Benedict Lim Fang Jun

Benedict Lim was born and raised in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, and has been based in Singapore since 2013. Their work spans fiction, theatre, film and live performance, moving between Singapore and the U.K. They hold space for the liminal. They also hold space equally for fried chicken and black coffee, which he thinks cancel each other out.

As a performer, they’ve been in productions such as Park Life (2025, short film), The Critic (2023, play), Brain Things (2023, play). Also, their producing credits include: The Asian Comedy Showcase (Edinburgh Fringe 2024-2025), Off With Your Head (Edinburgh Fringe 2024-2025)
As a dramaturg, he has worked with Sam See on And I Can’t Feel At Home In This World Any More (Edinburgh Fringe 2024).

As a writer, their short fiction has appeared in What We Burn For (2024), The Second Link (2023), and Call and Response 2: A Singapore Migrant Anthology (2021). In 2021, their trilogy, thenational.api, was commissioned for the inaugural Southeast Asian Queer Cultural Festival by ASEAN SOGIE Caucus.