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Akanksha Raja
 AKANKSHA RAJA (P/W)

Akanksha Raja is an arts writer from Singapore with a background in arts and cultural management. She is currently Assistant Editor at ArtsEquator.
Alfonse Chiu
 ALFONSE CHIU (P/W)

Alfonse Chiu is a cultural journalist, photographer, and the editor of SINdie.sg, Singapore's oldest active independent film publication. An alumnus of the Singapore International Film Festival Youth Jury and Critic Programme and the Udine Far East Film Festival Campus, his writings on film, art, and culture have been published in Singapore, Canada, and the United States.
Amanda Leong
 AMANDA LEONG (P/W)

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Casidhe Ng
 CASIDHE NG (P/W)

Casidhe Ng is a budding writer, performer and consumer of art, having graduated from the School of the Arts, Singapore in 2015. He has since written theatre reviews for Centre 42 over a period of two years, and dance reviews for The Flying Inkpot as part of their Critics’ Circle in 2014. His work has also been part of the literary magazine OFZOOS.

Aside from attending performances, he enjoys reading, swimming and watching films. He is especially appreciative of works put up by young and developing collectives as well as performances that push boundaries in theatre and art.
Jaclyn Chong
 JACLYN CHONG (P/W)

Jaclyn Chong is a Theatre Studies major at National University of Singapore. As a Southeast Asian studies minor, Jaclyn believes that a broader understanding of the arts will allow us to make sense of our cultural narratives and historical identities. Her varied interests from film to the visual arts also means that she has a penchant for interdisciplinary works of art, and she hopes to be an advocate for them in Singapore’s burgeoning arts scene.

Ke Weiliang
 KE WEILIANG (P/W)

Ke Weiliang is a Saikang Warrior in the Singapore arts scene. He is particularly fascinated by things that challenge the authority of binaries, including (but not limited to) ‘good’ versus ‘bad’, ‘right’ versus ‘wrong’ and ‘male’ versus ‘female’.

Weiliang believes that sharing is not just caring, but also empowering. He maintains a no-frills listing of Singapore theatre productions, which can be accessed via http://bit.ly/sgtheatrecalendar.

Lim Si Qi
 LIM SI QI (P/W)

Si Qi is currently working for literary arts in an arts organisation. She graduated from NUS with a major in Sociology and minor in English Studies, and is interested in reading various art forms as a slice of culture that informs us of the society or the artist of the period.

Loh An Lin
 LOH AN LIN (P/W)

Anlin is a theatre-practitioner keen to understand and to better our theatre-making ecology. She’s currently producer for Pink Gajah, president of The Stage Club, and running a monthly affair known as Need to Reply with co-founder Ranice Tay, which seeks to create avenues for young theatre-makers to understand the craft and the work from other practitioners. The latter has recently included The Puck Party, a sleepover and sharing session. She is also a bibliophile, and with a background in linguistics and fashion writing, she sometimes find herself writing 900-word reviews for friends’ productions before sending it over in private.

Teo Xiao Ting
 TEO XIAO TING (P/W)

This is Xiao Ting’s first foray into performing arts writing. Her experience with the performing arts thus far has mostly (only) been as an audience member, so she looks forward to learning different ways of engaging and writing about it. Prior to this, she wrote primarily poetry and won the Golden Point Award for English Poetry in 2017. Her work has also appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore among others. She is currently working with photography and sonic narrative in her practice. Very soon, she will graduate from Yale-NUS College with a B.A. in Arts & Humanities, minoring in Psychology.

Valerie Lim
 VALERIE LIM (P/W)

Valerie’s interest in reviewing dance led her to be part of a mentorship programme organised by The Flying Inkpot in 2014 and the Arts House Dance Critic Mentorship Programme in 2015. Before pursuing her B.A. (hons.) Dance at LASALLE, she worked on an Honours Thesis at National University of Singapore that examined how dance has been used as a political tool in Singapore. Valerie has performed in galleries and collaborated with artists from music, visual arts, film, fashion, and media arts. As part of her dissertation at LASALLE, Valerie presented a multi-disciplinary immersive performance that invited audiences to confront their mortality.



