CHIA, NELSON
Instructor
MA Lond. Goldsmiths, BA (Hons) NUS

Tel: 65-6516-6031
Office: AS5-05-14
E-mail: ellcsc {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• TS2239 Major Playwrights of the 20th Century (Sem 1)
• TS1101E Introduction to Theatre and Drama -Theory (Sem 2)
• TS3103 Play Production - Director (Sem 1)

Research interests:
• Acting Theories and Methodologies
• Theories of Performance
• Approaches to Stage Directing

HWANG, HA YOUNG
Assistant Professor
PhD MA Exeter, BA Yonsei

Tel: 65-6516-3701
Office: AS5-05-13
E-mail: ellhhy {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• TS3880 Topics in Group Practice Research (Sem 1 & 2)
• TS4216 Feminism and Theatre (Sem 1)
• TS2236 Crossing Boundaries in Performance (Sem 2)

Research interests:

LIM, EDNA M L
Lecturer
PhD MA BA NUS

Tel: 65-6516-6037
Office: AS5-05-31
E-mail: elllime {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllime/

Currently teaching:
• TS2238/SSA2218 Singapore Film: Performance of Identity (Sem 1)
• TS3245 Professional Theatre Internship (Sem 1)
• TS3243 Stage and Screen (Sem 2)
• TS5212 Asian International Cinema (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Contemporary popular culture, media and theatre studies
• Questions of identity and ideology
• Singapore theatre, Peranakan theatre
• The media in Singapore: particularly the inter-relations between industries of film, theatre and television
• Adaptation: negotiations between film, literature and theatre

LOON, ROBIN
Assistant Professor
PhD. Lond. Royal Holloway, MA BA(Hons) NUS

Tel: 65-6516-4070
Office: AS5-05-17
E-mail: elllsy {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllsy/

Currently teaching:
• TS5101 Text and Performance (Sem 1)
• TS1101E Introduction to Theatre and Drama - Theory (Sem 2)
• TS4219 Media and Popular Performance (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Intercultural performance
• Performance and performativity in media and popular culture
• Postmodern aesthetics in theatre

RAE, PAUL ALEXANDER
Assistant Professor
PhD. Middlesex, MA Warwick, BA(Hons) Bristol

Tel: 65-6516-3931
Office: AS5-05-17
E-mail: ellrpa {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellrpa/

Currently teaching:
• TS3245 Professional Theatre Internship (Sem 1)
• TS4221 Performance Research (Sem 1)
• TS4217 Cultural Performance in Asia (Sem 2)
• GEK1055 The Theatre Experience (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Contemporary Southeast Asian Theatre and Performance
• Theories of Performance and Performativity
• Practice as Research
• Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and Interculturalism as they relate to Performance Processes

SAMOSIR, NORA ANNY
Instructor
Postgraduate Dipl, The Open Univ, U.K., BA (Hons) York Canada, CertEd Sngapore

Tel: 65-6516-6031
Office: AS5-05-14
E-mail: ellsna {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• TS1101E Introduction to Theatre and Drama - Practical (Sem 1)
• TS2233 Praxis in Theatre and Performance Theory (producer) (Sem 1)
• TS2240 Voice Studies and Production (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Voice in performance
• The nature of acting

SEET, K K
Senior Lecturer
PhD Exe., MA Tor., BA(Hons) NUS, DipEd Sngapore, CertComm CAM Fdn.

Tel: 65-6516-6030
Office: AS5-06-09
E-mail: ellskk {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
www.kkseet.com

Currently teaching:
• TS1101E Introduction to Theatre and Drama - Theory (Sem 1)
• TS3235/SSA3201 Singapore English-Language Theatre (Sem 1)
• TS3245 Professional Theatre Internship (Sem 1)
• TS4218 Theatre and Postmodernism (Sem 1)
• TS2235 Marketing the Arts and Leisure Services (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Performance Theory And The Semiotics Of Theatre
• Singapore Literature, Especially Prose And Drama
• Christina Stead
• Kuo Pao Kun’s Plays

SHEN, GRANT
Associate Professor
PhD Hawaii, MA Shanghai Normal

Tel: 65-6516-3925
Office: AS5-05-27
E-mail: ellsgg {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellsgg/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellsgg/index.htm

Currently teaching:
• TS2232 Introduction to Asian Theatre (Sem 1)
• TS3237 Acting and Directing in Asian Theatre (Sem 1)
• TS3239 Classical Asian Dramatic Texts (Sem 2)
• TS5211 Classical Theories of Asian Theatre (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Asian Theatre: Directing In Indian Sanskrit Theatre, Chinese Zaju Opera, and Japanese Kabuki Drama
• Chinese Classics: Theatre Performance During The Ming Dynasty; Short Stories