Chris Fung

Chris Fung is an award-winning writer and performer from Sydney.

Chris’s play FRANK AND JEN won Soho Theatre's 2026 Tony Craze Award and is currently in development with Roy Alexander Weise MBE attached to direct. His play GLOBAL MAJORITY, winner of the inaugural 2026 Ilfeld Prize, will receive its debut London production in 2026, with support from ACE, with Rupert Hands directing. Chris’s actor-muso adaptation of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS will tour the UK in 2026, directed by Tara Noonan.

Chris's other work includes THE SOCIETY FOR NEW CUISINE, dir. Rupert Hands, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 before transfering to Omnibus Theatre and Norden Farm in 2025. The production received the OffWestEnd Assessor’s Choice Award 2025, alongside multiple OFFIES nominations including Best Performance Piece. It was also nominated for five Fringe Theatre Awards including Best New Play and Best Production.

Chris is an alumni of the Criterion Theatre New Writing Programme (2026), Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab (2025/26), New Earth Writers (2025), and the ATG Musical Theatre Writers Programme (2026). He has received commissions by Rafia Hussain Productions, and Gabriella Sills Productions. Chris is currently an Affiliate playwright for Pint-Sized Theatre. Chris has been longlisted for the Pentabus Jerwood Associate scheme.

Chris is the founder and director of Fun Guy Theatre Productions, and is the Director of Camino Meets, a free dramaturgical development community for low socioeconomic London Playwrights.