Anderson Secondary School
Director: Renee Chua
Teacher-in-charge: Trixie Ong
Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road)
Director & Teacher-in-charge: Iris Chia-Khanashat
Beyond Social Services Community Theatre
Director: Rizman Putra
Asst. Director: Izzaty Ishak
Production Coordinator: Afri Ayub
Sound Design Trainer: Jing Ng
Lighting Design Trainer: Liu Yong Huay
Programmers: Claire Yang, Sofia Begum
Arts Marketing Strategist: Caroline Cheong
Production Management & Coordination:
Evelyn Chia, Moerdani Osman, Zeng Yingzi, Jason Sin, Cristabel Ng
Production Mentorship Workshops Technicians:
ArtsWok Collaborative is an arts-based community development organisation that connects communities by harnessing the power of the arts to create dialogue, invite social participation and build bridges across difference. We work with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement community-based arts projects, facilitate learning and exchanges through a community of practice, build capacity of practitioners through an action learning-incubator programme as well as conduct research and advocacy in the field of arts-based community development.
ArtsWok Collaborative Limited is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Major Grant 2018-2020.
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Jean graduated from the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris, France. As a professional theatre actress, director and educator, she has collaborated with many of Singapore’s leading theatre companies including The Necessary Stage, Theatreworks, The Theatre Practice, The Finger Players and Cake Theatrical Productions.
Jean was one of the pioneer teachers at the Theatre Training and Research Programme (now Intercultural Theatre Institute), a professional actor-training course founded by the late Kuo Pao Kun. She is passionately involved in youth and community theatre and has worked with the Down Syndrome Association (Singapore) for the past 16 years. Jean has also previously served on the Executive Committee of the Singapore Drama Educators Association.
Clarisse Ng was the Production/Technical Manager of The Necessary Stage (TNS), where she worked on landmark productions such as Still Building, Off Centre and Rosnah. Through her work with members of its Theatre For Youth Ensemble, she discovered a capacity for working with young people. She went on to teach at a neighbourhood school for fifteen years, serving variously as Head of Department (English Language) and Level Head (Pupil Development). Having returned to the arts scene in 2016, Clarisse sees her life’s work as facilitating the art-making process, encouraging and supporting independent and emerging art-makers, and enabling conversations about the arts. She is currently working on a project basis with newly launched performance collectives, Akulah Bimbo Sakti, as Production/Stage Manager and GroundZ-0 Productions as Associate Production Manager.
Khee Shihui feels most excited and alive at the confluence of the arts, community engagement and innovation of public service delivery. In the last 12 years in the government, international development and social sectors, she has witnessed the restorative power of the arts for people to come together to share their stories and co-create stronger communities. She is fortunate to have facilitated tri-sector conversations around topics of urban poverty, living and dying well, interfaith exploration and contestation of public spaces. She is currently exploring the role of play and coaching in enabling personal empowerment and for bridging different communities.
Soo Hong Ling is a Registered Social Worker at Cheng San Family Service Centre, AMKFSC Community Services Ltd., where she is part of a dynamic team that seeks to support the development of children and their families and the growth of their neighbourhoods. Following her exposure to forum theatre in a module during her undergraduate studies, Hong Ling went on to participate in Drama Box's Community Theatre Training Programme in 2014 and wrote her Masters thesis on the applied theatre facilitation practices in Singapore in 2017. Hong Ling is currently attempting to figure out a model of interdisciplinary practice between social work and community theatre.
Teo You Yenn is Associate Professor and Head of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University. She is the author of Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society (Routledge, 2011) and This is What Inequality Looks Like (Ethos Books, 2018). Aside from academic writings, she has contributed commentaries to The Straits Times, TODAY, and The Online Citizen. In 2013, she was winner of NTU’s Nanyang Education Award, and in 2016, she received the American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section’s Feminist Scholar Activist Award. Her research focuses on issues around inequalities, poverty, welfare, state-society relations, and citizenship.
Alvin Tan is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Necessary Stage and a leading proponent of devising theatre in Singapore, having directed more than 60 plays which have been staged locally and at international festivals. Alvin also served as the Artistic Director of Peer Pleasure from 2015 - 2017. In 2010, Alvin was conferred the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, in recognition of his significant contribution to the arts. He was on the board of the National Arts Council from 2013 to 2015 and was invited by the Ministry of Education to design a drama syllabus at ‘O’ level for implementation in schools. In 2014, Alvin was conferred the Cultural Medallion for his artistic excellence and contribution to Singapore’s arts and cultural landscape.
Dr Charlene Rajendran is a Malaysian theatre educator, researcher and practitioner, currently based at the National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She researches issues of identity and culture in urban multicultural contexts, where questions of difference pertain. Her work also involves developing arts-based dialogic pedagogies that draw on contextually-based knowledges to deepen critical and aesthetic thinking. This includes examining pedagogies of play in arts education, and developing conversational approaches to teaching theatre as an integration of theory and practice. She has been involved as director, performer, writer and dramaturg in a range of performance projects.
Kok Heng Leun is a prominent figure in the Singapore arts scene, having built his artistic career over many decades as a theatre director, playwright, dramaturg and educator. Heng Leun is known for his ability to engage the community on various issues through the arts, championing civil discourse across different segments of society. His explorations with multi-disciplinary engaged arts have produced works like Project Mending Sky, a series on environmental issues, Both Sides, Now, a project that seeks to normalise end-of-life conversations and It Won’t Be Too Long, which touched on the dynamics of space in Singapore. Heng Leun’s contributions to the arts earned him the National Arts Council Singapore Young Artist Award in 2000 and the National Arts Council Cultural Fellowship in 2014.
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