Fong Chun Kit joined HKRep as Resident Director in 2020 and assumes the position of Assistant Artistic Director in 2023. He has started his partnership with HKRep after graduating from the Drama School of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree, majoring in Directing since 2010. Among the 30 plus works he directed, more than half of them had re-runs and toured for over 200 performances.
Fong’s graduate piece Taming of the Shrew won him the HKAPA’s Outstanding Director award. Six-time nominee of Best Director at the Hong Kong Drama Awards, he won the award for four times with The Truth from Liar, Sing Out, The Impossible Trial – a musical, and Scapin in Jiānghú, Chap. 2023. He was also awarded Best Director at Hong Kong Theatre Libre with Lysistrata. The Last Supper directed by him was also selected among the “40 Most Influential Works in Chinese Contemporary Studio Theatre”.
Fong’s directorial output includes The Impossible Trial – a musical (commissioned by WestK, co-presented and co-produced by WestK and Hong Kong Repertory Theatre), After Life, The Isle (co-director), That's Not True, Ambiguous, Principle, Auspicious Day, Marriage, The Last Supper and Secrets of the 81/2th Floor for the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Falsettoland, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, and Avenue Q for Windmill Grass Theatre, The Truth from Liar, Sins, Forget Me Not, Monsters and Monsters (re-run) for the Artocrite Theater, Sing Out by Lee Hysan Foundation, The Originals and The Originals (Reimagined) – Hong Kong Musicals in Concert curated by Leon Ko, The Beauty Queen of Leenane for Project Roundabout, My Very Short Marriage for Music Nation, A Floating Family – A Trilogy for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Xiyang Zhanshi, Le dieu du carnage for Dionysus Contemporary Theatre, Lysistrata and The Taming of the Shrew for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Red Sky for Chung Ying Theatre Company, The Goat for We Draman Group, Three Men and A Lady (playwright, director and actor), Twelfth Night for tobe THEATRE, With Love William Shakespeare for Theatre Noir (playwright and director).