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Putting the T in Theatre: Transness on the Singaporean Stage
venue: theatre
date: Sun, 27 April
time: 2:00pm- 3:15pm
From Private Parts to Lest The Demons Get To Me to trans:mission, what space can transness take up in Singaporean theatre? How do trans performers navigate the often extremely-gendered space of being onstage? What does a “little act of rebellion” look like in the limelight? Will trans actors play trans characters? Only? How do trans theatre practitioners take up space, and how do we make space for stories that queer gender? Join us for a panel that will be anything but scripted.
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Alfian Sa'at - panel moderator
Alfian Sa’at is the Resident Playwright of Wild Rice. In 2001, he won the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature. He has been nominated 12 times for Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards, winning for Landmarks (2005), Nadirah (2010), Kakak Kau Punya Laki (Your Sister's Husband, 2014) and Hotel (with Marcia Vanderstraaten, 2016). Alfian has also been awarded the Boh-Cameronian Award in Malaysia for Best Book and Lyrics for The Secret Life of Nora (2011) and for Best Original Script for Parah (Wounded, 2013). His plays have been read and performed in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Tokyo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Melbourne , London and Berlin.
Medli Dorothea Loo (she/her)
Medli is a 21-year-old actress and theatre-maker who first started performing professionally when she was 7-years-old. She has since continued to act and star in numerous television shows, movies and theatre productions, most recently, “Old Gaze” (2023) “Snow White and The Seven Dwarves” (2023) and “trans:mission” (2024) where she served as both a director and performer.
Crenshaw (she/her)
Crenshaw is a trans woman in theatre. She graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2015 with a degree in Musical Theatre and has performed in numerous productions as her former cis-male presenting self, including Rent (2016) and Into The Woods (2023) with Pangdemonium!, La Cage Aux Folles (2017) with W!ld Rice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023) with Singapore Repertory Theatre, where she also served as Assistant Director. From 2018–2020, she was Resident Assistant Director at SRT. In 2019, she founded MoreLife Theatre and produced/directed Banh Mi on the Roof & Till The Lights Come On (2022).
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