Youth with Purpose: Discovering, Defining, and Driving Change Panel Discussion
Sindhura Kalidas is a theatre practitioner and educator. She is currently an Associate Artist with The Necessary Stage (TNS) and a core team member of The Finger Players (TFP). Sindhu’s recent performance credits include Wild Rice’s Psychobitch, Deonn Yang’s Why Be Good When You Can Be The Best? (2023), presented as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Singapore Repertory Theatre’s The Coronalogues (2020), and TNS’s Off Centre (2019).
Her recent dramaturgical credits include the Singapore Youth Theatre’s double bill Every Student Is A Good Student/In My Head (2023),TFP’s Puppet Origin Stories (2022),as well as TNS’s Acting Mad (2022).
She is also the writer of TNS’s Happy Indian Women (2023), a verbatim theatre production which questions the assumptions we make about the diverse South Asian diaspora in Singapore today, which she co-directed with Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma.
Sindhu is a recipient of the NAC Postgraduate Arts Scholarship and holds an MA (Distinction) in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London. She hopes to continue exploring themes of race, gender, and community in future works and shed light on underrepresented and misrepresented groups in Singapore.
Hong Wee is a Partner with the Audit & Assurance practice of Deloitte. He has over 13 years of working experience in the field of Information Technology (IT) audit and internal audit in various industries.
Hong Wee leads the Audit Analytics team in Deloitte. During his time in Deloitte, he has been involved in multiple audit analytics and controls automation projects for both public sector and private sector clients. Notably, he was involved as Project Manager for a Ministry-wide Finance Analytics project with a Government Ministry, covering end-to-end processes across Procurement, Payroll, Payments, Receivables and Fixed Assets.
Hong Wee is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and trained as in IT auditor.