Colin Goh

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Title

Colin Goh

Contributor Item Type Metadata

First Name

Colin

Surname or Business Name

Goh

Years Affiliated

2016

Affiliation

Yumcha Studios Pte Ltd

Birth Date

1970

Birthplace

Singapore

Occupation

Filmmaker

Biographical Text

Colin Goh is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, writer, and multimedia producer. He is also an attorney with qualifications in New York, England and Singapore. He is the writer and illustrator behind DIM SUM WARRIORS, a Mandarin/English bilingual iPad app and graphic novel series about kung fu-fighting dumplings that Fast Company named one of the Top 10 Coolest Original Digital Comics and which won an Honorable Mention in Publishers Weekly’s Critics' Poll of the Best Graphic Novels of 2012. Recently, he illustrated the international and New York Times bestsellers, Search Inside Yourself and Joy On Demand (HarperOne). In August 2017, he adapted Dim Sum Warriors into a stage musical that played to full houses in Shanghai's prestigious Theatre Above. Colin is also a screenwriter and movie director whose multiple award-winning feature film, SINGAPORE DREAMING, has been screened at numerous festivals worldwide, and also at the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In Singapore, he is perhaps best known for founding the satirical website TalkingCock.com and authoring the bestselling Coxford Singlish Dictionary.