地為醫院裡的人們提供量身打造的即興演出，幫助病童、家屬與醫護人員紓解苦痛、獲得放鬆。希望進而為兒童友善醫療注入一股力量。

Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre de la Sardine. She also works as a performer, drama teacher, and professional hospital clown. She had translated several theatre books: Le Corps Poétique by Jacques Lecoq and Ariane Mnouchkine: L’art Du Présent by Ariane Mnouchkine and Fabienne Pascaud.

Chao-Chi Ma began her career in theatre while studying economics at the National Taiwan University, where she involved in many student shows. In 1997, she gained her Master Degree in Educational Theatre at New York University.  She later took workshops in community theatre and Drama in Education in London and Edinburgh.

Ma entered École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in France in 1999, where she explored major dramatic territories, such as melodrama, tragedy, Commedia dell’arte, clowning and burlesque. She later founded Theatre de la Sardine in Taipei in 2007. She also has been a lecturer at Taipei National University of the Arts and National Taiwan University of Arts and gives theatre workshops for many different organizations.

She is also a certified professional hospital clown with a diploma issued by French government after studying with Le Rire Medecin in Paris. She founded Taiwan’s first professional hospital clown association, Dr. Red Nose, in 2016.

Directory works: Alone in the World’s Room; Dinner for One; Underground; Five Clowns and One Chair; Gulliver’s Travels; The Secret of the Luthier; Une Chapeau de Paille d’Italie; La Vie est Belle 1 & 2. A-Cho, the adventure of a ugly boy. The White Snake?!