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TEACHING |
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- Taught fulltime for
2 years in the NUS Theatre Studies Programme.
- Currently a Theatre, Performing Arts and Drama
Trainer under the Lifeskills and Lifestyle Division
of the People’s Association. Conducted STAGES’
first course Interpreting Sondheim with Bang Wenfu
in August 2003.
- Conducting courses in acting for Asian-Australians
in Sydney, both for NIDA and Aha! Productions |
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ACTING |
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2003 |
EMERALD HOLE
Nominated for Best Actor in the Life! Theatre Awards
2003 for EMERALD HOLE |
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LITTLE VIOLET AND THE ANGEL
(by I theatre. A play by Philip Osment, featuring
live actors and puppetry, at the Esplanade Theatre
Studio. Also starring Keagan Kang.) |
Lead Role
(Vlad) |
THE TRAGEDY OF AN EMPEROR
(by the Chinese Opera Society. The first Cantonese
opera written and performed in English, about the
fall of the Qing empire and the Boxer Protocol.) |
Featured Guest
(Prince Qing) |
PEOPLE SAY GOT GHOST
(by Action Theatre. Written by Jonathan Lim. A play
within a play about two actors discovering a ghost
in a theatre. Directed by Krishen Jit.) |
Lead Role
(Actor #1) |
BENT
(by Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble. Written by Martin
Sherman.) |
Supporting Role
(Uncle Freddie,
SS officer) |
| 2001 |
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK
?
(directed by Sunitha Mohnani, Action Theatre, The
Room Upstairs. Part of the One Bed Three Pillows
series in the Arts Festival Waterloo Arts Alive
season. ) |
Lead Role
(Adam the killer) |
ROMEO AND JULIET
(Imaginarts / I Theatre. At Victoria Theatre. Directed
by Brian Seward.) |
Supporting Lead
(Lord Capulet) |
PAN ISLAND EXPRESSWAY
(Theatreworks, written by Chong Tze Chien. Part
of the Charging Up Memory Lane : 30 Plays in 30
Days Festival.) |
Lead Role
(pa, interrogator) |
A MEDITATION ON HESITATION
(co-leading role as the sardonically sympathetic
bartender in a short film by Yuina Ng. Supported
by the Singapore Film Commission, submitted for
the Singapore Short Film Competition.) |
Lead Role
(bartender) |
EMERALD HOLE
(by Action Theatre. Part of the Second 42 Festival.
In collaboration with Malaysian director Krishen
Jit. A monologue (written by Jonathan Lim) in which
Jonathan plays both Emily of Emerald Hill and the
Grandson from The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole,
in an encounter in the cemetery that revisits and
updates these two Singaporean classics.) |
Solo Performer
(Emily, Grandson) |
| 2000 |
Guest award presenter for Comedy
section of the West Australian Fringe Festival,
Perth |
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CHICKEN RICE WAR
(feature film by Oak3 Films and Raintree Pictures,
directed by Cheek) |
Supporting Lead
(Hugo A Go-Go,
one-time dance
champion turned
scheming chicken
supplier, who ends a family feud by his intervention.) |
GROWING UP
(season 5)
(period drama) |
6 episodes as
the bungling but heroic family lawyer Victor Yap,
hired to
defend Gary Tay against murder charges. |
| 1999 |
ART AND LIFE: THE MUSIC OF
SONDHEIM
(an all-star Sondheim revue, Ingot Arts, Alliance
Francaise) |
Lead Performer
(multiple) |
| Guest performer/speaker at the inaugural
launch of the West Australian Fringe Festival, Perth
(4 Sept 1999) |
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM
(in Mandarin. Dir. Goh Boon Teck, The Theatre Practice,
Victoria Theatre) |
Ensemble
(Eighth Uncle Hong) |
| 1998 |
THE FANTASTICKS
(a local production of the longest-running musical
in the world. Singapore Repertory Theatre, DBS Auditorium) |
Supporting Cast
(Mortimer) |
THE SOLDIER AND HIS VIRTUOUS
WIFE
(in Mandarin. Revival of the 1996 production, dir.
