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Hossan Leong
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Hossan Leong is one of Singapore’s most popular and successful television and theatre actors, working constantly and earning an impressive array of awards and reviews, including Best Ensemble Acting in the 2000 Life! DBS Theatre Awards (Asian Boys Vol. 1) and a nomination for Best Actor in 2005 (Top or Bottom) and Best Supporting Actor for the 2006 (What Big Bombs You Have!) and 2003 (Honk!) Life! Theatre Awards respectively. He won the 2007 Top Outstanding Young Person’s Award for Cultural Achievement. To date, he has performed in more than 50 plays and numerous television programmes.
Hossan is well known in Singapore for his stand-up comedy routines, Multiple Personalities Disorder and Hossan, LIVE! were a huge success. He performed with Selena Tan in It Takes Two. He is affectionately called The Singapore Boy. He performs regularly with the Dim Sum Dollies® and was also part of Chestnuts. His comedy acts are sought after in the region and around the world. In February 2007, Hossan did his routine in Chicago for Citylights Chicago, a Singaporean organisation. He also performed in Central Park, New York to a crowd of 6000 people.
Corporate clients such as MINDEF, the National Heritage Board, the Ministry of Education and the Singapore Institute of Management have engaged his skills in Presentation and Drama techniques.
Hossan made his directorial debut in Sydney in 2003. He directed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song for AHA! Productions in their inaugural production. He produced, directed and starred in Best Served Cold, a murder-mystery dinner theatre piece for the 2004 World Gourmet Summit. He conceived, produced and directed On This Island, a musical revue, for the APAO Congress 2006. Together with Paul Carr, Hossan wrote, directed and acted in a play for the launch of the 2006 Speak Good English Movement in Singapore.
His fluency in the French language has led him to work with the Alliance Française on a Tribute to Edith Piaf. He represented the Singapore Actors in Paris at the Asian Film Festival. This year he has been named Ambassador for Paris 2012 and was awarded the Prix des Ambassadeurs francophones (Francophone Ambassador Award). Hossan is also the Speak Mandarin Campaign Ambassador for 2005/2006.
Hossan started his career on the stage with one of Singapore’s leading theatre companies, The Necessary Stage in 1993. His first play, Off Centre, led him to more plays with the company, such as Waiting, WWW, 1+1=3, Asian Boys Vol.1, Mardi Gras and Top or Bottom. He was also in ACTION Theatre’s Prelude To A Kiss and the 2004 Christmas hit, The House of Flying Chestnuts. He starred in Army Daze and The Magic Fundoshi.
He has worked with the best in Musical Theatre from the States, London, Australia and Singapore. Musical theatre credits include: Little Shop of Horrors, Cinderellah, Honk!, The Forbidden City, Chang and Eng, Fiddler On The Roof, Twist Of Fate, Beauty World, Corporate Animals and Sing To The Dawn.
On television, Hossan has starred in many programmes. Hossan was also on Hallmark Entertainment’s The Monkey King. He most recently guest-starred in Chase and was on Channel 8’s award-winning drama seriesYou Fu. His other television roles were Under One Roof, Can I Help You? The Donny Lee Show, Shiver amongst others. He is the host of Arts Central’s SQUIRKS!
On the silver screen, Hossan worked on a Hong Kong-Singapore co-production, One Last Dance (Cannes 2006). Other film credits include One Leg Kicking and I Not Stupid.
Other work include being a voice-over artist for radio and television commercials as well as for television programs like Extreme Gourmet, Extreme Japan, ABC DJ and Bring Your Toothbrush. Hossan is also an accomplished pianist.
Hossan can be heard on Power 98 (98.0FM) weekdays from 7 to 10 in the mornings. He is also a well known Host and Emcee, having hosted more than 200 dinners and corporate events in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Chicago and New York, for Starhub, UBS, Vickers Ballas, TNT, IDA, government ministries, SIA amongst many others.