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Tutor's Bio

Li Xie

Principal Tutor

A freelance theatre practitioner and mask-maker, Li Xie performs, writes, directs and has taught acting and movement in LASALLE- College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She is also the associate artist of Drama Box, and an active member of a local multi-disciplinary arts group, Collective Mayhem.

The actor-creator has undergone training from Odin Teatret, "Biomechanics" by Bodganov Gennadi (Russia), "Alexander Technique" by Niamh Dowling (UK), "Commedia Dell'arte" by Antonio Fava (Italy) and "Theatre of the Oppressed" workshops by Headlines Theatre (Canada) and has learnt mask making from Donato Sartori (Italy).

Formerly the Associate Artistic Director of Drama Box for its community theatre, Li Xie has directed and facilitated forum theatre pieces, working with youth and inmates from Singapore Selarang Drug Rehabilitation Centre.

Her recent directorial works include the restaging of the late Kuo Pao Kun's The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole, during Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2010; House of Sins (2008) which won her Best Director award in the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards; and the critically acclaimed one woman performance The vaginaLOGUE, which was voted the Best Play of the Year (2000).

Li Xie also directed Little White Sailing Boat for Singapore Arts Festival 2007's Full Frontal. In 2004, her directorial debut SHITHOLE was nominated for Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards – Best Script and Best Ensemble.

Her recent acting works include The Madwomen's Diaries (Peter Sau, Esplanade's The Studios Season 2009); Temple (Cake Theatrical Productions, Singapore Arts Fest 2008); A Stranger at Home (Drama Box, Singapore Arts Festival 2006); and HAPPY (2005, awarded 6th Life! Theatre Awards Best Supporting Actress).

Li Xie was awarded the Young Artist Award by National Arts Council (Singapore) in 2005.

 

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