May Wong, The Theatre Practice, Victoria Theatre) |
Supporting Lead
(Luo Da Hu) |
SUKEROKU: THE FLOWER OF EDO
(the first Asian performance of classical kabuki
by non-Japanese. Jubilee Hall & CHIJMES) |
Asst. Director,
Actor
(Drunken Samurai) |
SUKEROKU: THE FLOWER OF EDO
PERTH TOUR
(NUS Theatre Studies’ first foreign tour.
The Octagon, Perth)
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Asst. Director,
Publicist,
Actor (Mombei, Drunken Samurai) |
Kabuki Workshops
- conducted at Mount Lawley High School, Murdoch
University, Kulcha and The Western Australian Academy
of Performing Arts
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Facilitator,
Trainer |
UNDER ONE ROOF
(Singapore’s top sitcom) |
Guest
(HongKong director) |
PHUA CHU KANG
(sitcom) |
Guest
(Rosie Phua’s old
nightclub client) |
TRIPLE NINE
(cop drama) |
Supporting Lead
(Thai pimp-cum-mafia leader) |
GROWING UP
(period drama) |
Supporting Lead
(the irate chef) |
| 1997 |
THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND
BOO
(a play by Christopher Durang. Little Bird Theatre,
Guinness Theatre) |
Supporting Lead
(Father Donally, paediatrician) |
TRIPLE NINE
(CHRISTMAS EPISODE)
(detective drama) |
Supporting Lead
(kidnapper with Santa Claus persona) |
THE TWO DISCIPLES
(a video by the Ministry of Education set in period
China) |
Lead Role
(student Hao Sheng) |
SMOKE’S NO JOKE
(series of 10 TV and cinema commercials) |
Lead Performer
(multiple) |
| 1996 |
KILLING RADIO
(a play written & directed by Sim Pern Yiau.
Esso Campus Concerts & Minor Operations, NUS
Theatrette) |
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GURMIT’S WORLD
(3RD SEASON)
(sketch comedy programme)
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Lead Role
ensemble
(multiple) |
THE SOLDIER AND HIS VIRTUOUS
WIFE
(in Mandarin. A Taiwanese period musical adapted
from a Yuan dynasty zaju, dir. May Wong –
or the 10th Anniversary of The Theatre Practice.
The Theatre Practice, Drama Centre) |
Supporting Lead
(Luo Da Hu) |
| 1995 |
LIFE MOMENTS
(A two person play by Lee Chee Keng, directed by
Lim Jen Erh. NUS Theatre Ensemble, Drama Centre) |
Lead Role
(Hong Dao) |
PRESERVE
(a short Mandarin film about preserving our local
heritage, by Singapore Polytechnic Film & Media
Dept) |
Supporting Lead
(Father) |
| 1994 |
INTO THE WOODS
(Tony-award winning musical by Stephen Sondheim,
directed by Glen Goei, Singapore Repertory Theatre,
Victoria Theatre) |
Supporting Lead
(Narrator/Mysterious Man) |
KAMPONG AMBER
(Opening show of Festival of Arts 1994, directed
by Glen Goei, written by Dick Lee & Catherine
Lim. Music & Movement, Kallang Theatre) |
Supporting Lead
(millionaire Lim Kia Hock) |
BIG BANG! THE MUSICAL
(A biographical musical about Stephen Hawkings.
Pacific Theatricals, Kallang Theatre) |
Ensemble
(chinese astronomer Hsu, Greek student, Cambridge
student,
Inquisition interrogator, Father O’Brien) |
| 1992 |
THE BREASTS OF TIRESIAS
(An adaptation of Apollinaire’s play by John
Tessensohn, Gung-Ho Theatre Ensemble, DBS Auditorium) |
Supporting Lead
(Emperor, General Morality) |
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DIRECTING |
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| 2003 |
THE WOMAN IN
A TREE
by Ovidia Yu’s The Woman (for the New Directions
Festival in Sydney) |
UP IN SMOKE
(by Imaginarts. A school tour by the Health Promotion
Board on the dangers of smoking, taken to 23 Secondary
Schools and ITEs between Feb and April 2003.) |
LYSISTRATA LAH!
