The Serangoon Gardens Techno Party of 1993, written by Joel Tan, will premiere as part of Wild Rice’s 2025 season, directed by Sim Yan Ying.

In 2023 I was commissioned by Centre 42 to document the process of Mari Kita Main Wayang, a transcreated adaptation of Felix Chia’s 1994 play written by Zulfadli Rashid and directed by Alvin Tan. Here is the resulting essay.

Tell-tale Signs is a multi-disciplinary devised theatre project that combines storytelling, signed poetry, Singapore Sign Language (SgSL), space, movement and music into an accessible presentation that shares stories from the Deaf community about their childhood and their educational experiences in a hearing world. This is an Inclusive Arts Residency Project supported by ART:DIS Singapore.

Created by Sim Yan Ying “YY” and Nabilah Said for T:>Works’ N.O.W. Festival for Women 2021, (un)becoming explores the complex dynamics of mother-daughter relationships in Singapore today. Audiences are taken through an online experience combining live performance, short films, and digital snooping. Devised in collaboration with the (un)becoming team, this show attempts to uncover what women inherit from their mothers and what they pass down––for better or for worse.

PASSAGE is an interactive digital experience. Borrowing elements from theatre, movement, and game design, the work leads audience-participants through a place of dwelling where the order of the familiar is made strange. Meandering through this dreamscape, participants encounter fragments of memories, stories, and lived experiences in real time, exploring the house as a paradoxical and allegorical site of both refuge and risk.

Weaving together personal stories and cultural perspectives, Where Are You? attempts to excavate the universal experience of grief through its unique manifestations. How do we talk openly and honestly about death? How can we be fearless about grieving deeply? And how will we reckon with where we go after death? Conceived, adapted and directed by Sim Yan Ying “YY” for WILD RICE.

A cross-cultural encounter involving artists based in Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, Who’s There? uses Zoom as a new medium to explore the unstable ground between us and “the other”. In this pandemic contact zone, lines along race, class and gender bleed into one another, questioning the assumptions we hold of ourselves and the world around us. What sort of tensions, anxieties and possibilities emerge, and how can we work to reimagine a New Normal? Commissioned by New Ohio Theatre for Ice Factory Festival 2020.