Wesley Leon Aroozoo is an educator, an artist with 13 Little Pictures and a PhD candidate at RMIT University. As an artist, his medium-defying works span literary arts, film, television, performance and theatre have been nominated at the Busan International Film Festival, NUS Singapore History Prize and Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and have won a Singapore Book Prize.

His debut novel Bedok Reservoir (Math Paper Press, 2012) was translated to the stage and performed at the Goodman Arts Centre where Wesley also performed the accompanying live music. The feature documentary companion to his second novel I Want to Go Home (Math Paper Press, 2017), which Wesley directed, had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Mecenat Award. I Want to Go Home was also adapted as a multisensory exhibit at the Light to Nights Festival at The Arts House in 2021. Wesley’s third novel The Punkhawala and The Prostitute (Epigram Books, 2021) was a nominee for the NUS Singapore History Prize and Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and was named a winner at the Singapore Book Prize. The book is also a Straits Times Weekly Bestseller.

As a filmmaker, Wesley’s films have screened in festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Sapporo International Short Film Festival. He was awarded the Talents Tokyo Development Grant from Tokyo Filmex and joined the ranks of prominent Southeast Asian filmmakers with a commissioned piece for the Asian Film Archive’s Fragments Anthology. For network television, Wesley was the screenwriter behind Mediacorp’s telemovie Cats and Dogs: The Chronicles of a Pest Detective, which starred Pierre Png. 

In 2023, Wesley collaborated with Mothership with his inspiring documentary Returning World War 2 relics to their rightful owner in Australia. More recently in 2024, Wesley’s documentary on the abandoned Salmon Maternity Home introduced viewers to an amazing discovery while his edu-tainment historical series What the Street! was executive produced by Viddsee Productions.

Always exploring new disciplines, Wesley took to the stage in 2022 and 2023 at Storyfest with engaging performances such as The Overhead and This is Not a Bench to sold-out audiences at The Arts House.