Aarne Neeme
DIRECTOR
Involved in theatre since the 1960s, Aarne Neeme is a freelance director who has frequently been engaged for theatre as well as television work. He has also taught at various tertiary institutions over the past forty years and is a faculty member of ITI.
He was previously Artistic Director of several Australian theatre companies, Head of Department of Theatre at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, and Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore.
In 2013, he was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his significant service to the performing arts as a director and educator in theatre and television.
Neeme’s recent works include The Gospel According to Paul, which had a major success touring Australia; a touring production of a stage adaptation of Mother and Son; and Mr Bennet's Bride which was staged in Canberra in September 2023.
His association with ITI goes back to the early days of TTRP. He has had the pleasure and privilege of working with most of their graduates.
Dorothy Png
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
A lighting designer by profession since 1994, Dorothy has worked with most of Singapore’s theatre and dance companies. She also collaborates with independent artists for their own performances out of a passion for creative experimentation. Her range of work spans across theatre, contemporary dance, ballet, opera, musical, site-specific works, outdoor productions and music concerts.
Trained at the University of Iowa, Dorothy’s secondary profession is scenic design. She has increasingly done more set design in recent years. Her most recent set and lighting design is for ART:DIS 30th year celebratory production Chachambo : Taking Flight, held at the Victoria Theatre (August 2023), where she faced the challenge of designing specifically for the cast and audience with various disabilities in mind.
Jevon Chandra
SOUND DESIGNER
Jevon Chandra (b. 1991, he/they) works across contemporary art, performing arts, and public service. He is drawn to operations that exhibit transdisciplinarity, site sensitivity, and decency, and has fulfilled roles such as lead artist, sound designer, multimedia designer, composer, and facilitator. He is currently the inaugural National Gallery Singapore (NGS) Calm Room artist-in-residence, a co-lead of art collective Brack, and a futurist in the Centre for Strategic Futures.
As lead/co-lead artist, his projects have been presented at the National Gallery Singapore’s Gallery Children Biennale 2023, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) (2022), the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) (2021), and Fujinoyama Biennale (Japan, 2020). As a collaborator in the performing and media arts, select credits include multimedia and sound design for Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea... (2022) for Esplanade’s Kalaa Utsavam Festival, and live multimedia design for Songsmith (2023) with singer-songwriter Inch Chua.
Ashley Lim
WIG DESIGNER
Ashley started his hairstyling career in 1986. In 1999, he set up Ashley Salon to further pursue his dedication towards the art of hairdressing, especially for the theatre. He has worked on over 300 productions locally and abroad, and recently took home the Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre, presented by Mediacorp.