Cara Ann Lee
 CARA ANN LEE (P/M)

Cara Ann Lee pursued her theatre training at Goldsmiths, University of London and graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Theatre Arts with honours. During her time in university, she dabbled in multiple facets of theatre and found her passion for physical theatre and stage management. Unable to decide which to pursue over the other, Cara is currently working in Singapore as a freelance stage manager and performer. Her most recent projects include stage-managing for Archipelago and Charlotte’s Web by ACT 3 International and performing in Set Apart by Thereabouts Theatre.

Chia Xin Ying
 CHIA XIN YING (P/M)

Chia Xin Ying is a third-year Theatre Studies major in NUS. She is most interested in investigating the relationship between the voice and the body, and how impulse can affect the performer's work. She also enjoys writing and is very humbled to have had two of her works (Bad Cooking, Noise in Silence) produced by student actors. She believes that the theatre is a place where conversations can be furthered, and where bold explorations will bring us one step closer to understanding the boundless complexity of the human condition. She hopes that she will contribute to these conversations and explorations in her short time on Earth.

Chong Gua Khee
 CHONG GUA KHEE (P/M)

Chong Gua Khee is a freelance theatre practitioner with a strong interest in movement and working with the body. Her pieces typically draw on the idea of conversation as a framework, be it spoken such as in HOT POT TALK: Theatre & the Arts, or abstracted conversation such as in In Plain Site. Gua Khee is also deeply fascinated by conversations across different worlds, which has led her to collaborate with practitioners from different arts disciplines to create works, and also to co-convene in 2018 a Somatics Working Group that is open to people from all backgrounds.

Desmond Soh
 DESMOND SOH (P/M)

Desmond is a freelance performer. He is a recent graduate from the Intercultural Theatre Institute. Prior to that, he was from the 2nd batch of ARTivate,the youth wing of Drama Box. Desmond continues his work in performance making, exploring theatrical structures and how they can create spaces for conversations in the community. His most recent credits include Excavations (Singapore Heritage Festival 2018), The Good Farmer (TheatreWorks), and Bantal Busuk (P71:SMA).

Dominic Nah
 DOMINIC NAH (P/M)

Dominic is an educator, b-boy and writer. He studied literature to teach literature but is still wondering exactly how and why people should care about literature. Presently, he is the Dramaturg for The Second Breakfast Company’s restaging of Goh Poh Seng’s The Moon Is Less Bright, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Unseen the Magazine, an online literary magazine. He is currently working on a solo performance integrating monologue theatre and breakdancing titled dead was the body till i taught it how to move, produced by Bhumi Collective and to be performed in July 2018.

Ethan Chia
 ETHAN CHIA (P/M)

What is a Singaporean? What is a theatre artist? What makes an intercultural Actor-training method? What is 5ToMidnight?

What is interdisciplinary theatre?
What is culture?
What is science?
What is art?
What is politics?

What is an artistic director?
Who is this?

Gabbi Wenyi Ayane
 GABBI WENYI AYANE (P/M)

Gabbi Wenyi Ayane graduated from the School of the Arts, Singapore in 2015. Since then, she has gone to law school, been published on HuffPost, directed a full-length monologue (I Lie There, I am Dancing and It’s Okay, 2017), starred in a production that was then selected for the National Student Drama Festival (Seeking Intimacy, 2017), dropped out of law school, interned at Checkpoint Theatre, won her first poetry slam (WordForward Poetry Slam, April 2018) and worked as the wardrobe stylist for three music videos (Heartbreak Song by Gareth Fernandez; Lift Your Eyes by Lincoln Lim; Beautiful by Ethel Yap).

