Chung King-Fai

Biography

Chung King-fai was a renowned Hong Kong actor, television and theatre director, and programme host born on March 23, 1937. He introduced theatre of the absurd and Broadway musicals to Hong Kong audiences in Cantonese, popularising Western drama locally through his translated productions in the 1960s. As the founding Dean of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performance Arts, he won numerous awards for directing and performing over a hundred-stage productions.