Theatre
There are 15 profiles in this category :
Benjamin Yeoh Seng-Loong
Writer
Arts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Ben is an award winning writer. He is one of the first British born Chinese writers to be performed in the UK.
Ben was born near London to a Singaporean mother and Malaysian father. He studied at Westminster School, Cambridge University and Harvard University.
Ben studied experimental psychology, behavioural neuroscience within Natural Sciences at Cambridge. There he also started directing plays. He won a scholarship to Harvard, where he trained in dramaturgy, directing and writing.
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Tom Wu
Actor, Movement DirectorArts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
Tom's forthcoming film roles include Fong in The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, Juba in Mutant Chronicles and Tatsumi in The Tournament. He has recently appeared as Lord John in film Revolver and on television as Lee Jiyong in Whistleblower, Jimmy Wu in Diamond Geezer, Perak in The Ruby in the Smoke, Lao Ai in The First Emperor, Huang Lok in Casualty, Lin Liang Ren in Death on the Beach, The Omid Djalili show amongst others.
Actor Tom Wu was born in the New Territories, Hong Kong, and grew up in London’s Chinatown. At the age of 10 he began practising Martial Arts such as Hung Gar, Karate and Wing Chun and later took up acrobatics. In 1988 he competed for Britain at China’s International Wu-Shu (Martial Arts) Tournament and was awarded 2 Bronze Medals, and a Gold Medal.
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Kwong Loke
Artistic DirectorArts. Culture. Theatre.
Born in Malaysia, Kwong’s passion for the theatre led him to train as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A founder member of the company, he obtained a master degree in Theatre Studies and went to Bali over several years to study Balinese mask traditions. Kwong worked as actor and latterly as director with Yellow Earth.
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Veronica Needa
ActressArts. Culture. Education. Theatre.
Veronica was born and grew up in Hong Kong of Eurasian parents (England, Hong Kong, Japan, and Syria) and is bilingual - English/Cantonese. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (1983-5) and is a graduate of the School of Playback Theatre (NY, USA). She has a particular commitment to community arts & cross-cultural bridging; and maintains close professional and personal links to Asia. She travels extensively as an international trainer in Playback Theatre - an original form of improvisational theatre which re-enacts real stories from the audience - see www.playbacknet.org and www.playbackcentre.org.
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Kumiko Mendl
ActressArts. Culture. Education. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
Kumiko Mendl has a BA Hons in Education Studies and trained at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre school in Paris. Since then she has worked as an actress, teacher, movement director and director. As one of the founding members of Yellow Earth Theatre Kumiko has performed in many productions and is one of the script selectors for Typhoon YET’s annual playreading Festival. She is currently Yellow Earth’s Education Associate.
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