Wild Rice

It’s 1993, and 16-year-old Candice, in her nice house in her nice neighbourhood in Serangoon Gardens, wonders why the city around her seems so sleepy and lame compared to the world she glimpses in MTV and her music magazines – pictures roiling with sex, drugs, and rebellion.When Candice’s mum burns all her tapes and magazines in a fit of moral panic, Candice finally snaps and embarks on a night-long bender to end all benders. In the darkness, she sees the Singapore she’s been craving all this time: punks in

The Serangoon Gardens Techno Party of 1993 (2025)

Stage Manager

Lah Meh-Lions

ScRach MarcS

In Sotong Games, a playful and heartfelt performance by the Lah Meh-Lions and ScRach MarcS, three quirky characters - Tina Tuna, Lionel Teo Soon Hock, and Muhd Hafish bin Tilapia - attempt to reconnect with each other and their audience through the joy of games. The show begins with a nostalgic admiration of Singapore’s iconic Merlion but soon turns into a lighthearted debate about digital distractions, work-life balance, and the importance of fun.

Sotong Games (2025)

Production Manager

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

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)

Intercultural Theatre Institute

An unspeakable tragedy has struck a quiet small town. To restore order, justice, and inner peace, the law compels the victims to get their hands dirty - but who will be held accountable?Performed by the ITI graduating cohort of 2023, The Chair is an original work that raises questions on individual and collective responsibility, grief, and the desperate, at times absurd pursuit of justice in an unjust world. Who has the right to decide? When is justice served? What do we owe to each other in the balancing o

The Chair (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)

Production Stage Manager

The Necessary Stage

Three queer Singaporean men cast a little gay spell, don their bridal veils, and embark on a whirlwind journey towards matrimony. They dream through the past, the present and an imagined future to discover what a big, fat, fabulously gay wedding would look like for them!In a country where the legal right to marriage is denied to the queer community, these individuals navigate the political, social, cultural, and personal reality of their lives, along with saying “yes” to whimsical wedding fantasies. “Always

Never The Bride (2023)

In this cheekily on-the-nose musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale, Wild Rice brings one of the world’s most beloved characters to the Singapore stage. Meet Pinocchio, a wooden puppet crafted with loving care by Geppetto – a kind, humble carpenter who has always dreamt of becoming a father.With a wish and a touch of fairy magic, Pinocchio springs to life… but there are some strings attached! To become a real boy, Pinocchio must first prove himself to be brave, kind and true. It’s a challenge the litt

Pinocchio (2022)

Stage Assistant

Pulau Ujong, or “Island at the End”, is one of the oldest recorded names for Singapore. But what was it like at the beginning, before humans started transforming the landscape? What lifeforms once filled its rainforests and rivers, and which ones are now extinct? With temperatures soaring twice as fast as the rest of the world, what will this island’s future look like?Written with heartfelt insight by award-winning playwright Alfian Sa’at,&nbsp;Pulau Ujong&nbsp;is a riveting piece of documentary theatre fea

Pulau Ujong (2022)

Nine Years Theatre

T.H.E Dance Company

SAtheCollective

SAtheCollective, Nine Years Theatre and T.H.E Dance Company join forces for the first time to co-create&nbsp;Windward Side of the Mountain, a site-specific production set in urban Asia.

You’ll find yourselves following a group of modern-day sojourners as they journey through various locations within Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre. As they weather the ups and downs and the multi-dimensional mysteries of their uncharted journey to carve out a way of life, they find themselves on the other side of a lege

Windward Side of the Mountain (2022)

A man has fallen to his death from a police headquarters window. Did he fall accidentally, or was there foul play? The police try to cover it up, but a certified maniac with a flair for impersonation is tasked to conduct the interrogation. Who should take the blame? Time is running out, the public wants answers.Written by Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo in 1970 and translated by Ed Emery, Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a political play based on a real-life incident and raises broader qu

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Emery) (2021)

Assistant Production Manager

This is where you are always home. This is where you are never home.

