Huzir Sulaiman

The epitome of Humanities scholar, educator, and practitioner, Huzir Sulaiman has worked across all Humanities (except archaeology,probably) in the arts dimension. Huzir's trademark look is his sliver of white hair on his right beard. Currently, he is the Creative Director at Studio Wong Huzir that he co-founded with Claire Wong. (Studio Wong Huzir, n.d. Web. 7 May 2014. <http://studiowonghuzir.com/people>.)

Non-Literary Works

• Part of a four-person team that conceptualised the spaces and created the narratives of the History Galleries;National Museum of Singapore.
• 2009 he worked as the Creative Director of the observation deck on the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa.
• Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre
• Founded Straits Theatre Company (1996)

Plays
15 plays 
Atomic Jaya (1998) 
The Weight of Silk on Skin (2011)

Awards
Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards (The Weight of Silk on Skin (2011))
won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize

Column
Wide Angle (fortnightly column), The Star from end 2006 to early 2009
The Huffington Post (published article) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huzir-sulaiman
Malaysiakini (feature writing) http://www.malaysiakini.com/browse/a/my/Huzir%20Sulaiman

Books
Eight Plays (Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur, 2002).  

• Atomic Jaya (first staged in 1998), 
• The Smell of Language (1998), 
• Hip-Hopera (1998),
•  Notes on Life & Love & Painting (1999), 
• Election Day (1999), 
• Those Four Sisters Fernandez (2000), 
• Occupation (a commission of the 2002 Singapore Arts Festival)
•  Whatever That Is (2002).

Educator
teaches playwriting at the National University of Singapore.

Play/Musical Directed
City Night Songs, a critically-acclaimed devised musical (March 2012)
 His unpublished plays include Lazy Hazy Crazy(1997), They Will Be Grateful (2003), One Plot (written 2002, as yet unstaged) and Colony of Singapore (written 2005, as yet unstaged).

Writes Non-literary Pieces
film
television
newspapers

Education

International School of Kuala Lumpur (1990 graduate)(valedictorian of his class)

Graduated from Princeton University(with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature) 

He was a 2007 Yale World Fellow, one of 18 mid-career professionals from around the world taking part in Yale University’s highly selective public policy and leadership training programme.

Background

Born in 1973
Huzir Sulaiman's Life and Times

Interviews

Different Sides of the Straits (This interview was conducted by Mohammad A Quayum in November 2006, and originally published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing in the UK in 2007.) 

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Works Cited

http://checkpoint-theatre.org/2013-calendar-events/huzir-collection
http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2005/huzir-sulaiman