Huzir Sulaiman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Huzir Sulaiman

Malaysian actor, director and writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1973

Place of Birth: Malaysia

Profession: actor, author, performing artist, film director

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Huzir Sulaiman (born 8 June 1973) is a Singaporean-Malaysian director and actor.
He is the co-founder and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre.
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 Life! Theatre Awards.
Huzir was educated at Princeton University, where he won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize and is a Yale World Fellow. 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 School of the Arts, Singapore; New York University Tisch Asia ; and Nanyang Technological University.
He also heads Studio Wong Huzir, a creative consultancy.