Nora Samosir

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Singpoarean actress

title: "Nora Samosir" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["singaporean-actresses", "living-people", "indonesian-emigrants-to-singapore", "people-of-batak-descent", "year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)"] description: "Singpoarean actress" topic_path: "arts/film" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Samosir" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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occupationActress
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years_active1979–present
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| death_place = | othername = | occupation = Actress educator | years_active = 1979–present | spouse = | partner = | website = Nora Samosir is a Singaporean actress of Indonesian descent who won a 2002 Life Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress.{{cite web |url=http://www.asa.org.sg/bios/norasamosir.htm |title=actors' directory: Nora Samosir |publisher=Association of Singapore Artists |accessdate=12 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615054221/http://www.asa.org.sg/bios/norasamosir.htm |archive-date=15 June 2009 |url-status=dead

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.{{cite journal |last=Lord |first=Richard |date=April 2006 |title=Shadows of the Doubt |journal=Quarterly Literary Review Singapore |page= 2 |volume=5 |issue=3 |url=http://www.qlrs.com/emedia.asp?id=528}} When speaking of her award-winning role of Claire in Proof (2002), Daniel Teo of Inkpot Reviews praised her performance and her precision,{{cite web |url=http://inkpot.com/theatre/02reviews/02revproo.html |title=One is the lonliest number |last=Teo |first=Daniel |date=22 November 2002 |work=The Inkpot |accessdate=12 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008000638/http://inkpot.com/theatre/02reviews/02revproo.html |archive-date=8 October 2008 |url-status=dead |last=Lord |first=Richard |date=January 2003 |title=Maps, Maths and Other Madness |journal=Quarterly Literary Review Singapore |volume=2 |issue=2 |url=http://www.qlrs.com/emedia.asp?id=284}} 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. |last=Lord |first=Richard |date=July 2003 |title=Thinking Global, Acting Local |journal=Quarterly Literary Review Singapore |volume=2 |issue=4 |url=http://www.qlrs.com/emedia.asp?id=340}} 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." |url=http://www.inkpotreviews.com/2003reviews/0409,puls,ml.xml |title=The Heart of the Matter |last=Lyon |first=Matthew |work=The Inkpot |accessdate=13 April 2009}}

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". |url=http://www.sph.com.sg/article.display.php?id=75 |title=The 3rd DBS Life! Theatre Awards 2002 |publisher=Singapore Press Holdings Limited |accessdate=12 April 2009}}

References

References

  1. "Faculty of Arts & Social Studies". [[National University of Singapore]].
  2. "Our members". Singapore Drama Educators Association.
  3. Toh, Amos. (19 June 2008). "Urgent Devotion". The Flying Inkpot.
  4. "''120'', Presented by National Museum of Singapore: A new production by TheatreWorks/Ong Keng Sen". [[National Museum of Singapore]].
  5. Yi-Sheng, Ng. (12 May 2006). "The Palace of Wisdom". The Flying Inkpot.
  6. (17 November 2008). "DVD Review of Asian Film Archive's ''Singapore Shorts Vol. 2''". Twitch Films.
  7. "Classic dramas Triple Nine and Masters Of The Sea are coming to Netflix in November".
  8. Kwok, Amos. "Shiver".
  9. "MY LIFE IN THEATRE".
  10. "NUS Arts Festival 2014 {{!}} Festival Picks - White Rabbit Red Rabbit".

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