ANG Gey Pin
Pedagogue / Performer / Director
A practice-researcher at heart, Ang Gey Pin is deeply committed to uncovering the organic authenticity of the actor. Her artistic journey began in 1986 under the mentorship of the late Kuo Pao Kun at Practice Theatre Ensemble. In the 1990s, as Artistic Director of Theatre OX, she led research into Chinese cultural sources while integrating Taiji and meditation into actor training.
From 1994 and again from 1998 to 2006, Ang was a key performer with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Italy, touring internationally under Project The Bridge: Developing Theatre Arts. In 2006, she founded Sourcing Within, a platform dedicated to embodied practice, research, and intercultural performance.
Ang holds a BA with Distinction from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a PhD in Drama (Practice as Research) from the University of Kent. A recipient of Singapore’s National Arts Council Theatre Award (1999), she continues to work across directing, performing, and mentoring. Her directing credits include The Peculiar Tra La (Intercultural Theatre Institute), The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree (Young People’s Performing Arts Ensemble / LASALLE), Antigone (LASALLE), Offending the Audience (NAFA), and most recently The Door (NAFA UAS @ Singapore International Arts Festival).
Her research is published in books and journals on intercultural theatre and performance anthropology. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Theatre, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
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photo credit: Tan Ngiap Heng