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Supported by:

3MEN

MEET

3WOMEN

Presented by:

3 Men Meet 3 Women

was first presented at The Substation in 2004. This programme was initiated by Verena Tay and Audrey Wong.

My Own Pretentious World

, a programme under

Crush

Set designed by Sean KohPerformed by Chen ShuzhuangIt is a simple story about a girl who lives in a playground, indulging in her own pleasures.

Perfect Happiness

Set designed by Gabriel NeoPerformed by Shen QiaoyunA woman. Happiness. Will being a perfect woman ensure happiness? It is a story about a woman who has been totally consumed by her perfect happiness.

My Name is

Set designed by Debbie DingPerformed by Chris LeeIf the spirits of this land, at the southern tip of Asiacan be brought alive, what voices would echo through the passages of time? My Name Is is a performancederived from an imaginative take on the performance space- at the statue of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles-along the Singapore River by a Singaporean actor.

SYnoPSES

BioS

Mentors

Yeo Hon Beng

Artistic Director (Mentor to Actors)A graduate from NUS Sociology and Theatre Studies, Hon Benghas spent the last decade of hisprofessional career soaking upvaried roles of theatreproductions and filming indifferent capacities. Currently afreelance theatre practitioner,Beng is active in directing, lightingand set design, publicity design,production, technical and stagemanagement. Beng serves as anart director in various filmproductions, including WaltDisneys Studio Disney.Beng conducts lessons andworkshops in various tertiary institutions and schools.Hes worked closely withNational Arts Council, DramaBox, Singapore Dance Theatre,Toy Factory Ensemble, ChineseOpera Institute, The TheatrePractice, The Necessary Stageand Singapore ChineseOrchestra, STAGES, Siong LengMusical Association, SingaporeTheatre Arts Troupe, NUSChinese Dance Ensemble, etc.Beng is sincerely committed in the grooming of new talents through workshops and theactive promotion of artseducation to both the studentsand the community. He is striving towards his dream to lead hisown theatre company,PLAYINGSPACE and designcompany Room 69, as an artisticdirector-cum-designer.

Wong Chee Wai

Technical Director (Mentor to Set Designers)Chee Wai is a full-time freelanceset designer. He has worked withlocal theatre companies such asDrama Box, Toy Factory Productions Ltd, The TheatrePractice, D'rama Arts, The FunStage in publicity, front-of-house,exhibition, costume and setdesign.His design work Titoudao (2000)clinched Best Production Designat the inaugural Life! TheatreAwards. He was nominated atStraits Time Life! Theatre Awardsin 2000 for Best ProductionDesign for A Tinted Edge by Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble and2005 for Best Set Design for Lovers' Words by The Fun Stage.Some of his past design creditsinclude Titoudao (2007,2000) by Toy Factory Productions Ltd;Long House (2006), A TintedEdge (Singapore Arts Festival2000); Lovers' Words (2005) by The Fun Stage; Private Parts(2004) by Vizpro Entertainment;Shithole (2005), ConstantConstipaton (2004), Cloud Nine(2003), White Songs (SingaporeArts Festival 2002), TimelessKitchen - Borrowed Time andKtichen, Sour Relationship (1999)by Drama Box, My Name isNadra (2000) by D'rama ArtsLtd.

Richard Chua

Producer To put it simply, Richard Chua isa theatremaker. He founded hisown theatre society, Little RedShop, in 2006, which producessmall-scale, intimate shows. For a number of years now, Richardhas worked closely with TheSubstation, from staging plays inThe Substation theatre to co-founding Project Chiaroscurowith Audrey Wong, Artistic Co-Director, The Substation  aproject that develops solo theatreperformances. This programmehad its beginnings in another theatrical event entitled 3 Menmeet 3 Women, with localplaywright and actor Verena Tay.In the international scene, Richardhas participated in different theatre festivals in China, HongKong, Macau and Taiwan. In 2004,Richard was invited to theprestigious Chinese DramaFestival with a production namedLovers Words, a project incollaboration with Taiwaneseplaywright Chiu An Chen. Thatwas the 1sttime a Singaporeanproduction has returned to thefestival after Kuo Pao Kunsproductions of Spirits Play in 1998and Sunset Rise in 2000.Richard has been actively involvedin theatre collaborations withmany artists from differentpractices  visual arts, film, dancersand such. He has just completedhis Indian dance theatre projectBophana with Maya DanceTheatre and 2 modern Noh playsby Japanese playwright YukioMishima, with World-In-Theatre.Read more about the Little RedShop at

http://www.littleredshop.org

,and Chinese Performing ArtsTheatre Exchange Network at

http://www.theatrex.org