Gabbi Wenyi Ayane
 IRFAN KASBAN (P/M)

Irfan Kasban, an interdisciplinary artist, enjoys crafting multi-layered performances stemming from issues that he resonates with. As a playwright-director with 12 years of experience, he has explored themes of faith, marginalisation, displacement and sovereignty. Irfan gravitates to performance forms that are site-specific, physical, textual and character driven. His vision is expressed through aesthetics and production design, which he develops from conception of the piece. In recent years, Irfan has taken an interest to film, music, myth, folklore, anthropology and culture — shifting energies from the structures of traditional theatre. He hopes to celebrate space and time, by creating intricate universes within his lifetime. He is currently working on a performance based on Sun Tzu's Art of War, as Associate Artist at Teater Ekamatra. 
Iwani Zoe Mawocha
 IWANI ZOE MAWOCHA (P/M)

Iwani Mawocha is a performer and writer who grew up on stage. She trained in ballet before pursuing jazz dance, Argentine tango and contemporary, and is an autodidact, speaking six languages and teaching herself to play guitar and mbira. In 2012, she broke from nearly a decade of classical piano training to compose a 54-page Afro-Baroque piece that was performed by a youth orchestra in the USA. She is the co-founder of Mustard Seed Africa, is an award-winning videographer and digital designer, and runs a successful blog and YouTube channel. She graduates from Yale-NUS College in May and will pursue an MA in Acting.

Lakshmana KP
 LAKSHMANA KP (P/M)

Lakshmana KP is an actor, director, writer and teacher from Karnataka, India. He graduated from Ninasam Theatre Institute in 2012 and has been travelling across India, working in various productions with different theatre groups. He has also taught in Adima Kolar and Rangayana Shimoga and repertory theatres in Karnataka.

In Singapore, he was in Chowk Productions’ The Second Sunrise (2016), Pallavi in Time (2017) and from: The Platform (2017) as an actor, dancer, musician and technician.

Lakshmana is also a published poet and an activist concerned about the marginalised people and cultures of Indian society.

Nathaniel Tan
 NATHANIEL TAN (P/M)

Nathaniel is currently a Theatre Studies student and a NUS Stage member at the National University of Singapore who enjoys learning about every facet of theatre. He is interested in the entire process of putting on a play: from playwriting, to directing, to performing and finally as a spectator. He loves working with “theatre people” because they are almost always nice, creative, and inextricably unique. Since this opportunity offers him all the things he is in love with, he can hardly contain his excitement at participating in the Points of View programme!

Ng Sze Min
 NG SZE MIN (P/M)

Ng Sze Min is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on the aural perception. She translates concepts and experiences of individuals into accessible audio works and participatory performances. She recently co-produced and sound designed for Have You Herd - an immersive and participatory play premiered in Melbourne, Australia. Others include Reason to the Moon - a selection at the 15th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (USA) and River Letters, an audio play available on iTunes and Spotify. www.nszemin.com

Pooja Mohanraj
 POOJA MOHANRAJ (P/M)

Pooja Mohanraj, a final year student at ITI, is a theatre practitioner from India who works as creative artist, administrator and educator. Her major productions include Egle and Cleopatra, Balcony, When We Dead Awaken which performed in International Theatre Festival of Kerala, META Festival, etc. Her collaborations include The Bowl Project and The Eleven Project with multidisciplinary artists from Korea and France. She directed for Collegiate Theatre Festival for New German Writing by Goethe-Institut, New Delhi. Pooja holds a Masters in Theatre Arts from University of Calicut and is the recipient of Scholarship for Young Artistes, Ministry of Culture, India.

