Education National Institute of Education, Master of Arts, Research (The Subjectivities of Teaching Artists in Singapore Schools) National Institute of Dramatic Arts (Australia), Degree in Dramatic Arts (Acting) LaSalle SIA Collage of the Arts (Singapore), Diploma in Acting, passed with presidential distinction
Awards/ Grants/ Scholarships NAC Research and Development grant, MA research (2014) Life Theatre Award nomination for "Best Director" for Pretty Things (2012) Shell-NAC Arts Scholarship (2003) SIA Award of Excellence in the Arts (2001) Outstanding Student Award (2001) DBS Life Theatre Awards-nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ in “Wayang Tempest” (2001) Georgette Chen Arts Scholarship (2000)
Residency Dance Nucleus associate member (2018) Substation artist-in-residence (2017)
Works 2020: Topography of Breath (State of Motion: Rushes of Time) 2018: The Map (Indonesia Dance Festival, Paradance Festival) 2017: A Map of Scars Bruises and Broken Bones (Substation) Sole (Substation arts residency) 2015: Uprise (SDEA Conference) Warpaint (Substation Directors Lab) A Violent Play (Substation Directors Lab) 2014: Terra Incognita (M1 Fringe Festival) 2012: Homogeneous (Esplanade Raw Series) Pretty Things (Substation, nominated for Life Theatre Awards "Production of the Year)
Director 2018: Kampong Cempedak (Glowers Theatre, Saitama Theatre Festival, Japan) 2016: Kampong Cempedak (Glowers Theatre, Silver Arts Festival) 2015: Open Homes (SIFA-PA) Going Local (Buds Theatre) Uprise (Independent) Warpaint (Substation) 2013: The Penis Society ( Toy Factory) 2012: Project Mending Sky- Us (Collaborator, Drama Box)
Performer 2020: the last IDEAL PARADISE (Claudia Bosse) 2019: Bantal Busuk (P7:ISMA) 2018: Kemas (P7:ISMA) 2017: Walk Slowly (RAW Moves) Mark (Daniel Kok, SIFA) 2015: Decimal Point- Infinity (Fared Jainal, Cake Theatrical Productions) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Andy Lim, Running With Strippers, Cake Theatrical Productions) 2014: Hotel (Rizman Putra) Ecuador (Daniel Kok) 2012: 5.1 (Cake Theatrical Production, Rizman Putra) Dream Country: A Lost Monologue (Marion D’Cruz, Anna James, Natalie Hennedige) Lan Fang Chronicles (Choy Ka Fai) Play (Joavien Ng) 2011: Shape of a Dream (Cake Theatrical Production, Natalie Hennedige) 100 Years of Solitude (Zuni Icosahedron, Danny Yung), Hong Kong and Singapore Macbeth (Singapore Repertory Theatre, Nilkolai Foster) 2010: The Magnanimous Cuckold (Drama Box, Li Xie) Descendent of the Eunuch Admiral (Theatre Practice, Koh Jing Hong) Wo(men) (Checkpoint Theatre, Claire Wong) -ing (Theatre Practice, Sunhee Kim), Shanghai and Shenzhen 2009: Rashamon (Theatre Practice, Koh Jong Hong, nominated Best Ensemble, Life Theatre Awards, 10) Crab Flower Club (Toy Factory, Goh Boon Teck, nominated Production of the Year, Life Theatre awards, 10) Singapore and Beijing RPM (TheatreWorks, Choy Ka Fai) Sleepless Town (Toy Factory, Beatrice Chia-Richmond) 2008: David the Best (Drama Box, Kok Heng Luen) Reservoir (TheatreWorks, Choy Ka Fai, nominated Best Production, Life Theatre Awards 09) The Last Temptation of Raffles (Wild Rice, Christina Sergeant) Death of a Hero (Paper Monkey, Benjamin Ho) Macbeth (World in Theatre, Shelly Quick) 2007: Drift (Drama Box, Koh Heng Luen), Shanghai and Singapore Interference (TheatreWorks, Choy Ka Fai) Impetus (TheatreWorks, Choy Ka Fai) Blind As You See It (Shh, Michal Imelski), Australia Y.I.R.O.S. LIVE (Hellenic Theatre, Costa Loucopoulos), Australia SHH (Shh, Michal Imelski), Australia 2006: The Laramie Project (NIDA, Tom Healey), Australia The Attic (NIDA, Yoji Sakate). Australia Beach (NIDA, Kevin Jackson), Australia 2003: Prism (Toy Factory, Goh Boon Teck), Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore Mad Phoenix (Toy Factory, Goh Boon Teck) Titoudao (Toy factory, Goh Boon Teck), China-Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beijing 2002: Fireface (Toy Factory, Beatrice Chia) D-evil of Light (Insource, Yuen Wei) Ne Zha (The Fingers Player, Benjamin Ho) Let Me Fly, (FaithWorks, Faith Lew) The Optic Trilogy, (Action Theatre, Adrain Tan) 2001: Woyzeck (LaSalle SIA Drama, Sabri Buang) Club Tempest (3.14 Company) Oxygen (Agni Koothu, Elangovan) Wayang Tempest (3.14 Company, Roger Jenkins) Diary of a Madwoman (Theatreworks, Gani Karim) 2000: Under the Last Dust (The Necessary Stage, Jean Ng) Dogs (Agni Koothu, Elangovan) Painted Stories:500 Marilyns (Action Theatre, Goh Boon Hui) Twelfth Night (LaSalle SIA Drama, Jeffrey Tan) TiTuodao (Toy Factory, Goh Boon Teck) 1999: White Sails Over Blue Blue Sea (Toy Factory, Goh Boon Teck) No Face (LaSalle SIA Performing Arts, Trina Eby) Noalibi (Metabolic Theatre Laboratory, Zai Kunning) Little Asia Tour to Hong Kong, Japan and Korea MamaDrama (Agni Kootthu, Elangovan) Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (LaSalle SIA Drama, Jefrey Tan) Deadmeat (Broadway Playhouse, Nick Ng) 1998: Lefthand (Broadway Playhouse, Nick Ng) 1997: Re-R (Broadway Playhouse, Nick Ng)