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Benny Lim is a Singaporean theatre practitioner and educator. He is the Artistic Director of The Necessary Stage, a theatre company he founded in 1987. He is also the Artistic Director of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). Lim was born on 25 April 1980 in Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies. He also holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of London. Lim has been involved in the Singapore theatre scene since the late 1980s. He has directed and written numerous plays, including the award-winning plays, “Off Centre” and “The Good Person of Szechwan”. He has also written and directed several musicals, including “The Little Company” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. Lim has been awarded numerous awards for his work in theatre, including the Cultural Medallion in 2004, the Singapore Youth Award in 2005, and the Singapore President’s Award for the Arts in 2006. Lim is currently married to theatre practitioner and educator, Claire Wong. They have two children.

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Occupation Theatre Practitioner and Educator
Age 44 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 25 April, 1980
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace Singapore
Nationality Singapore

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2004

Benny's works often deal with social-political issues within a postmodern society. In 2004, Benny organized the Lovers' Lecture Series, which was not given a go-ahead by the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit (PELU) under the Singapore Police Force. In 2005, Benny collaborated with artist Brian Gothong Tan and they devised a play, Human Lefts. The content of the play, which was on the issue of the death penalty, was given a total ban by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA).

2003

In 2001, at the age of 21, he founded The Fun Stage. Since then, he has held on to the record as the Youngest Artistic Director of a theatre company in Singapore. Benny is also an educator, and has also taught in various institutions in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In 2006, one of Benny's plays, Existence, was published in Singapore. Existence was written in 2003, inspired by the poetry of Cyril Wong, as a response to Leslie Cheung's suicide. The play was mentioned in TIME Magazine (10 August 2003) as a story that 'portrays the love of two young Singaporean men for each other as doomed'. In 2015, Benny curated Umbrella Festival, an arts festival in Hong Kong, in response to city's Umbrella Movement.

1980

Benny Lim (born 1980, in Singapore) is the Artistic Director of the now dormant The Fun Stage, a non-profit theatre group Singapore. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the Division of Drama, University of Glamorgan (now known as the University of South Wales) in 2012.