Marcus Goh is a scriptwriter with close to a decade of experience in Singapore’s media industry.
He was born and bred in Singapore, where he spent his formative years at Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College, under the auspices of the Gifted Education Programme. He later graduated from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, with a B.A. in Communication Studies, majoring in Broadcast and minoring in English Literature and Business.
He spent half a decade at MediaCorp as a scriptwriter, and has worked on shows such as Crimewatch, Police and Thief, Incredible Tales, Point of Entry and Polo Boys. He also collaborated with an Australian production company, Great Western Entertainment, to brainstorm for HBO’s Serangoon Road.
As a social media consultant, he’s worked on the trans media projects for Mata Mata on both Twitter and Toggle Now.
After a nine month stint in private equity, he ventured into marketing communications for the education industry while contributing to various companies as an independent writer.
Marcus is currently starting his own writing studio. He’s a regular contributor of entertainment news for Yahoo! as well as comedy articles for The Popping Post.
Marcus is an avid Transformers fan. He loaned his collection for display at Cybertron Con 2012 and other exhibitions, and also helps manage Singapore’s premier Transformers Facebook page, Planet Iacon. He even went to Botcon in 2013! He currently does toy reviews for Hasbro.
He’s also a pop culture scholar, and enjoys television, comics, video games and tabletop roleplaying games. He used to run an epic level Dungeons & Dragons game where his players would beat up the likes of Asmodeus and Tarrasques.