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Nora Samosir is a Singaporean actress of Indonesian descent who won a 2002 Life Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has been active in the Singapore theatre scene since 1979 and has worked in television and film. Some of her more notable performances include The Swallowed Seed (2002) and Revelations (2003)




Early life and education


Samosir is of Indonesian descent and speaks English, Malay and Indonesian fluently. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and graduated from York University, Toronto, Canada with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and has multiple qualifications in vocal training and voice studies.




Career


Her professional training is in acting and voice production, which she also taught at the National University of Singapore. Samosir lectured in Theatre Studies and teaches voice production. Samosir is currently a lecturer in the School of Dance & Theatre at LASALLE, where she lectures in Acting and Musical Theatre.
Samosir has done extensive work in Singapore with such groups as Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), Action Theatre, The Necessary Stage (TNS), Cake Theatre, Black Tent Theater, Music and Movement, and TheatreWorks (TW), as well as performing at venues such as National Museum of Singapore, Dublin Fringe Festival, National Theatre Festival (at the National School of Drama in Delhi), Asian Theatre Festival at Kyungsung University in Busan, Lyric Theatre, Festival of Perth, TheatreWorks Retrospective Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Adelaide Festival of Arts, and National Institute of Education.
She is a member of the Association of Singapore Actors, the Singapore Drama Educators Association.




Criticism and praise


In considering her role in Doubt (2006), Richard Lord of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore wrote that her portrayal of Sister Aloysius was unsympathetic and led to the audience believing in the innocence of Father Brendan as played by Lim Yu Beng. When speaking of her award-winning role of Claire in Proof (2002), Daniel Teo of Inkpot Reviews praised her performance and her precision, while Richard Lord of QLRS felt she exaggerated her character, but had shown better work in performance earlier that year." The following year in his review of Revelations (2003), Lord gave a mixed review of the production's "faulty structure", yet approved of Samosir's performance. In 2003, Samosir was involved with Pulse (2003), an experimental series of 3 interlinked plays loosely based on an urban woman's diary. The series was reviewed by Matthew Lyon of Inkpot Reviews, who felt her performance in the second of the three was "the strongest of the whole series."




Filmography






= Selected notable theatre appearances

=
Asian Boys Volume 1 (2000) with The Necessary Stage
Destinies of Flowers in the Mirror (2009)
Temple (2008) with Cake Theatre
120 (2007) with the National Museum of Singapore
Doubt (2006)
Queen Ping (2006) with Cake Theatre
The Vagina Monologues (2004) with The Arts House
Revelations (2003) with TNS
Pulse Version Theatre (2003) with TheatreWorks
Proof (2002) with Action Theatre
Fruit Plays (2002)
Human Heart Fruit by Stella Konand
The Swallowed Seed by Jean Tay




= Film

=
Singapore Shorts Vol. 2 (Asian Film Archive's) (2008)
Imelda Goes to Singapore (2008)
Shanghai Lily (1999)
Passionflower (1986)




= Television

=
Masters of the Sea (1994)
Shiver (1997)
Ah Girl (2001–2002)
Guru Paarvai (2004)
Stories of Love (2008)




Awards


2002 Life Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Claire in Action Theatre's 2002 production of "Proof".




Further reading


The lady of soul and her ultimate "S" machine, by Tarn How Tan
PIE to SPOILT: a collection of plays, by Tze Chien Chong ISBN 981-04-7667-1
A history of amnesia: poems, by Alfian Sa'at ISBN 981-04-3707-2
Private parts and other playthings, by Michael Chiang ISBN 981-3002-77-8




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Demi Ucok
• HKBP Distrik VII Samosir
• Indonesian Idol (musim 12)
• Daftar Bupati Ogan Komering Ulu Selatan
• Daftar Wakil Bupati Ogan Komering Ulu Selatan
• Nora Samosir
• Doubt: A Parable
• Tanjong Katong Secondary School
• List of Indonesians
• List of National University of Singapore people
• List of York University people
• Index of Indonesia-related articles
• Stella Kon
• Index of Singapore-related articles
• List of Indonesia-related topics