Mathias Woo


Mathias Woo Yan Wai is a Chinese playwright, screenwriter, and artist. He is the co-artistic director and executive director of the avant-garde art group Zuni Icosahedron. From 2011 to 2014 he was commissioned by Asia Television in Hong Kong to produce and host a series of current and political affairs TV talk shows, included I Want to Be Chief Executive and Asia Policy Unit,. He also produced and directed the political comedy East Wing [West Wing TV] in that period. In 2009 he founded Hong Kong's Architecture is Art Festival. In 2007, Happy Birthday, the screenplay Woo co-wrote with Sylvia Chang, was nominated as the Best Screenplay in the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2008, Run [Papa Run], the screenplay Woo co-wrote with Chan Suk Yin and Sylvia Chang, was nominated as the Best Screenplay in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.