Seize this opportunity for an exclusive yearlong behind-the-scenes look at the directing process of Joint Artistic Directors Claire Wong and Huzir Sulaiman through Checkpoint Theatre’s 2025 Season! Programme participants will get to observe the directors at work in each production: in selected design meetings, workshops and rehearsals; and have conversations with Claire or Huzir about their craft. The programme includes a complimentary pair of tickets to the opening night of each production where you will enjoy the show from the best seats in the house.
Biography:
Claire Wong is the co-founder, Joint Artistic Director, and Producer of Checkpoint Theatre. She is also a director, producer, actress, writer and former lawyer. Claire has helmed landmark Singapore productions and toured her work to international arts festivals. Her recent theatrical credits include directing and co-producing Hard Mode (2024); The Fourth Trimester (2022), which won the Straits Times Life Theatre Awards 2023 for Production of the Year; and directing and acting in Recalling Mother: Her Lines, My Lines (2022), a commission of Esplanade – Theatres On the Bay. Claire graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.
Huzir Sulaiman is the co-founder and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre. A critically acclaimed and award-winning playwright, Huzir Sulaiman’s Collected Plays 1998-2012 was published in 2013. His play Displaced Persons’ Welcome Dinner was a commission of the 2019 Singapore International Festival of Arts. Huzir’s recent directing credits include Secondary: The Musical (2024), Session Zero (2023, 2021), Tender Submission (2023), Brown Boys Don’t Tell Jokes (2023), The Weight of Silk on Skin as part of Chamber Readings: Plays by Huzir Sulaiman (2022), Vulnerable (2021), Two Songs and a Story (with Joel Lim, 2020), Thick Beats for Good Girls (2018) and FRAGO (2017).
Terms & Conditions:
– For 1 pax
– Access up to 5 rehearsals per production to observe the director’s rehearsal process
– Access to one dress rehearsal per production
– 2 tickets to the opening performance of each production
– Auction winner will receive a physical certificate of confirmation, to arrange your experience please contact [email protected]
