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KAYLENE TAN

As a director, writer and part of the company spell#7, Kaylene has been commissioned by Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore Biennale, M1 Fringe, Georgetown Festival and collaborated with numerous independent companies and artists. Her headphone theatre production of In the Silence of Your Heart for Esplanade’s Studios Season won Best Sound Design at the 2018 Life! Theatre Awards. Kaylene’s last play, Missing, co-written with filmmaker, K. Rajagopal was performed at the Arts House (Page to Stage Series) and The Godown, Kuala Lumpur (Urbanscapes 2019). More recently, she collaborated with multi-media artist, Brian Gothong Tan in Lost Cinema 20/20.

Lost Cinema 20/20

A collaboration with multi-media artist, Brian Gothong Tan exploring the nature of films and dreaming, inspired by 1950s Malayan film history.

Under the Five Trees

Five trees, five songs and five stories, waiting to be discovered in this audio and environmental installation at the Esplanade Park.

Missing

Missing is an intimate exploration of longing and loss in 70s Singapore, told through a mother and daughter’s stories about a man they loved.

In the Silence of Your Heart

A multi-sensory headphone theatre experience for the theatre, In the Silence of Your Heart is an invitation to enter the world of a charming politician and inveterate drinker. Lend him your ears because he needs to talk.

Deep in the Heart of Me

Part play reading, part object theatre and part Foley session, two performers on a stage assemble and tear apart a relationship over time.