Benjamin Seng-Loong Yeoh was born on December 1978 and is a British Chinese playwright.
14 Facts About Benjamin Yeoh
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Benjamin Yeoh went on to study Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the same college as his father and grand father.
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Benjamin Yeoh then went on to Harvard University as a Herchel Smith scholar studying dramaturgy and play writing.
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Benjamin Yeoh is among the first generation of writers to have come from the Soho Theatre Young Writers' Programme.
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Benjamin Yeoh has been on the Royal Court Theatre's writers' programme led in 2005 by playwright Jane Bodie.
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Benjamin Yeoh has directed several plays and has been involved with writing groups and mentorships such as Royal Court Writers, Soho Young Writers, BBC Radio, Moti Roti, Talawa and Yellow Ink.
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Benjamin Yeoh sat on the board and then as Chair of Talawa Theatre Company for eight years until 2012.
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Benjamin Yeoh is Chair of the London-based theatre company, Coney.
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Benjamin Yeoh's podcast has interviewed playwright Mark Ravenhill, actor Sally Phillips, economist Diane Coyle, philosopher Jonathan Wolff.
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Benjamin Yeoh is known for his sustainable and socially responsible investing work.
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Benjamin Yeoh won the Thomson Extel Award for Best Sector Sell-side Analyst for Integrated Socially Responsible Investment Analysis in 2003.
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Benjamin Yeoh sat on the UK financial regulatory body Financial Reporting Council Investor Advisory group and the Royal London Asset Management Sustainable Investing advisory committee.
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Benjamin Yeoh wrote the recorded dialogue for Coney's [4] interactive re-imagining of Kensington Palace's State apartments, called House of Cards.
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Benjamin Yeoh co-wrote, with David Finnigan, and performed Thinking Bigly, a performance-lecture at Theatre Deli, London.