At the party organized by the students of this college, Huang Zuolin performed the one-act play, East and West, which was written and directed by himself.

From that point on, George Bernard Shaw became Huang Zuolin's first teacher who introduced art to him and was revered by him all his life.

In 1929, Huang Zuolin returned to China and served as honorary president of Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College.

In 1935, he, together with his wife Jin Yunzhi (Danny),[4] once again traveled to Britain to study Shakespeare at King's College, Cambridge, where he completed his M. Litt.

In 1942, under the tenet of "working together and working hard", Huang Zuolin, along with Huang Zongjiang and Shihui, established the Hardworking Opera Troupe,[7] which was later renamed the Hardworking Drama Training Institute where they directed Liang Shang Jun Zi (梁上君子) and The inn at night.

At the end of 1948, Huang Zuolin took part in the preparation work for an underground Association of Film Workers.

In 1962, he proposed a creative view on drama of depicted desires[9] and advocated a Chinese contemporary, ethnical, and scientific dramatic system.

Huang Zuolin's father once served as the comprador of Shell lntemationaI Oil Products B.V. During the Cultural Revolution, Huang Zuolin suffered because of his father's job and was interrogated (Life and Death in Shanghai[10] Author: Nien Cheng Page 326.

Over the nearly 60 years of his art career, Huang Zuolin introduced the ideas and practices of Konstantin Stanislavski, Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski, as well as many other schools of dramatic thought, to Chinese theatre workers.

On October 24, 1995, a statue of Huang Zuolin was unveiled on the lawn of former Shanghai People's Art Theatre.