Former Dean of the School of Drama and Professor at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). He has an extensive thirty-year career in the Arts and is a theatre, flim, television and opera director and a performing arts teacher.
 
He began as a trainee director with National Theatre of Wales and as a staff director at Welsh National Opera. Ceri was Artistic Director of the Actors Touring Company, London and the founding director of Theatrig in Wales. In broadcasting Ceri was Head of Drama at Elidir Flims; a Commissioning Editor at S4C; Commissioning Executive Arts (BBC Wales) and an Executive Producer (BBC 4). He has won numerous Best Director Awards for his theatre productions, television documentaries and flims including a Golden Gate Award (San Francisco); Golden Torc – Spirit of the Festival (Celtic); Publikumspreis (Wurtzburg); Chris Award (Columbus); Houston Worldfest (Gold) and a coveted Royal Television Society Award.
 
Ceri was educated at King’s College and the Institute of Education, University of London and at the Cardiff Centre for Creative and Cultural Industries, where he gained his Ph.D. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, Nipkow Fellow (Berlin) and a Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is an Honorary Professor in Drama at Kingston University, London and the University of Aberystwyth, a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).