Playwrights' Cove 2024

In 2001, TNS launched Playwrights’ Cove, a development and mentorship programme aimed at nurturing, processing and platforming contemporary playwriting for Singapore theatre. Many of its participants are well-known practitioners and educators today, including Jean Tay, Ng Yi-sheng, Natalie Hennedige, Kenneth Kwok and Matthew Lyon.

We re-launched Playwrights' Cove in 2020 and subsequently had a second iteration in 2022. Both years saw 10 selected participants undergo training and mentorship by Resident Playwright Haresh Sharma. To find out more about Playwrights' Cove 2020, click here. More information about Playwrights' Cove 2022 can be found here.

2024's iteration of Playwrights' Cove saw 10 participants undergo training and mentorship once again with Haresh Sharma. The list of selected participants are as follows:

• Alia Alkaff
• Angela Kong
• Edward Eng
• Jovan Ang
• Melizarani T. Selva
• Rachael Ng
• Sarah Zafirah Bte Noor Ashikin
• Shawn Chua
• Sindhura Kalidas
• Wan Nur Syafiqa Binte Syed Yusoff

Over five shows from 21 to 24 November, the playwrights presented their newly developed works-in-progress via dramatised readings featuring a host of theatre actors, directed by veteran and emerging Singapore directors. Each performance featured two different works to the public, followed by a post-show dialogue with the playwrights, facilitated by Haresh Sharma and Deonn Yang.