A long hidden secret rises to the fore— and with it, cracks begin to appear in the familial ties between a mother and her three daughters. Are the bonds between them strong enough to weather this impending crisis?

Forced into retirement due to her ailing health, a veteran film and TV actress finds herself missing the glitz and the attention. These days, actress Lin Li Qing occupies her time thinking up ways to battle boredom, and nagging at her three daughters for not spending enough time with her. The e

Between You and Me (2022)

Lighting Designer

They&nbsp;are an everyday couple in a fairly stable relationship. Out of the blue, he pops the question about having a baby.&nbsp;What follows is&nbsp;an emotional rollercoaster ride that is&nbsp;LUNGS, an intensely intimate, intricate and funny play about what it means to be a couple confronted by a world of uncertainty. They grapple with making responsible choices in the face of rising social inequity, environmental disaster and political unrest. Watch what happens when life takes over and their principle

LUNGS (2021)

The award-winning ensembles of Singapore’s Nine Years Theatre and the SITI Company from New York join hands to present this hybrid retelling of Anton Chekhov’s classic play&nbsp;Three Sisters.

Three Sisters, by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, stands as one of the most outstanding plays of his career. Olga, Masha, and Irina – the titular sisters - fritter away their lives in a provincial town, while they dream of returning to the cosmopolitan city where&nbsp;they grew up.

Chronicling their tangled re

Three Sisters (2021)

A sharp satire on theatre-making in a pandemic and an irreverent look at the unlikely collaboration of three wildly different Singaporean artistic directors,&nbsp;The Commission&nbsp;is the entertaining live sequel to the circuit-breaking short film,&nbsp;The Pitch.

When Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Gaurav Kripalani, Wild Rice’s Ivan Heng, and Pangdemonium’s Adrian Pang collaborated for the first time on the short film&nbsp;The Pitch, it seemed like just a (virtual) stage they were going through.

Lit

The Commission (2021)

Multimedia Designer

Bella Bird is an accomplished professor at an Ivy League university who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a brilliant and mysterious student. Intensely intimate and deeply moving, this haunting play probes the question of what one person can do for another.

Hailed by The New York Times as “an astonishing new play”, this scintillating two-hander looks at how two brilliant social misfits connect and bond with each other. Written by award-wi

The Sound Inside (2021)

Presented by Intercultural Theatre Institute
In Collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

How does it feel to be cut off from regular human contact?
What happens to a mind and body which can only connect with others virtually?
What does it mean to be an artist in this “new” world?

Kok Heng Leun, Artistic Director of Drama Box, directs ITI’s graduating cohort of actor-students in&nbsp;FIVE, an intimate and evocative piece about isolation.

Created in collaboration with a creative team of 

FIVE (2020)

Video Designer

Travel across time and space, and inhabit forgotten worlds.
The gates of Four Horse Road are open once again.

Spanning over 150 years of Singapore history,&nbsp;Four Horse Road&nbsp;is an intimate experience on an epic scale. Rediscover our present through the lens of the past and journey across three heritage buildings along Waterloo Street.

This time, it’s bigger and better. The Theatre Practice’s unforgettable promenade theatre experience returns with a mix of brand new stories and crowd favourite

Four Horse Road (2020)

Which is more important?
Poetic Truths or Pure Facts?

Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy –&nbsp;an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head to head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.


The Lifespan of a Fact (2020)

This holiday season, W!LD RICE brings you its heartwarming, hilarious take on Charles Dickens' classic tale about love, compassion and the spirit of giving!

S.K. Loo's All-In-One app has made him the richest businessman in town. To him, only money matters. Kindness? Forget it. Generosity? Never heard of it? And Christmas? #BAHHUMBUG!&nbsp;

He's determined to spend Christmas as he always has - holed up in his penthouse, dreaming of hostile takeovers and retrenching staff.&nbsp;

But this Christmas is

A $ingapore Carol (2018)

Lear is dead, the entire country mourns. The “Fools Society” presents Lear Is Dead -- a performance that tells the story of Lear:&nbsp;

The ageing Lear had given his land to his two elder daughters, and disowned the truthful youngest daughter. The retired Lear insisted on retaining a portion of his power. However, his two newly empowered daughters began to find their increasingly senile father intolerable. Finally, Lear was driven out of the house and into the night storm, to wander like a madman on a he

Lear Is Dead (2018)

Bizarre encounters on the night of The Theatre Practice's moving day

The Theatre Practice (TTP) is moving, and volunteers have arrived just in time to help move all the old costumes, props, furniture and equipment from Stamford Arts Centre to the new premises. In the midst of the chaos, several TTP staff and volunteers accidentally bump into the old wall, causing a section of it to collapse. The gaping hole reveals what seems to be a narrow storeroom that had been hidden behind a false wall. The room is 

