Education
A qualified lawyer, she graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained her Master of Fine Arts in theatre at Columbia University in New New York
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Claire Wong
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Born in Malaysia, she is a resident of Singapore. She practised law first as a litigation associate and later as a corporate partner. Her corporate practice covered both Singapore and the region.
During the 1990s she performed in leading roles in Ong Keng Senator"s post-modern Flowers of Destiny, Madame Mao"s Memories, and Desdemona.
Her performance Atomic Jaya garnered her nominations for Best Actress and Best Ensemble Performance in both the Singapore Life! She was also nominated for the Best Actress award for Occupation. She was also the Head of Corporate Communications for Rodyk & Davidson, Singapore’s first and oldest law firm, where she also oversees the firm’s in house training programme, and is a Joint Artistic of Checkpoint Theatre.
As a director, she was nominated for Best in the Singapore"s Life! Theatre Awards for the landmark production of the trilogy of plays by Eleanor Wong, Invitation To Treat (2003). Claire co-directed the Singapore Arts Festival commission Occupation (2002).
She received the Life! Theatre Award nomination for Best.
Her other theatre directing credits include Up North Down South (2002) and Election Day (2004). Foreign the 2006 International Festival of Women in Contemporary Theatre, she co-created and performed in the piece Recalling Mother. Her screen directing began in 2005, when she wrote and directed a television film, Project Peter, for Singapore"s Arts Central channel.
Claire has taught at the National University of Singapore, at both the Faculty of Law and in the Theatre Studies department.
Achievements
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Theatre Awards and the Malaysian Cameronian Arts Awards respectively. Claire is a co-founder of creative consultancy Studio Wong Huzir and serves as its Senior Consultant. She wrote and directed a short film in Malaysia, Instant Noodles and Hot Chocolate, and was the script consultant and performer in That Historical Feeling, a Malaysian short film, which won a Bronze award at the Malaysian Video Awards.
