Huzir Sulaiman is a co-founder and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre. His practice spans writing, dramaturgy, directing, and performing for the stage and screen. He oversees the company’s development of new work, including plays, audio experiences, video, play anthologies, and comics. Recent stage directing credits include Secondary: The Musical (2024), Session Zero (2023, 2021), Tender Submission (2023), and Brown Boys Don’t Tell Jokes (2023).
He created the playwriting modules and taught playwriting at the National University of Singapore from 2007 to 2021, first in the English Department, then as Adjunct Associate Professor with the University Scholars Programme. He has also taught playwriting at SOTA, NTU, and NYU Tisch Asia.
A critically acclaimed and award-winning playwright, his Collected Plays 1998-2012 was published in 2013. His play Displaced Persons’ Welcome Dinner was a commission of the 2019 Singapore International Festival of Arts, his fifth commission by the national platform. His plays have been presented in theatres in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London, Berlin, Tokyo, and New York. As a screenwriter, he won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Malaysian Screen Awards for Dukun.
Huzir was educated at Princeton University, where he won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, and is a Yale World Fellow.
Photography by Juliana Tan, courtesy of Checkpoint Theatre
Last Updated: September 2024