Question: Facts: - imagesize: 250px - period: 2001 to present - genre: drama - birth date: 1978 - nationality: british-chinese - birth place: united kingdom - occupation: playwright Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of benjamin yeoh .
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benjamin yeoh -lrb- born 1978 -rrb- aka ben yeoh is one of the first british chinese playwrights to have his plays performed and recognised in the uk .born near london , england his father came from ipoh , malaysia and mother from singapore .his grandfather , datuk yeoh cheang lee was the first non-european chairman of the perak turf club -lsb- http://www.turfonline.com/turfclubs/perak_turf_club.asp] , in ipoh , malaysia .yeoh won a scholarship to westminster school and went on to study natural sciences at emmanuel college , cambridge university , the same college as his father and grand father .he then went on to harvard university as a herchel smith scholar studying dramaturgy and play writing .yeoh is also among the first generation of writers to have come from the soho theatre young writers ' programme .he has also been on the royal court theatre 's writers ' programme led in 2005 by playwright jane bodie .yeoh has directed several plays and has been involved with writing groups and mentorships such as royal court writers , soho young writers , bbc radio , moti roti , talawa and yellow ink .he sat on the board and then as chair of talawa theatre company -lsb- http://www.talawa.com/about/directors.html] until 2012 .he won the thomson extel award for best sector sell-side analyst for integrated socially responsible investment analysis in 2003 -lsb- http://www.uksif.org/cmsfiles/press/thomson%20extel%20 -lrb- july -rrb- .pdf -rsb-