Described as, by an immense witchy-warrior-gorgon,
"a writer and actor and connector and a warrior woman who is picking at the edges of representation, writing nakedly about the complexities of race, and about desire."
I'll take that.
🚨 SPOILER ALERT! 🚨 Please welcome... the Chen-Williams! 🎁 Take a look at some exclusive footage of the whole family behind the scenes, and what they have to say! 😜 ❤️ This family are taking the village by storm this festive season and there's so much to come! 🎄
#Hollyoaks
Omg my face is on the home page! We’re coming for ya, starting in January. GET YOUR TICKETS. We’re mid rehearsal and it’s an absolutely brilliant cast, if I do say so myself.
I've written a show, RICE! which opens this Saturday.
Performed live in Malaysia and Wiltshire!
20-21, 27-28 Feb, 12.30pm GMT
The journey of a Chinese-Malaysian woman immigrant.
CW: racism, mild sex references, hate crime, strong language
Oh hey! Aaaaannnnd ICYMI here's my news!
I'll be touring 2:22 - a ghost story from January, coming to a city near you!!!
Look at this lovely cast! I cannot wait to get stuck into rehearsals and get back on stage again!
Happy Halloween folkx! YESSSSSS.
Wrote Yellow in
#TheGoodImmigrant
years ago now.
It was old news then, talking about the hypersexualisation of female Asian bodies + the stereotype of submissiveness + sexual voraciousness + lack of humanity/soul within Asians
leading to violence against Asian women
= violence
Hello! Pls RT. Looking to create a big ol’ lovely list of queer Asian theatre makers, performers and actors. Asian to include Central, South, East, South East Asian + diaspora. Pls tag!
MY SHOW
#AngryYellowWoman
IS HERE!
Ever wondered if you’re a racist, right-wing, white man?
Vera Chok is a 42-year old woman of colour, first generation immigrant and ally to marginalised groups. Or so she thinks.
May 19, 20, 21
@OmnibusTheatre
Okay I know I’m tweeting a lot right now but can we just take a moment to appreciate how absolutely amazing
@Vera_Chok
is as Ink5oul? They are killing it, I can’t deal.
Note to self: don’t read comments about my acting or my appearance. Positive or negative, it’s not good for me!
Also: Get off my phone and go to bed!
PS: Love and support to everyone struggling out there
SO. I’m playing Marie in Ben Okri’s adaptation of Camus’ The Outsider. At The Print Room. I made a decision to join this project. Today’s thoughts:
Who gets to say they’re an outsider? Is it thrust upon you, are you endowed with it, is it the same as being Other?
#l
étranger
Mental health awareness month.
If you’re struggling, and feel completely, utterly alone, please know that this will pass. Even though it feels impossible.
I don’t have any easy answers, but I’ll post some things that have helped me, in case it makes a dent.
I hope everyone appreciates my fluffy baby dog Ubi making an appearance. Most of my family are in Malaysia and in different cities so I spent the first day of Chinese New Year with my furry family and my lovely Hollyoaks fam!
#LunarNewYear
#ChineseNewYear
#Malaysian
Kung hei fat choy! 🥳 It's the Year of the Tiger, so let's find out how a few of our cast will be celebrating! 🐯 What will you be doing this
#LunarNewYear
? ❤️
#Hollyoaks
Globe debut. The one space I've been wanting to play. And WHAT A SHOW to be a part of, what an immense company of brave warriors and pure hearts. Witches AND clowns! 💖Keep shining light at darkness.
#BurntAtTheStake
#BATS
!
@The_Globe
#Hollyoaks
pics!
From the day of my make up test, to working with some FAB ESEA talents, one pic of only some of the incredible crew and good souls, to doing what I do best, full bodied fury/laughter!
I have learned so much about myself & this business we call show.
#grateful
TWO more shows of
@222aghoststory
UK tour and the longest serving cast aka Dream Team is over and out... for now.
There may be some tickets left!
I have LOVED meeting all of you out there and hearing about your experiences of the show. Thank you for your time, gasps, & tears.
So
#ThePaperMan
is pissing some people off and this is a Good Thing.
Why?
Are we stupid? Sensationalist? Frivolous?
No.
We set out to co-create something that reflects life & challenges us all to feel, think, act.
I’m so very proud of our team.
Unless you have a REALLY good reason why you cannot pay speakers, please don’t invite anyone to
- talk about race/inequality/trauma/their area of expertise, or
- educate your audience/further your organization’s goals
- spend their time
FOR FREE.
K, thankx, bye.
#privilege
A bazillion people asked me to write a thing after
#thegoodimmigrant
. I co-wrote a thing -
#thepaperman
- it smashed my heart. I wish more people had seen it, but everything was thrown against it, but those who did, THANK YOU.
I’m writing a new thing now. In the arena, dammit.
Theatre folk, am writing a piece about East and South East Asian representation in U.K. theatre. Good or bad.
