Jo kukathas biography

Jo Kukathas is an actor, director, and writer, and is the artistic director of The Instant Café Theater Company and CHAI, Instant Café’s House of Art and Ideas.

Kukathas grew up and was educated in Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, India, and the UK, where she studied politics and philosophy.

Jo Kukathas is a Malaysian writer, director, actor and Artistic Director of The Instant Cafe Theatre Company which was formed in to create political.

Jo Kukathas is a Malaysian writer, director, actor and Artistic Director of The Instant Cafe Theatre Company which was formed in to create political.

Jo Kukathas.

Together with her new friends, Jo founded the Instant Café Theatre (ICT) in , a progressive theatre that would emerge as a renegade force in Malaysia's culture scene.

Jo Kukathas is a writer, director and actress.

In late four friends Jo Kukathas, Andrew Leci, Jit Murad and Zahim Albakri decided to start their own theatre company.

She returned to Malaysia and entered the theatre world, co-founding The Instant Café Theatre Company. The company has achieved cult status with its black comedies and new Malaysian writing. She continues to play some of its most iconic comedy characters.

Kukathas has done work large and small, directing outdoor productions of Shakespeare at Carcosa Seri Negara and tiny performances staged inside the bedroom of a semi-detached house.

As an actress, she has been acclaimed for a diversity of roles in plays by Shakespeare, KS Maniam, Athol Fugard, and many others.

In she established FIRSTWoRKS, a writing program to develop new Malaysian plays. This program created the award-winning Flies