A Drop in the Ocean

Ian Loy is a theatre-maker based in Singapore since 1999. He founded MySuperFuture Theatrical Productions in 2009. Through the company, he engages in many community outreach and theatre projects, working with people of all ages and abilities, coaching or creating theatre art, especially for young audiences. He was awarded the Young Artist Award in 2014 for his series of accomplished work in theatre for young audiences (TYA). It is Singapore's highest award for young arts practitioners, aged 35 and below in the year of the award, whose artistic achievements and commitment have distinguished them among their peers. It encourages him to continue pursuing excellence in the arts, and to look towards inspiring others.

Ellison Tan Yuyang is a Singaporean Chinese performer, playwright and educator. She was an arts leader from 2019 to 2023, co-leading one of Singapore's most prolific theatre companies, The Finger Players. She is also the co-founder of The Wanderlings, Singapore's first collective dedicated to creating Baby Theatre. Ellison’s background is in puppetry, playwriting, the Suzuki Method of Actor Training, and Viewpoints. 

Myra Loke is a puppeteer, performer, educator, designer, and theatre-maker. She started her journey in Singapore theatre 19 years ago.

Now, Myra is the General Manager and part of the core team of The Finger Players, one of Singapore’s leading theatre companies, best known for their visually arresting productions and its strong advocacy of puppetry. She served as the company's co-Artistic Director from 2020 to 2023. 

Myra co-founded an arts collective, The Wanderlings, where she continues her work engaging the neurodiverse community, from ages 0 and up. Myra is also currently working on developing puppetry therapy in Singapore. 

Chew Shaw En is a performer, dance artist and facilitator with a multidisciplinary practice that spans various contexts. She works with performance scores, task-based devising, and fundamentally, with improvisation. In spaces where she assumes the role of director and choreographer, she draws upon fantasy, the vernacular, and her experience with socially-engaged arts practices to evoke imagery, metaphor and concepts that guide her creations. Shaw is particularly interested in using rehearsals as an environment to practice new ways of coexistence with a group of people.

Stan is a versatile musician, sound designer, composer, and theatre-maker. Stan's creative endeavours focus on crafting engaging experiences for young audiences and babies. Her work in theatre has been recognised with a nomination for Best Sound at the The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards.

As a sound designer and musician, Stan has pioneered live music experiences for young audiences, collaborating with directors to craft a new aural language in productions such as Esplanade's PLAYtime series. Her work has taken her to global stages including the Yogjakarta Gamelan Festival, Brave Festival in Poland and the Shanghai Glass Museum.

The Artground – A Curious Place to Be is managed by The Ground Co Limited, a registered arts charity dedicated to children from birth to 9 years old. Our vision, ‘To let art do what art does’ defines what we do.

As the first multi-disciplinary children’s arts centre in Singapore, we aim to provide positive arts experiences across a variety of art forms, and build bridges between artists, educators, parents, and children from various communities so that they may discover and co-create meaningful arts experiences together.