Sabrina Sng
 SABRINA SNG (P/M)

Sabrina Sng 孙雅皪 is an independent performer and performance maker, currently based in Singapore. Having been awarded the NAC Undergraduate Arts Scholarship in 2013, she graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Experimental Theatre Wing) with a first class honors in Theatre Arts. After her time at the SITI Conservatory in the following year, she returned to Singapore to continue developing and challenging her arts practice. www.sabrinasng.com

Shanice Nicole Stanislaus
 SHANICE NICOLE STANISLAUS (P/M)

Shanice is a dance theatre and Le Jeu artist. She started as a performing artist with Flamenco Dance Theatre company, Flamenco Sin Fronteras, and has since worked internationally with esteemed practitioners such as Antonio Vargas, Sue Samuels and Alberto Velasco in New York and Spain. She is an advocate for arts and fitness education and is an international Zumba Fitness presenter for Move to Empower, supported by the United Nations. Her work includes developing and training new choreographers and dance instructors in impoverished communities internationally. She is the founder of Creatives Inspirit, its mission to nurture a community of socially responsible artists and creative changemakers. She is a film-maker and has had her films premiered at the Guam International Film Festival, Info Cinephone Festival, Evolution Mallorca Film Festival and Colortape Festival Australia.

Shannen Tan
 SHANNEN TAN (P/M)

Shannen Tan is a freelance theatre practitioner who graduated from Psychology & Theatre Studies in NUS. Like most theatre practitioners, she aspires to be a multi-hyphenate. She acts (Toy Factory Productions’ Piece of Cake, M1 Fringe Festival 2017’s Pretty Butch), writes (Eat my Shorts by Dark Matter Theatrics at Singapore Night Festival 2017) and does other theatre-related things (Peter Sau’s Project Tandem, Access Path Production’s And Suddenly I Disappear…The Singapore ‘d’ Monologues, etc.) She also believes in continuous training and has just finished a slew of physical theatre courses under Nine Years Theatre, Ang Gey Pin and Yazid Jalil. You can find her here: shannentan.com

Shristy Das Roy
 SHRISTY DAS ROY (P/M)

Shristy is a writer, director and performer and instructor for speech and drama. She received a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from the University of Birmingham and has worked professionally as an actor in Little Earthquake’s production of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as well as a stage manager for several theatre companies in Birmingham. Her interests lie in devising original works that explore the performance of race and gender, nature of Theatre of the Real among other things.

Tan Liting
 TAN LITING (P/M)

Tan Liting works full time as a theatre practitioner with an interest in devising performance from personal stories. Liting’s past directorial credits include Pretty Butch (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017), The Truth About Lying (The Finger Players), Taking The Subs (The Substation Director’s Lab), (When I’m) Sixty Four (Ageless Theatre), Re: Almost Left Behind (Singapore Arts Festival 2011), Almost Left Behind (NUS Thespis). Liting teaches drama in schools, and has trained her students in both performance and backstage work, providing a more balanced experience in theatre training. Liting also likes guitars, sneakers and referring to Liting in third person.

Victoria Chen
 VICTORIA CHEN (P/M)

Vic is a theatre-maker who aims to create multidisciplinary pieces that challenge stereotypes and share unheard narratives. She draws inspiration from both Eastern and Western forms, with exchange and collaboration at the heart of her work. As an associate artist with Bhumi Collective, she won the ESAF Best Performing Artist award in 2017 for her solo piece Charlie. She was recently part of The Theatre Practice's production of Four Horse Road, and is currently developing a web series exploring the pressures of perfection and excellence in the digital age through the persona of a 15-year-old girl-next-door called Mediocre Meimei. Find out more about Vic's work on http://victoriachen.co.uk

Zac Denver Lee
 ZAC DENVER LEE (P/M)

Currently, a student in LASALLE College of The Arts pursuing Diploma in Performance, Zac Denver Lee is a versatile artist who started dancing at the age of 9 and picked up music and acting along the way. He has performed extensively in both local and international performances. In the Singapore Short Film Awards 2014, he was nominated for Best Performance in the short film Abang. Apart from performing, he is experienced in being in technical theatre as well as video production. He is a YouTube content creator of lifestyle videos for his channel, Style Slave. Zac is also a current member and marketing manager in a Malay traditional and contemporary dance group, Azpirasi.