Stella Kon

Stella Kon (née Lim Sing Po, born 1944) is a Singaporean playwright. She is best known for her play Emily of Emerald Hill, which has been staged internationally. She is a recipient of the SEA Write Award.

Biography Kon was born in Edinburgh on 15 April 1944. She grew up in a mansion on Emerald Hill. Kon attended Raffles Girls' School and then went on to the University of Singapore, where she earned a degree in philosophy.

Work Kon was first published in 22 Malaysian Stories (1962), with the work, Mushroom Harvest.

Emily of Emerald Hill is a one-woman play that debuted in 1984 and was directed by Chin San Sooi. The melodrama follows the life of a Peranakan woman who is married into a family she doesn't know at age 14 to a man twice her age. The story was primarily inspired by Kon's grandmother, but also includes stories drawn from the rest of her extended family. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin wrote that "The play is rich with the details of everyday life in a well-to-do Singaporeean Chinese family." The play was performed at the Commonwealth Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1986. Kon's first musical, Exodus, was written with the composer, Kenneth Lyen.