Toy Factory Productions Limited

Eco-warriors or Eco-Terrorists?Pei Shan, a determined and passionate student-leader, spearheads the Hornbill State Eco Warriors, a dedicated environmental activism group with a burning desire to safeguard the planet. Their mission takes an exhilarating turn when the CEO of a powerful fossil fuel company sets his sights on expanding his empire, threatening the last remaining plot of pristine rainforest. Fueled by a fierce determination to protect nature’s fragile balance, the Eco Warriors devise a bold plan 

The Thieves (2023)

Mentor

Director

Jeffrey Tan

Ng Swee San

When fake news about a major corporation emerges, former employee and delivery man Uncle Tan becomes main suspect.This social commentary on communication, social media and KPIs anchored by the beliefs that everyone can contribute to making life better, and that everyone has a place and purpose.Catch 'Social: A new play about happiness' live at Festive Arts Theatre on Saturday, 5 Aug at 5pm and 7.30pm!

Social: A New Play About Happiness (2023)

Theatre Today

Step back in time and relive the transformation of the historic Tanjong Pagar district, through this interactive walking tour. Enrolled as “errand runners”, wander the streets with our guide and a mystery character from the past, as you complete various tasks to uncover hidden gems and lesser-known tales about one of Singapore’s first conservation districts, learn about the resilience and resourcefulness of our pioneers and how they have strived for a better tomorrow. Be prepared to engage all your senses –

Somewhere In Time - A Walking Tour Like No Other (2021)

Producer

SAME-SAME is an online, collaboration between Singapore and Australia.&nbsp;SAME-SAME is an online, inclusive collaboration between No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability (Adelaide, Australia) and Diverse Abilities Dance Collective, DADC (Singapore). A Singapore International Foundation Arts for Good project, this cross-border dance and theatre production will focus on friendship – highlighting the experiences of differently abled performers in Singapore and Australia during COVID-19. How can we connect 

SAME-SAME (2021)

Behind every door of every home, there are stories that might never be told. Open Homes is a chance to hear them.Featuring personal and moving accounts from everyday people, audiences are invited into the homes of strangers to hear their stories. First conceptualised by artist Jeffrey Tan for the Singapore International Festival of Arts, this season includes six generous Asian Australian storytellers as they host listeners and share stories of their own lived experience making Adelaide home.A rare opportuni

Open Homes (2021)

Conceptualizer

Singapore Indian Theatre & Film Explorers

As the saying goes, ‘When the going gets tough, the tough gets going’, the actions and reactions of people in Singapore from January till now, are testaments to prove that we are indeed fighters. It is true many people from all over the world and many industries are greatly affected. But it’s the undying hope in each one of us that makes us get up and move forward. Even when our engagements with the community through arts got postponed and even cancelled at times, S.I.T.F.E. feels that the arts have the str

SOLO/ORAY AAL (2021)

Felix Cheong

Two roving characters, taking their funny banter around The Arts House. They argue over millennial-speak, how to order kopi at the coffeeshop, their children’s pursuit of passion, misdirected phone calls and even their job review.Be tickled by their crosstalk (相聲) wordplay in this series of pop-up skits inspired by Singapore writer Felix Cheong’s popular humour stories, Singapore Siu Dai. Cross-Talk Siu Dai will let you see the funny side of being Singaporean.

Cross-Talk Siu Dai Pop Ups (2020)

Global Cultural Alliance

An immersive theatrical experience with dead writers and other famous literary villains and heroines. Conceptualised and produced by Global Cultural Alliance and co-directed by Jeremiah Choy and Jeffrey Tan, this production creates a surreal purgatory where the past and the present overlap, and ghosts in your head come alive.

Play a round of mahjong with Chinese author Eileen Chang (Lust, Caution), or witness a verbal sparring between Chinese ghost-story writer, Pu Songling (聊斋, Strange Stories from a Ch

The Ghost In Your Head (2018)

Co-Director

GenerAsia Ltd

Being born a skinny, scrawny shrimp of a guy is no fun indeed. You never know whether you are going to survive the rugby field of oversized players that you’d been forced to take on or the battlefield of teenage dating. For Huat Bee (nicknamed Hay Bee), life was miserable until he met his best friend Hin Kong (nicknamed King Kong), who was everything the latter was not.

