Education + Outreach 2006
About Us
Established in 1985, TheatreWorks is an international performance company based in Singapore. The company is known for its reinvention of traditional performances through a juxtaposition of different art forms and cultural styles. Along with its cutting edge productions that set new benchmarks for artistic excellence, its works reflect a concern with cultural negotiation and artistic exchanges with artists, through a network of traditional and contemporary artists from different disciplines.
The company recognizes its responsibility in encouraging awareness of human and social issues and is dedicated to sharing the magic of theatre with arts lovers and the Singapore community.
TheatreWorks Education & Outreach was set up in 1991 to work closely with schools and institutions. Since becoming a fulltime unit in 2002, headed by Associate Artistic Director Jeffrey Tan, we have provided Acting, Playwriting, Directing and Production workshops, Assembly Plays and Integrated Drama Camps for Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, Polytechnics and the public.
We work with three principles for all our education and outreach programmes - Explore, Experience, Create. We believe that theatre offers active learning beyond just the art form. Through the exploration of characters in situations that may or may not be familiar, participants gain to experience and learn about themselves and the world we live in. TheatreWorks Education & Outreach also works collaboratively with both government and private organisations to create comprehensive developmental Arts Education Programmes - within and outside of the school curriculum, or on special commission shows. Ultimately, we are dedicated to the development of high quality educational theatre programmes for schools and new audiences of today.
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
An experienced theatre director/educator, Jeffrey has worked as Associate Director of TheatreWorks (S) Ltd, Education and Outreach since 2002. He has conceptualized, produced, directed and taught the majority of the education and outreach programmes and productions for both schools, private and public organizations. He also coordinates the TheatreWorks Writers Laboratory, organizing the Greenhouse, 24 hrs Playwriting Competition and the Singapore Young Dramatist Award.
Some of the schools programmes include in and out of curriculum workshops for both drama and English, introducing values through drama for the Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies, directing school openings (Bedok Green), school drama nights (Chinese High, Methodist Girls School, Anglo Chinese School Independent), touring Assembly plays, drama workshops camps, directing for the Singapore Youth Festival Drama Competition from 2003 to 2005.
Jeffrey also sat on the NAC Singapore Arts Festival’s Programming Committee 2001/2002, 2003/2004 and the NAC Georgette Chen Scholarship Panel 2002. Jeffrey is also the founder President of the Singapore Drama Educators Association. In 2005, Jeffrey was appointed to be part of the International Advisory panel for the “Research in Drama In Education” Publication.
EDUCATION & OUTREACH EXECUTIVE, Ms. Janice Seah, janice@theatreworks.org.sg
TheatreWorks (S) Ltd.
72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore 239007
T: +65 6737 7213, F: +65 6737 7013