Pooja Nansi was born in India and came to Singapore at the age of one. Her story and her history bear the weight of travellers past – from her parents’ decision to settle in another country, to her grandparents’ border-crossing romance. Her answer to the question, “Are you Singaporean?”, is infinitely complicated. After all, where and how do you even begin to testify on behalf of the ghosts in your blood? And how do you speak when you d

You Are Here (2021)

In a Singapore where dialects have been losing relevance for generations,&nbsp;Grandmother Tongue&nbsp;traces a young man’s struggle to connect with his 84-year-old Teochew-speaking grandmother.

He teaches her to use a mobile phone. He helps her buy her favourite brand of soya sauce. He visits her in hospital after a fall. Along the way, he begins to understand just what it means to spend decades in linguistic and cultural exile.

Back by popular demand after two sell-out runs, Thomas Lim’s funny, insi

Grandmother Tongue (2021)

Surtitle Operator

It’s a perfectly ordinary day in a perfectly ordinary café in Singapore. Or is it?

Two old friends chat and snap selfies over plates of fried chicken and aglio olio pasta. The three wait-staff bicker and constantly refill cups of coffee while waiting for their shifts to end.

But something strange is brewing both inside and outside of the café. Perhaps it’s finally time to wake up and smell the coffee – if it’s not already too late to do so.

A darkly funny psychological thriller with a conscience,&n

Cafe (2020)

Okorn-Kuo Jing Hong

A new media experience co-created by a multidisciplinary group of performers, designers and directors. Amid a pandemic, where time and space are warped, and how we exist and connect feels alienating, What If explores being human.Presenting to you 4 original works that will each be accompanied by a short animation. Audience participation is welcomed in all shows.

What If (2020)

The Second Breakfast Company

The Old Woman and the Ox&nbsp;(2017) is a play written by 20-year-old playwright, Isaiah Christopher Lee, which explores the entangled currents of fear, guilt, loss and love.

Set against the absurdist backdrop of a crumbling house, the play follows Aileen and the ghosts of her memories as she seeks for something she cannot find except within herself. Aileen has grown disenchanted and apathetic after the traumatic events of her past. But what happens when her past returns to haunt her and she is forced to

The Old Woman and the Ox (2018)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

TheatreWorks’ ‘Because I Love You’&nbsp;season opens by exploring the form and substance of relationships in&nbsp;13.13.13, digging into the tenuous bonds that bind, and betrayals that break. William and Samantha live a good life. They have the perfect arrangement – William doesn’t want marriage, and Sam doesn’t want kids. Lynn, William’s ex-girlfriend and now oldest best friend, desperately wants to marry but cannot. Lynn also wants children. William does what he believes is reasonable to help his oldest f

13.13.13 (2018)

Assistant Stage Manager

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Lemmings (2017)

The Wedding Pig (2017)

"There must be poetry in what is horrible."

ITI presents the Singapore premiere of Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by Mexican playwright David Gaitán.

Raskolnikov has killed an old woman. But it’s for the greater good. Can good intentions justify a crime?

Delve into the turmoil of a murderer’s mind and discover the depths of the human soul in this darkly comic work.

Based on Dostoyevsky's classic novel Crime and Punishment, Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants is a riveting psychological exploration of a

Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants (2017)

Over three decades, The Necessary Stage and actors-collaborators who have been partners in the making of the company's devised plays have revealed to us over and over again - in profound, heartbreaking and funny ways - what it means to 'be' in Singapore.&nbsp;

Vinod | Radha Krishnan | Eric Sim Guan Yeow&nbsp;| Noorhayati Yusof&nbsp;| Sergeant Mok&nbsp;| Jali bin Mohd Fariz&nbsp;| Mrs Chua&nbsp;| Mrs Phua Su Lin&nbsp;| Alisha&nbsp;| Melly&nbsp;| Saloma and many more

Away from the buzz of the rehearsal 

Being Haresh Sharma (2017)

Crew

Ferocious and unyielding, Mrs Yang is the unwilling matriarch of her family. She gives the final word, and everyone complies. Only time will tell if the decisions she made, laying the foundations of her empire will stand the test of progress and development. Can Mrs Yang pull it together before growth makes way for decay?


Family (2016)

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Marilyn Chew

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