Huzir Sulaiman

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Huzir Sulaiman
Born	(1973-06-08) 8 June 1973 (age 48) Malaysia
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation	Artistic director actor producer director
Spouse(s)	Claire Wong ​ (m. 2004)​

Huzir Sulaiman (born 8 June 1973) is a Singaporean-Malaysian director and actor. He is the co-founder and Joint Artistic Director of . A critically acclaimed and award-winning playwright, his Collected Plays 1998-2012 was published in 2013. His plays have been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, Indonesian and Mandarin. His essays and commentary pieces have appeared in The Star, The Straits Times and The Huffington Post.

Recent directing includes Thick Beats for Good Girls (2018), FRAGO (2017), The Good, the Bad and the Sholay (2015), Interrogating the Interrogators: Selected Plays of Chong Tze Chien (2015); #UnicornMoment (2014); the 15th anniversary production of Atomic Jaya (2013); City Night Songs (2012); and The Good, the Bad and the Sholay (2011), for which he was nominated for Best Director in the 2012 . Huzir was educated at Princeton University, where he won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize and is a Yale World Fellow.^[1]

Currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore's University Scholars Programme, Huzir has taught playwriting at the National University of Singapore's English Department; the ;  ; and Nanyang Technological University. He also heads Studio Wong Huzir, a creative consultancy.

Life and career[]

His father is Haji Sulaiman Abdullah, who was born G. Srinivasan Iyer, a Tamil Brahmin who later converted to Islam. Sulaiman is a veteran lawyer who served as Malaysian Bar Council president. His late mother was Hajjah Mehrun Siraj, who has served as a professor, lawyer, consultant for United Nations agencies, NGO activists and a Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia. She passed away in June 2021.^[2]

For a short time in the early part of the 1990s, he hosted an afternoon talk show on WOW FM, a now-defunct Malaysian radio station. In the 1990s, Huzir also spent a year writing sketches with the Instant Café Theatre Company before starting the Straits Theatre Company in 1996. He began writing plays in 1997.^[3] He also dabbled in film writing, writing the screenplay for the Malaysian film Dukun.^[4]

He also contributed articles to The Star and The Huffington Post, and involved himself in the publishing of the online magazine POSKOD.SG.

He is married to Claire Wong, a Malaysia-born Singaporean stage actress, in 2004. They are Joint Artistic Directors of Checkpoint Theatre^[5]

Director[]

Plays[]

Screenplays[]

Publications[]

• Eight Plays (2002, ) ISBN 9834081626
• Huzir Sulaiman: Collected Plays, 1998-2012 (2013, ) ISBN 9789810749026

References[]

• In tandem with the nation, The Star, 5 August 2007.
• [1], kakiseni.com, "8 Brilliant Plays in 4 Tumultuous Years" by Antares, 11 December 2002.^{[dead link]}

External links[]

• Huzir Sulaiman at IMDb