Azura Farid is an arts practitioner and manager working in theatre and music.
Acting credits include Old Gaze (The Necessary Stage), audio drama After Dark (Mediacorp), Unsolicited Advice From My Ex: Double Bill (Bored Whale Theatre) and Anything Can Happen/Something Must Happen (Wild Rice).
Playwriting credits include (re)connection (Bored Whale Theatre) and audio play A Carpet Goes for a Ride (The Second Breakfast Company), and directing credits include (re)connection (Bored Whale Theatre) and Apa Lagi, Makan Makan! (dink: Anything & Anyone). As a critic, Azura has written for ArtsEquator, Critics Circle Blog and Singapore International Festival of Arts.
Highlights of Azura’s opera credits are Médée and Der Zwerg (The Opera People), Die Zauberflöte (Hampstead Garden Opera and Singapore Lyric Opera), The Tsar Wants His Photograph Taken (Bloomsbury Studio), The Fairy Queen and Noye's Fludde (King's Opera).
Azura is a member of Playwrights Commune and music collectives Alunan Kampung Gelam and the 5AM Early Music Singers, as well as a graduate of Wild Rice’s Young & Wild actor training programme and King's College London’s Music/Liberal Arts course.
Photography by Crispian Chan
Last Updated: June 2025