Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai is an actor, singer, and voiceover artist.
Addressing race, sexuality and identity, her show Building A Character premiered at the Singapore Theatre Festival in 2018. A commission for Wild Rice’s Singapore Theatre Festival, the show sold out and was also featured as The Business Time’s Top 3 theatre picks of the Year. She scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Life! Theatre Awards for her multi-character turn in Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (2019).
As a singer, Sangeetha debuted her solo jazz concert Sangeetha Sings Sinatra: Live at the Esplanade in early 2019. She also had a featured solo in NDP 2020, and sang with an established quartet in No Regrets - A Tribute to Edith Piaf (Singtheatre), which premiered in April 2021.
As a voiceover artist, her reels include pitches for CNA, Woodleigh Residences, Airasia, and SUSS; and as a featured speaker on panels for the SingLit Festival and Glaxosmithkline. You can currently hear her as Celeste in the new superhero animated series PUBERTEENS on Mediacorp Channel 5.
Her short film, 7CM From Myself (Pantheon Media) was one of just 25 films - and the only Singaporean film - to be screened at the Go Mental! International Short Film Festival 2021 (Berlín). She will next be starring in the 108 Media-produced Moonrise Sunset, slated to premiere globally on major streaming platforms in 2024.
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