Will this unlikely friendship endure the trials and tribulations of teenage years into adulthood, or will the years force the drift of t

Shrimps in Space (2016)

The Necessary Stage

After performing to full houses in 2009, 2010 and 2011, The Necessary Stage's Theatre for Seniors is back with&nbsp;Encore IV: Love Life!

Featuring a series of locally written and devised short plays,&nbsp;Encore IV: Love Life&nbsp;explores the joys and pains of love in its various manifestations.&nbsp;


Encore IV: Love Life (2013)

Arts House Limited

Sisters - The Untold Stories of the Sisters Islands

Two tales of unrequited love and sacrifice that lead to tragedy.

A real-life murder case of bargirl.

A folk tale about two sisters, separated by one man.

In a desperate attempt to escape amidst a fierce storm, one throws herself into the sea to join the other.

What are the depths to which love and take us. And just how much do we value the people around us?

Sisters&nbsp;explores the themes of love, truth and sacrifice behind the legend of

Sisters (2013)

Traditions & Editions Theatre Circus

Dear countrymen,
Why war?
Why terror?
Why are you killing?

Change from you or change the world?
For freedom?
For liberation?
Do we have freedom in this free world?

I died many times in each war,
You mourned for me
You prayed for my soul
You lit up the candle for me
I am reborn again
You wished long life for me
but... it is a universal shame.

- Noushad M


Creative Lab (2009)

Programme Editor

The world of spirits is a world of flux.

Five post-war personas in a state of limbo gather at a deserted place.

Searching for a way home, they stop only to hear each other’s poignant tales of war and loss, endeavors and bygone dreams.

Soon, haunting memories of guilt and pain are unveiled and they realize they are tangled to each other in their choices and consequences.

With their relationship to each other now clear, they unleash a series of questions about the sense and senselessness of war.


The Spirits Play (2009)

ACTION Theatre

From the original producer of the hit standup comedy show&nbsp;SINGAPORE BOY&nbsp;comes a brand new comedy to uplift your spirit and make you laugh till your shoes drop! ACTION Theatre proudly presents&nbsp;IMELDA'S BOYS,&nbsp;a heavenly comedy show for men, women, angels, kings, queens and all heartlanders - with or without Filipino maids at home!

Loosely inspired by Imelda (yeah, that one...),&nbsp;IMELDA'S BOYS&nbsp;is all about fab shoes, fab men and fab secrets! Join FILO, a medical doctor-turned-da

Imelda's Boys (2009)

Playwright

Time to laugh heartily and be uplifted joyfully with your friends and family!

ACTION Theatre proudly presents&nbsp;Catching Adam Cheng,&nbsp;a hilarious and heartwarming comedy about four elderly women who hatch a plot to escape from a nursing home to catch Adam Cheng's concert at The Esplanade! Hot on their heels is a vicious Head Nurse who'll stop at nothing to bring them back! Will the four succeed? Join the Singapore "Dream Girls" in this original homegrown gem about growing up, getting old and stayi

Catching Adam Cheng (2008)

SimplyWorks

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The Enchantment of Sangkuriang (2008)

Lighting Designer

Wild Rice

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

April, May and June, three older women suddenly alone in world, had been living together for longer than they cared to remember before finally moving out two years ago for good, or so they thought.

When Anne, an old friend on her deathbed calls and asks to see them one last time, they find themselves back in Singapore, together again, and with one small problem: they don’t remember who Anne is. In the meantime, Anne has hired a dance teacher to teach her friends to salsa, so that they can let her relive 

Salsa Salsa Salsa! (2006)

Dusk in Singapore, teatime in Britain, breakfast in Brazil. Nine people from three continents perform in one single production. A quayside building in Newcastle Gateshead, a skyscraper in Sao Paulo, and a riverside theatre in Singapore merge to become a fourth imaginary space. Three audiences, one in each city, watch the performance simultaneously. The man sleeping in Singapore – why is the English woman watching so closely? When he leaves his flat, she follows him through the streets of Newcastle to his re

Play On Earth (2006)

Sex. Argument. Argument. Make up. Sex. Argument. Argument. A fast paced and quirky contemporary love play about eight people who fall in and out of love, sex and relationship. So begins&nbsp;Lovepuke,&nbsp;a comedy that speaks of sex, love &amp; other bodily functions...


