User:Vernonae/sandbox

Vernon Adrian Emuang is a Malaysian multimedia personality, primarily a writer, actor, and activist of multicultural Serani ancestry, and has produced and performed for stage, television, radio, and film. He was trained in theatre and broadcasting at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now known as Curtin University) in Perth, Western Australia while pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (English) degree.

He came to prominence in the mid-80s as a stage actor under the directorial stewardship of Dato' Krishen Jit.

He was well-known in the Malaysian advertising industry in the '80s and '90s, having been assigned the role of Creative Director while still in his early 30s - the youngest for a Malaysian in a multinational advertising industry at a time when such positions were mostly headed by middle-aged Western expatriates. He was celebrated as the youngest advertising copywriter to win a slew of awards in his first year in adverting, including the Best of the Best (6As Award) for a campaign he created with Reggie Lee for Ericcson Mobile Telephones.

In the mid-90s he co-hosted with ex-Malaysian Olympian swimmer, Jeffrey Ong, a television programme called Cyberwave for six seasons. The programme was deemed well ahead of its time in content and presentation style. Unfortunately the Malaysian financial crisis of 1998 saw the programme, among many other locally-produced English language-based content axed by its broadcasting producer, TV3.