Benny Lim

In 2001, at the age of 21, he founded The Fun Stage. Since then, he has held on to the record as the Youngest Artistic Director of a theatre company in Singapore.[2] Benny is also an educator, and has also taught in various institutions in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In 2006, one of Benny's plays, Existence, was published in Singapore.[3] Existence was written in 2003, inspired by the poetry of Cyril Wong, as a response to Leslie Cheung's suicide. The play was mentioned in TIME Magazine (10 August 2003) as a story that 'portrays the love of two young Singaporean men for each other as doomed'.[4] In 2015, Benny curated Umbrella Festival, an arts festival in Hong Kong,[5] in response to city's Umbrella Movement.

Benny's works often deal with social-political issues within a postmodern society. In 2004, Benny organized the Lovers' Lecture Series, which was not given a go-ahead by the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit (PELU) under the Singapore Police Force.[6] In 2005, Benny collaborated with artist Brian Gothong Tan and they devised a play, Human Lefts. The content of the play, which was on the issue of the death penalty, was given a total ban by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA).[7][8]