Lynette S.K. Webster - Profile

Lynette Webster's Photo, John Clark

Copywriter turned Freelance Writer

Copywriter for 4 years in Singapore, writing radio, print, TV and recruitment ads for national radio stations and advertising agency.

  • Finalist in New York Festival (International Awards for Radio) in year 2000, for radio commercial 'The Great Radio Game'.
  • Chiya Miyata award from Brandeis University in year 1998, for play 'The Lady's Man', co-written with Tracy Levesque.
  • 3rd place in Students' Category for National Playwriting Competition, Singapore in year 1993, for '"Lah" Miserables'

Travelled worldwide, lived in SE Asia for 24 years, America for 3 years and England for 4 years.

Awarded WIEN International Scholarship from Brandeis University, MA, USA in 1995 - on Dean's list for 5 terms. B.A. (Hons) Magna cum Laude. Only student to double major and double minor in: Philosophy, English & American Literature; Film Studies and Theater Arts.

Was also Humanities Scholar and in Gifted Education Programme in Singapore.

Started writing theater scripts at the age of 11.

Also a working actor in England, having starred in 'Shanghai Lily' renamed 'True Files' as Lily, under stage name Ava Lyn Koh.

Huge love of:

  • Film - Drama, Epics, Period, Foreign, Hong Kong movies, Classical American greats from '40s through to '90s
  • Theater - Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, Alan Ayckbourn
  • Literature - English & American classics, oriental-based literature, Classical literature
  1. English: DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy
  2. American: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville
  3. Oriental: 'The Woman Warrior', 'Joy Luck Club', 'Memoirs of a Geisha'
  4. Classical: Margaret Georges' 'The Memoirs of Cleopatra'
  • Travel - Southeast Asia

Currently, working as Website Content Editor for a cruise company, as well as writing a book about an oriental girl's experience in London (working title: 'Fish Out of Water').