Playwright Hemang Yadav’s works include Radio for the Singapore Arts Festival Fringe (2008), a modern Noh play All the Crazy People (2010), Maya: Demon Architect for the Esplanade Raga Festival (2014), Letter to Juliet combining opera with theatre (2014), an audience-interactive performance Not 50, 700! (SG50), site-specific plays for Art Walk Little India (2017 – 2020), a trilingual ten-minute play Pongal (2021), a children’s play Ek Anokhi Duniya (2021), Death of An Artist uniting drama, dance and poetry (2021 and 2022), and The Good Teacher which continues to be staged successfully by Tamasha Theatre.
Hemang has also been transcreating the works of Kalidasa, Tagore and more recently Chekhov, whose short stories he adapted into short plays and whose play The Marriage Proposal he directed in the Hyderabadi Urdu context.
Joshua Ip has written some books and won some prizes. His latest collection is ownself say ownself: new & selected poems (Landmark Books, 2024). He still wants to be a writer when he grows up. joshuaip.com.
Li Khee enjoys learning new languages. She interprets and translates between English and Mandarin, while working hard to hold conversations in Japanese and Thai. She also writes about life and travel in a regular column for Lianhe Zaobao’s Fukan.
When not honing her literary craft, Li Khee can be found tinkering with devices and working with metals and measurements as a manufacturing engineer.
