A Lesbian Love Story: The Musical

Woody Avenue is a multicultural, queer and female-led theatre company co-founded by Rosie McGowan and Kluane Saunders. They are interested in telling queer, female-led stories, with an international flavour.

Co-producer, Director & Co-Playwright

Rosie is an actor, director, applied theatre facilitator, educator, and counsellor who uses drama and theatre to explore potentially difficult and sensitive themes. Rosie runs workshops and projects exploring themes of self-care, sexual assault trauma, self-harm, communication, leadership and understanding mental health. Rosie also offers artist well-being support with various Singapore theatre companies and venues such as T:>Works, The Necessary Stage, Wild Rice and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Playwright & Vocal Coach

Kluane is an actor (BA (Hons) Acting), soprano (BMus), and improviser who loves to make her own work.

She recently appeared as Sergeant Stibbs in the web series Threat Suppression Unit (Pulped), Sister Boniface Mysteries (BBC), and as the hands and blurry face of Just Eat in a recent TVC.

Kluane’s recent stage credits include WHIPPED UP! at Watford Palace and NewsRevue, the longest running live political sketch show in London.

Kluane is an improviser and a member of The Free Association’s Harold team Hotbed. She also occasionally improvises songs and mini musicals with The Bean Spillers. As a writer, her sketches have twice been shortlisted for the Funny Women Comedy Awards, and her solo show An Old Fashioned Girl sold out at Bedford Fringe Festival and Brighton Fringe.

Composer

Henry Allen is a composer, instrumentalist, actor and performer, living and working on Kuarna country in Adelaide, South Australia. Working both freelance and on commission, Henry has created scores, songs, and soundtracks for local and international theatre and amateur film productions. His work as a performer has also included roles as an actor, singer and musician for theatre, live events and short films, and also extends to contributions as a writer, technical operator and graphic designer.

Holding a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Media from the University of Adelaide, and a keen focus on the use of arts as a force for critique and change, Henry is interested in using music and modern compositional techniques to tell diverse and innovative contemporary stories in traditional dramatic mediums.

Intimacy Director, Producer & GSD Fairy

Rayann (she/her) is a certified Intimacy Coordinator with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (USA). She is the first qualified intimacy professional in Singapore. As a very new role in Singapore, she is honoured to have worked on projects who are leading the industry to foster accountable, consent informed spaces that allow storytelling to flourish. Highlights to date include How I Learned to Drive (Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay); The Last Bout (currently on Mediacorp Channel 5); Emmy nominated web series People Like Us (Season 3).

Rayann has a BA Hons in Acting at LASALLE College of the Arts and an MA Culture and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden. She also works across film, television and theatre as a director, casting director, producer, and educator. Rayann volunteers with the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) and is the lead facilitator of its Sexual Assault First Responder Training.

Stage Manager

Deena Shaqinah is a Production Stage Manager who thrives on the buzz of live performance and the beautiful chaos that is backstage. From calling cues to crafting schedules, she leads with care, champions diverse voices, and creates space for teams to shine, all with heart, humour, and a whole lot of hustle.

Choreographer

Alex is an actor, dancer and choreographer based in Singapore. She is currently an associate artist/choreographer with Conundrum Theatre.

Alex trained at LASALLE College of the Arts and received a first class honours degree in Musical Theatre from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been dancing and competing since the age of seven in ballet and jazz, and has since explored Broadway jazz, pas de deux and Fosse jazz. She is also a big coffee enthusiast and loves cooking.

Wardrobe Coordinator

Claire is a passionate and self-driven individual who has been studying theatre production for close to five years. She graduated with a Higher Nitec certificate in Performance Production and a Diploma in Theatre Production and Management, and has received academic and non-academic awards such as the EAGLES award. Claire’s creative focus is centred on props and costume management and making, with ambitions to learn more about her craft. She hopes to use her skills to enhance the storytelling experience for both audience and artists, staging impactful stories that inspire.

Cast

Natalie is a Singapore-based vocal coach, performer, and certified musical theatre nerd. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music (Musical Theatre), she is Singapore Repertory Theatre’s (SRT) Resident Vocal Coach for 2025 and has worked as vocal coach for Pangdemonium’s Triple Threat programme in both 2024 and 2025. As a performer, Natalie was last seen on stage as Hermia in SRT’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Nancy in SRT’s Fried Rice Paradise: The Makan Party. She specialises in musical theatre technique, with a soft spot for belting, mixing, and turning vocal “problems” into possibilities. When she’s not coaching or performing, you’ll find her behind a piano, running a pop-up choir (@bwaybelters_sg), or dramatically overanalysing cast recordings.

Cast

Coco Wang Ling is a multidisciplinary theatre maker and actor who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) in 2022. Her creative practice is driven by play, world-building, and making connections. She often works to challenge traditional theatrical conventions by creating performances in non-traditional spaces. Recent stage credits include: The Serangoon Gardens Techno Party of 1993 (Wild Rice), HOTEL (Wild Rice), Threads: The Emperor’s New Clothes Musical (Singapore Repertory Theatre), and White, All White (The Necessary Stage), among others. She’s also figuring things out—and happily so.

Cast

Mitchell is an actor, director, writer and teacher. He trained as an actor in the Young & Wild class of 2019. He has acted in Nine Years Theatre’s Everything For You and Between You and Me, Survivor Singapore with The Necessary Stage, Kwa Geok Choo and GRIND by Toy Factory, Drama Box’s With Time, inArts’s Exile or Pursuit, and others. His directorial work includes Permanence by Toy Factory, 1000 Millennials Crying for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, and Long Weekend for the Twenty-Something Festival. His writing credits include Homepar and The Trouble With Paradise under The Necessary Stage's playwriting programmes.

Ensemble

MelissaMay Garcia, affectionately known as Mel, is a Singapore-based actor and musician with a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre from LASALLE College of the Arts.

Her theatre credits include Delia in Kimberly Akimbo (Pangdemonium), Witch in Macbeth (Singapore Repertory Theatre), puppeteer for Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors (Sing’theatre), and Pianist in Hedda Gabler (The Winter Players). Mel also performs in drag as Mel the Meatball, and is a regular with Qabaret, a live-singing drag troupe known for its sharp wit, campy humour, and big vocals. She is the co-founder and musical director of The Popsicals, a cheeky vocal group known for tight harmonies and silliness in equal measure—often spotted spreading festive chaos at Christmas events for Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Gardens by the Bay, and more.