Freelance Theatre Stage Director and Writer
Contact: cherilyn.woo@gmail.com
Residencies
Associate – Nine Years Theatre
Guest Artist – LASALLE College of the Arts
Directing Resident – Singapore Repertory Theatre
Education
Masters of Arts (Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship) - National University of Singapore
Creative Economy - UNESCO/City University of London
BA(Hons) Theatre and Performance - GOLDSMITHS /LASALLE College of the Arts
DIRECTing
Wizard of Oz, Associate Director, Wild Rice, 2024
Phinny & Wally 豚豚与鲸鲸, Director and Writer, Nine Years Theatre, 2024
The Devil in the Details, Director and Writer, Nine Years Theatre, 2024
DOTS 2.0, Co-Creator, NAC Performing Arts x Tech Lab, 2024
RHODO!, Co-Creator, National Gallery Singapore, Children’s Biennale, 2023
Us, 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