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Colin Goh

Film Director / Screenwriter
Colin Goh (simplified Chinese: 吴荣平; traditional Chinese: 吳榮平; pinyin: Wú Róng Píng) is a Singaporean film maker, satirist and cartoonist. He was a former practicing attorney who has turned to full-time writing and illustration. Goh first rose to prominence with his comic strip, The Concrete Jungle, which appeared on a regular basis in the Singapore tabloid, The New Paper. In 1996, his play, The Body Politic, was performed at the Singapore Arts Festival. The play was also performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to set up talkingcock.com, a website which poked fun at the various idiosyncratic aspects of what it meant to be a Singaporean. The site's copious use of Singlish and occasional digs at the bureaucracies made it a popular one. Together with his wife, Joyceln Woo Yen Yen, they made their first full-feature film, Talking Cock (2002). They won the Montblanc award for best new screenwriters at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival for their second film Singapore Dreaming (2006). The couple also produce Dim Sum Warriors, a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about kung fu-fighting dumplings. Dim Sum Warrior was made into a Chinese musical... ()

COLIN GOH is the co-creator of Dim Sum Warriors ???®, a graphic novel series about kung fu-fighting dumplings that has been featured by Fast Company, Time, the BBC and Publishers Weekly. In 2017, it was adapted into a stage musical with music by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Grammy-nominated composer Du Yun, which premiered in Shanghai before touring 25 major cities in China in 2018. Colin is also the founder of the pioneering Singaporean satirical website TalkingCock.com and the editor of the bestselling Coxford Singlish Dictionary.He is also a filmmaker whose award-winning feature Singapore Dreaming (2006) has been sold to multiple territories and screened at numerous festivals and venues worldwide. Colin also composed all the cartoons for the New York Times bestsellers Search Inside Yourself and Joy on Demand. He is currently working on Little Dim Sum Warriors, a children’s storybook and app series that helps kids learn both Mandarin and English, which is supported by the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism. Even with all this on his plate, he remains an attorney with qualifications from England, Singapore and New York because, you know, who needs enough sleep?

Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama

Movies with Colin Goh as Actor(1)

Movies with Colin Goh as Crew(4)

Directing/Director2006 Singapore Dreaming
Writing/Writer2006 Singapore Dreaming
Directing/Director2002 Talking Cock the Movie
Writing/Writer2002 Talking Cock the Movie

Educated at: Anglo-Chinese School
Spouses (current/former): Woo Yen Yen
Colin Goh frequently works together with these people:
Lim Yu-Beng (1x, Actor)
Dick Su (1x, Cast)
Serene Chen (1x, Cast)
Yann Yann Yeo (1x, Actress)
Richard Low (1x, Actor)
Thubten Kway (1x, Crew)
Gerald Gay (1x, Crew)
ZioZio Lim (1x, Cast)
Neil Humphreys (1x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:809382, Added: 11/08/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024