Corporate CV

Pavan J Singh is a Singapore-based actor, theatre artist and performance improvisor with 2 decades of experience. He has worked with some of the most prominent theatre companies and film production houses in Singapore and Malaysia.

He is also a highly-experienced corporate trainer and business role-player, having worked in this capacity since 2009. As a former marketing executive, Pavan combines his actor-training with his familiarity of corporate culture to train business executives on communication and presentation skills.

As a business role-player, Pavan uses his improvisation skills to portray truthful characters and have challenging conversations with participants to push them out of their comfort zones. He is able to work with pre-written material as well as create bespoke characters based on participants’ needs on-the-spot.

In this capacity, Pavan has worked all throughout the region for such clients as HSBC, Standard Chartered, OCBC, Deutsche Bank, GIC, Goldman Sachs, Pinsent Masons, Clyde & Co, DLA Piper, LinkedIn, Petronas, Rolls Royce and many others. For some of these clients, such as OCBC, Akamai, Woolworths and Goldman Sachs, Pavan was also involved in discussions and pilot progammes with various training companies about the effective usage of and conversion to online platforms in response to the drastic change to working from home.

Pavan is also a part-time lecturer and director of student productions, working mostly with LASALLE College of the Arts. Since 2011, he has taught subjects such as Comedy, Improvisation, Acting or Research & Writing to students of the Diploma in Performance and BA in Musical Theatre Programmes.

In addition, 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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