Raja Malek

The award-winning works extensively as a sought after art director in advertising world in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

June Tan

member of the arts collective Five Arts Centre studied Biology at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 1997 while working in the corporate world, June has stage-managed, tour-managed, produced and programmed numerous local and international productions.

Wong Tay Sy

Wong Tay Sy has been actively involved in the fields of contemporary art, theatre, and film production since 1999.

Ridhwan Saidi

is a Malaysian independent filmmaker, writer and theatre practitioner. His present-day practices in filmmaking, literature and theatre.

Fairuz Sulaiman

interdisciplinary practice covers digital and analogue visual formats that have been used as music videos, animation for short films, moving visuals for stage and immersive visual installations. His methods include puppetry, 2D/3D animation and live video mixing.

Akma Suriati

has 20 years of working experience as Fashion Consultant and Costume Designer. She has since been involved in the arena designing ranging from boutique, corporate attire, artist costume for film, drama, TV commercials, special events like Independent Day (31 Ogos), Citrawarna, KL Fest, Flora Fest, and to theaters of national scale.

Mark Teh

is a performance maker, researcher, and curator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His diverse, collaborative projects take on documentary, speculative and generative forms, and address the entanglements of history, memory and counter-mapping.

Suzy Sulaiman

is an installation artist and curator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She was selected to participate in an artist-in-residency organized by Bellas Artes Project (2018) in Manila, Philippines. Her sound installation Jungle of Nusa (2020) received the General Prize award at the Youfab Global Creative 2019.

Hamzah Tahir

He is active in the local performing arts and has worked as a scenographer, director, actor and dancer. He also been appointed as artistic director and production designer in video and film productions. He successfully won Best Set Design in 2013 and 2015 at the Boh Cameronian Arts Awards and Best Group Performance in 2020.

Bayu Utomo Radjikin

Bayu Utomo Radjikin is a visual artist.

Arifwaran

Began his career professionally at a very young age with some of Malaysia's leading directors and choreographers. He is also a writer, videographer and designer for stage productions.

Bryan Chang

Bryan is a designer—a generalist, his work centers around graphic design, scenography and video/photography. He has worked with The Bangkung Row Restaurants, Japan Foundation KL, British Council Malaysia, KLPAC, Theatresauce, TerryandTheCuz, The Cooler Lumpur Festival and PopTeeVee.

Jo Kukathas

Jo Kukathas is a theatre director and founder of Instant Cafe Theatre Company.

Bilqis Hijjas

works as a creative producer and critic in contemporary dance, and manages the arts residency at Rimbun Dahan. For ten years, as president of the organisation MyDance Alliance until 2020, she helped organise festivals to showcase the diversity of Malaysian dance.

Lau Beh Chin

spent a year in Master of Choreography at Fontys Hogeshcool Voor de Kunsten, Tilburg in 2011 before she was awarded the Stepping Stone scholarship. She moved to Ireland and graduated from the University of Limerick the following year in Master’s degree in Contemporary dance performance. Jinn had her works performed at ABUNDANCE ’13, Sweden; Dancewoods Workshop Festival, Bologna Italy, West Sumatera Dance Festival 2022 etc.

Syamsul Azhar

has worked across the fields of theatre, film and contemporary art as a multimedia and lighting designer, often employing technology as a performative element in his works. Over the years he has designed across many places and spaces, and has collaborated on numerous performances with Five Arts Centre.

Zulhezan x Hafiz Hamzah

An interdisciplinary unit between analogue sound, music composition and word, and everything between it.

Gerak Tujuh

We are group of mographer known as Gerak Tujuh specialise in art direction, animation, and motion graphics design for a variety of platforms and events.

Gerak Tujuh has continued to develop their own aesthetic, which is primarily influenced by science fiction, urban art, and technology. Bright colours and geometric designs are used to portray Malaysian culture in a modern way.

Afifi Taib

Obtained his MFA in Theater Production (Design For Theater) From Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 2006. His field of interest is in Malay Costumes, particularly in Malay traditional weddings and performances.

Loh Kok Man

Artistic Director of PENTAS PROJECT THEATRE PRODUCTION and an established theatre director, actor, lighting designer, set designer and theatre lecturer. He has won The BOH Cameronian Arts Awards for Best Director, for Best Set Design and for Best Lighting Design multiple times.

DHINESHA KARTHIGESU

A multi-disciplinary storyteller, theatre maker and coach. He is deeply invested in telling queer and Malaysian stories while holding space for conversations on identity and creativity. As an artist, his work has been viewed by audiences from all over the world. Dhinesha is Malaysia's first and to date only National Poetry Slam Champion. His work has been featured at festivals and on platforms like HowlRound Theatre Commons, Vice India and Vice Asia.