Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs

Oliver Chong is a multi-award-winning and published playwright, director, actor, puppeteer, and set and puppet designer. His extensive wins and nominations at The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards span Production of the Year, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Ensemble and Best Set Design.

His works have been featured at international festivals in Paris, Myanmar, Barcelona, Budapest, Ankara, Bangkok, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Malaysia.

Oliver was the Resident Director of THE FINGER PLAYERS (2004 – 2018), and is currently the Artistic Director of the company. His published works include Roots, The Book of Living and Dying, I’m Just A Piano Teacher and Cat, Lost & Found. Roots was also read and staged in New Zealand by Proudly Asian Theatre in 2018.

Wang Chia-ming, founder and artistic director of Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group, is recognised for blending experimental performance styles with popular themes. Working closely with performers, he actively explores and challenges the possibilities of theatre.

In 2018, his work Café Lumière was invited to the Tokyo Festival. In 2019, his work Dear Life was staged at the Festival d’Automne à Paris and later in 2023, at the Schaubühne Berlin’s Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik (FIND), making it the first contemporary Taiwanese theatrical work to be presented on both of these major European arts platforms. Most recently, his international work includes The Bathhouse of Honest Desires at the Tokyo Festival 2025.

The Finger Players is one of Singapore’s leading theatre companies, best known for inventively fusing traditional and contemporary puppetry elements, and integrating other artistic disciplines into its visually arresting productions.

Founded in 1999, The Finger Players is Singapore’s oldest contemporary puppetry theatre company. Since its inception, it has been invited to perform in Africa, Australia, Spain, Paris, Japan, Hungary, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand, to name a few, making it one of Singapore’s most prolific international touring companies.

The Finger Players is a non-profit organisation with Institution of Public Character (IPC) status and a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Major Company Scheme.

Founded in the summer of 1995, Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group (SWS) owes its name to the fictional character in Virginia Woolf’s novel A Room of One’s Own, meaning to liberate women’s talents from the oppression of patriarchy. Limiting itself to no specific issues or conventional aesthetics, SWS takes materials from all arts inspiring to create original theatrical works.

Through collective exploration, the troupe continually seeks its own distinctive theatrical language and style. In addition to presenting new experimental works and engaging in artistic and cultural exchanges both locally and internationally each year, it also remains dedicated to nurturing creative platforms, promoting arts education, and participating in cultural policy.