Cookies to belacan: Malaysian performing arts practitioners find new stage in the kitchen


Iedil says he enjoys baking and selling cookies and wouldn’t mind doing it full time if no acting gigs come his way. Photo: Iedil Dzuhrie Alaudin

This may be the toughest role that theatre/film actor Iedil Dzhurie Alaudin has ever played. For this one-man show, the 36-year-old plays a home baker.

Only, this is not a play or a film. For Iedil, baking and selling cookies under his home-based online business called Munchy Chewy is his newfound reality.

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