姚一苇,本名公伟,江西南昌人,1922年生,自幼喜爱戏剧。1941年考入厦门大学,1946年毕业。初学电机工程,后又转学银行系。在校时有次参加戏剧演出,使他由此爱上了戏剧。他开始到图书馆借阅有关戏剧方面的书籍,阅读了大量欧洲经典剧作,奠定了他后来从事戏剧工作的基础。 Yao Yiwei, his real name, Nanchang, Jiangxi, born in 1922, since childhood, love drama. 1941 admitted to Xiamen University, graduated in 1946. Beginning electrical engineering, and then transferred to the banking system. There were times when attending theatrical performances, so that he fell in love with the drama. He began to borrow books about theatrical from the library, read a large number of European classics, and laid the foundation for his later career in theater.