Danial Matin (he/him) has written plays about family, identity, love, grief, and suicidality. He is currently interested in excavating ideas of personal and historical memory, and the instability of its interstices. Through his work, he hopes to normalize representations of marginal communities and issues on the page and stage. Recent accolades include forum theatre work Here Where You Were (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, 2024), audio play Ghazal of the Banana Tree’s Heart (Singapore Art Week, 2024), Asymptote (Singapore International Festival of the Arts, 2023), and dance-theatre performance Before You Go (independent, 2022).
He is grateful to have been under the tutelage of numerous mentors both locally and abroad, including Lucas Ho (Singapore), Joel Tan (Singapore/UK), Tony Perez (Philippines), Howard Craft (USA), and Gabrielle Calvocoressi (USA) and has attended workshops with established playwrights such as Haresh Sharma (Singapore) and Paula Vogel (USA), amongst others. He is a writer at Playwrights Commune, a creative at Matter.Less, and was a resident at Centre 42’s Playwright’s Professional Development Residency pilot. Imaginative narratives about intimacy and the interpersonal are close to his heart, next to bubble tea.
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Last Updated: July 2024