Noor Effendy Ibrahim is a director and playwright and has worked prolificly in Malay Theatre with Teater Kami, Teater Ekamatra and Teater Artistik since 1991. Effendy is also a performance artist and body-based performer since 1994, having performed extensively as a solo artist and in collaborations with various artists in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Chicago and Poland. He initiated and co-founded a Chicago-based performance collective Broken Cello with both degree and graduate students and faculty members while pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Effendy now practices theatre and performance under the name Katak Kudung.

Currently, Effendy is the Artistic Director and Executive Producer of Teater Ekamatra. Effendy graduated from the 2nd batch of the Theatre Studies and Drama course at Victoria Junior College (1990-1991), and possesses a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1997-2000). Effendy is also a free-lance arts educator (drama) having taught at the pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary levels in Singapore.

Noor Effendy Ibrahim has served on the Singapore Arts Festival 2003, 2004 and 2005 Programme Advisory Committee and the Resource Panel for Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay Pesta Raya 2003, as well as in various other discussion panels on the Singapore Arts scene since 2001. Three of his plays are published in Bisik - Antologi Drama Melayu Singapura, a co-publication of Teater Ekamatra and Pustaka Cipta (Malaysia) and he is also featured in People at the Peak 2002 and 2003.