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Loretta Chen is a Singaporean theatre director, television presenter, radio personality, author and creative executive. She was the Group Business Development & Creative Director of The Activation Group, a regional creative agency and production house. She is currently based in Honolulu but is Visiting Professor at the School of Leadership and Organisational Studies at University of Southern Maine. ==Career== In 2007, her controversial project 251, based on the story of Singaporean porn-star Annabel Chong was nominated for two Life! Theatre Awards. She also directed the Postcards from Rosa, a monologue starring veteran actor Neo Swee Lin. In 2008, she directed Magicbox (2008), a magical extravaganza in collaboration with the creators of Mindfreak and a re-staging of The Vagina Monologues which was nominated for two Life! Theatre Awards. In 2009, she directed Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw and the Broadway classic Victor/Victoria, starring international jazz legend, Laura Fygi. She staged "The Vagina Monologues" in Toronto and premiered "The F Word" in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011. The production was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Chen was the Treasurer of the Association of Singapore Actors (ASA). In 2008, she was selected by the Mayor of the Northwest CDC to sit on the Arts and Culture Committee. In 2009, she was shortlisted as one of the Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) candidates for the Arts in Singapore, though an outspoken gay and human rights activist.〔()〕 She led the repeal 377A campaign when she first spoke up about censorship and homosexuality laws in a forum with the late Lee Kuan Yew. She was the Artistic Director of Zebra Crossing Productions and was also Associate Director at Toy Factory Productions and Action Theatre. Chen is an activist and is the ambassador to The Body Shop's Stop Sex Trafficking campaign, Hermes' PS I Silk You outreach program for under-privileged girls and Evian's Live Young campaign. She remains strongly committed to advocacy work and was named 100 most inspiring women for her work in theatre, media and social activism. She was also named Rising Personality of the Year in 2010. In 2013, Chen instituted the VMSD Young Talents Scholarship given to top design students of the Raffles College of Higher Education and helped to establish a monastic school and orphanage in Bhutan. She is the International Trainer and International Mentor of BEGIN, an entrepreneur programme created by Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI), the government investment arm of the Kingdom of Bhutan. A frequent speaker at global conferences on Performance, Arts, Media, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Chen is also adjunct faculty in National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological Institute, Lasalle-College of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of Southern Maine and Visiting Professor at University of Hawaii. She was also the Artist in Residence in University of Toronto. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loretta Chen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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