Artists & Story­tellers

Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips

Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips is a climate artist, writer, theatremaker and performer. She is also an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre and a Young ASEAN Storyteller. Her recent works include: ECOncert (Ding Yi Music Company, 2025), Brainstorm (Gateway Arts, 2025), Playing With Fire (Checkpoint Theatre,2024), The Last Gardener (The Theatre Practice, 2024), A Literary Trail of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (ASEAN Centre of Biodiversity, 2022), Vulnerable, an eight-part podcast (Checkpoint Theatre, 2021) and A Grand Design (Checkpoint Theatre, 2020). Cheyenne is also a licensed tour guide and runs a spoken-word competition called Outspoken. She has also been on several arts/science residencies including La Wakaya Residency – Tropics in San Blas, Panama (2018), The Arctic Circle (2024) and LABVERDE Speculative Ecologies Residency in the Brazilian Amazon (2025).

Kamini Ramachandran

Kamini Ramachandran is a storyteller and heritage practitioner who bridges oral tradition with contemporary practice. Her performances breathe life into traditional narratives and forgotten histories, uncovering and animating cultural narratives through research-driven storytelling. She transforms living heritage into immersive experiences for museums, cultural institutions, and public spaces. Her site-specific work reimagines heritage spaces through story walks, immersive installations, and performative interventions. As founder of Moonshadow Stories and The Storytelling Centre Ltd, and creative producer of StoryFest Singapore, she has mentored emerging storytellers, and championed oral tradition as a living art form for modern audiences.

For her latest works, follow her on Instagram @kaministoryteller.

Kontinentalist

Kontinentalist is a studio that advocates for a more equitable world that fosters connections between Asia’s sources of knowledge. We nurture community around data and human experiences.

Laura Kee

Laura Kee is an actress, presenter, and voiceover artist whose work spans television, film, theatre, immersive experiences, and live storytelling. She played Natasha in MediaCorp’s long-running drama “Kin” (2018–2022), and previously performed the iconic one-woman play “Emily of Emerald Hill” (2016, digital recording in 2020).

Laura was a Storyteller at StoryFest in 2023 and 2025. Her immersive and experiential work includes “Cathay Hotel: The Case of the Missing Red Shoe” (Night Festival, 2022) and “Avatar: The Experience” (2022–2023).

Theatre-trained at LASALLE College of the Arts, she has continue to expand her craft through training in Strasberg, Suzuki, Viewpoints, dance and musical theatre.

Pooja Nansi

Pooja Nansi is an award-winning poet, performer, and educator known for her impact on literature, performance, and cultural leadership. She is the author of three poetry collections. A Young Artist Award (2016) recipient and Singapore’s inaugural Youth Poet Ambassador, she currently teaches at Nanyang Technological University and is Chief Publisher at AFTERIMAGE Press. Her performance work includes You Are Here (Wild Rice, 2021) and We Make Spaces Divine ft. Dey (Esplanade, 2025). She served as the first woman and youngest Festival Director of the Singapore Writers Festival (2019–2023). In 2024, she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s top cultural honours.

Superlative Futures

Superlative Futures is a transdisciplinary design and research studio in Singapore and is co-founded by Wong Zi Hao and Liu Dian Cong. The research practice centers on creative modes of landscape representation to advocate new ways of seeing, and through that speculate alternative futures where cities might better co-exist with more-than-human worlds. They see their design output as a practice of care. They have exhibited at NUS Museum and were supported by Singapore Art Museum’s inaugural Design Research Fellowship, 2024–2025. Wong received his PhD in Architecture at the National University of Singapore in 2023, having completed a design-research thesis on intertidal practices of care. Alongside his research practice, Wong teaches at NUS’ Department of Architecture, and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts / the University of Arts. Liu currently practices as an architectural designer, after completing his Master of Architecture at NUS in 2024, exploring sedimentation and alternative conceptions of “ground”.

Photo by Hoong Wei Long, Listening Biennial Singapore

Syafiq Halid

Syafiq Halid is a manipulator of sound, an electronic artist and an experimental percussionist based in Singapore. His experience spans traditional, multidisciplinary and contemporary performance projects as an artist, sound designer and composer. He has presented work in Asia Pacific such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia and has worked with collaborators and companies at platforms like the Esplanade, National Gallery Singapore, ArtScience Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Nusasonic, Goethe Institute. *SCAPE and Bus Projects.

Summoning sounds, aesthetics, metaphors, and experiences of the Malay world, Syafiq’s compositions traverse the grey realms that exist between the traditional and the contemporary. His creations deconstruct, exploit, bastardise and reimagine these sounds, manifesting them into an experimental sonic language unique to Southeast Asia. His explorations speak deeply to the realities and fluctuations of living and being Malay in Singapore and the region. They compel us to confront our relationship with the region through artistic and cultural wisdoms rooted deep within us.

Photo by Ryan Cara

The Merrymen Works

The Merry Men Works is a Singapore-based experiential studio that designs and builds engaging experiences where human interactions are at the heart of what we do. We bring together the power of design and build, art, and technology, leveraging experience design and storytelling to create shared moments that matter. Our work spans permanent galleries, like SINGAPO人 at the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, and A Brush with Forest Fire at National Gallery Singapore, as well as experiential events just like this!

Yong (The Urbanist)

Yong Min is a passionate heritage educator reshaping how Singapore’s stories are shared. As founder of The Urbanist Singapore, he has built a community of over 80,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram with engaging content that brings the nation’s heritage and urban design to life. His journey began with his award-winning honours thesis at the National University of Singapore, which earned the Preservation of Monuments Board’s Best Thesis Award in 2009, affirming his love for Singapore’s heritage.

Combining digital storytelling with immersive experiences, Yong makes heritage accessible through curated heritage walks and fresh perspectives on Singapore’s architectural heritage. His work has been recognised through features in The Straits Times, Zaobao, and CNA, as well as invitations to contribute to Singapore HeritageFest and Singapore Design Week. With professional experience at SMU and NUS, he brings strategic insight and authentic curiosity to his role as a heritage educator.