Four Horse Road (2018)

Six roots of sensation

Man on the move

An infinite journey&nbsp;


I Came At Last To The Seas (2018)

Projection Designer

in a strange and isolated room / a girl recollects her fragmented past / her story / ambiguous / her experience / obscured / the room murmurs / a trauma beyond words / late is the night / when sleep subsides / when nightmare looms / when truth lies in the furthest light

Blank Run&nbsp;marks the first collaboration between Kuo Jian Hong (Director), Gloria Ang Xiao Teng (Performer/Text), Zoea Tania Chen (Text), Genevieve Peck (Lighting Design) and Sandra Tay (Sound Design). Back in Singapore after its succ

Blank Run (2017)

Lao Jiu,&nbsp;a Singapore classic that has stood the test of time, will awake your aspiration to pursue your dream.

Lao Jiu, literally "the ninth child", is the only son in the family. An incredibly intelligent boy on track to win a prestigious scholarship, but he finds his true calling in the declining traditional puppetry arts. Torn between his dream and responsibilities, will Lao Jiu follow his heart; or will he cave to the needs of his family, seeking wealth and success?

Lao Jiu: The Musical&nbsp;

Lao Jiu: The Musical (2017)

Aman, an urban city development official, questions his work of demolishing old historical buildings to make way for new cityscape. Faced with the task of explaining the impending demolition of the city's oldest heritage 'The Surrounding City', Aman experiences the wrath of the city, despair of her dwellers and confronts his personal ambivalence about the price of material gains.


Prism (2017)

SIFA is proud to open its 2017 edition with Art Studio, a Singapore-Mandarin theatre commission performed with English surtitles. Set against the backdrop of Singapore's changing landscape from the 1960s to the new millennium, Art Studio begins with the story of a young school drop-out, Ji Zong, who is coerced by his friend to become a model for life drawing by a group of artists.

From that point on, the narrative branches out, weaving the lives of these wildly disparate artists into a web of intriguing 

Art Studio (2017)

If Shakespeare was a female&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;artist from Nanking or a female physical theatre artist from Bangkok and working today, how would the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in&nbsp;Hamlet&nbsp;be written and performed differently? How would this difference reflect and affect our societies?

Developed in a one week rehearsal at B-Floor Theatre in Bangkok,&nbsp;⇄Gertrude⇄Ophelia⇄ is a twenty-minute non-verbal performance structured within Hong Kong director Danny Yung's acclaimed "One Table Two Chai

⇄Gertrude⇄Ophelia⇄ (2016)

Over the last few years, the more I get to know about&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;and its artists, the more I see its resemblance to Zheng He and his plight. The body of the&nbsp;Kunqu&nbsp;artist has survived the past 600 years - every expression, gesture and movement - they made up its form, which is also its content. However, the traditional artists inherited this craft from their forebears, through a very strict and controlled training which can be somewhat cruel - "Don't ask, just do it ten thousand times and it'l

Descendants 600 (2016)

"The time is out of joint - O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!" -&nbsp;Hamlet

Tasked with the mission to avenge his father, the orphaned prince Hamlet is no longer a free individual but the seed for revenge; Othello, influenced by his blood lineage and skin colour, is lost in his jealousy; Cordelia's love for her father Lear is misunderstood as a plot to take away his inheritance, which results in Lear's oppression of his daughter.

The avenging orphan, the lost descendants, the bani

Descendants 400 (2016)

FATE is when the scholar Sang Xiao meets the vixen fox Ying Ning.
AFFECTION is when Ying Ning hides her identity to be with a mortal.
MISHAP is when the priest Cheng Ban Xian exposes her secret.
FOLLY is when Sang Xiao is tricked by the water spirit Feng San Niang.
LOVE is when Ying Ning risks her life to enter the Underworld.
Will the bittersweet lovers escape the bane of King Yama and change their destiny?

From the creative talents behind&nbsp;If There're Seasons...&nbsp;and&nbsp;Lao Jiu: The Musi

Liao Zhai Rocks! (2016)

Two years ago, I was in the courtyard of Nanjing Kun Opera Theatre, and happened to chat with a few young Kun Opera actors about Zheng He. The pursuit of one's goals, the difficulties of reality, the yearning for foreign lands, and the acknowledgment of fundamental desires. This was what I felt at that time: For some, their hearts may no longer be present, yet they confine themselves in isolation; for others, they may remain in the same place, yet they have traversed a great distance. Under the sturdy roof 

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral - Was (2015)

“One table. Two chairs. Twenty minutes. Two performers.” – The rules are simple. The results, not that simple.&nbsp;

“One table two chairs” is the most basic staging used in traditional Chinese opera. When adapted by actors in their performance, the spatial possibilities are infinite. Every year, we invite artists from different background and disciplines to work on new experimental works. These performances will explore the relationship between the traditional and the contemporary arts through their mul

1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series 2015

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral - Is (2015)

What is nothing?
What is being?
What is being from nothing?

