Vera is a London-based actress and the artistic director of saltpeter.

Vera grew up in Malaysia. She read Human Sciences before gaining an MA in Archaeology and Anthropology from The Queen's College, Oxford. Vera then went on to train as an actress at The Poor School and continues to train at Ecole Philippe Gaulier.

 Rehearsal shot, Victory Over the Sun, dir. Gary Merry, New Factory of the Eccentric Actor. Photo by Alec Myer.

Screen, Random 11, a feature film shot in 2011, has been garnering international interest. Watch the trailer here. Vera has worked for multi-BAFTA-winning Daniel Mulloy, Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing, Sue Dunderdale (BBC), Optimistic Productions, Aliale Productions and artist-filmmaker Lucy Pawlak. Vera is part of The Samsonov Film and Theatre Cooperative which produced the feature film, The Inspection House, for which Vera was a key deviser and casting director. She has appeared on TV both in Malaysia and in the UK.

Stage, she has performed in lead roles across the UK for Theatre by the Lake, Eastern Angles, TARA and New Perspectives, premiered new writing at Soho Theatre, Theatre 503, and the BAC, and appeared in exciting revivals for Primavera and The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor. For Royal Shakespeare Company's Vik Sivalingam (also Headlong, Old Vic, Almeida), Vera played Yelena in Uncle Vanya and Ygraine in the Peter Morris world premier of The Death of Tintagel. Via saltpeter, she has featured in Wallace Shawn's The Fever, which won 5* at The Brighton Fringe 2011 and made the Outstanding Production list.

 With Peter Sandys-Clarke in Jingo

She is particularly interested in visceral approaches to performance and performance styles which focus on ensemble training, strong relationships with the audience, the pleasure of being on stage and the sense of play.

Vera has workshopped with Spymonkey, Told by an Idiot, Shared Experience, Barry Grantham, Mick Barnfather, Lorna Marshall, The Bones Theatre & Fran Barbe. She has begun training with Philippe Gaulier and looks forward to working with Andrew Morrish in Feb 2012.

Still from Eight Minutes, dir. Joe Barton

At Oxford, Vera toured Japan with a Thelma Holt/OUDS production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, performed with the Experimental Theatre Company (ETC), reinstated The Egglesfield Players, co-produced the Oxford New Writing Festival and founded and successful theatre company, the nihilists. For the nihilists, she directed sell-out runs of David Edgar's Pentecost in conjunction with One World Week, a city-wide festival exploring global awareness, and a surrealist version of Debbie Isitt's Matilda Liar!; produced a college-wide arts festival at Queen's to raise awareness for World AIDS Day, and an evening exploring the bharatanatyam dance form. As assistant director, she collaborated with Sebastian Kalhat Pocicovich's Quartet After Laclos by Heiner Muller. 

Film still. Nemesis of Man, dir. TS Ukpo, vertigoheights. Watch the teaser here