RESUME


EDUCATION
LaSalle – SIA College of the Arts – Diploma in Drama

COURSE ATTENED AND OTHERS
Rigging Seminars by Harry Donovan & Jay Glerum.
12th Annual Broadway Lighting Master Classes
Working Safely in Theatre by Paul Edwards.
Managing Staff in the Customer Service Process by MDIS.X
Theatrical Rigging Course by Ray Calcutt, Peter Bretherton, Geoff Manthorpe.
Lighting Design Seminar by Chris Parry.
Basic drafting with WYSIWYG and AutoCAD 06.
Lighting Seminar by Francis Reid.
Industrial First Aid by Singapore Red Cross Society.
Attachment with Australia Art Centers such as SOH, VAC and AFC.
Lighting console used: Strand Lighting, Avolite, Light Factory.

AWARDS
Straits Time Life Award Nominated,
Best Lighting Design “DUST - Recollection” 2012

Straits Time Life Award Nominated,
Best Lighting Design “The Magnanimous Cuckold” 2011

Straits Times Life Theatre Award,
Best Lighting Design “RPM” 2010

Straits Times Life Theatre Award Nominated,
Best Lighting Design “House of Sin” 2009

Straits Times Life Theatre Award Nominated,
Best Lighting Design “MEMORY – human remains” 2008
(As co-designer)

PAST EMPLOYMENT
1999 – 2000, Meng’s Theater Production, Assistant Technical Manager
2000 – 2001, LaSalle – SIA Studio - Theatre, Venue Technician
2001 – 2007, Esplanade Theatre on the Bay, Lighting Senior Technician (Grade 1)
Selected experience in Esplanade:
Mosaic Music Festival, Asian Art Mart, My Fair Lady, Sparks, Dans Festival, New Year Countdown


THEATRE

Production
Director
Venue
Date

Love Love Remote Control
Rudi Skotheim Jensen
Volcano Festival,
Reykjavik, Iceland.
June
2013
Love Love Remote Control
Rudi Skotheim Jensen
72-13
June
2013
ILLOGIC
(cake theatrical production)
Natalie Hennedige
Drama Center - Theatre
June
2013
Notion - Dance Fiction
Choy Ka Fai
Cankarjev Dom
(Exodus Festival - Ljubljana)
April
2013
One day in the place
(cake theatrical production)
Natalie Hennedige

Esplanade – Theatre Studio

April
2013
For Better Or For Worse
(checkpoint theatre)
Claire Wong

Gallery Theatre
National Museum of Singapore

Mar
2013
Decimal Points 5.1
(cake theatrical production)
Rizman Putra

Substation Theatre

Oct
2012
Six Character in search of the author
(LaSalle College of the Arts – Drama Faculty)
Natalie Hennedige

