Instant Cafe Theatre (Malaysia) - Millennium Jump II (Dec. 2000)

Jo Kukathas
Jo is an actor, director and writer. She is one of the co-founders and Artistic Director of The Instant Cafe Theatre Company. Since 1989 she has performed, directed and written for numerous Instant Cafe comedy revues. Her directing credits include ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘You Have Ten Minutes’, ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, ‘Oleanna’, ‘Lest the Demons Get to Me’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘A Midsummers Night’s Dream’.
“Ummm...they need you to sharpen the eyebrow pencil...now”

Edwin Sumun
Salerio, Oberon, Max, Hamlet, Narrator/Co-Director, Macbeth, Turtle, E, Ming, Colonel Andrew McMahon, Gary, Piano Bar crooner, Mahna Mahna Torch Song Diva, Paul, Madame, Xenia, Ariff, Bohu, and one helluva Millennium Jump later, jumping again!
“Cantik colour rambut you, macam color tin berkarat”

Zahim Albakri
Zahim is Artistic Director of Dramalab, actor, director, lecturer and co-founder of the Instant Cafe Theatre Company. He is also a well-known actor in the local film/television industry. Zahim’s theatre credits include ‘Notes on Love, Life and Painting’ (Straits Theatre Company, 1999); ‘Lear’ (Theatre Works/Japan Foundation, 1997); ‘Work’ (Five Arts Centre, 1996). He has directed numerous plays including Dramalab’s 1999 production ‘A Flight Delayed’ which this year played at the Singapore Arts Festival.
“Maung Tahrn kin waung si pong. Getting to know you, getting to know all about you”

Nell Ng
Nell has appeared in ‘Remain Standing’, ‘The Trees’, ‘Shakespeare for Dummies’, ‘Little Red’, ‘A Flight Delayed’ and ICT’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ and ‘Millennium Jump’. She speaks Bahasa Malaysia in the characters of Ms Etta, Booker T, Scooter and Baby Bob in Barney & Friends. Nell can be heard weekdays co-hosting a morning talk show on a local radio station.
“Do you want my lurv. Can you make sweat”

Patrick Teoh
Actually, that is not true. I personally think that Nell is much nicer. Patrick Teoh - retired business person, infamously absent radio deejay, father, husband and out of work actor most of the times. So, I am very glad to be playing with The Instant Cafe Theatre gang once again. It is so much fun and it also means getting paid which is nice for a change in the life of an out of work actor.
“I saying; you ahr vari faihn peezof ass, Coco”

Shanthini Venugopal
Shanthini is one of the pioneer members of Instant Cafe and is still loving every minute of it. She can be seen as Beebe in the Hollywood production of ‘Anna and the King’. Her voice is also on radio and TV for voice-overs and jingles. She lives life to the fullest, and the love of her life is Hariharan her 3 year old son.
“Why use me to practice your kungfu?”

Maya Arissa Abdullah
Maya’s talents were discovered by a voyeur one day whlie pursuing a favourite pastime...singing in the shower. That voyer turned out to be Jo Kukathas. Since then, Maya has performed for other voyeurs in several other ICT productions, including ‘I Have No Gun But I Can Spit’, ‘Millennium Jump’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’.
“No. I’m 39.90”

Chae Lian
Chae Lian is thrilled to be continuing her incestuous working relationship with her ‘Colourful Mixture’ co-star, Rashid Salleh. This is their fourth consecutive project together following their sit-com, ‘Charley’s Auntie’ (Actors Studio) and ‘No Exit’ (Rep 21). She is, however, sad that Joanna Bessey could not complete their menage a trois this time. Chae Lian graduated from Carnegie Mellon university in the USA with an Honours degree in Acting. She has also trained with faculty from the Moscow Art Theatre (Russia) and Breton Hall (UK).
“Baaa ram eeewe”

Rashid Salleh
Rashid is fast becoming a well-known face on local television with credits that include ‘Koptiam’ and ‘Colourful Mixture’. In the space of six months he has jumped from one theatre production to the next - ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (Instant Cafe); ‘ Charley’s Auntie’ (Actors Studio); and ‘No Exit’ (Rep 21). To end the year, he is delighted to ‘Jump’ again with the rest of the gang at Instant Cafe.