Kee Thuan Chye is an author, actor-director and dramatist. He has written four major political plays: '1984 Here and Now', 'The Big Purge' [read at the Soho Theatre in London, 2005], 'We Could ****You Mr Birch' and 'The Swordfish, Then the Concubine' [adjudged one of the top 5 entries to the International Playwriting Festival 2006 organised by the Warehouse Theatre in the UK].

He's also a journalist of 30 years' standing, beginning his career at The National Echo in 1977.