(An all-star charity event for the peace movement
– dramatized reading of the Lysistrata of
Aristophanes, featuring the local arts community,
including such luminaries as Ivan Heng, Emma Yong,
Pam Oei, Gerald Chew, Keagan Kang and others. At
Young Musicians’ Society and the Singapore
Tyler Print Institute.) |
TWO MODERN KYOGEN
(by Theatre4A and A Different Corner Productions.
A doublebill of Donald Richie’s kyogen in
English, adapted for a contemporary audience with
a mixed-race cast. At the PACT Theatre in Erskineville,
Sydney.) |
| 2002 |
LOOT
(by Joe Orton, directed by Terence Clarke, NIDA
Studio)
- assistant director, dramaturg |
VDMO: VAGINA
DENTATA MAMMALIA OCCULATA
(a site specific installation performance featuring
17 actresses from NIDA and UNSW, NIDA courtyard)
- director / curator |
NO NAMES.. NO
PACK DRILL
(by Bob Herbert , directed by Tony Knight, Parade
Studio)
- assistant director, dramaturg |
THE PERFECT SERVANTS
(by Donald Richie. A modern kyogen, adapted into
a cross-cultural farce featuring kyogen and traditional
English farce. Part of the 2002 Directors’
Projects.) |
| 2001 |
PAN ISLAND EXPRESSWAY
(by Theatreworks, written by Chong Tze Chien. Part
of the Charging Up Memory Lane: 30 Plays in 30 Days
Festival.) |
SPLIT SECOND
(by Wang Meiyin, Action Theatre. Part of the One
Bed Three Pillows series in the Arts Festival Waterloo
Arts Alive season.) |
PONTIANAK –
A LOVE STORY
(NUS Theatre Studies Programme. A site-specific,
environmental play exploring the myth of the pontianak.
At Sembawang Park near the old Kampung Wak Hassan,
and on two buses traveling from Sembawang MRT to
the Park) |
A RIGHT RITUAL
(by Xu Shengliang. Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble.
A Mandarin play about death rites and rituals, site-specific
at 17A Smith Street. 23 Aug – 1 Sep 2001) |
I AM ROGER
(by Action Theatre. Part of the Second 42 Festival.
Written by Hoang Du’c, music by Bang Wenfu.
Premiere of this one-act musical about a schizophrenic,
starring Brendon Marc Fernandez, Caleb Goh, Chua
Enlai and Adelina Ong.) |
POETRY IN ACTION
2
(by Action Theatre. Part of the Second 42 Festival.
A series of local poems dramatised with an ensemble
cast and a video artist.) |
| 2000 |
TEMPTATIONS !
(a new musical in aid of the Lee Kong Chian Garden
School. Music by Kenneth Lyen and Iskandar Ismail) |
WOMEN ON CANVAS
(by Action Theatre, composed by Bang Wenfu. An original
musical for Painted Stories in the Singapore Arts
Festival 2000) |
HOW MUCH IS THAT
MAN IN THE WINDOW ?
