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Once Upon a Malaysian Dream&nbsp; Written, Produced and Directed by Kee Thuan ChyeOnce upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a land where the people were of different colours. When the land became independent after many years of rule by white foreigners, the boy dreamed that the people would come together and live and work in harmony so that the land would be fruitful and prosperous. He was resolved to do his part to make that happen, and to ensure that every person would have a place in the sun regardless of their colour.&nbsp;When the boy grew up,...A drama of struggle, resilience, sacrifice and undying optimism told in an eclectic and Malaysian way.&nbsp;Featuring a cast of 12 playing 200 roles!CastQahar Aqilah&nbsp; Sabrina Hassan Zul Zamir&nbsp; Anthony Lee Omar Ali Nabil Zakaria Sandee Chew Tan Meng Kheng Jerry Pang&nbsp; Nicholas Augustin Carolyn Chow Engku Armand Creative &amp; Production TeamDirector &amp; Producer: Kee Thuan Chye Co-Producer: Foo Chi Wei Musicians:&nbsp;Zyee Leow, Boyz Chew, Aaru8 and Wai Kei Stage Manager: Alice Tay Set Designer: Ziying Chua Costume Designer: Beatrice Looi Multimedia Designers: Nawfal Zamri and iwaz&nbsp; Lighting Designer: Nicxon Tan Sound Designer: Amirul Hazmie Publicity &amp; Marketing Manager: Wyn Hee Graphic Designer: Jun Kit Photographer: Goh Bong Hiang Boxing Trainer: Pavithren Raja Swordfighting Trainer: Aaron Chung This independent project is supported by&nbsp;Democratic Action Party&nbsp; Theatre Impian&nbsp; Kenny Wong Kok Wye Chirpybird Sdn Bhd Crimpers Hair Salon&nbsp; *Photography of all kinds and videography are strictly prohibited.

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Once Upon A Malaysian Dream

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Nabil Zakaria started with T4YP (Theatre for Young People) at KLPac in 2010.

More theatre productions followed such as ‘Kandang’ (Best of 2017 - 15th BCAA [BOH Cameronian Arts Award]), and ‘Perempuan Terjahanam’ (nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - 18th BCAA) before playing the lead role in ‘Philadelphia! Here I Come’ in 2022. In 2023, he was in 'Come Home and Eat' and 'Mixtape For Maz'.

His filmography includes the upcoming 'Gayong', 'Harimau Malaya', ‘Daulat’, ‘Ola Bola’ and ‘Tiger Stripes’, with more appearances in series like 'Din Tiger', ‘Imam PI’ and ‘Ex-Aku Pontianak’. He also hosts TV Programs and travelogues.

Nabil Zakaria started his acting journey with T4YP (Theatre for Young People) at KLPac (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre) in the year 2010.

More theatre productions followed such as ‘Kandang’ (Best of 2017 - 15th BCAA [BOH Cameronian Arts Award]), and ‘Perempuan Terjahanam’ (nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - 18th BCAA) before playing the lead role in ‘Philadelphia! Here I Come’ in 2022. In 2023, he was in 'Come Home and Eat' and 'Mixtape For Maz'. His first pantomime experience came in the form of 'Cinderella', performed to thousands of kids and adults at the Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre (PJPAC).

His filmography includes the upcoming 'Gayong', 'Harimau Malaya', ‘Daulat’, ‘Ola Bola’ and ‘Tiger Stripes’, with more appearances in series like 'Din Tiger', ‘Imam PI’ and ‘Ex-Aku Pontianak’. He also hosts TV Programs and travelogues such as 'Fresh Brew', 'Bikin' and 'Scooter Tour', all on TV Okey.

Nabil Zakaria

Klang Valley

Jerry Pang is a performing arts practitioner and graduate of the TUTAS Bachelor of Performing Arts programme at Taylor’s University. Since 2022, he has been actively involved in theatre as a performer, writer, director, and producer.

His stage credits include 5:4:3:2:1, Wherefore Art Thou, Juliet, Jebat, Mariam, The Sisters Soong, Dead Tourist, and Animal Farm, which marked his Mandarin theatre debut in 2025. He also appeared in a cameo role in Poly, made his vocal debut in Golden Melody 5: Kings Meet Queens, and marked his musical theatre debut in his graduation showcase, Searching….

Beyond performing, Jerry is also active in theatre-making and production. In 2026, he served as Co-Producer of Metamorphosis alongside ZiZi Hau. In the same year, he contributed as co-playwright of the original solo production The Filtered Truth alongside Anthony Lee, while also performing in the piece.

