AUDERIA TAN

FREELANCE THEATRE PRACTITIONER

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About Me

“The heart of Drama is Facilitation“ - Peggy Feorra, 2015

About Auderia 

Auderia is a freelance theatre practitioner based in Singapore who wishes to use drama as a tool to explore, expose, empower, and connect with different communities on various social issues. She received her Diploma in Applied Drama and Psychology (DADP, Singapore Polytechnic) in 2017 and has co-created, facilitated, performed, and written programmes for communities since her time in school.

Recently, Auderia has also started her learning journey as an maker designing and making props, puppets and objects of imagination.

What do I do? 

I use elements of drama to educate, empower, and explore. 

What am I up to recently?

1) Art in the Commons Dakota Cassia

Art in the Commons: Dakota-Cassia, is part of Singapore Art Museum’s collaboration with Drama Box, to embark on community-based arts programmes in the Cassia area.

Residents of Cassia Crescent and its adjacent areas will play a significant role in Art in the Commons: Dakota-Cassia, a multi-year, multidisciplinary contemporary art project that explores the process of community building through the arts. Through collaborative and arts activities, they will help to uncover community interests and shape the outcomes of this process-driven project which hopes to create opportunities to rekindle old relationships and build new ones.

For more information: https://hellocassiacrescent.wordpress.com/

Join us at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeea18vbefr1M-aFCpeaXV6nHhb8fQ2WIU_oPKzU5QWItgacg/viewform 

2) Drama/Theatre Education and Professional Development

Description: Long-term and short-term drama and theatre education programmes for pre-school, primary school, and secondary schools.

Professional development to share puppetry and applied drama techniques for educators with The Learning Connections, Paper Monkey, and The Finger Players.

3) Performing

Recent works include: When The Storm Comes (by Bitesize Theatre), Re:Assembly (by Drama Box)

Interests:

I am interested in using different forms of arts to explore different topics. 

My specific area/community of interest(s) includes; the incarcerated community (and their family), community with varied needs, death in young and youths, exploring ‘adult’ topics with children, and more. 

One of my recently explorations includes, puppetry/object theatre.

What is this site for?

This is an online portfolio that records most of my past works, please feel free to explore this site to know about the work that I have done. 

However, due to the sensitivity of some of the communities that I work with, I longer update this page as often as I hope to do so, but I’m always open to have a chat! 

Please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] or @auderiart on instagram for more information/enquiries. (: 

Stay safe and see you around! (:

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Re: Assembly by Drama Box (by 2023)

As part of Esplanade's F.Y.I

Role: Performer; Natasha

For more information: https://www.dramabox.org/eng/productions-re-assembly-school.html

Photos by: Zinkie Aw

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Assembly by Drama Box (2022)

As part of Esplanade's F.Y.I

Role: Performer; Cydnee

For more information:

https://www.dramabox.org/eng/productions-assembly.html

Photos by: Zinkie Aw

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Who Are You? (2022)

After 18 years of working as a domestic helper in Singapore, Lisa wants more from life. She seeks help from Sam, the playful but kind-hearted boy who grew up under her care. Meanwhile, her best friend Mirah receives unexpected news from home which sends her into a life-changing dilemma, forcing her to negotiate with her reticent employer Susan. Migrant brother Hassan forms an unlikely friendship with Singaporean rebel Amanda, and begins to discover what he has been needing all along.

In Who Are You? created by the Migrant Writers of Singapore in collaboration with local theatre artists, worlds between migrants and locals collide as they learn to trust, confront and depend on each other. Their intersecting stories delve into questions of identity and longing, and ask how we can truly see each other as fellow human beings with similar hopes, desires, and fears. Over the course of this one-act, Who Are You? attempts to disrupt existing biases while connecting us more deeply in a world that tries to keep us apart.

Migrant Writers of Singapore would like to thank Singapore Repertory Theatre for their generous support with rehearsal venue, Poh Yu Khing for production photography, See Yong Xin for publicity photography and scenic design, Cheng Nien Yuan for dramaturgical feedback and Indonesian translations, and Zakir Hossain Khokan for bringing us all together.

Written & Directed by Sim Yan Ying “YY” Devised with & Performed by Akm Mazharul Abedin, Auderia Tan, Clement Yeo, Ellen Lavilla, Rachel Nip & Sonia Serrenade Sound Design & Op by Jay Ong Props Coordination & Surtitle Op by Philippe Pang

For more information: https://www.esplanade.com/whats-on/festivals-and-series/free-programmes/2022/red-dot-august/who-are-you#synopsis

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Misaligned Stars by A Yagnya, Isaac Lim and Auderia Tan

The Necessary Stage

Devising with Actors and Playwright (17 Apr 2021 - 05 Sep 2021)

For more information: https://www.tnsarchives.com/workshops/7816/devising-actors-and-playwrights

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First Love, First Loss (2020-2021)

by Seedlings (Chng Xin Xuan, Wendi Wee Hian and Auderia Tan)

As part of The Artground's Incubation programme: GroundBreakers.

First Love, First Loss is a performance about the simple pleasures in life, and appreciating what we have when we lose something precious, like a good friend. The story follows the unlikely friendship of two girls, and hopes to explore the sensitive topic of loss, in an immersive, playful piece of theatre.

For more Information: https://www.theartground.com.sg/artists/groundbreakers-artist-incubation-programme/first-love-first-loss

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Our Storied Untold

(by Project Dreamcatchers, Mar 2022)

More about Project Dreamcatchers (by Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, Dept of Paediatrics, NUH) : https://projectdreamcatcherscom.wordpress.com/what-we-do/

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不会游泳的小鸭 

(by Paper Monkey, Aug 2021)

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Gravity 

(by The Finger Players, Mar 2021)

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牛转乾坤  

(by The Paper Monkey, Jan 2021 and Jan-Mar 2022)

Written and directed by: Benjamin Ho

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The Puppeteer Prepares

(by The Finger Players, Mar 2021)

Directed by: Ong Kian Sin

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Different 

(by Singapore Drama Educator Association and Singapore Association of Mental Health, Nov 2020)

Written By: Farhanah Diyanah (FD)

Directed By: Shalyn Yong

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Candide 

(by W!ld Rice, Dec 2020)

Written By: Mark Ravenhill

Directed By: Edith Podesta

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东郭先生 Mr Dong Guo

(by The Paper Monkey, Dec 2020)

Written and Directed by: Benjamin Ho

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