Judy Ngo is the Artistic Director of 1N THE ACT which focuses on education through drama. She started teaching in 2000 and often works with schools as a CCA instructor, drama instructor and Artist-In-School. She has over 25 years of experience in acting, teaching and directing theatre and has worked with many theatre companies in Singapore including The Theatre Practice, W!ld Rice, The Necessary Stage and Drama Box.

Judy believes in constant training and has attended courses conducted by masters such as David Diamond, Philippe Gaulier, Anne Bogart, Keith Johnstone and Danny Yung. Judy firmly believes that theatre should be about life and that life should be lived.

Formed in 2003, NUS Chinese Drama strives to create performances that resonate with human emotions and experiences and that provoke critical thinking.

Previously mentored by Li Xie and Peter Sau, the group focused on forum theatre and presented works including Funeral in 2012 which shed light on issues regarding traditional funeral rites and Just A Bad Day in 2014 on the theme of violence against women. Besides presenting original works devised through interactive theatre, the group has also performed scripted plays translated to Mandarin such as Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay by Dario Fo in 2013 and Dear Miss Ye, adapted from Dear Elena Sergeevna by Lyudmila Razumovskaya in 2017; where members took responsibility for directing and production work.

In 2018, under the guidance of Anne Chua from Tapestry Playback Theatre, NUS Chinese Drama presented a Playback performance sharing stories from the audience by enacting them on stage. The group also challenged themselves to present a devised piece based upon their own stories in The Child Who Loved Numbers, under the guidance and direction of Judy Ngo as part of NUS Arts Festival 2019. The play was awarded Original Work of the Year at the Tan Ean Kiam Arts Awards 2019.

Currently under the guidance of Judy Ngo, NUS Chinese Drama aims to nurture actors who are committed to learning how to express themselves through the use of theatre and wish to develop a holistic experience of theatre for themselves and their audiences.