Wild Rice’s founding artistic director Ivan Heng, 60, will receive an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, one of the top institutions for the performing arts in the world.
Heng, who founded Wild Rice in 2000, has led the theatre company to stage distinctively Singaporean classics and develop new work, reaching an audience of more than one million people. Heng made his UK directorial debut at the Edinburgh Fringe and won the Scotsman Fringe First, as well as the Scottish Daily Express New Names of ’93 Award. Wild Rice will take playwright Amanda Chong’s critically-acclaimed one-woman monologue Psychob***h to the Fringe this August.He is one of three pioneering artists who will receive honorary doctorates on July 4.
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