Kee Thuan Chye
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| Kee Thuan Chye | |
| Born | May 25, 1954 (age 52) Penang, Malaysia |
- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Kee.
Kee Thuan Chye (born May 25, 1954 in Penang, Malaysia) is a noted Malaysian dramatist, poet and journalist.
Kee graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1976 and received his masters in drama from England’s Essex University in 1988. Kee served as literary editor and occasional film reviewer for the New Straits Times, arts columnist for Business Times, theater columnist for New Sunday Times, and is now associate editor in charge of the English column, “Mind Our English” for The Star (Malaysia). Other publications featuring his articles and reviews include Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Asia Magazine.
Kee's playwriting career includes: Oh, But I Don’t Want to Go, Oh, But I Have to… (1974), Eyeballs, Leper, and a Very Dead Spider (1977), The Situation of the Man Who Stabbed a Dummy or a Woman and was Disarmed by Members of the Club for Reasons Yet Obscure, If There Was One (1974), The Big Purge (1988), 1984 Here and Now (1987), We Could **** You Mr. Birch (1994). He has had poetry published in regional journals such as Pacific Quarterly Moana, Southeast Asian Review of English, and Focus.
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[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Ah Lok Kafe: The Movie | Char Koay Teow |
| 2001 | Snipers | Steve's Father |
| 2000 | Lips to Lips | Scrabble Man |
| 1999 | Anna and the King | Second Judge |
| Entrapment | Trader #1 |
[edit] Television
- Marco Polo (2006) as Chief Map Maker
- Perceptions (2004) as Victor Wong
- Each Other (2002) as Ronnie Ng
- Kopitiam (2002) as Kok Hui (guest appearance)
- The Marriage Factor (2002) as Daddy
- Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd (2001) as Lim Pek Kong (guest appearance)
- Kopitiam (1999) as Major Lim (guest appearance)
- Maria (1984)
- Bailey's Bird (1977) as Ming Ho (guest appearance)
