Vera Chok (they/she)
@Vera_Chok
Followers
4,431
Following
1,319
Media
3,217
Statuses
55,697
Actor, funny person, poet, improviser. Queer, Malaysian, dogmum, crone. Poetry debut Angry Yellow Woman @burningeyebooks .
Joined June 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Madrid
• 956268 Tweets
برشلونة
• 887285 Tweets
Barca
• 537846 Tweets
Mbappe
• 435479 Tweets
#ElClásico
• 323805 Tweets
Bernabeu
• 296464 Tweets
#UFC308
• 270670 Tweets
Lamine Yamal
• 260355 Tweets
Lewandowski
• 153645 Tweets
Raphinha
• 153274 Tweets
Topuria
• 147368 Tweets
Hansi Flick
• 140677 Tweets
Ancelotti
• 121854 Tweets
Holloway
• 119868 Tweets
Michelle Obama
• 111050 Tweets
Perez
• 110350 Tweets
Vini
• 107992 Tweets
Bellingham
• 100245 Tweets
Pedri
• 89525 Tweets
Khamzat
• 74445 Tweets
#كلاسيكو_الارض
• 58697 Tweets
Gavi
• 54761 Tweets
Checo
• 44478 Tweets
Iñaki Peña
• 44105 Tweets
Sainz
• 41049 Tweets
Vitória
• 38481 Tweets
Cruzeiro
• 36327 Tweets
الريال
• 32554 Tweets
Mendy
• 31791 Tweets
#precure
• 30602 Tweets
Xavi
• 27983 Tweets
انشيلوتي
• 20348 Tweets
Juventude
• 19059 Tweets
Gerson
• 17606 Tweets
Gabigol
• 17097 Tweets
Nuggets
• 16925 Tweets
ليفا
• 16438 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
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.
1
4
45
OK folks. It’s official official! I’ll be on screen in Hollyoaks from Dec 9th!
Dream. Come. True!
27
5
130
So, I just wrote this. RT to spread the discussion:
White actors must stand up to whitewashing. Ed Skrein shows how
2
77
112
This fam is legit adorable.
And omg. 1st East Asian family in a British Soap ever?!
TY to all who made this possible.
#ChenWilliams
#ChenWilliamsFam
#hollyoaks
#WarmFuzzies
#blendedFamily
#ESEA
#BESEA
#poc
#TVHistory
#RepresentationMatters
#Malaysian
🚨 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
11
38
201
10
10
102
Don't know how to film PoC? Change your lighting, your equipment, your staff, your point of reference for "beauty" & "normal". Rethink size.
1
46
84
SO excited about this adventure! Been a dream meeting
@FionaWade_
and very much looking forward to meeting the team! YAY! Bring it ON!
🚨 MEET YOUR 2024 TOUR CAST 🚨
Fiona Wade, Vera Chok,
@JayMcGuiness
and
@georgerainsford
will be taking
@222aghoststory
across the UK next year! Have you got your tickets? Let us know the venue you're heading to in the comments below.
#222aghoststory
#uktour
37
43
238
17
3
91
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.
4
13
87
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
4
30
82
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.
8
3
77
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
3
15
78
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!
22
112
71
In case you've been following, instead of dropping out, I got a DISTINCTION for my MA - ya! Now tossing about ideas to get it published.
13
1
68
OMG WE HAD AN OFFICIAL SHOW STOP BECAUSE WE HAD AUDIENCE DANCING ON STAGE!!! HEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHE
#penultimateshow
#ThePaperMan
@sohotheatre
5
2
67
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
4
21
67
Who here lives in or near Nottingham?
I’m kinda living here now. Ish.
23
1
58
OMG thank you!!! SUCH a fab role and I had spot on direction!!! Glad you enjoyed it & and it’s so nice to hear from you!!!! 💗🙌
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.
7
11
172
2
0
56
Oh my word! My book just got back from typesetter and it’s inching towards reality!!!!
#AngryYellowWoman
via
@BurningEyeBooks
🔥🔥🔥will be here in April!!!!