(by Action Theatre. A site-specific theatrical shopping
fantasy, staged at the Hilton Shopping Gallery) |
MURDER D.i.Y
(NUS Theatre Studies Programme. Singapore’s
first interactive site-specific murder mystery held
in an old bungalow in the East Coast.) |
| 1999 |
ART AND LIFE:
THE MUSIC OF SONDHEIM
(an all-star Sondheim revue, Ingot Arts, Alliance
Francaise) |
YUM SING! THE
MUSICAL
(a concept musical for the MENSA 10th anniversary,
in aid of the Autistic Association of Singapore
charity. Written by Kenneth Lyen & Desmond Moey) |
PAP At 45: THE
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
(a PAP Anniversary show tracing the Party’s
history. Guest of honour – Senior Minister
Lee Kuan Yew. The Right Angle, Kallang Theatre) |
| 1996 |
QUIET THE GORILLA
(a play by Tan Mei Ching for the Festival of New
Writing, Theatreworks, Drama Centre) |
| 1995 |
DICK & JA
: THE EARLY YEARS
(a intimate, nostalgic musical featuring Dick Lee
and Jacintha, tracing their longtime collaboration,
Music & Movement, Victoria Theatre) |
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WRITING |
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| 2003 |
PEOPLE SAY GOT
GHOST
(by Action Theatre. A play within a play about two
actors discovering a ghost in a theatre. Directed
by Krishen Jit.) |
| 2002 |
NOT ANOTHER THOUSAND
PAPER CRANES
(a play about cultural displacement among young
Australian-Asians, dealing with Japanese, Lebanese
and white Australian identity slippage. Written
for A Different Corner Productions in Sydney.) |
| 2001 |
EMERALD HOLE
(by Action Theatre. Part of the Second 42 Festival.
In collaboration with Malaysian director Krishen
Jit. A monologue in which Jonathan plays both Emily
of Emerald Hill and the Grandson from The Coffin
Is Too Big For The Hole, in an encounter in the
cemetery that revisits and updates these two Singaporean
classics.) |
| 2000 |
WHITE SAILS OVER
BLUE BLUE SEA
(a devised work of dramatic verse with Toy Factory
Theatre Ensemble) Wrote lyrics for People In Harmony
and City Of The World for NATIONAL DAY PARADE 2000
Mass Display, music by Iskandar Ismail |
WOMEN ON CANVAS
(by Action Theatre, composed by Bang Wenfu. An original
musical about the depiction of women in art thru
the ages, commissioned for Painted Stories in the
Singapore Arts Festival 2000) |
| 1999 |
CRUMBLE
(a short play tracing the downward spiral of a
relationship over a tin of butter cookies. Second
prize in the tertiary category of Short Plays
99 organised by the NUS Centre for the Arts.) |
COUNTING DOWN
(a short play tracing the 15 minutes leading up
to a Millennium suicide. First prize in the tertiary
category of Short Plays 99 organised by the NUS
Centre for the Arts. Published in Singa 2000 and
recorded for radio (Passion 99.5) in Jan 2000.) |
HEARTBEAT
(a play depicting various tenets of the Singapore
Vision 21, workshopped and written for residents
of Tanjong Pagar CDC to perform. Commissioned by
Tanjong Pagar CDC) |
ALEX KENA
(AIDS short film commissioned by MOH. Produced by
Oak3 Films, dir. Lim Suat Yen) |
SCHOOL DIARY
(part of the creative / conceptual team for this
Mandarin sitcom by Oak3 Films, wrote one episode
for season one) |
| 1998 |
STILL GROWING
UP SOME MORE
(inaugural production for the Dramaplus Youtheatre,
dir, Roger Jenkins. Dramaplus Arts, Drama Centre) |
| 1997 |
THE WRONG SIDE
OF THE BED
(AIDS movie commissioned by MOH. Produced by Oak
3 Films, dir. Lim Suat Yen) |
SMOKE’S
NO JOKE
(a two-man stand-up comedy about quitting smoking,
commissioned by the Ministry of Health. Toured the
schools and was later made into video and a series
of TV/cinema ads.) |
| 1995 |
RED PACKETS
(ten vignettes taking a cynical look at how the
young generation has lost touch with Chinese New
Year customs, and their roots in general. 3 local
runs and opening at the West Australian Fringe Festival
in Feb 2000.) |
THE MURAYAMA
(a kabuki style play about the ancient Japanese
custom of sending aging parents up a mountain to
die in solitude. 2 local runs and opening at the
West Australian Fringe Festival in Jan 2000.) |
| 1994 |
PASSIONPLAY
(a one-act play about two teenagers discovering
passion) |
| 1992 |
THE TRIAL
(an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel of the
same title, for the Young People’s Theatre
1992) |
