Huzir Sulaiman (born in 1973) is a Malaysian actor, director and writer based in Singapore. One of Malaysia's leading dramatists, acclaimed for his vibrant, inventive use of language and incisive insight into human behaviour in general and the Asian psyche in particular. His plays, often charged with dark humour, political satire, and surrealistic twists, have won numerous awards and international recognition. He currently lives in Singapore, which he moved to in 2003.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 mother is 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.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.He married Claire Wong, a Malaysia-born Singaporean stage actress, in 2004.He is best known for his works Atomic Jaya, The Smell of Language, Hip-Hopera the Musical, Notes on Life and Love and Painting, Election Day, Those Four Sisters Fernandez, Occupation, The Weight of Silk on Skin and Whatever That Is which have been published in his collection of Eight Plays by Silverfish Books and Huzir Sulaiman: Collected Plays 1998-2012 by Checkpoint Theatre. He also contributed articles to the The Star and The Huffington Post, publishes the online magazine POSKOD.SG and co-founded the creative consultancy Studio Wong Huzir.
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