Chris Shum is a celebrated lyricist with work spanning musicals, plays, movies, television dramas and pop music. Awards include Best Original Song at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards, Best Original Song at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Serious Composition (2011) and Best Alternative Composition Award (2006) at the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards. He is a four-time recipient of Best Original Song at the Hong Kong Drama Awards, and won Best Lyrics in 2023.
Shum wrote the script and lyrics for Pica Pica Choose, a collaborative production by Mr Wing Theatre Company (Taipei) and Yat Po Singers (Hong Kong), and for This Victoria has no Secrets and Our Immortal Cantata (Yat Po Singers) and The Woman in Kenzo (Chung Ying Theatre Company).
Shum has translated the Cantonese lyrics for the Disney animations The Lion King (2019) and Frozen 2 (2019), the Netflix film Over the Moon (2020) and La Cage aux Folles (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre). He also translated the Cantonese scripts of That’s Not True and The Doctor (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre).
Shum has authored several books on lyric writing and theatre.