Singapore Airlines Theatre

LASALLE College of the Arts

Oct
2012
Notion – Dance Fiction &
Soft Machine
Choy Ka Fai
Kyoto Art Center
Sept
2012
Pretty Thing
(substation)
Patricia Toh
Substation Theatre
Sept
2012
Occupation
(checkpoint theatre)
Claire Wong
Gallery Theatre
National Museum of Singapore
Sept
2012
Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun
(TheatreWorks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
Gallery Theatre
National Museum of Singapore
Sept
2012
Si Ti Kay
Noor Effendy Ibrahim
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
July 2012
Homogenous
Patricia Toh
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Raw Season)
July 2012
Lan Fang chronicles
Choy Ka Fai
Ying Foh Kuan/ Shuan Long Shan
(Singapore Arts Festival)
May 2012
The Song of the brokenhearted Tiger
Ho Tzu Nyen
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Mar 2012
Goldfish is meant for dying
Rudi Skotheim Jensen
Nordland Teater – Norway
(Vinterlys Festivalen)
Jan 2012
Notion – Dance Fiction
Choy Ka Fai
Sao Luiz Teatro Municipal - Portugal
(InShadow Festival)
Dec 2011
DUST – A Recollection
(Theatreworks Singapore)
Vertical Submarine
72-13
Nov 2011
Notion - Dance Fiction
Choy Ka Fai
Theatre Green BOX in BOX Theatre
(Festival Tokyo)
Nov 2011
Fear of Writing
(TheatreWorks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
72-13
Aug 2011
Shakespeare in the Park: Macbeth
(Singapore Repertory Theatre)
Nikolai Foster
Fort Canning Park
April 2011
Breaking The Silence
(Amrita Performing Arts - Cambodia)
Annemarie Prins
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(The Studio)
Sep 2010
Invisible Room
Vivian Wang, Kok Heng Leun, Ho Tzu Nyen, Leslie Low
Autonomes Zentrum Mülheim
(Theater der Welt 2010)
June 2010
Goldfish is meant for dying
Rudi Skotheim Jensen
Kwai Tsing Theatre
(Hong Kong)
May 2010
Coffin
(Drama Box)
Li Xie
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Huayi Festival)
Feb 2010
Goldfish is meant for dying
Rudi Skotheim Jensen
Weld
(Stockholm)
Oct 2009
Goldfish is meant for dying
Rudi Skotheim Jensen
TheatreWorks – 72-13
Sept 2009
Film – Faust
Fran Borgia
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Esplanade Presents)
July 2009
Invisible Room
(The Observatory)
Vivian Wang / Kok Heng Leun
LaSalle College of the Arts
(Singapore Arts Festival)
June 2009
Tree Duet
(Spell #7)
Paul Rae
University Culture Center – Theatre (NUS Art Festival)
Mar 2009
The King Lear Project: A Trilogy
Ho Tzu Nyen /Fran Borgia
Drama Center – Theatre
(Singapore Arts Festival)
Jun 2008
The King Lear Project: A Trilogy
Ho Tzu Nyen /Fran Borgia
KVS – BOL
(Kunsten Festival Des Arts - Brussels)
Jun 2008
House of Sin
(Drama Box)
Li Xie
Raffle Hotel – Jubilee Hall Theatre
Mar 2008
Divine Wind & Tears Lost in the Rain
(The Theatre Training and Research)
Leela Alaniz
TNS – Black Box
(Final Year Graduation)
Mar 2008
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
(British Theatre Playhouse)
Alexander Holt
Singapore, Kulau Lumpur, Bangkok, Colombo
(Regional  Tour)
Jan 2008
120
(TheatreWorks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
National Museum Singapore
(Sited – specific)
Oct 2007
3 years 6 months 21 days
(Amrita Performing Arts - Cambodia)
Annemarie Prins
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Singapore Arts Festival)
Jun 2007
Full Frontal  - Double Bill:
“Machine” + “A little white sailing boat”
Peter Sau + Li Xie
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Singapore Arts Festival)
Jun 2007
Island
Adrian Tan
Substation – Guinness Theater
Dec 2006
A Bedfull of foreigners
(British Theatre Playhouse)
John Nolan
Singapore, Kulau Lumpur, Bangkok
(Regional Tour)
Nov 2006
Private Lives
(British Theatre Playhouse)
David Warwick
Singapore, Kulau Lumpur, Bangkok. Penang
(Regional Tour)
April 2006


DANCE




Production
Choreographer
Venue
Date




Crossing
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts - Dance Dept)
Dr Caren Carino
(Project Director)
Lee Foundation Theatre
April
2013
7 Dance Fiction in the ice room
(Arts Fission Company)
Angela Liong
School of the Arts
Studio Theatre
Mar
2013
The Third Space Series: Contemporary Asian Explorations in Dance
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts – Dance Dept)
Dr Caren Carino
(Project Director)
Esplanade – Recital Studio
(Esplanade presents: Dains Festival 12)
Oct
2012
Whisper of Tempest
Albert Tiong
Goodman Art Center
Aug 2012
Para- Human
Eko Supriyanto
National Museum Singapore
July 2012
The Third Space Series: Contemporary Asian Explorations in Dance
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts – Dance Dept)
Dr Caren Carino
(Project Director)
Esplanade – Recital Studio
(Esplanade presents: Dains Festival 11)
Oct 2011
NAFA Symposium
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts)
Dr Caren Carino
(Chair Person)
Lee Foundation Theatre
Sep 2011
Refraction – A Double Bill:
“As Above, So Below” / “Nameless”
(Singapore Dance Theatre)

Edwaard Liang + Xing Liang

Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Esplanade: Dains Festival)
Oct 2010
Khmeropédies I+II
(Amrita Performing Arts - Cambodia)
Emmanuèle Phuon
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(The Studio)
Aug 2010
“It appear that…”
Ricky Sim
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(The Studio)
July 2010
Khmeropédies II - (Work-in-progress)
(Amrita Performing Arts - Cambodia)
Emmanuèle Phuon
Esplanade – Recital Studio
(Conversasians)
May 2010
Crossing
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts)
Caren Carino
(Project Director)
Lee Foundation Theatre
(Final year Graduation)
May 2010
The Third Space Series: Contemporary Asian Explorations in Dance
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts – Dance Dept)
Lim Fei Shen, Nirmala Seshadri,
Laura Tham, Yvonne Ng
Esplanade – Recital Studio
(Esplanade presents: Dains Festival 09)