How to go from nothing to being?
How to go from being to nothing?

To imagine nothing, does that invalidate its nothingness?
To discuss nothing, does that also invalidate its nothingness?
To write of nothing, does that become being?

Is it impossible to speak of nothing?&nbsp;


Nothing (2015)

"Once upon a time, a young city boy embarked on a dangerous journey across the seas on his wee sail boat to look for his father... Despite the odds against him in the treacherous seas, he pushed on, made new friends and fought off foes in the forms of magical dolphins, ferocious pirates and hungry savages!"&nbsp;

Featuring the creative team that brought you the well-loved children's musical&nbsp;Day I Met the Prince,&nbsp;and hit musicals&nbsp;If There're Seasons..., Lao Jiu: The Musical&nbsp;and&nbsp;Li

The Wee Question Mark and the Adventurer (2015)

After the demise of his girlfriend Jing, A-Le packs up to pursue his musical ambitions in New York. There he meets the easy-going A-Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who gets him a job at a restaurant. On a particular takeout delivery, an aspiring actress named Rose enters A-Le's life. Soon a bittersweet friendship of battered dreams and bruised hearts is born amongst them. But with each passing day, Rose begins to feel a little more for A-Le. Unknown to them however, the future is about to chang

If There're Seasons... (2014)

When Seraphina brings Alistair, her ang moh boyfriend, to Singapore, he thinks they’re just having a cup of tea. Little does he know that he will be participating in his own wedding tea ceremony! But when the couple arrives, Sera makes a discovery so shocking its revelation would certainly stop the wedding! One by one, Xin Ru her sister, Alistair and Ma make the same discovery and for their own reasons, no one reveals. Absurd, funny and poignant,&nbsp;A Wedding, A Funeral &amp; Lucky, the Fish&nbsp;will sur

A Wedding, A Funeral & Lucky, the Fish (2014)

While awaiting her son’s release from jail, a single homeless mother finds an unlikely friend in the young, well-off but clinically depressed Mo. Set in an unidentified yet vaguely familiar locality, a place where rules are rules are rules are not made to be broken,&nbsp;Stand Behind the Yellow Line&nbsp;is a formally inventive and oddly lyrical play about the people who find themselves living outside the lines.


Stand Behind the Yellow Line (2014)

Red Riding Hood is an uplifting story of brave Red who must journey through the forest to reunite her family and save Mother's bakery from closing down.&nbsp;

Will she reach Grandma's house in time? Or will the charming Big Bad Wolf distract her from her quest? Join Red on her adventure into the woods, where no one is what they seem!


Red Riding Hood (2013)

W.C. (2013)

She is an actress. Everyone thinks she is too loud;

She is not an actress. Everyone thinks she is too soft.

She teachers her to project her voice and vice versa.&nbsp;

How can a voice be projected?

How can a voice be heard?

Both are in search of the answer...&nbsp;


Unsound (2013)

10 seconds, how long is it?

Long. Short. Too much. Too little.

Grab every moment. Wears on like years.

In a lifetime, how many 10 seconds are there?&nbsp;

From life to death, how many 10 seconds are there?

Time. In between time. How does one live?


10 (2013)

How do we lead a carefree life?

Many spend a lifetime pondering over this, or perhaps attempt to find the answer through the reading of the classic text,&nbsp;Zhuang Zi.&nbsp;Named after the author, Zhuang Zi was an influential Chinese philosopher who advocated self-cultivation, unwavering peace, being in harmony with the natural flow of life, and the pursuit of spiritual freedom.

His ideas have left a profound influence on Chinese culture.&nbsp;Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room&nbsp;relooks at t

Wanderer-Seeker: A Trek Around My Room (2013)

Associate Lighting Designer

Assistant Set Designer

Thump, thump, thump! Sound the horns!

Ready, get set, charge! Here comes Mulan on her gallant horse!

Meet our heroine, Mulan, the filial daughter from ancient China who disguised herself as a boy and joined the army in place of her aged father. It was a life-transforming journey: The once-wilful Mulan had to go through the atrocities of war, and eventually blossomed into an admirable soldier who learned how to cherish life.

