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Chong Mui Ngam is a Playwright: Chong Mui Ngam Chong Mui-ngam graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with a Master’s in Playwriting. She also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an Advanced Diploma in playwriting from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Besides writing plays, Chong also performs script translation. Her recent translation works include Betrayal, Fat Pig, Chinglish, and Flowers for Algernon. She has also worked as a script writer for TV programs Hong Kong Today and Stories From Afar.

Chong was awarded the Outstanding Playwright from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2001. She received three Best Script Awards in the Hong Kong Drama Awards for her plays; Alive in the Mortuary in 2003, Shall We Go to Mars in 2004 and The French Kiss in 2006. In 2003 she was also awarded Outstanding Young Playwright by Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies. In 2004 she was awarded the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship by Asian Cultural Council, which enabled her to experience 12 months in the United States.

Chong’s first award winning script Alive in the Mortuary had run three times in Hong Kong and toured Japan and Macau. The Chinese script was published in The Drama Beyond: Hong Kong Drama 2002; English script on the Theatre Without Borders webpage; Japanese script in せりふの時代. Regarding The French Kiss, it was translated into English and was read in New York Lark Theatre; A Korean version was performed in Seoul in 2005. Shall We Go to Mars was adapted and performed by Macao Conservatory in 2008 and the production was invited to The Seventh Chinese Drama Festival in Taiwan. Chong’s latest work, Murder in San José premiered at the 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival. The success and demand saw the production being restage by the HKAF in August 2009. This was the first time an HKAF programme being restaged outside the usual Festival period. The play also earned Chong her fourth Best Script Awards in 2010.