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Joel Tan

JOEL TAN

  
Nationality:    Singaporean
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Joel Tan is a playwright, director and performer. A versatile artist, his work crosses genres, styles and theatre-making cultures, including poetry, contemporary drama, dance theatre, pantomime and musical theatre. He made his debut at the 2011 Man Singapore Theatre Festival, with W!ld Rice's production of Family Outing, directed by Glen Goei. Since then, he has done work as a writer, director, dramaturg and actor with young-people's theatre groups, including varsity theatres like NUS Stage (City Night Songs, 2012) and USProductions (People, 2013) and community youth groups like Takeoff Productions (Postgrads, 2012; Mosaic, 2013) and Creative Edge (People, 2014). Joel mentors young writers in playwriting, most extensively at Buds Youth Theatre and frequently gives talks on writing, the theatre and literature at schools. He also works with veteran theatre-makers, and has written for W!ldrice (Jack and the Beansprout!, 2013), The Finger Players (The Next Page, 2014) and Checkpoint Theatre (Our Lady of Lourdes, 2014), where he is an Associate Artist. His work often crosses cultural contexts, most notably in his Singapore adaptation of The House of Bernarda Alba, which he wrote and directed for Flamenco company, Flamenco Sin Fronteras (The House, 2013). His monologue That Daniel, written during a weeklong playwright's retreat at Bundanon, Sydney, appears in Bite Me (2014), a collection of monologues published by Australian Theatre for Young People. Joel also writes creative non-fiction, and his work can be read at POSKOD.sg and in Esquire Singapore.

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         Family Outing         Hotel         House, The         Jack and the Beansprout!         Mosaic         People         Postgrads         That Daniel         Walking In

Family Outing

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Hotel

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The Finger Players for The Next Page, The Arts House 10th Anniversary    2014

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House, The

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from Lorcas The House of Bernarda Alba

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Flamenco Sin Fronteras    2013

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Jack and the Beansprout!

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Mosaic

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People

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Postgrads

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That Daniel

That Daniel
Thirteen delicious tales by some of the country's best emerging playwrights, Bite Me is the latest instalment of The Voices Project - the overwhelmingly successful annual program of monologues developed by ATYP, written by young people, performed by young actors around the country, and seen by over a million people globally online as we bring the monologues to life on film as well as on stage. This collection of thirteen monologues serves a mouth-watering banquet of work exploring our relationship with food. Funny, warm, irreverent and cheeky, this is a celebration of the complexity and contradictions of young lives. Bite Me is a feast for the senses.

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Walking In

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