Angry Yellow Woman

About Vera Chok

Vera (they/she) is a queer Malaysian-Chinese actor funny-person poet and dogmum. They are both Disruptor and Homemaker. Best known as a co-author of The Good Immigrant Vera wrote the chapter Yellow which exploded ideas around East Asianness. Vera has been published by The Guardian Bloomsbury and Brain Mill Press and in Rising and Transect magazine. They have been commissioned by The Roundhouse CNN WeTransfer and Hakkasan Group and funded by The British Council. Their writing has been performed at The Roundhouse Shakespeare North Rich Mix and at Byline Stoke Newington Dinefwr Cambridge and Bare Lit Festivals. Vera is also a regular participant and sometimes champion of Varjack & Simpsons Anti-Slam. Vera co-founded The Brautigan Book Club was a resident artist at the Bethnal Green Working Mens Club and the actor who played Honour Chen-Williams head of the first ever East Asian family in any UK continuing drama. They produce both gently joyful happenings and mischievous chaotic celebrations to platform historically marginalised groups.