Lee received his contemporary dance training at LASALLE- College of the Arts in Singapore and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts both under scholarship. He has worked with several notable choreographers including Robert Tannion, Co-Artistic Director of Stan Won’t Dance and former dancer with DV8, Natalie Weir (Australia), Cheuk-Yin Mui (Hong Kong), Tsung-Lung Cheng (Taiwan) and Ricky Sim (Singapore).

As one of the founding members of T.H.E Dance Company, Lee has performed in all the company’s works since its establishment in 2008 and choreographed works for T.H.E Second Company.

Chong Tze Chien is an award-winning and published playwright/director in Singapore. Some of the awards he had won include the Singapore Dramatist Award and The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards: Best Director, Best Script and Production of the Year. He also writes frequently for local television channels, Channel 5 and okto.

Tze Chien's works have travelled overseas and dramatized by Royal Court's Exposure: Young Writers 2000 in 2000 and Singapore London Playhouse's double bill adaptation of his published plays PIE to SPOILT in 2005. In August 2006, his work Furthest North, Deepest South made its international premier in Budapest, Hungary. For his contributions to Singapore Theatre, he was awarded the Young Artist Award by the Singapore's National Arts Council in 2006.

He is the Company Director of The Finger Players.

Chen Yingxuan
Theatre Mentee

Yingxuan is a Literature major in her last semester at NUS. She was introduced to varsity theatre through Huzir Sulaiman’s playwriting modules, and continued to explore this interest through NUS Stage. Since then, she acted in Mind Games (2010), wrote and acted in Supermarket (2011), directed Everyday Miracle (2011), understudied Huzir for City Night Songs (2012), and directed Chasing Yesterday (2012).

Samantha Eva Ho
Dance Mentee

Samantha is trained in classical ballet under the tutelage of Cheah Mei Sing at the Singapore Ballet Academy, and completed the Royal Academy of Dancing Vocational Syllabus in 2008. Her performance repertoire include: The Nutcracker (Singapore Dance Theatre, Singapore, 2005), La Sylphide (Singapore Dance Theatre, Singapore 2006), Silence (Kuik Swee Boon, Beijing, 2006).

Her first piece of choreography was staged in the Raffles Girls School (Secondary) Modern Dance Club annual concert in 2004. Since then, Samantha has actively contributed more dance works such as Wanted (Singapore Ballet Academy, 2007), Celebrations (Singapore Ballet Academy, 2008), Last Song (NUS Dance Synergy, 2010), bez rupem (NUS Dance Synergy, 2011), Listen, now (NUS Dance Synergy, 2011), Morning Light (NUS Dance Synergy, 2012) and Horoe (NUS Dance Synergy, 2012). Her works have been well-received by audiences, in particular bez rupem and Morning Light, which have been selected by the NUS Dance Synergy committee for re-staging at external engagements such as Ballet Under the Stars (2013).

A nocturnal being with an acute interest in light and darkness, Woan Wen was a recipient of the inaugural National Arts Council Arts Professional Scholarship 2001 and was trained at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Stage Lighting Design. Also a Theatre Studies graduate from the National University of Singapore, she has lit over 100 theatre, dance and cross-disciplinary projects and has received multiple Best Lighting Design awards at the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards. She has been Associate Lighting Designer with local theatre company The Finger Players since 2004 and was conferred the Young Artist Award in 2011.

Born in Singapore in 1979, Darren Ng was trained in classical piano and majored in Theatre Studies and Philosophy as an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. Upon graduation, Darren became a full-time sound designer, music composer and sound artist.

An Associate Sound Artist and Music Composer of The Finger Players, Darren has worked on numerous productions with the group, including The Book of Living and Dying (2012), the awardwinning Turn by Turn We Turn (2011) and POOP (2009/2010), amongst others.

To date, he has more than 150 theatre and arts productions under his belt and 10 award nominations by The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards in the past decade. With The Finger Players, Darren won the Best Sound award at The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Twisted (2005) and 0501 (2007). Darren is also an electro-acoustic sound artist and composer who practices under the pseudonym sonicbrat. Being a multi-instrumentalist, his music explores playing various instruments with unconventional methods and fusing found sounds with his acoustic compositions.

Eleanor Neo is a Literature graduate and teacher who has written for Ceriph, NUS Arts Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival. She wants to continue learning, creating and recording stories wherever her place in life. On really free days, she enjoys picking apart soap operas with snarky family members.

Liansheng is a 4th-Year Undergraduate, studying at NUS Faculty of Law. At the age of 16, he wrote his first play, Revelations《是非》, which was loosely based on the life of Leslie Cheung.

He has since written more scripts, notably Interview with the Devil (24 Hour Playwriting Competition 2006, 2nd Prize) and Be With Me 《勿忘我》 (Short+Sweet Singapore 2009 Mandarin Top 10). He recently made his debut work-in-progress with The Boy Inside (2007 Singapore Young Dramatists Award (Category C), 2nd Prize) as part of the NUS Arts Festival 2012.

Recently, he participated in a Singapore Arts Festival writing project, Platform Campus - Circle Lines, which culminated in the publication of a book. 《蝶》I am here, which was part of Circle Lines, was first read at Type & Casted – An Evening of Play Reads and will be presented as part of NUS Arts Festival 2013.

In addition to playwriting, he has also worked as production crew for The Necessary Stage, The Theatre Practice and NUS Centre For the Arts.

Faith is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Creative Writing: Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia (UEA), under the National Arts Council (NAC) Postgraduate Scholarship. Her first short play, Not With a Bang But a Whimper was one of the top thirty plays for Short & Sweet Festival Singapore (2009) and her monologue Dad was featured in Seed Festival (2010). Her first full-length play wo(men) opened the NUS Arts Festival (2010) and was nominated for Best Original Script in The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards (2011). She was also a contributing writer for #157 at the NUS Arts Festival (2012) and Circle Lines, a book commissioned by the Singapore Arts Festival (2012). She is working closely with Checkpoint Theatre to complete her next full-length play, For Better or For Worse.