Beyond the stage, Jerry has represented Malaysia at international platforms such as the Asian Youth Theatre Festival and the World Conference on Statelessness Issues. In 2024, he received the Best Overall Production Award in the theatre category at the Short & Sweet Festival.

Jerry

Jerry Pang

Qahar was trained as an actor at the Michael Howard Studios in New York. He studied Voicework with David Wells and the "Shakespeare in The Present" series of workshops with Patsy Rodenburg. Qahar was a Best Supporting Actor nominee for the 17th BOH Cameronian Art Awards in 2020.

Qahar Aqilah

Meng

Tan Meng Kheng

Engku Armand is a producer and actor. He co-founded Amberjade Arts alongside Artistic Director Wendy Wong, and produced “Opium at  Closing Time” 2022 and “Opium by Any Other Name” 2023, both written and directed by Malaysian theatre practitioner Tarrant Kwok. Despite being a hospitality management graduate, he has also produced and acted in audio dramas with ZAG Podcasts, showcasing local Malaysian short horror stories. His most recent work was acting in a dramatic comedy show written by Scott Bergstein, staged at Michelin-starred restaurant Beta KL. His other upcoming works, Mr Lonely and Other Motivational Videos by Cheong Chua a theatre production set to be streamed on cloudjoi.

Engku Armand

Omar Ali

NICXON TAN

Wyn is a Malaysian independent producer, creative programmer, and venue management consultant, with over 30 years of involvement in the performing arts, including the last six years working professionally in these roles. Her practice spans theatre, interdisciplinary performance, and community-based arts, with a strong focus on contemporary storytelling, original works, and audience development.

She has produced a wide range of works, including Once Upon a Stage (2022) and Cinderella (2024) for PJ Performing Arts Centre; Material Woman of the Beauty World (2023) written by Leow Puay Tin; ItSelf TerJadi (2023) written and performed by Marion D’Cruz with Five Arts Centre; and the Jit Murad Playwriting Competition (2024), culminating in rehearsed readings of new Malaysian writing. She was also Associate Producer for JitFest 25 with Dramalab, contributing to multiple productions within the year-long festival.

Her international experience includes stage management and production roles in Sydney, Australia, where she worked with the City of Sydney on the Chinese New Year Twilight Parade, Christmas on the Green, and Capital Works, as well as with Destination New South Wales supporting Vivid Sydney in business operations from 2015 to 2017. These large-scale, multidisciplinary events strengthened her ability to work across cultural contexts and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

Wyn has held key leadership and programming roles across the sector. From 2022 to 2025, she served as Programme Director of the Klang River Festival under KongsiKL, leading a multidisciplinary, community-driven initiative that connects art, ecology, and public space. She currently serves as Vice President of KongsiKL, supporting its mission to activate urban spaces through arts and cultural programming. In parallel, she was Venue Consultant (Programming) for PJ Performing Arts Centre (2020 - 2025) under Stagebox, a company she co-founded to develop sustainable systems and training for arts venue management.

Her work reflects a strong commitment to collaboration across disciplines, communities, and geographies. Wyn is particularly interested in translocal exchange within Southeast Asia and beyond, and actively seeks to build meaningful partnerships with artists, producers, and organisations across regions. She is experienced in working closely with artists as a producer and programmer, facilitating the development and presentation of new work in both conventional and unconventional spaces.

Wyn Hee

As a playwright, Kee Thuan Chye is best known for 
•	1984 Here and Now, which is included in the international anthology Postcolonial Plays
•	We Could **** You, Mr Birch, which has been a text studied in Malaysian universities since the mid-1990s 
•	The Big Purge, which has been translated into Greek and staged by a professional company in Athens
•	Swordfish + Concubine, which has been translated into Chinese and Malay and been staged twice in Singapore and several times in Malaysia.

Kee has also written numerous radio plays many of which were broadcast on RTM in the 1970s.

He has directed about a dozen plays for the theatre, including Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, We Could **** You, Mr Birch, which was invited to the Festival of Asian Performing Arts in Singapore in 1995, and Swordfish + Concubine (2017).

His acting credits over the last 50 years have been for stage, film and TV. 

He has appeared in the Hollywood films Entrapment and Anna and the King, and in Malaysian films like 1957 Hati Malaya, Sell Out! and Terbang.

On TV, he has worked in numerous series and TV-movies produced in Malaysia and Singapore, among them City of the Rich, Kopitiam, 10 (Sepuluh), Phua Chu Kang, Code of Law and Sense of Home: Kampung Kid, in which he played the lead role.

He was also in the Hallmark TV-movie Marco Polo and Secrets of the Forbidden City, made for the BBC and the History Channel. 

