Ong Keng Sen is a performance director who has actively contributed to the evolution and subsequent transglobalization of the Asian aesthetic in contemporary arts.

Ong is artistic director of TheatreWorks, where he created the renowned Flying Circus Project. He mentors emerging artists and founded the Arts Network Asia.

He is the first Singaporean artist to have received both the Young Artist Award (1992) and the Cultural Medallion Award (2003). He was awarded the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize in 2010.