Benny Lim

Benny Lim (born 25 April 1980) was the artistic director of the now defunct the Fun Stage, a non-profit theatre group in Singapore. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the Division of Drama, University of Glamorgan (now known as the University of South Wales) in 2012.

Career In 2001, at the age of 21, Lim founded the Fun Stage and has since held on to the record as the youngest artistic director of a theatre company in Singapore.

In 2006, one of Lim's plays, Existence, was published in Singapore. 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". In 2015, Lim co-curated Umbrella Festival, an arts festival in Hong Kong, in response to city's Umbrella Movement.

Censorship Lim's works often deal with social-political issues within a postmodern society.

In 2004, Lim organized the Lovers' Lecture Series, which was not approved by the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit under the Singapore Police Force. In 2005, Lim collaborated with artist Brian Gothong Tan on a devised play, Human Lefts. The content of the play, which was on the issue of the death penalty, was banned by the Media Development Authority of Singapore.