Colin Goh is a Singaporean
film maker, satirist and cartoonist. He was a former practicing
attorney who has turned to full-time writing and
illustration.
Goh first rose to prominence with his
comic
strip,
The Concrete Jungle, which appeared on a
regular basis in the Singapore
tabloid,
The New Paper.
In 1996, his play, The Body Politic, was performed at the 1996
Singapore Arts Festival. The play was also performed at the Royal
Court Theatre in London.
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He went on to set up
talkingcock.com, a website which poked fun
at the various idiosyncratic aspects of what it meant to be a
Singaporean. The site's copious use of
Singlish and occasional digs at the bureaucracies
made it a popular one.
Together with his wife, Joyceln Woo Yen Yen, they made their first
full-feature film,
Talking
Cock. They won the Montblanc award for best new
screenwriters at the 54th
San Sebastian
International Film Festival for their second film
Singapore Dreaming.