Oct 2009




Mechanism Organism
(Post Ego)
Ahn Soo young, Ryu Jang Hyun,
Choi Mun Sook and Chung yeun Soo
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(Esplanade Present)
Aug 2008
Crossing
(Nayang Academy of Fine Arts - Dance Dept)
Caren Carino
(Project Director)
Lee Foundation Theatre
(Final year Graduation)
Apr 2008
Fly with me
(LaSalle college of The Arts)
Tammy Wong
(Artistic Director)
LaSalle – Flexible Space
(Final Year Graduation)
Apr 2008
The man who look for the signs II
(presented by Art House)
Ming Poon
The Art House – Play Den
(The Arts House presents)
Mar 2008
Enter# 1773
(Dance Horizon)
Liz Fong Huey Jun
Drama Center – Black Box
Mar 2008
Subtext II
(COLLECTIVE mayhem)
Ebelle Chong & Susan Yeong
Utterly Art Gallery
Oct 2006





Production
Choreographer
Venue
Date




Little Asia Dance Network
(Asia Tour)
Joavien Ng, Sun Chou-Tai, Mitsutake Kasai, Andy Wong, Chung Yuen-soo
Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Korea, Tokyo
Sep 2005
Sojourn
Ebelle Chong, Royston Fan, Melissa Quek
Substation – Guinness Theatre
Mar 2006
Once a upon a woman called Butterfly
(COLLECTIVE mayhem)
Jamie Redfern
(Conceived by Cheryl Quek and Jamie Redfern)
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Mar 2005
Strawberry Milk
Cheryl Quek
Esplanade – Outdoor Theatre
Nov 2004
White
(part of Little Asia Dance Network)
Cheryl Quek
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Nov 2004
Big Daddy Say
(Ah Hock and Peng Yu)
Ix Wong
The Arts House – Play Den
Apr 2004
Yellow Emperor and the Swine Lake
Zai Kunning
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Mar 2004
L+R
(Ah Hock and Peng Yu)
Ix Wong
The Arts House – Play Den
Feb 2004




MUSICAL THEATRE




Production
Director
Venue
Date




I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
(MediaCorp Vizpro International)
Darren Yap
Drama Center
June 2011
Pinocchio – The Musical
(Singapore Repertory Theatre's Stage Two + MediaCorp VizPro International)
Darren Yap
DBS Arts Centre – Home of SRT
Nov 2010

Music / Concert




Production
Band/ Orchestra
Venue
Date




Rite(s) of Spring
Orchestra Music Maker
Esplanade – Concert Hall
(Singapore Art Festival)
May 2012
Mosaic Music Festival
Tyondai Braxton
Esplanade - Recital
Mar 2012
Dark Hexa
(Album Launch)
The Observatory
The Art House – The Hall
& Sculpture Square
July 2009

ART INSTALLATION
Production
Artist
Role
Venue
Date





The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
Technical + Light Design

5th Auckland Triennial

May 2013
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
Technical + Light Design
Times Museum
(Guangzhou)
Jan 2012
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
Technical + Light Design
Mori Art Museum
(Tokyo)
Jan 2012
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
Technical + Light Design
Sundance Film Festival 2012
(Park City, Utah)
Jan 2012
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
Technical + Light Design
Art Stage @ Gillman
Dec 2011
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
Technical + Light Design
Venice Biennial
54th International Art Exhibition
May 2011


FILM / TV
Production
Director
Date



Sunsilk Academy Fantasia
Refinery Media
July – Sept 2012
The Kitchen - Musical
Cheek
July – Oct 2011
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
March 2011
The Zarathustra Project:
A Film for everyone and No One
Ho Tzu Nyen
Sept 2009
Earth
(Commissioned by Invisible room)
Ho Tzu Nyen
Aug 2008

