The Finger Players

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

A destructive fire razes through the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, leaving thousands of families homeless. To help the victims of the fire, Swee Leng, a Samsui woman, rises to the occasion and volunteers her time in the rebuilding efforts. Through sheer hard work and perseverance, she earns the respect of her peers and becomes a foreman at a construction site.Set in 1960s Singapore, Samsui Women: One Brick at a Time is a life-sized puppetry performance based on the lives of the Samsui women of Singa

Samsui Women: One Brick at a Time (2025)

Set Designer

Ming is a little boy with a BIG imagination! Things come alive around him when he transforms everyday objects into extraordinary items.One day he meets a karung guni collector whose superpower is to reuse and recycle. Together, they save the world one void deck at a time, looking out for their neighbours and bringing back the kampung spirit.Watch as Ming becomes the neighbourhood’s not-so-little superhero, transforming forgotten things into treasures and always lending a helping hand.

Karung Guni Boy (2025)

Ming is a little boy with a BIG imagination! Things come alive around him when he transforms everyday objects into extraordinary items.One day he meets a karung guni collector whose superpower is to reuse and recycle. Together, they save the world one void deck at a time, looking out for their neighbours and bringing back the kampung spirit.Watch as Ming becomes the neighbourhood’s not-so-little superhero, transforming forgotten things into treasures and always lending a helping hand.Adapted from the book K

Karang Guni Boy (2025)

Being afraid of heights isn’t such a big deal - unless you’re a bird! Meet Eddie, a mynah, who lives behind an abandoned old house with Matt the rat, his best and only friend. One day, Matt is captured by the big, black crow! What does Eddie have to do to save his best friend? Will he have the courage to do it?Flutter, flap and fly with Eddie as he attempts the bravest rescue ever in the history of bird-kind! Watch the magic of theatre and music unfold right before your eyes in this delightful performance.

The Bird Who Was Afraid of Heights (2025)

The Arts Fission Company

The performance, A Brooding Beast in the Corner (Brooding Beast in short) is an intimate dance-theatre production featuring four intimate solos and two duets. Reflecting on the distress caused by climate change and the geo-political flare ups in the world, the performance reaches out to the audiences for their perceptions of the place of individual amidst this apocalyptic time.The show presents vulnerable individuals who move within the confined space of a dilapidated room. Their comes and goes reveal human

A Brooding Beast In The Corner (2025)

A celestial stone reincarnates as the scion of a wealthy aristocratic family. Baoyu, born with a jade in his mouth, is raised as the heir and Precious Jade of the clan. The heir takes centre stage in a love rivalry between his two cousins – Daiyu and Baochai, amidst the backdrop of the family’s slow financial collapse.Presented by The Finger Players,&nbsp;Dream of the Red Chamber&nbsp;is award-winning playwright and director Chong Tze Chien’s reinterpretation of one of the four greatest Chinese classical li

Dream of the Red Chamber (2024)

Set Realisation

Singapore Repertory Theatre

If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be?&nbsp;Adapted from Hirokazu Koreeda's acclaimed film,&nbsp;After&nbsp;Life&nbsp;takes us into a bureaucratic waiting room between&nbsp;life&nbsp;and death, where a diverse group of newly deceased strangers grapple with an extraordinary choice: selecting their most cherished memory to carry with them for eternity.Guided by enigmatic officials, these characters embark on a soul-searching journey through their past lives to choose thei

After Life (2023)

“a triumph” – The Straits Times"the wedding bash of the year" – Tatler Singapore"a riotous dinner theatre" – BakchormeeboyIt's a wedding celebration hosted by the Chan family, but they aren't especially happy. Firstly, the bride is their 70 year-old matriarch, Por Por. Secondly, they've never met the groom. In fact, nobody knows who he is, and Por Por declares he will only be revealed at the wedding dinner itself.It's all very exciting, but can somebody truly be in love with this sweet old lady, or is this 

Por Por's Big Fat Surprise Wedding (2023)

Sam and Jenny are hosting their first dinner guests at their new home. As the evening unfolds, Jenny reveals her encounters with uncanny events she experiences at 2:22 am each night, only to be dismissed by her skeptical spouse.But when things take a spine-tingling turn, Sam and Jenny make a pact with their guests to stay awake until the clock strikes 2:22am, unaware of the shocking discovery they will make.“marvellously tense play shines” – The Straits Times“pitch perfect cast of actors” – Bakchormeeboy“a 

2:22 - A Ghost Story (2023)

Associate Set Designer

Wild Rice

Anya Samuel: Over-Achieving Journalist.&nbsp;Level of Excellence: Perpetual.&nbsp;Level of Chill: NIL.&nbsp;When her tech CEO fiancé accuses her of being “too emotional” and tasks her to explain the four times she has cried in public since they started dating, Anya cannot help but bring her A-game.&nbsp;As she prepares to deliver a slide deck to save her relationship, complete with animated infographics of her menstrual cycle, Anya is forced to confront harsh truths about who she really is and what she act

Psychobitch (2023)

Set Assistant

Pangdemonium

Fall. 1964. The Bronx.12-year-old Donald is the first ever Black student at St. Nicholas Church School.Father Flynn, the popular parish priest, takes the boy under his wing, but the imperious school principal Sister Aloysius is mistrustful of Flynn’s intentions and begins to suspect him of acting inappropriately.As accusations and confrontations escalate, naïve young Sister James is caught in the crossfire, and the scandal takes on a whole new dimension when the boy’s mother steps into the fray.This confli

