Fong Chun Kit graduated from the Drama School of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree, majoring in Directing. He joined the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKRep) as Resident Director in 2020 and assumes the position of Assistant Artistic Director in 2023. He is a co-founder of tobe THEATRE.
Fong’s graduate piece Taming of the Shrew won him an Outstanding Director award. His other work, Three Men and a Lady, which he wrote, directed and performed, was nominated for Best Script at the Hong Kong Theatre Libre Awards in 2011. In 2016, Fong was nominated in the Best Director (Tragedy/Drama) category at the 25th Hong Kong Drama Awards for Marriage. Fong won Best Director (Comedy/Farce) for The Truth from Liar (2017) and Sing Out (2018) at the Hong Kong Drama Awards, and won Best Director at the 2018 Hong Kong Theatre Libre Awards for Lysistrata. In 2019, he was nominated for Best Director for Auspicious Day at the Hong Kong Drama Awards and for Marriage (touring) at the third Chinese Theatre Awards. Fong won the Best Director (Tragedy/Drama) category at the 2023 Hong Kong Drama Awards for The Impossible Trial – a musical.
Other directorial output includes The Isle (co-director), Scapin in Jiānghú, Chap. 2023, That's Not True, Ambiguous, Principle, The Last Supper and Secrets of the 8 1/2th Floor (HKRep); Falsettoland, Unidentified Human Remains, The True Nature of Love and Avenue Q (Windmill Grass Theatre); The Originals and The Originals (Reimagined) – Hong Kong Musicals in Concert curated by Leon Ko; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Project Roundabout); My Very Short Marriage (Music Nation); Sins, Forget Me Not, Monsters and Monsters (re-run) (Artocrite Theater); A Floating Family – A Trilogy (Hong Kong Arts Festival); Xiyang Zhanshi and Le dieu du carnage (Dionysus Contemporary Theatre); Red Sky (Chung Ying Theatre Company); The Goat (We Draman Group); Twelfth Night (tobe THEATRE); With Love William Shakespeare (Theatre Noir).
