Juliet Chia

Facilitator - An Introduction to the Dramaturg's Work,  Dramaturgs in Practice Training Programme (Centre 42)

Apprentice Dramaturg - the Digital Development Project

Dramaturg - The Radicalisation of Mrs Mary Lim-Rodrigues

Programme Lead - "Dramaturgs &" series of roundtable conversations centering the work of and relationship between dramaturgs and their artistic collaborators.

Consultant Dramaturg with Centre 42 to conceptualise and facilitate training programmes for dramaturgs and public programmes to raise awareness and understanding of dramaturgy.

Previously Deputy Artistic Director for Singapore Repertory Theatre, one of Asia's leading English language theatre companies. Performed duties of in-house literary manager and dramaturg.

• Read and evaluated scripts and maintained script library, cultivated relationships with playwrights, identified potential commissions and participated in overall artistic programming and season selection.

• Secured performance rights for productions and administered commissioning and licensing contracts.

• Dramaturged new writing for children's musicals and mainstage plays, including facilitation of readings and developmental workshops. 

• Provided research, analysis and feedback in production design development and rehearsal processes.

10 years leading Singapore Repertory Theatre's Production department on projects including shows in repertory, outdoor Shakespeare In the Park, site-specific productions and large-scale musicals. 

Other production experience with major international arts organisations such as Esplanade - Theatres by the Bay, Singapore Arts Festival, Glimmerglass Opera, and the Guggenheim Museum.

Skillset includes hiring and managing creative and production teams, coordinating international tours, serving as casting director, negotiating and drafting contracts, creating and delivering on budgets and schedules, sourcing technical quotations and managing external vendors.

Created training structure and processes for Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Residency Programme for early- career Directors, Stage Managers and Production Managers.

Recruited and mentored SRT’s Residents in Directing and Production Management and created pathways for alumni of the programme to be hired for fulltime and freelance positions after completion of their residencies

8 years as a New York City-based lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera and other multidisciplinary forms..

Collaborated with HERE Arts Centre, La MaMa, Target Margin Theatre, Tri-cities Opera, the Curtis Institute of Music, Kristin Marting, Alex Timbers, Taylor Mac and Young Jean Lee and many more. 

Exhibited designs at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.

Member of HERE Artist Residency Programme 2006-7

Recipient of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship at Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) and the US NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers.