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Copywriter turned Freelance Writer
Copywriter for 4 years in Singapore, writing radio, print, TV and recruitment ads for national radio stations and advertising agency. Web Marketing for Italian cruise company for over a year.
- 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 6 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, Korean movies
- Theater - Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, Alan Ayckbourn, Federico Garcia Lorca
- Literature - English & American classics, oriental-based literature, Classical literature
- English: DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy
- American: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville
- Oriental: 'The Woman Warrior', 'Joy Luck Club', 'Memoirs of a Geisha'
- Classical: Margaret Georges' 'The Memoirs of Cleopatra'
- Travel - Southeast Asia, Europe, North America
Full-time writer and actor.