Freelance Theatre Stage Director and Writer

Contact:  webcherilyn@gmail.com

POSTINGS & Training

Associate Nine Years Theatre

Guest Artist (2021)– LASALLE College of the Arts

Directing Residency Programme (2014 - 2016)Singapore Repertory Theatre

Creative Economy (2022) - UNESCO/City University of London

 BA(Hons) Theatre and Performance - GOLDSMITHS /LASALLE College of the Arts

(ongoing)Masters of Arts (Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship) - National University of Singapore

DIRECTing

Us (Restage), Director, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Esplanade’s Playtime!, 2023

24-Hour Playwriting Competition Awards, Co-Director, Tworks, 2023

Hare and Tortoise, Director, KC Arts Center, Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2022

Mcbeat and the Lil’Shake Crew, Co-Creator, Co-writer, Performer, Esplanade Commission at the Theatre Studio, 2022

Order on The Go, Director, The Arts House Commission, The Entity, Aliwal Arts Center, 2022

People, Director, Flexible Performance Space, Lasalle College of the Arts, 2021

The Sound Inside, Director, KC Arts Center, Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2021

王命 (Oedipus), Director & Adaptation, KC Arts Center, Nine Years Theatre, 2021

[Digital]Is That It? / 就这样吗?,Co-director, Nine Years Theatre, Vimeo, 2020

[Digital]The Coronalogues - Silver Linings, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Facebook Live, 2020

Note For Note, The Arts House, Playden, 2020

了不起的狐狸爸爸 ( Fantastic Mr Fox), Associate Director, Singapore Repertory Theatre, KC Arts Center, 2019

Cantiamo: Masters Of American Opera [Opera], Yong Siew Toh (YST) Conservatory of Music, YST Concert Hall, 2019

浮世/德 (FAUST/US), Director & Adaptation,Drama Center Black Box, Nine Years Theatre, 2019

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda [Opera], Yong Siew Toh (YST) Conservatory of Music, YST Concert Hall, 2018

The Last Five Years: A Gender Reversal, produced by Ethel Yap, Center 42, 2018

La Bohéme [Opera], Singapore Symphony Orchestra,Esplanade Concert Hall, 2018

Nightingale, Associate Director, Singapore Repertory Theatre,KC Arts Center, 2018

Devising Presentation, SRT Young Company, The Loft @ Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2015

Play Reading Presentation, SRT Young Company, The Loft @ Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2015

The Woman Before, Written by Roland Schimmelpfenning, LASALLE Creative Cube, 2013 

The Bus Stop, Written by Gao Xingjian, LASALLE CREATIVE CUBE, 2012

Abstraction - a collaboration with interactive media, LASALLE CREATIVE CUBE, 2012 

遗志 (Yí Zhì), a mandarin production inspired by Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs, 2012

Collaborations

A Collection of Things, Writer & Co-Producer, Commissioned by Arts in Your Neighbourhood (AYN), IssyXCher, Serangoon, 2021

A Collection of Things, Writer & Co-Producer, Commissioned by Arts in Your Neighbourhood (AYN), IssyXCher, Bukit Panjang, 2020

[Online] Dearest S, Performance Architect, Commissioned by Singapore Writer’s Festival, P&C, Telegram, 2020

Community Participation

The Advisory Mentorship Programme, Wave 2 Mentor, Singapore, 2020

Making Performance in Public Spaces, Selected Panelist, Singapore, in conjunction with AYN, 2020

Digital Technologies in Performing & Live Arts, Selected Workshop Participant, Singapore, National Arts Council, 2019

ALL IN! Young Writers Festival, Panel speaker - “Writing Socially-Relevant Artistic Content”, Singapore, 2018

Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop on AI Futures, Selected Workshop participant, Singapore, Digital Asia Hub, 2018

Asian Producers Platform 2018, Selected Participant, Indonesia, 2018

Performance Studies International #20, Selected Presenter, Shanghai Theatre Academy, 2013

Professional Experience

第一舰队 ( First Fleet), Surtitle Translator, Nine Years Theatre and Singapore Chinese Culture Center, 2019

李尔亡 (Lear is Dead) , Surtitle Translator, Nine Years Theatre, 2018

咔嚓卡夫卡! (Cut Kafka!), Surtitle Translator, Nine Years Theatre x T.H.E Dance Company, 2018

Disgraced, Producer's Assistant, Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2016

艺术 ( Art ) ,Director’s Assistant & Stage Crew, Dir. Nelson Chia, Nine Years Theatre, Huayi Festival, 2014

人民公敌(An Enemy of the People) ,Director’s Assistant & Sound op, Dir. Nelson Chia, Nine Years Theatre, 2013

The Infinitesimal Distance Between Two People, Dramaturg Mentee, Ming Poon & Scarlett Yu, Esplanade Theatres By the Bay, Da:ns Festival, 2013