Gabriel FUNG Kwok Kee, a graduate of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, has been working in theatre for years. He has lit production across the performing disciplines, from dance, drama, and opera to Chinese opera. Apart from lighting design, he is also a director, actor and percussionist. He worked with U-Theatre in Taiwan as lighting designer in Festival d’ Avignon. His design works have been appearing in international festivals in Europe and the United States. He also worked for Hong Kong Arts Festival, Macao Arts Festival and oversea organisations for design work. He was invited by the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts of the Hong Kong Institute of Education to present a light installation, Blue and Black. He was nominated for his lighting design for many times, and in 2003, was awarded Best Lighting Design in the Hong Kong Dance Awards by Hong Kong Dance Alliance and the Hong Kong Drama Awards. In 2009, He completed a Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media, majoring in Directing, at the School of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University.
Recently, Fung has been active in theatre and cultural creative work, studying independent filmmaking and exploring crossover projects between theatre and film. His work Chants within Doldrums was selected for screening at the 2009 Hong Kong Asian Independent Film Festival, and awarded Jury’s Choice Award at the Macao International Film and Video Festival. Fung was a member of the jury for ‘Marco’s 48 Rush Hours – Video Challenge’ in 2011. He designed the video and projection for the 2012 Hong Kong Arts Festival performance, Show Flats.
Participated in Works by Theatre Horizon
Lu-ting the Merman (Tainan) (2019)
Luting : Goodbye History, Hello Future (2019)
Requiem (2019)
Lu-ting the Merman (Edinburgh Revisit) (2018)
Drug (2018)