Tan Shou Chen (Director)

Tan Shou Chen is a recognised theatremaker from Singapore – he is an actor and a director. Shou Chen has created or performed in works that have been seen in the UK, Thailand, France, China, Portugal and Singapore. Shou Chen works regularly with new writing across all stages, from conception to production. www.shouchen.net.

Chew Wei Li (Actor)

Wei Li is a uni tutor by day and voice actor by late, late night. He can mostly be heard not having a good time in some weird horror podcasts. When not suffering down a microphone, he enjoys audio fiction, prog metal, and the existence of cats.

Dennis Sofian (Actor)

Dennis is an actor, host and voiceover artist who plays the violin and freestyle raps. 

His Singapore stage credits include The Cat in the Hat, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) with SRT, as well as An Inspector Calls, Tartuffe, and Bull with W!LD RICE, and Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap with How Drama.

Internationally, Dennis has performed in Mail Ordered across Canada in the Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver Fringe Festivals (Winner of Pick of the Fringe).

Dennis trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Fadhil Daud (Actor)

Fadhil is a freelance actor for theatre and film, a drama educator, and also an aspiring director. His past theatre works include Never The Bride (The Necessary Stage), Sherlock Sam: The Musical (Dream Academy), Puppet Origin Stories (The Finger Players) and Fatimah and Her Magic Socks (Esplanade PLAYtime!) He’s on a mission to inject more joy into his life and is constantly seeking avenues to train his creativity, be it as a performer or theatre maker.

Jo Tan (Actor)

Jo Tan is an award-winning actor and/or playwright, but most often ‘and’, as seen in her multi-accoladed plays like King, Forked, and Session Zero. She has a somewhat international CV, with Forked and King touring the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as being commissioned for the Sydney Fringe Festival, and Por Por’s Big Fat Surprise Wedding co-headlining Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival. King - with its first two iterations both produced by T:>Works - won her both the Best Original Script and Best Actress titles at the Life! Theatre Awards, before being nominated for the Popcorn Writing Awards in Edinburgh this year. Jo also co-created Dungeons and Distractions with Edward Choy - a live Dungeons and Dragons game with inflatable dice and fight choreography!

Sindhura Kalidas (Actor)

Sindhura is a theatre practitioner and educator. She is an Associate Artist with The Necessary Stage (TNS) and a core team member of The Finger Players (TFP). Selected acting credits include Wild Rice’s Hotel (2025) and Psychobitch (2023), for which she earned a Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards nomination for Best Actress, TFP's Little Mournings (2021), and TNS's Off Centre (2018). Sindhu is a recipient of the NAC Postgraduate Scholarship and holds an MA (Distinction) in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is always happy to champion and celebrate new writing in Singapore!

Zorian Seah (Actor)

Zorian is a third-year student who is currently studying Diploma in Theatre (English Drama) at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). He was inspired by Spider-Man to study Science in order to create a radioactive spider that could grant him the powers of Spider-Man. However, when he realised that he wasn’t the most scientific person, he opted to go down the route of being an actor instead, in hopes that he might one day land the role of Spider-Man himself. In his free time, he studies for his dream role by collecting comics and action figures.

Open Category

Inch Chua

inch makes music, theatre, but mostly dinner. She appreciates good cocktails, random animal factoids, and post-apocalyptic sandbox video games. She lives with two cat overlords and a nursery of overwatered plants. She is currently developing her next musical, Soulmate in a Box (May 2026).

L.L. Wenyi

Wenyi is a 90s-born office wagie. They write occasionally and informally. They are influenced by weird, speculative, allegorical comedies and horrors. They are interested in themes of profiteering systems that deaden people into passive individualists comfortable with relaying injustice down the hierarchy.

Portrait illustration: Niki @chilitomato.tattoo

Goh Ming Siu

Goh Ming Siu is an award-winning filmmaker with over 20 years’ experience in the Singapore media industry. His first feature film Repossession (2019) won multiple awards internationally and is distributed in North America. TimeOut Singapore picked it as one of the best Singapore films of all time, and the New York Times spotlighted it in January 2022. At the 2024 Taiwan Creative Content Festival, his miniseries in development, Pontianaks in Taiwan, won three awards, and was featured in Variety, Deadline, and Screen International. It was also selected for the 2025 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s It Project Market.

Youth Category

N Chesterman

N Chesterman is unrelentingly passionate about theatre. As part of the IB Diploma Programme, they studied it as a higher level subject (while also directing four plays across the two years!) N engages with theatre in every way they can, and is keen to learn and grow as a theatre-maker and an individual at university and beyond. Testimony is their first play.

