Ong Keng Sen (born 20 November 1963; Chinese: 王景生; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Kéng-seⁿ; pinyin: Wáng Jǐngshēng) is a Singaporean director of the theatre group TheatreWorks, which was founded in 1985.
Ong joined the drama club at Anglo-Chinese Primary School and went on to serve as president of the Varsity Playhouse of the National University of Singapore as he was studying law.
[citation needed] As festival director, he has been vocal about the government restrictions and non-transparent OB markers for performance arts staged in Singapore.
[12] In 2015, Ong directed a six-hour site-specific performance, The Incredible Adventures Of Border Crossers, for the opening of the inaugural Singapore Festival in France at the Palais de Tokyo.
[citation needed] Ong directed the Singaporean film Army Daze, based on a play written by Michael Chiang.
for this kind of transcultural theatre which mixes Western and Eastern performance traditions, especially dance with spoken word drama.
[18] Ong's unique "process-oriented" projects involves placing wide ranges of master practitioners of different traditions on the same stage, but remaining independent in their own aesthetics.
[19] He is particularly well known for his performance at the Bunkamura Cocoon Tokyo production of Lear in 1997, his Desdemona at the Adelaide Festival, Australia in 2000, and his Search:Hamlet at the Kronbourg Castle in Elsinore and Copenhagen.