Eleanor Wong (playwright)
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Eleanor Wong is a writer and playwright
in Singapore
. Her plays have been produced in Singapore and regionally. She is best known for "Invitation to Treat", her trilogy of plays centred around the experiences of the character Ellen Toh, a lesbian lawyer in Singapore. This comprised the plays Mergers and Accusations, Wills and Secession and Jointly and Severably.
Wong also provided communications consultancy and held several top management portfolios within the television production arena. She has anchored a television current affairs show After Hours. Wong is also a trained lawyer
and has worked as a prosecutor
and an international finance lawyer. She is currently Director of the Legal Skills Programme at the Law Faculty at the National University of Singapore
.
Wong won the Best Oralist (Championship Round) at the prestigious 1985 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
, where she was a member of the victorious NUS moot team.deadlink^
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
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...
. Her plays have been produced in Singapore and regionally. She is best known for "Invitation to Treat", her trilogy of plays centred around the experiences of the character Ellen Toh, a lesbian lawyer in Singapore. This comprised the plays Mergers and Accusations, Wills and Secession and Jointly and Severably.
Wong also provided communications consultancy and held several top management portfolios within the television production arena. She has anchored a television current affairs show After Hours. Wong is also a trained lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
and has worked as a prosecutor
Prosecutor
The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...
and an international finance lawyer. She is currently Director of the Legal Skills Programme at the Law Faculty at the National University of Singapore
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
The National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law is the older of Singapore's two law schools. The Faculty was initially established as the Department of Law in the then University of Malaya in 1956, with the first batch of students matriculating in the following year...
.
Wong won the Best Oralist (Championship Round) at the prestigious 1985 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, also known as the Jessup, is the largest and most prestigious moot competition in the world, attracting participants from over 500 law schools in more than 100 countries in recent years. The competition is a simulation of a fictional...
, where she was a member of the victorious NUS moot team.deadlink^
Plays
- Jackson on a Jaunt
- Block Sale
- Mergers and Accusations (1995)
- Wills and Secession (1996)
- Jointly and Severably
- The Campaign to Confer the Public Star on JBJ (2006, revised 2007)