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James Thoo

James Thoo resides in Singapore with his wife and their two daughters, who play within sight of where he writes.

He has had more than two decades of professional experience in screenwriting, excluding his stint as a professional boxer when he was 27.

He has sold multiple feature screenplays to large Hollywood production companies including Ravenwood Studios, Phoenix Productions and Bruise Productions, who were hugely impressed by his acerbic sensibilities, idiosyncratic characters, and very funny plots. His compelling memoir about his fight to become a dad, Palooka: 12 Rounds To Fatherhood (Brango), was published in 2020 to raves in The Edge Singapore, The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao. The raw account of he and his wife Alicia’s journey to parenthood addresses male vulnerability, exposing an excruciating encounter with cookie dough, as well as his wife Alicia’s near brush with death in the course of trying to conceive.