A graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with an MFA degree in Playwriting, Matthew Cheng was awarded Outstanding Script Award at the Academy. In 2002, Cheng was awarded Best Script Award at the HKRep Here and Now Competition for local plays and Outstanding Young Playwright award at the 12th Hong Kong Drama Awards for his work The Bloody Hell. Two years later, he was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Drama Awards for his performance in Take This Waltz, and was nominated for Best Script at the 15th Hong Kong Drama Awards for February 14. In 2007, Cheng received the Young Artist Award (Drama) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. He was awarded Best Playwright for The Last Supper at the 21st Hong Kong Drama Awards. The Last Supper was also awarded Best Script at the 4th Hong Kong Theatre Libre, with Cheng receiving the Award of Excellence at the 9th Chinese Drama Festival in 2014. It was lauded by Time Out (Beijing) and The Beijing News among 2013's Best Ten and Best Six Productions respectively, having also toured in Seoul, Taiwan, Singapore and more than ten cities in China including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tianjin. A French translation of The Last Supper will soon premiere in Paris. To date, The Last Supper has staged for more than 100 performances. Cheng's The Sin Family has also toured in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Guangzhou. In 2019, Auspicious Day was nominated for Best Script at the 28th Hong Kong Drama Awards and Script/Playwright of the Year at the IATC(HK) Critics Awards 2018.

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