Desmond Sim Kim Jin (born 1961) is a Singaporean playwright, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and painter. His work, ''Places Where I've Been'', won a Merit Prize in the 1993

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for Poetry.

Career

Almost all of his 30 plays to date have been performed in professional theatres in Singapore, Malaysia and the United States. He was TheatreWorks' first playwright-in-residence and has been the associate artistic director of ACTION Theatre since April 2004, running Singapore Theatre Oasis, an incubator programme for new and existing Singaporean playwrights. He has participated in the Shanghai Literary Festival and was awarded a Fulbright fellowship. Desmond has also co-written two movies: ''

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'' (2003) and ''

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'' (2009). He is an acknowledged Peranakan painter who has held more than a dozen exhibitions on Peranakan figurative themes. Desmond also teaches playwriting, branding, marketing and communications at

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School of Design and

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Selected plays

*1992: ''Blood and Snow'' *1993: ''Sammy Won't Go to School'' *1993: ''Elizabeth by Night'' *1994: ''Drunken Prawns and Other Edible Delights'' *1994: ''A Singapore Carol'' *1995: ''Corporate Animals'' *1995: ''Teochew Porridge'' *1996: ''Who's Afraid of Chow Yuen Fatt?'' *1998: ''Drift'' *1999: ''Shrimps in Space'' *1999, 2000: ''The Swimming Instructor'' *2001: ''Autumn Tomyum'' *2002: ''MRT'' *2004: ''Hubbies4hire'' *2006: ''Fairy Godfather'' *2007: ''Postcards from Rosa'' *2009: ''Wife #11'' *2010: ''Perfecting Pratas''

Publications

*''Mistress and Other Creative Takeoffs'' (1990, Landmark Books, ) :Co-author with Ovidia Yu and Kwuan Loh *''Places Where I've Been'' (1994, EPB Publishers, ) :Poetry *''Student Plays'' (

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, 2013, ) :Contents: ''Drunken Prawns'', ''MRT'', ''Perfecting Pratas'', ''The Chair'', ''Shrimps in Space'', ''Teochew Porridge'', ''The Durian Man and His Daughters'' *''Six Plays'' (

, 2013, ) :Contents: ''Autumn Tomyam'', ''Elizabeth by Night'', ''Fairy Godfather'', ''Postcards from Rosa'', ''Wife #11'', ''The Swimming Instructor''

Painting

*'' In the Peranakan-styled art that he is now best known for, Desmond is totally self-taught, although a strong influence from Modigliani, Rousseau, de Lempicka and Art Deco is prevalent. ''

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* 1961 births Living people Peranakan people in Singapore Singaporean dramatists and playwrights Singaporean screenwriters Singaporean poets Singapore Literature Prize winners Singaporean painters {{Singapore-writer-stub