Off the top of your head -
What ESEA theatre (plays/playwrights) can you name? GO!
What plays have had ESEA roles?
#AsianTwitter
#ESEA
#RepresentationMatters
From hereon I’ll be insufferably describing myself as the assistant editor of an internationally award-winning movie, after
@ForestFringe
’s Dream Agency just won Best International Feature at the Jakarta Independent Film Festival.
🎬🏆🗺️🇮🇩🍿
#DreamAgency
London based? Need a spur of the mo (not to expensive) theatre show that makes you laugh and think? Then go see The Paper Man
@sohotheatre
It's on for one more week. Fantastic cast. ♥️🎭⚽️
I am LITERALLY about to start a show that’s trying stuff on Zoom that’s never happened before. HISTORY! Making! In theatre and live performance! Mash up tastic! Thanks to
@creationtheatre
@BigTellyNI
and all the incredible tech folk!!!
Hi
@EquityUK
please reassure members and the wider public that you support marginalised groups.
As a member I’m highly concerned about the mass resignation of my elected reps for ethnic minority interests.
.
@Vera_Chok
has a gruelling shoot ahead for the 3rd season of a top Sky drama; but in the meantime, you can catch her on
#Collateral
tonight on
#BBC2
.
Coming to a theatre near you!
I’m very excited to bring this show, this team, and my 💗Lauren 💗 to you. Come along to
@222aghoststory
and say boo!
Looking forward to 2024 with youuuuu!
So a theatremaker asked the room if we knew any mixed race young actors and I said yes. Then I asked, a mix of what? And they said, black and white.
I see.
LONDON THIS FRIDAY:
- my first lead role in a feature
- official selection Edinburgh International Film Festival
- if you liked The Lobster…
Support me, indie filmmaking, and collaborative artists!
LOOOOK! So excited to have had the opportunity to read PONTI - a tale of teen girls, mothers, ghosts and life in Singapore - and I’ve won an award! Yay my voice hehehe!
I would like to know why I didn’t see a SINGLE person of East Asian heritage on screen at
#Baftas2022
. Not even in the background.
And hardly any South Asians.
Saw some inspiring work but also heartbroken due to this
@BAFTA
.
NEW HEADSHOTS!!!! Thank you Samuel Black and my wonderful agent, Perry at The Foundry, for helping me get these sorted! 2:22 - A Ghost Story tour ends in three weeks and I am BACK and raring to go, yo!
HELP WANTED.
I’ve been nominated for an acting award and it’s kinda cheesy to ask, but if you vote, it'll help the cause of getting more East and South East Asians on UK TV.
Look for "Serial Performance"
#hollyoaks
Thank you!
1. I’m writing a show about whether I’m actually a racist, right-wing white man.
2. The last job I had made me feel I could never again trust a white man.
3. This is a tasty pickle, int it? Am I Chinese? Malaysian? British? East Asian? Female? Queer? Relevant? Old? Awake?
★★★★ Review: Rice! – Interactive cook-along show about migration and belonging satisfies both hunger and the need for communal experience
@OmnibusTheatre
@WayangKitchen
Thank you
@rokwon
for writing this piece. I just read it, having googled “sad Asian femmes” and while I still feel strangely isolated, it is good to know people who do care are out there
Today I planted beetroot, lettuce, dill, courgettes (two kinds), rescued a coriander, made two bug houses, constructed a tiny stone wall, hung out with lovely people. 🐝🐛🕷🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
❤️❤️ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE ❤️😭❤️😭😭😭❤️😭❤️❤️❤️❤️Asian Americans - so many of them - being human beings! Being warm, funny, loving, smart, dumb, successful, smoking dope! Having sex! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 AND Ali Wong and her fab glasses!
WE. ARE. HERE! Say hello to the cast and creative team of
#SummerRollsThePlay
. We're about to make HISTORY and create the first British Vietnamese play together. So excited to have all of these British East Asian creatives in one room.
Get your ticket:
I wrote a chapter in The Good Immigrant an anthology on what it's like to be an immigrant of colour in the UK. Only a few stories out of countless but they're disparate & wonderful for being so. Here's a petition to add this book to the GCSE reading list.
I am REALLY enjoying my subscription to
@PositiveNewsUK
and highly recommend it to anyone experiencing compassion fatigue and general existential crisis. Read about some of the amazingly great and revolutionary things happening in the world. Written by real journalists.
Inspiring healthcare pioneers & champions of equitable global health & inclusion celebrating at
#ZGHA20023
tonight!
Congrats to everyone in the room + my sister
@SheraChok
co-founder of
@NetworkShuri
that connects, platforms & trains women of colour in health tech.
My debut book,
#AngryYellowWoman
is out TODAY!
@londonhelena
, brilliant literary mind & features director of Harpers Bazaar put together the important anthology, East Side Voices, platforming East & South East Asians in the UK. Get a copy, follow her & ESV.
#AsianTwitter