Lovepuke (2005)

The Theatre Practice

The philosopher returns home with a present for his wife - the grotesquely ugly Aesop. The mistress initially repels Aesop's presence, but gradually enjoys the fables that he tells while the philosopher goes to see his students.&nbsp;

The philosopher returns with an army captain, and in his drunkenness promises the captain that he will give the captain all his possessions if he fails to drink up all the waters of the sea. The behaviour of the two so angered the mistress that she leaves the house.

The 

Aesop Queried (2001)

Production Manager

Singapore Repertory Theatre

Fairy Tales are not just for children…. piles of guts, heaps of breasts and the heads of young women litter the bloody chamber of Mr. Fox. Take a walk down&nbsp;The White Road&nbsp;and taste the darkness found only in nightmares. Be Bold, Be Bold, but not too Bold.

Based on Neil Gaiman’s (the brilliant mind behind The Sandman series)&nbsp;The White Road,&nbsp;the play is a surreal fairytale surfeit with beasts, vengeful fathers, comely maidens and a castle with a dark, dark secret.

Drawn from the stor

The White Road (2001)

spell#7

Two women stake all love, all tenderness, all blood, sweat and tears on the final fling of the last night before Virtue comes a-knocking. My Last Night in Sin: a micro-musical about risks, riches and rolling good times.&nbsp;


My Last Night in Sin (2001)

You can always count on the sunset. It will never let you down. This is a beautiful romantic story about lost loves and missing memories.&nbsp;


Watching the Clouds Go By (2001)

A romantic comedy about a woman, who tackles a robber, gets stabbed, receives gifts from a mysterious admirer while in hospital, and finds love in unexpected quarters.


Bowled Over (2001)

Will You Please Jump?&nbsp;is a social commentary, a satire on our "me" society".


Will You Please Jump? (2001)

Leonard is a pencil pusher by day, a sensitive songwriter by evening, and a bed wetter by night. Used to hiding under the blanket of obscurity, his nightly activities are leaked to the press and he becomes a celebrity against his own will and integrity.


Dirty Laundry (2001)

Luna-id

Private Eyes (2001)

Set Designer

During the feudal periods long time ago, women were barred from entering schools and receiving education. Engtay, a young girl is determined to gain higher education. She disguises herself as a man and travels to a large town to continue her studies. On the way to school, she meets Sampek, a poor but studious young lad. She falls for his almost immediately but is only treated as a "brother" by her beau. When Engtay finally discloses her real identity to the dim-witted Sampek, her love is reciprocated. Yet l

Sampek Engtay (2000)

Cast

These plays show how a newly-married couple cope with living independently. Or so they think, till their mothers visit.


1 + 1 = 3 (2000)

Tri Arts

This promises to be a visual and aural treat. A creative exploration into obsession and control in our urban environment in a play written and directed by Jeffrey Tan. The colour blue suggests security and peace and three urban Singaporeans set off to find True Deep Blue. Add to this the choreography of Cultural Medallion recipient Lim Fei Shen, the photography of Tan Ngiap Heng and the music of Joyce Teo, this is one multi-disciplinary show that the claustrophobic had best avoid.&nbsp;

(Source: National

True Deep Blue (2000)

Thicker than Water&nbsp;deals with the facts &amp; myths of HIV and AIDS, including the prejudices and fear that surround it. How it can and will affect teenagers. Two young friends, with their whole lives before them, believe that anything is possible. But what happens when one of them discovers he is HIV positive. Prejudices are confronted and the friendship tested as he struggles to tell his best friend about his illness.&nbsp;


Thicker Than Water (1999)

