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Yang-May Ooi

Writer & Podcaster

Curious across Cultures

TigerSpirit News & Updates - plus cross-cultural insights to help us connect in a divisive world

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The TigerSpirit Legacy

Curiosity, creativity and telling stories across the cultural divide

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Not one, not two but three podcasts - The Anxiety Advantage, Creative Conversations and MetroWild

Welcome to TigerSpirit

The official website of cross-cultural writer, Yang-May Ooi @TigerSpiritUK

Yang-May Ooi is a writer and podcaster. She believes passionately that personal stories are universal to all of us, whatever our background or culture. 

Her books include internationally acclaimed novels The Flame Tree and Mindgame (Hodder & Stoughton; Monsoon Books) and an award-nominated business book International Communications Strategy (Kogan Page).

She has also written and performed in the five star solo theatre play of Bound Feet Blues – A Life Told in Shoes (Tristan Bates Theatre), and published a family memoir of the same name (Urbane Publications).

Her podcasts address key issues of our times – anxiety (The Anxiety Advantage), climate matters (MetroWild) and creativity (Creative Conversations). She also hosted the podcast of the mental health charity, Beyond Conflict, where her guests included humanitarian Terry Waite.

What the Media Say:

An electrifying and empowering voice - The Malay Mail on Yang-May’s storytelling

Extremely readable and very entertaining - Marie-Claire magazine on The Flame Tree

A polished thriller with a convincing portrait of a female protagonist - Tatler magazine on The Flame Tree

Engaging, eye-opening, funny and moving - Everything Theatre on Bound Feet Blues

Latest News & Insights

Bound Feet Blues is now at BoundFeetBlues.WordPress.com

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Bound Feet Blues has a new weblink at: www.BoundFeetBlues.Wordpress.com. Please update your bookmarks. Bound Feet Blues: A Life Told in Shoes was my solo theatre show exploring female empowerment and…
Terry Waite talks to host Yang-May Ooi on the Beyond Conflict Podcast

Yang-May Ooi interviews Terry Waite on the Beyond Conflict Podcast

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Author Yang-May Ooi has been appointed the official podcaster for Beyond Conflict, the mental health charity for people in conflict zones. In her first podcast for Beyond Conflict, she talks…
Bound Feet Blues will be featured in the Sight/Unseen drama conference

Bound Feet Blues is part of the Sight / Unseen Drama Conference ¦ Bound Feet Blues

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Yang-May Ooi's solo theatre piece is part of the Sight/Unseen Drama Conference on 27 April. An extract from the play, read by Julie Cheung-Inhin, will feature as an introduction to…
British East Asian Plays anthology featuring Yang-May Ooi's Bound Feet Blues

Yang-May Ooi signs with Aurora Metro ¦ Bound Feet Blues

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Writer/ performer Yang-May Ooi has signed with UK publisher Aurora Metro for the script of Bound Feet Blues to be included in an upcoming anthology of British East Asian plays.…

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