COLLABORATION




Production
Collaborator
Venue
Date




Yellow Monkey
POST EGO &
COLLECTIVE mayhem
Seoul Art Center - Jayu Theatre
(SIDANCE)
Oct 2009
Yellow Monkey
(Esplanade Presents)
POST EGO &
COLLECTIVE mayhem
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Aug 2008
Virus
(NUS Arts Festival)
COLLECTIVE mayhem
(Video Installation/performance)
University Culture Center – Green Room
Feb 2008
Vibration
(Esplanade Presents)
NUS Indian Dance & COLLECTIVE mayhem
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Aug 2007
MEMORY – human remains
(COLLECTIVE mayhem)
COLLECTIVE mayhem
Drama Center – Black Box
May 2007

Co Design





Production
Designer
Director
Venue
Date





Trash
(Drama Box)
Psyche Chui
Li Xie
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
Aug 2006

Assistant to Lighting Designer





Production
Designer
Director / Choreographer
Venue
Date





The Good, The Bad & The Sholay
Mac Chan
Huzir Sulaiman
NUS – Cultural Center Theatre
March 2011
Emily of Emerald Hill
Mac Chan
Glen Goei
Esplanade - Theatre
Feb 2011
CLOSER
Mac Chan
Tracy Pang
DBS Art Center
Feb 2011
Where Elephants Weep
Marcus Doshi
Robert McQueen
Chenla Theater
(Phnom Phen)
Nov – Dec 2008
Song of Light & Shadow
(New Music Entertainment)
Tommy Wong
Zhang Wanting
Poly Theatre
(Beijing)
Nov – Dec 2005
Under the Last Dust
(The Necessary Stage)
Dorothy Png
Jean Ng
Victoria Theatre
Oct 2000


Production / Technical Management






Production
Director
Role
Venue
Date





Farewell: The Body in 16 Chapters
(Macao Arts Festival 2013)
Kok Heng Luen
Technical Manager
Dom Pedro V Theatre (Macau)
April 2013
Friends’ Season – Tenderness For The Future.
(Theatreworks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
Technical Manager
72-13
Apr
2010
Flying Circus Project
(Theatreworks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
Technical Manager
Singapore - Cambodia
Nov 2009 – Jan 2010
Diaspora
(TheatreWorks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
Technical Manager
The Playhouse
(Edinburgh International Festival)
August 2009
Revolution–Per–Minute
(TheatreWorks SIngapore)
Choy Ka Fai
Production Technical Manager
72-13
Apr 2009
Destinies of Flowers in the Mirror
(Cake Theatrical Production)
Natalie Hennedige
Production Technical Manager
Esplanade – Theatre Studio
(as part of The Studio)
Apr 2009
Vivien & the Shadows
(Theatreworks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen

Technical Manager
UNC-Chapel Hill's
Memorial Hall
(USA-North Carolina)
OCT 2008
Flying Circus Project
(Theatreworks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen
(workshop with 18 international Artists)
Technical Manager
Singapore, Vietnam (HCMC)
Oct – Nov 2007
120
(TheatreWorks Singapore)
Ong Keng Sen

Technical Manager
National Museum Singapore
Oct 2007
Cogito
(Checkpoint Theatre)
Huzir Sulaiman
Technical Manager
Drama Center – Theatre
(Singapore Art Festival)
Jun 2007
Drift Net
(TheatreWorks Singapore)
Choy Ka Fai
Technical Manager
72 - 13
Mar 2007
Little Asia Dance Network

Joavien Ng, Sun Chou-Tai, Mitsutake Kasai, Andy Wong, Chung Yuen-soo
Technical Coordinator
Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Korea, Tokyo
(Asia Tour)
Sep 2005


Others






Production
Director / Choreographer
Designer
Role
Venue
Date






SPARK
(Esplanade)


Lighting Coordinator
Esplanade – Theatre Studio

i la galigo
(Change Performing Arts)
Robert Wilson
AJ Weissbard
Electrician / Spot Ops
Victoria Art Center (Melbourne)
(Melbourne Arts Festival)
Oct 2006
i la galigo
(Change Performing Arts)
Robert Wilson
AJ Weissbard
Electrician / Spot Ops
New York State Theater (USA) (Lincoln Center Festival)
July 2005
Temptation of Saint Anthony
(Change Performing Arts)
Robert Wilson
AJ Weissbard
Electrician / Spot Ops
Bari, Amsterdam, Bilbao, Madrid
(Europe Tour)
Apr – May 2005
i la galigo
(Change Performing Arts)

Robert Wilson
AJ Weissbard
Electrician / Spot Ops
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, Lyon, Ravenna
(Europe Tour)
May – June 2004



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