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Established in 2002, Checkpoint Theatre was the first theatre company to exclusively develop, produce, and champion Singapore writers and original Singapore content with strong writing, performance, and directing that embraces and empowers diverse voices and communities. The company creates work from idea to page to stage and beyond.

Through its process of rigorous dramaturgy and incisive direction, Checkpoint Theatre creates and presents new theatrical and inter-disciplinary work with honesty, depth, and nuance. They also publish original works written by Singapore storytellers and collaborate with international partners to show Singapore work abroad.

Checkpoint Theatre builds and strengthens a community that values creativity, both as makers and consumers of art. The company mentors emerging theatremakers and creatives through workshops, internships, collaborations, and providing professional resources.

Their landmark productions such as The Fourth Trimester, Normal, Recalling Mother, and Atomic Jaya have been instant local classics. These works are well-loved by audiences and regularly garner critical acclaim. Most recently, Secondary: The Musical received the ST Life Theatre Award for Production of the Year 2025, while Hard Mode won Best Original Script.

Checkpoint Theatre is supported by the National Arts Council under the Major Company Scheme and is a registered charity with IPC status.

Claire Wong is the co-founder, Joint Artistic Director and Producer of Checkpoint Theatre. Trained in both Asian and Western performing arts, Claire obtained her Master of Fine Arts (MFA, Theatre Arts) from Columbia University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and was formerly a litigation and corporate lawyer.

Claire’s recent directing credits include Statement Piece (2025), Hard Mode (2024), Playing With Fire (2024); Recalling Mother: Her Lines, My Lines (2022), which she co-directed and also co-wrote and performed in; Faith Ng’s The Fourth Trimester (2022); Occupation as part of Chamber Readings: Plays by Huzir Sulaiman (2022); Adib Kosnan's Keluarga Besar En. Karim (The Karims) (with Joel Lim, 2021); Lucas Ho’s The Heart Comes To Mind (2020); Zenda Tan's Eat Duck (2019); Huzir Sulaiman’s Displaced Persons’ Welcome Dinner (2019), a commission of Singapore International Festival of Arts; Dana Lam’s Still Life (2019) and Faith Ng’s Normal (2017, 2015). As an actress, Claire has performed in landmark Singapore productions and international arts festivals. 

Huzir Sulaiman is the co-founder and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre. A critically acclaimed and award-winning playwright, his Collected Plays 1998-2012 was published in 2013. His play Displaced Persons’ Welcome Dinner was a commission of the 2019 Singapore International Festival of Arts. Recent directing credits include Secondary: The Musical (2024), Session Zero (2023, 2021), Tender Submission (2023), Brown Boys Don’t Tell Jokes (2023), The Weight of Silk on Skin as part of Chamber Readings: Plays by Huzir Sulaiman (2022), Vulnerable (2021), Two Songs and a Story (with Joel Lim, 2020), Thick Beats for Good Girls (2018) and FRAGO (2017).

Huzir has taught playwriting at the National University of Singapore’s University Scholars Programme; at the NUS English Department; the School of the Arts; and other institutions. Huzir was educated at Princeton University, where he won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, and is a Yale World Fellow.

Faith Ng is a playwright and Associate Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre.

Her plays include Hard Mode (2024), winner of Best Original Script at the Straits Times Life Theatre Awards 2025; The Fourth Trimester (2022), which won Best Original Script and Production of the Year at the Straits Times Life Theatre Awards 2023; A Good Death (part of Esplanade’s The Studios 2018); Normal (2017, 2015); For Better or For Worse (2013); and wo(men) (2010).

A Young Artist Award (2018) recipient, she was the artist-in-residence for LASALLE College of the Arts’ MA Creative Writing programme (2019 - 2022) and the writer-in-residence for the Singapore Creative Writing Residency (2014). Her collection of plays, Faith Ng: Plays Volume 1, was published by Checkpoint Theatre in 2016. Normal continues to be read in schools as part of NAC's Arts Education Programmes, while A Good Death is taught to medical students by the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care at the National Cancer Centre Singapore.