Actor CV

Pavan J Singh is an actor and theatre artist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with prominent theatre companies in Singapore and Malaysia as well as film production houses in Singapore.

Pavan’s credits include Jean Tay’s The Curious Case of the Missing Peranakan Treasure (Sight Line Entertainment & Double Confirm Productions), Fat Kids are Harder to Kidnap (How Drama), Zenda Tan’s Eat Duck (Checkpoint Theatre), Jean Tay’s Chinatown Crossings (Dramabox), Complicité’s A Disappearing Number (NUS Stage), Joël Pommerat’s The Reunification of the Two Koreas (TheatreWorks and Centre dramatique national de Tours), Haresh Sharma’s This Chord and Others (Esplanade Studios), his original work Refuge (Skinned Knee Productions), Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Theatre of Others), Peter Brook’s and Marie Helene Estienne’s The Man Who (Hot Chocolate Theatre), Edith Podesta’s Dark Room (Esplanade Studios), Shiv Tandan’s The Good, The Bad and The Sholay (Checkpoint Theatre), Lim Yu-beng’s 2 Houses (Sin-Pen Colony), Tan Tarn How’s Fear of Writing (TheatreWorks), Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story (Skinned Knee Productions) and Shakespeare’s Othello (Masakini Theatre).

At present, he is also a comedy improvisor with Improvanopolis (Eclectic Bison Productions), founding ensemble member of sketch comedy group Otters United Funny Club and cast member and creator of news parody show Hey Bro I Ask You (Sproud).

Pavan is also a part-time lecturer and director of student productions. He works mostly with LASALLE College of the Arts and since 2011, he has taught subjects such as Comedy, Improvisation or Acting to students in the Diploma and BA programmes.

Pavan was Co-Artistic Director of Skinned Knee Productions for 7 years, until 2017. Under that banner, he wrote, performed, directed and produced a dozen theatre productions or theatre-based works for both artistic and commercial endeavours. Such works were created both independently as well as in collaboration with other organisations for corporate and educational events.

Pavan holds a BA (first class) in Acting from LASALLE College of the Arts, a BSc in Information Systems and Management from the University of London, and a Diploma in Economics from the London School of Economics.

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