Anwar Hadi Ramli
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Anwar Hadi Ramli is a full time theatre practitioner / educator and an award winning playwright and has worked in the theatre industry with professional companies since 1996. He was content with working in the industry on a part time basis until the year 2003 when he decided to make it a full time career. For a while, he took a turn to the civil service in 2004 and was with the National Library Board for two years before making a full u-turn back to doing theatre works in 2006.

His notable works include "Gentarasa 2012 / Bagaimana Kalau Gentar Gegarannya" (What if, Tremulous) which he wrote and directed, was staged at the Kallang Theatre in 2012. Another recent writing was "MERdEKAnya KITA" (Our Independence) which was staged by Teater Kami Ltd as part of their South-east Asia tour in Singapore and Jakarta but was controversially banned in Malaysia.

In 2017 his play "The (Assumed) Vicious Cycle of a (Melayu) Youth" won the best drama (theatre) script in the bi-annual Anugerah Persuratan, the highest national level honour for Malay Literature by the Malay Language Council of Singapore.

In 2019, the play "Kurun Yang Hilang" which he wrote and directed was mentioned in the National Day Rally speech by the Prime Minister after it was staged by Republic Polytechnic's, Pentas Karyawan as part of the Singapore Bicentennial celebration.
 
In 2020, Anwar published 4 books which compiled 10 of his stage play scripts. All 4 books are now available at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library and selected NLB public libraries.
 
One of the books, RASAlah won the Honorary Mention Award for drama scripts at the 2023 Anugerah Persuratan.

Other than theatre, Anwar appears on television programmes and was also featured in 2 films; “Kallang Roar the Movie (2008)” and “Blood Ties (2009)” which were screened in local cinemas.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Classes And Workshops
  • Arts Education Programme
  • Translation Services For Theatre TV and Art Works
  • WAYANG LAKON
  • THE WALL
  • List of Theatre Works
  • List of Community Theatre / School Shows
  • List of Television and Film Works
  • List of Partnering Schools
  • Upcoming Works
  • Show Reels
  • Theatre Shows Photographs
  • Photography Collection
  • Blog Table of Contents
  • Blog
  • SHOP
  • CONTACT