#poetry
#debutcollection
#AsianTwitter
#experimentalPoetry
#BookTwitter
#representationmatters
10
11
57
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
3
0
54
0
6
46
Oh hey, just developing and dramaturging a new play by the incredible writer actor producer
@kshen
! Thank you
@youngvictheatre
for supporting us!
#ESEAwriters
#AsianTwitter
3
1
42
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
7
9
42
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.
2
8
42
I'm going to be on BBC Breakfast c.10.30am today. Talking 'bout the erasure of East Asians, PoC & marginalised folk in media.
#whitewashing
1
14
40
If your starting price ticket is £99, dear ones, then I am not the theatre audience you are making for. And maybe that's all right.
3
6
40
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
1
18
76
4
3
42
Mental health doggo bit me on the bum yesterday! Sending a hello and solidarity with anyone out there who has these tricky days.
9
1
37
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
1
2
39
#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
2
11
38
I’d like to report that London book launch was a huge success.
We chatted Southend pier,
Malaysia, and poems.
Thank you everyone who came.
Thanks especially
@timmysmells
@WerewolfBeer
@BurningEyeBooks
#indiepublishing
#performancePoetry
#pagePoetry
#experimentalWriting
3
3
38
Tomorrow I leave Liverpool, after having moved here to join
#Hollyoaks
as the head of the first ever ESEA family in UK continuing drama
2
3
34
Sorry not sorry.
Enjoying this beautiful pic of me by Camilla Greenwell.
#thepaperman
#improbable
@lastradagraz
festival next week!
2
1
32
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.
5
0
34
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.
3
7
34
This is the image I’ve used for the cover of my debut
#poetry
collection,
#AngryYellowWoman
. Taken in a back street in Penang, Malaysia. I spent 3 months, the longest since leaving aged 17. Could any of this feel like home?
#biography
#storytelling
#newbook
#bookrecommendations
2
2
35
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
0
10
34
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.
2
1
33
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
14
16
31
WE WON BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM!!!!!
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
1
1
13
1
2
33
News: pleased to announce that a super duper publisher wants to publish poetic text.
Working out deets.
Excited!
4
2
30
MY DEBUT BOOK IS BORN TODAY!!!
Happy birthday to
#AngryYellowWoman
! Thank you to everyone who made this possible.
London book launch this Sunday
@WerewolfBeer
5pm.
Buy via
@BurningEyeBooks
or any good bookstore.
@eseapn
@jhalakprize
could you help spread the word?
3
8
32
Hey other folk living with depression, it helps me to remember that we have each other. This is one way the internet helps.💝
3
3
28
Sorry not sorry. I'm pretty psyched that KATHY BURKE saw and recommends
#ThePaperMan
!
SEVEN more shows and we self-combust, friends.
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. ♥️🎭⚽️
3
15
70
3
6
29
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!!!
1
6
32
WE WON BEST FILM!
Henceforth I’ll be insufferably describing myself as the assistant editor of an award-winning movie, after
@ForestFringe
’s
#DreamAgency
won Best Micro-Budget Film at
@LondonIFF
last night. Congrats to all involved!
🏆
#ForestFringe
#LondonIFF2023
#LondonInternationalFilmFestival
3
1
33
5
2
27
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.
2
4
31
Foodies! Asians! Did you know about this set of writing by Jenny Lau aka Celestial Peach?
3
6
30
IT’S MY FACE!
.
@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
.
0
2
14
3
2
29
My book is coming! My book is coming! I’m proud of it.
Preorder a personalised signed copy so I can write you a tiny love letter.
#Poetry
#asianTwitter
#ProsePoetry
#ImmigrantStories
#AsianLiterature
#ESEAliterature
1
2
30
I really love this - Magic Can Be Normal - on normalising Asians. What might be possible. TY
@nicole_soojung
2
9
30
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!
2
1
29
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.
0
6
28
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!
1
2
29
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!
3
6
29
Good advice. Let's help each other be ready. Find your friends and lean together.