On stage, he has acted in countless productions since 1977 but the one role he is proudest of is that of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

He is the author of several books, including No More Bullshit, Please, We’re All Malaysians, The Elections Bullshit, March 8: The Day Malaysia Woke Up, The People’s Victory and the two-volume biography of Lim Kit Siang entitled Malaysian First.

Kee Thuan Chye

Thuan Chye Kee

Nick Augustin's interest in the performing arts started from a young age. He joined the Actor's Studio Academy in KLPac when he was 10 before venturing into the life of an athlete, competing in Muay Thai and obstacle course racing both locally and internationally. At 20 he decided to return to his true passion, Theater.

Nick Augustin

Nicholas Augustin

Graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts and is currently working as a director, performer, writer, curator, and producer at Good News Artspace. He has directed various productions at Taiwan’s Godot Theater and Good News Artspace and has performed in various Asian cities and Berlin. In 2022, he curated the 「IGNITE: Solo Performance Festival 2022」 featuring 31 performances. He won BMW SHORTIES Best Actor in Film and Best Supporting Actor awards for his roles in 「Murdered」 and 「Richard III,」 as well as Best Theatre Performance awards for his directing work on 「Discrimination.」

Anthony Lee Yee Han 李奕翰

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Sandee Chew

Carolyn is a versatile stage performer with extensive experience across plays, musicals and physical theatre. 

Her notable credits include performing as an ensemble member in Pan Productions’ The Producers, originating the role of Dr. May in You, Me & The Big C, and performing the monologue "Red Lipsticks" in the critically acclaimed production of Her Story. Additionally, she has performed in a variety of 10-minute productions throughout the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (klpac) Short+Sweet Festival. 

An accomplished mover, Carolyn draws on her training in ballet, commercial dance, martial arts, cheerleading and piano to bring dynamic energy and precise physicality to every role she plays. 

Trained locally under TheatreThreeSixty's annual Actor's Gym programme, she continues to hone her craft through various stage and screen workshops, always seeking new ways to tell bold and resonant stories.

Carolyn Chow

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iwaz is an audiovisual artist based in Malaysia, known for creating immersive experiences through sound, generative visuals, and light installations. His work focuses on the dynamic interplay between light, sound, and space, often utilizing electronic synthesis and real-time visuals to engage audiences in a multi-sensory dialogue.

Over the years, iwaz has collaborated with visual artists and musicians, performing at various festivals and theatres. His notable projects include Tiang Seri (2025), Seribu Satu (2024), Symbiocene (2023), Pengembaraan Satu Malam (2023), Alu & Lesung (2023) and Lost Signals (2022), each of which explored unique combinations of sound, light, and cultural themes. By blending intricate soundscapes with evolving visuals, iwaz engages audiences in a multi-sensory dialogue, constantly redefining the possibilities of their craft.

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Ahmed Iwaz

Stage acting credits include Puteri Gunung Ledang (Enfiniti), A Hen-Made Tale (KLSP) and Fault Lines (Protagonist Studio). On screen, she appeared in Maut (Tayangan Unggul) and Spilt Gravy (ZSA Productions).

Once Upon A Malaysian Dream

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Will The Malaysian Dream ever come true?

演員和工作人員

Nabil Zakaria

Jerry

Qahar Aqilah

Meng

Engku Armand

Omar Ali

NICXON TAN

Wyn Hee

Kee Thuan Chye

Nick Augustin

Anthony Lee Yee Han 李奕翰

Sandee Chew

Carolyn Chow

Beatrice Looi

iwaz

Sabrina Hassan

Zul Zamir

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Once Upon A Malaysian Dream

RM30.00/ approx NT$238.00RM70.00/ approx NT$556.00RM120.00/ approx NT$954.00

RM30.00/ approx NT$238.00

RM30.00/ approx NT$238.00RM70.00/ approx NT$556.00RM120.00/ approx NT$954.00

RM30.00/ approx NT$238.00

Will The Malaysian Dream ever come true?

演員和工作人員

Nabil Zakaria

Jerry

Qahar Aqilah

Meng

Engku Armand

Omar Ali

NICXON TAN

Wyn Hee

Kee Thuan Chye

Nick Augustin

Anthony Lee Yee Han 李奕翰

Sandee Chew

Carolyn Chow

Beatrice Looi

iwaz

Sabrina Hassan

Zul Zamir

票務

8:00PM (GMT+8)

8:00PM (GMT+8)

3:00PM (GMT+8)

8:00PM (GMT+8)

3:00PM (GMT+8)

8:00PM (GMT+8)

關於

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《你會老，我會大》

《沒有我的房間》

《A Funeral for My Friend Who is Still Alive》

《生命真他_的精彩》

《母輕：Drag 3 Wait》

2022年《婚內失戀》精選版

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