Adlynn Fadila

Adlynn Fadila is an A-Level Theatre Studies student and a lover of all things Singaporean theatre. When she’s not catching another play, you can probably find her screaming at a Formula 1 livestream.

Sumedha Sanjeev Kumar

Sumedha is a theatre student whose work aims to explore ideas regarding culture, and the relationship between art and memories. As an advocate for the arts, she hopes to make theatre more prominent in the Singaporean Arts Scene so that more are aware of the beauty of theatre and the lessons they contain for our society.

Open Category

First Prize: Waiting for a Sentence by Inch Chua
Two old friends. One old sin. Chester and Hyder haven't spoken in years, but some silences only get louder. When they finally meet again, what surfaces isn't resolution but everything they buried together. A play about transience and transgression, guilt, and the ghosts we make of each other. Some friendships don't survive despite the damage, they survive because of it.

Second Prize: Macroscopic Lens by L.L. Wenyi
Atop an untouchable tower overlooking the Republic, four ministers gather - three veteran, one fresh - to contain a political time bomb promising to ruin one of their own. But with the rookie minister's past friendship with the culprit, can they sustain civil dialogue, maintain parliamentary optics, and reach a pragmatic solution? 

Third Prize: The Tree of Life by Goh Ming Siu
Michael is a veteran military police investigator on the most baffling case of his career. Three soldiers have been inexplicably, horrifically maimed—while lying in their beds at night. The only person with any answers seems to be Jantan, a quiet, unassuming young man with a deep, mystical connection to the land. As they plunge into an ancient and terrifying nightmare, Michael is forced to confront the fallout of violence inflicted in the name of progress… Can he find his way back? Can we?

Special Mention: Blinds by Gabrielle Marie Sunderaj
Blinds is a contemporary play centred on Charisse, a social worker within a modern child welfare system who is stuck on a particular case that she struggles to come to terms with. Structured through a disjunctive form, the play moves between comedic, satirical moments and striking visual sequences to examine the, at times, impersonal nature of bureaucracy. Blinds attends to the unresolved space between frameworks oriented toward efficiency and optimisation, and the human impulse and capacity to care for another.

Special Mention: Lost Edge by Wong Chen Seong
Lost Edge is about a veterinarian who paints to move through memory, addiction, grief, and recovery. In his studio, colour becomes language: pigments bloom, bleed, and muddy even as his own days do. He speaks of animals he cannot save, a father who only as a thumbnail and a voice, forbidden comforts and a teenage moment that fractures time. Past and present overlap, edges dissolve, and meaning blurs. Through art and careful attention, Simon searches for what was lost — and for whether an edge, once blended and so lost, can ever be found again.

Youth Category

First Prize: Testimony by N Chesterman
Testimony explores the experiences of a group of students in the wake of a friend's death. Their anonymous voices weave in and out of a shared identity as they narrate their experiences with him, even as they grapple with the implications of his passing for the people they believe themselves to be.

Second Prize: Dead Pigeons Society by Adlynn Fadila
When three teen boys/wannabe black magicians decide to sacrifice a bird in a makeshift ritual, everything goes horribly wrong. Peter, Hazwan and Arvind are forced to come face-to-face with their futures, however bittersweet they may be. Through local mythology and humour, Dead Pigeons Society explores themes of change, friendship, and what it means to live as a Singaporean without being pigeonholed by its expectations.

Third Prize: The Rorschach Test by Sumedha Sanjeev Kumar
The Rorschach Test follows a young artist who is progressively losing his sight. As his vision continues to deteriorate, his identity as a talented artist is at stake, and he gives up art for a long time. However, after a particular visit to the optometrist, the artist’s perception of art is subverted. This piece ultimately explores how to see with the heart through a love for art and support from those close to us.

Special Mention: Kaleidoscope by Ler Mingzhu
Kaleidoscope follows Harvey, a naive fourteen-year-old boy. His home is crumbling around him, and he holds tightly to his pet hamster, Stum, throughout that process. In his search for comfort, Harvey's relationship develops with his much older neighbor, Audeline, whose initially warm personality gradually becomes manipulative as their relationship becomes increasingly intertwined. At the same time, Harvey is being tormented by Audeline's sister, Lux, while also having a troubled relationship with his brother, Henry, who is trying to improve himself despite falling deeper and deeper into despair.