黒暗的高天、黑暗的厚地，幾個辭世多年的亡魂，沒有忘卻人世的季節。每一年的這個時候，在季節輪替的瞬間，他們共赴一場重聚的儀式， 開始訴説自己的故事。

他們原來是什麼？漢子、媽媽、姑娘、將軍和詩人。他們是怎麼來到逍裏的？他們怎樣和一場最血腥慘烈的戰爭結合在一起？好好的人，怎麼能，忍受骨肉分離而無怨無悔？看着自己的同胞慘死而視若無睹； 為什麼把自身送I, 給無數人蹂躪？怎麼會，在戰場上讓自己03醫生報銷自己的軍隊？人性在哪裏？人性是什麼？

當生命進入混沌的狀態，人與物難辨、真與偽難同列、神與鬼難分時，家是什麼？回不去了。為什麼？

靜消悄的。顏色、生死之間的顏色。最終，一切在靜消悄裏，歸於黑暗。

&nbsp;


The Spirits Play (1998)

Stage Manager

On these final resting grounds lay soldiers, prostitutes and a scholar. This sounds like a foreign land, ruins on a faraway wilderness. In actual fact, this cemetery is in our midst. It sits quietly in a private residential district, on Chuan Hoe Avenue in Yio Chu Kang.

The soldiers were from the Japanese Imperial Army of the Second World War. They were killed on battle grounds during the war, in execution chambers after. They died of illness, by accident, by suicide. They all lay here, regardless of ran

An original multi-lingual multi-racial play about the life &amp; times and joys &amp; struggles of Geylang.


Geylang People in the Net (1997)

Assistant Director

A play about forming and pursuing your own dreams.


Dreamt Dream Dreaming (1997)

A woman returns to her family's old house to sift through the belongings of her newly deceased stepmother, which are locked up in an old wooden chest.&nbsp;

The intriguing tale of two women's separate yet entangled lived unfolds as the stepdaughter picks out the sometimes bizarre items from the chest. Like a doorway to the past, the old chest brings back haunting images from the past, unveiling a battling relationship filled with stunningly honest passions and hatred.&nbsp;


My Mother's Chest (1997)

A deeply frustrated foreigner finds himself lost in a surrealist Singapore. For some unexplainable reasons, this gentleman is transformed into a cat. Yes, a four-legged feline!

In the process of seeking the way to his human form, and to understand his own problems, he reunites with an eagle from his childhood.&nbsp;

The audience is invited to go on an odyssey of self-discovery as they follow this man's adventures from the depths of the drainage system to the soaring heights of the twilight sky.


The Eagle and the Cat (1997)

William Teo

Asia-in-Theatre Research Centre

A poetic saga of one man's quest for the peace of understanding.

SIDDHARTHA is an original adaptation by Sonny Lim of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's most famous, influential and well-loved work. Siddhartha the young seeker goes on a journey to look for truth and enlightenment. He goes through the fire of pleasure and pain and finally achieves what he had craved for: a new life of fulfilment, peace and tranquility. As a moral tale, with its subtle distillation of wisdom. SIDDHARTHA is free from preten

Siddhartha (1997)

Lighting Director

Practice Performing Arts School

Day I Met the Prince (1997)

Harold is a deeply unhappy young man who frequents funerals. Maude is a free-spirited rebel who fights injustice in her own small ways. She liberates, invents and inspires, lifting the mundane to simple beauty.

Set in a surreal landscape, Colin Higgins has crafted brilliant comedic situations to showcase the cast of funny, sad and eccentric characters.

But the true beauty of this play lies in what it reveals about ourselves. Beneath the laughter of Harold &amp; Maude lies its sensitivity to the human 

Harold & Maude (1996)

Music & Movement Singapore

A Comedy That Is Literally Out-Of-This-World. And what do we mean by out of this world? Imagine this - a play whose five main characters, the KARMA KOMMITTEE, act as "guardian angels", dabbling in the protagonist's life, often with hilarious results! The protagonist - James Lee - in all his self-centredness is another character to watch closely. The play follows James' life and times, actually two life-times and how he loses and redeems himself. Guiding James and the audience is the KARMA KOMMITTEE, who are

Karma Kommittee (1996)

Lighting Operator

Practice Theatre Ensemble

Monkey Business (1996)

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