Come join us in this legend with a modern twist, as we journey back in time

Mulan (2013)

Everything but the Brain tells the story of Elaine, a Physics teacher who hatches a plan to turn back time and save her stroke-afflicted father from further deterioration. Along the way, she is egged on by a chorus of three bears, occasionally distracted by a dashing young surgeon and haunted by a particularly memorable train ride to Malacca…

Don’t miss this poignant, comic play, which premiered in 2005 to critical acclaim. After two sold-out runs, it went on to win “Best Original Script” and “Best Actor

Everything But The Brain (2013)

EDGES&nbsp;is an exciting new contemporary musical about four burgeoning young adults at the edge of their lives - confronting emotions, escaping expectations, and deciphering complicated relationships. Beyond its youthful appeal, the show is a compelling and emotive ride that gets audiences of all ages reflecting on their younger years - where mistakes define who you become, love seemed to last forever and reality hadn't hit yet.

Full of heart, humanity and humour,&nbsp;EDGES'&nbsp;pop-culture reference

EDGES (2013)

A rare collaboration between two Asian theatre masters for a tribute to yet another theatre doyen - Makoto Sato (Tokyo) and Danny Yung (Hong Kong) helm a group of actors, highly accomplished in Noh theatre and Kunqu opera, and contemporary theatre artists, to bring forth a newly minted creation based upon&nbsp;The Spirits Play&nbsp;by Kuo Pao Kun. A notable work in Singapore theatre,&nbsp;The Spirits Play&nbsp;acutely pieces together the intense agony, guilt and turmoil that occur as the price of war. It se

The Spirits Play (2012)

Crew

RITES &amp; REGULATIONS&nbsp;is a multimedia theatrical mash-up featuring two interwoven Singaporean stories, each dealing with different aspects of death, life, and the funerary experience in a city with no room for exceptions, where the living live in standard-sized homes, and the dead rest in standard-sized graves.

A theatrical experience where narrative, lighting, sound, smells, movement, and projections interact to recreate a sense of quotidian banalities of life, as well as the jarring, almost othe

Rites & Regulations (2012)

This story takes place in&nbsp;Weizhuang,&nbsp;or the village of the future. It is a picturesque village - blue skies, fertile plains and the air (with its lingering scent of the earth) seems to be caressing the face of every fortunate soul.

Ah Q, or rather the remnants of Ah Q lives here. The revolution has ended (or has it?) and it is said that Ah Q was executed. Did he really die?

Some say he has not died. He has changed his appearance and made his fortune in the city!
Some say he cannot die. He h

The Story After Ah Q (2011)

Lighting Coordinator

Lighting Operator

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral,&nbsp;the seminal script written by Kuo Pao Kun, the late dramatist and founder of The Theatre Practice is one of Singapore's most iconic representations of contemporary theatre. The material success of Ming dynasty eunuch Zheng He, in juxtaposition to his physical and psychological abjectness becomes a powerful theatrical metaphor for the repression and displacement of the modern man. Performed to critical acclaim throughout the world, Zheng He's journey into himself is un

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (2010)

Assistant Stage Manager

A warrior and his wife are ambushed by a bandit in a bamboo grove. The warrior is slain. His wife, raped. A hundred years later, at the ruins of the Rashomon, a medium calls out to the lost souls. Will the truth be known?


Rashomon (2009)

herself she finds again, at 4.48
hours lost, minutes numbed, seconds drip
dripping a mounting sense of medication
(but without the aggressive advertising)
weapons of mass prescription&nbsp;
herself she loses again
(i don't know what day it is)
tracing a trail of jagged fragments
corridors of wards of corridors slamming
into her filament of sanity&nbsp;


4.48 Psychosis (2009)

Sound Operator

The winter of death numbs a lover’s pain,
The autumn of dreams lies awake in vain,
The summer of life sings its passing song,
And spring comes again… with courage to hope, and go on.

"If there are seasons I would see snow, but not around here..."&nbsp;

After the demise of his girlfriend Xiao Jing, A-Le packs up to pursue his musical ambitions in New York. There he meets the easy-going A-Qiang, a fellow dream hunter from Singapore, who gets him a job at a restaurant. On a particular take-out deliver

If There're Seasons... (2009)

Stage Assistant

ENCORE: An Evening of Ageless Theatre is a showcase from the participants of The Necessary Stage's Theatre For Seniors Programme.

The 3-year programme, which was launched in April 2008 with support the Council for Third Age, comprises participants ages 50 and above undergoing a series of workshops with professional facilitators, led by Artistic Director Alvin Tan. The initiative was designed to equip participants with the essential skills and knowledge in drama.

Their end-of-first-year presentation,&n

Encore: An Evening of Ageless Theatre (2009)

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Attempts: Singapore&nbsp;is an immersive theatrical experience that draws inspiration from Martin Crimp’s&nbsp;Attempts on Her Life. It takes audience-participants through a non-linear narrative pieced together through the accounts of variou

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