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Founded previously as Varsity Drama in 2006, and later renamed in 2008, NUS Stage has long been dedicated to the nurturing of talents on stage who aspire to tell the untold stories of our generation and who keenly explore the underlying social issues through thought-provoking tales of human drama. The group is strongly committed to training actors, nurturing playwrights and grooming production teams who push creative boundaries and produce high quality, artistic content that engages its audiences.

 

Recent productions include End of the Line, and Blackout directed by Chong Tze Chien for the NUS Arts Festival 2023 and 2022 respectively, Shook directed by Sean Tobin for the NUS Arts Festival 2021, Complicité’s A Disappearing Number, for NUS Arts Festival 2019, The Golden Record for NUS Arts Festival 2017: Brave New Worlds, which commemorated the 40th anniversary of the historical launch of the Voyager 1 space probe and The Golden Record 2.0, directed and written by Edith Podesta together with journalist Corrie Tan.

Key Past Events

2023 NUS Arts Festival, End of the Line
2022 NUS Arts Festival, Blackout
2021 NUS Arts Festival, Shook
2019 NUS Arts Festival Opening Show, A Disappearing Number
2018 NUS Arts Festival, The Golden Record 2.0 
2018 NUS ExxonMobil Campus Concerts, The City Remembers
2017 NUS Arts Festival, The Golden Record 

Awards and achievements

2012 The Good, the Bad and the Sholay was nominated at the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Best Original Script, Best Director and Production of the Year.
2011 The Good, the Bad and the Sholay was chosen as the Top 5 plays of 2011 by the Flying Inkpot
2011 wo(men) was nominated at the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Best Actress, Best Original Script and Best Set Design
2011 wo(men) was awarded the Life! Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress

Chong Tze Chien

Artistic Director

A graduate from NUS theatre studies programme, Tze Chien is a core member of The Finger Players and an award winning playwright/ director. Some of the awards he has won include the Singapore Dramatist Award and The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards. His plays have been staged in Singapore, UK, Budapest, Taiwan and Japan. He has two collections of plays published by The Necessary Stage and Epigram Books respectively, containing critically acclaimed plays such as Charged (The Business Times’ top ten Singapore play of all time) and PIE. Other notable works by Tze Chien include Turn By Turn We Turn, Poop!, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and The Book of Living and Dying.  Tze Chien was the Creative Director of Singapore Pools’ float and performance in Chingay 2007 and 2008, Co-conceptualist and Writer for NDP 2016, Creative Director of Island Adventures for National Museum of Singapore’s Children’s Season 2012, Artistic Director of The Arts House’s 10th Anniversary in 2014, and the Co-curator of The Studios: Fifty, a festival of 50 iconic Singapore Plays presented by the Esplanade in 2015. For his contributions to Singapore Theatre, he was awarded the Young Artist Award by Singapore’s National Arts Council in 2006.

Photo credit: The Finger Players