Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Selena Tan

11th October 2012

3pm, Thursday

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please sign up at tembusu.nus.edu.sg

Selena Tan started performing onstage at age 14. Since then, she has appeared in numerous local theatre productions such as The Snow Queen, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Godspell, Into the Woods, The Jungle Book, Little Shop of Horrors, Army Daze, Sing to the Dawn, Love Calls, A Twist of Fate, BALLS!, Ah Kong’s Birthday Party, Nunsense, Haunted, Ang Tau Mui, Blithe Spirit and A Single Woman, which she also wrote and directed. She has toured Beijing, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur with Chang and Eng as well as performed with Animal Farm at the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2004.

Apart from performing, multi-talented Selena is also a prolific writer. She has penned two pantomimes, Cinderellah and Aladdin, and several hit stand-up comedy/cabaret shows such as­ Selena EXPOSED, Broadway Baby Kailan, Wanton Me andIt Takes Two, to name a few. Her first stab at playwriting, Pillow Talk, was nominated for Best Play at the 2002 Life! Theatre Awards.

Selena is also a familiar face in local film and television, appearing in both of Jack Neo’s hits, I Not Stupid and Homerun. For her work on the small screen, she hosted­ All Change and Art Factory, and acted in Under One Roof and Daddy’s Girls for which she was awarded the Asian Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

Most of all, Selena is best known for her role in Dim Sum Dollies®. The Dollies have had 8 successful years, starting at the Esplanade Theatre Studio in 2002 with A Single Woman, followed by Steaming at the Jubilee Hall and then, the smash box office hit of 2004, Revenge of the Dim Sum Dollies. Most recently, the Dollies made history in two sold-out runs of The History of Singapore, and were made the Land Transport Authority’s Graciousness Programme ambassadors for 2010-2011.

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