Eman Lam () is a

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dancer, singer, comedian and painter. She is the founder and artistic director of Le Jeu dance and Stand Up HK comedy companies. In 2016, she started a

stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, ...

platform called Stand Up HK 香港是但噏 - the only English and Cantonese stand up company in Hong Kong for local comedians.

Background

Lam was classically trained since she was four, and the

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(London) Honor Award Winner for

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from 1995 to 2000. Lam taught herself to paint and at the age of 16 went to United States for university. She currently performs, teaches and choreographs dance. She has been working as a full-time painter at her home studio and planning her solo exhibition in mid-2018. With Le Jeu Dance established Lam has focused on comedy with an emphasis on stand-up performance. She has been performing stand-up comedy in both English and Cantonese since 2012. In 2016, Lam set up a stand-up comedy platform called Stand Up HK (香港是但噏), the only English and Cantonese stand up company in Hong Kong for local comedians. On 5 August 2017, Lam performed her first One Woman Show in both English, Cantonese (and a little bit in Mandarin as well), back to back. Every one of Lam's performances is different and she frequently ends her shows with some comedy parody.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lam, Eman Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Hong Kong female dancers Hong Kong dancers Hong Kong painters Hong Kong women comedians Hong Kong stand-up comedians 21st-century Hong Kong women singers Hong Kong expatriates in the United States