Doubt: A Parable (2023)

Jo Tan

Chong Tze Chien

Val is the deejay on a Singapore morning radio show - 'The Happy Place on One One Oh Point Oh'. She is interviewing her old friend Estee, now an Instagram political poet writing about pressing social issues. But as their chirpy on-air conversation quickly spirals into a heated and emotional debate on their significance and place in society, and they deploy all available verbal ammunition and even uncover buried secrets to best each other, there are several questions that both refuse to answer: Where is Val’

Happy Place (2023)

Poppy and Mo both dream of flying. When they meet each other in the park they soon become friends and decide to embark on a crazy ambition of building their very own flying machine. Physical theatre, comedy, original songs, and puppetry create a whirlwind tour through the basics of aerodynamics and friendship.Writer Rachel Barnett-Jones, director Jemma Gross and composer Arran Glass have created a new show integrating aspects of STEM to create a dynamic, funny and lyrical performance.

Fly High (2023)

Stories are wild creatures', the monster said. 'When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?'Patrick Ness' piercing novel is brought vividly to life in this Olivier Award-winning production by director Daniel Jenkins and performed by the graduation class of The Young Company 2022.Thirteen-year-old Conor and his mum have managed just fine since his dad moved. But now his mum is sick and not getting any better. His grandmother won't stop interfering and the kids at school won't look him in 

A Monster Calls (2022)

A contemporary reimagining of the Indian epic tale&nbsp;The&nbsp;Mahabharata&nbsp;that resonates with the current day.The Pandavas and the Kauravas—two groups of cousins—struggle for political power and the claim to the dynastic succession to the throne of the Hastinapura, an Indian kingdom. The confrontation climaxes with an 18-day Kurukshetra War in which even the gods are involved. Unimaginable death and destruction ensue, and all on the battlefield are forced to face up to their&nbsp;dharma—their duty a

Kingdoms Apart (2022)

A heartfelt family drama about love, life and letting go, no matter what the consequences may be.Anna has been on medication for so long she can't remember who she is without it. All she knows is that once, as a little girl, she was a prodigious writing talent, in possession of a thrilling imagination.Now twenty-one, Anna wants to rediscover the talent and passions she believes were interrupted. She wants to know what life would be like without pills and prescriptions, but as Anna tries to find out who she 

The Almighty Sometimes (2022)

A new day, a new light.  

A maker goes about fixing theatre objects meant for forever archival, every object a glint of his self and of time. Life finds its way through his hands into these objects and back into him again, and little mournings come on like waves – gentle, subdued, but never crushing. His time in the workshop is marked by the sounds of drills starting up, of sandpaper smoothening rough edges, of mallet against surfaces, of bird calls outside the window, of wind, of rain.  

As he counts

Little Mournings (2021)

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)

Assistant Set Designer

For decades, Singapore's oldest flea market in Sungei Road was home to a community that made a living out of peddling their wares under the sweltering mid-day sun. In the one square metre of space allocated to each vendor, what was junk to some was treasure to others.&nbsp;

In July 2017, the Sungei Road Market was shut down by the authorities. In one fell swoop, 80 years of heritage and haggling were erased.&nbsp;

In the weeks before and after the market's closure, playwright 三木 Sanmu interviewed doze

One Metre Square: Voices From Sungei Road (2018)

Faith Ng

Chen Yingxuan

A Good Death follows Dr Leong, a palliative care doctor, as she journeys with her patients through their final days. As they open up to her about their hopes and fears, her own family begins to argue over what is best for their ageing parents.Faced with an increasingly blurred line between her professional and personal life, Dr Leong finds herself asking: What truly makes life worth living? What is a good and dignified death? And on whose terms?Poignant and insightful, A Good Death is a tender meditation on

A Good Death (2018)

Set Design Assistant

It’s a swinging bachelor’s dream come true: three beautiful air stewardesses, each taking her turn as his girlfriend… and each happily unaware of the others’ existence. Sounds impossible? Not if you’re Bernard, our modern-day Casanova! With careful, down-to-the-minute scheming, he’s managed to keep his hectic love life cruising at the perfect altitude.

But turbulence ensues when his friend Robert comes to stay. Suddenly, Bernard’s schedule falls apart, as typhoons, volcanic ash and speedier planes wreak 

Boeing Boeing (2017)

Ladies and Gentlemen, OPEN YOUR EYES!

You have arrived at LA CAGE, a fabulous nightclub in the heart of Tanjong Pagar. Here, George is your charming host and Albin, his long-time partner, headlines the world-famous cabaret as glamorous diva Zaza.

Life is beautiful, until George’s son, Jonathan, announces his plan to marry the daughter of Mr. C.K. Tan, an ultra-conservative politician hell-bent on shutting down the colourful local nightlife.

When Jonathan brings his future in-laws home to ‘meet the 

La Cage aux Folles (2017)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

Growing up Chindian in Singapore has not been easy for Anika Lee. Her parents, Cassandra and Lee, have fought hard their whole life to protect their kids from racial tensions, both in their family and outside of it. At 21, Anika has cultivated a fire in her that allows her to navigate the difficulties of being mixed. Now a teacher-in-training, she is whole, and ready to fight for what she believes in. She even has her eye on a guy at the job she loves…&nbsp;

Mixed&nbsp;scrutinises a racial divide that is

Mixed (2017)

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. The Laramie Project is one of the most

The Laramie Project (2014)

Projection Designer

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Grace Lin

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