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Dwayne graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2007 with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies.

He has been a drama coach at local high schools and colleges for over 15 years and has written and directed plays and musicals for various school events, such as the Singapore Youth Festival, Human Values Drama Festival, school anniversaries, and Founder’s Day celebrations. He has won many distinction awards at bi-annual nationwide competitions with schools such as St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School, Fairfield Methodist School, Loyang View Secondary School, and Meridian Junior College.

Dwayne is no stranger to passion plays and Christmas musicals. For over 20 years, he has written and directed musicals and plays for his church, Eternal Life Assembly, and for other churches that have engaged his services.

Some of his career highlights include two sold out musicals with one of Singapore’s leading theatre companies, WILD RICE. These include The Amazing Celestial Race, which was so well received it was restaged the following year, and Momotaro and the Magnificent Peach, WILD RICE’s annual pantomime that played to full houses over the holiday season.

His other writing credits include A Date With Dwayne – Let’s Go Steady!, a Valentine’s Day-themed cabaret, #GOALS, a comedy-musical presented as part of Flipside 2019, Snakes and Ladders: Life Edition!, a solo cabaret about life’s ups and downs as a performer, Unforgotten, a jukebox musical to raise awareness and funds for people living with dementia, as well as Brave Maeve, an original docu-musical about a three-year-old’s successful fight with cancer. Brave Maeve played to sold-out audiences and raised funds for the Children’s Cancer Foundation.

As a performer, Dwayne also regularly takes the stage in comedies and musicals. Some of his shows include Chestnuts, Broadway for Suakus, The Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island, Charlotte’s Web, as well as the epic musical, Forbidden City, in which he played the Record Keeper. He has also performed in WILD RICE’s Own Time Own Target, HOTEL, La Cage Aux Folles, their annual pantomime, A Singapore Carol, Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens, Animal Farm, and in Cabaret as the Emcee.

Dwayne has also written several jukebox musicals for the Singapore Armed Forces to commemorate Singapore’s independence. In 2018 and 2019, he wrote and directed two National Day-themed jukebox musicals for MINDEF’s National Day Observance Ceremony, performed by the artistes of the Music and Drama Company.