Don't be lost. Don't be fearful. Don't be defeated. Be organised. Be angry. Be ready.
1
67
115
1
12
26
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
.
2
4
26
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!
3
0
27
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!
5
10
26
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?
1
0
27
0
8
26
Well, I DID meet some wonderful audience members, passers by, fun cops, & demonstrators. Thanks to everyone who was open & kind.
3
8
28
Notes to self
Step 1: Get out of bed. It's ok to do it slowly. Focus on that cup of tea.
#mentalhealth
4
3
24
Review of
#RiceTheShow
.
4* from
@TheStage
for my debut play. Not too shabby.
★★★★ Review: Rice! – Interactive cook-along show about migration and belonging satisfies both hunger and the need for communal experience
@OmnibusTheatre
@WayangKitchen
1
9
24
7
7
26
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
0
4
25
Audience members coming out or Print Room shouting, abusing, patronising, spitting, UGH
8
12
27
My debut collection of poetry out via the wonderful Burning Eye! Thanks for supporting my work in this super real way.
Our Sept 2022!
2
3
25
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. 🐝🐛🕷🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
2
0
27
❤️❤️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!
4
3
24
Signing pre-ordered books! Thanks to the early birds! If you’d like a personalised copy, head to .
Or come to the London launch this Sunday! Details in link above.
💪🙌💗
#poetrycommunity
#ESEAwriter
#MalaysianWriter
#IndiePublishing
@BurningEyeBooks
4
4
25
SO PLEASED about this! I want to know more about the Vietnamese population of the UK. Yay!
#SummerRollsThePlay
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:
0
12
28
1
5
23
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.
0
9
26
I'm GOING TO BE ON NETFLIX WORLDWIDE SOON!!! Whaaat? Check out Chok not wearing a lot in ep. 3 of Chewing Gum, season 2. Online in UK now.
4
3
24
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.
1
6
22
Have been worrying about the extent of racialised coronavirus and feeling vulnerable in public, then Brexit, AND I have a cold. One day at a time.
4
0
22
Buzzfeed!!!
21 Powerful Quotes On Race And Identity From 'The Good Immigrant'
via
@pri_minhas
@buzzfeed
0
23
22
NEWS! Multiple creatives of East Asian heritage behind the camera and in front. Please share and support
#AsianTwitter
!
@Hollyoaks
reveals Lunar New Year episode via
@MetroUK
#BESEA
#woc
#ChineseNewYear
#LunarNewYear
0
7
24
Turned down a small but neat film job today because the script reinforced racial & gender stereotypes. Feeling firm & positive.
1
4
23
3
1
23
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.
2
1
21
So I'm spending heaps and heaps of money on my mental health - for exercise and therapy. It is bloody worth it. Sod £ for drinking & etc.
0
0
25
40+ years with no families of East Asian heritage in a Continuing Drama in the U.K.
#ChenWilliams
thanks Hollyoaks.
Brilliant time getting to know
@Alexfletcher72
,
@kellebryan
and Rob
@Hollyoaks
& Ben
@Channel4
#BroadcastAwards2022
1st IRL appearance with
@LimePictures
fam
1
2
24
Hi
@the_printroom
! Hi
@arcolatheatre
! Oh hello,
@MTW_tweets
! Own your choices. Build on mistakes. White isn't neutral. Pls stop
#erasing
PoC
4
16
21
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
0
7
23
On ITV News at 10 soon talking about amazing precedent set by
@edskrein
. Thanks Ed!
#NoToWhitewashing
1
5
23
Off to talk to press about brace
@edskrein
. Read what I wrote about it in The Guardian.
#thegoodimmigrant
#yellow
4
10
22
My debut book launch is fast approaching. Have you put this in your diary yet? Sunday April 14th at Werewolf Beer in Camden. It's going to be fierce.
------------
#writingcommunity
#writersofig
#bipoc
#representationMatters
#AsianWriting
#AsianLiterature
#Poetry
1
9
22