Benny Lim is the Artistic Director

Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 of The Fun Stage.

Biography

Since 2001, Benny has produced over 50 arts projects in a non-profit environment. His works have also travelled to United States of America, China

China

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, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 and Malaysia. Benny has directed and performed in over 20 theatre productions since 1996. In 2005, Benny launched Initiation International, an annual performance festival in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 that has seen the participation of over 20 artists from different countries.

Controversies

Benny's works often deal with social issues within a postmodern society. In 2004, Benny organized the Lovers' Lecture Series, a series of talks on the topic of same sex literature. The entire series was not given a go-ahead by the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit (PELU), which is under the Singapore Police Force

Singapore Police Force

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. In 2005, Benny collaborated with artist Brian Gothong Tan and devised a play, Human Lefts. The content of the play, which was on the issue of the death penalty, was given a total ban by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA).

Research Performances

Benny has been researching on Postmodern theater

Postmodern theater

Postmodern theatre is a recent phenomenon in world theatre, coming as it does out of the postmodern philosophy that originated in Europe in the middle of the twentieth century. Postmodern theatre emerged as a reaction against modernist theatre...

since 2003 and has presented his findings through a series of research performances.

• Human Lefts - The Finale (2009)
• Human Lefts 3 (2008)
• Human Lefts 2 (2006)
• Human Lefts (2005)
• Death.Mother (2004–2008)
• The Most Blatant Day of My Life (2004)
• Perdition (2003)

Directorial Works (selected)

• Bui Xuan Phai (2008)
• (Re)Born (2007)
• Story (2004)
• Existence (2003): The play was mentioned in TIME Magazine (10 August 2003) as a story that 'portrays the love of two young Singaporean men for each other as doomed'.
• Haunted House (2003)