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ANNEX 3
3 Years, 8 Months, 20 Days
Cast and Creative Team
CHHON SINA
ACTRESS
Chhon Sina began her studies in 1984 and completed it in 1990. She continued working
as a teacher at the school of fine arts in 1991. She pursued her studies at the Faculty of
Choreographic Arts in directing Modern Theatre where she obtained her Bachelor of
Arts. She has been involved in educational theatre and film projects on drug abuse,
domestic violence etc. She collaborated with Singaporean artist William Teo in his
Cambodian play Year Zero in 1995. She is currently a Modern Theatre Teacher at the
National School of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh.
KAUV SOTHEARY
ACTRESS
Kauv Sotheary went to the theatre school in 1982 and finished high school in 1986. At
the same year, she became a teacher of Modern Theatre. In 2000, she entered the BA
Program at the Faculty of Choreographic Arts and received a Bachelor of Arts in
directing Modern Theatre in 2004. She has also worked as a freelance actress in
educational theatre and film projects for various Cambodian-based NGOs.
POK SOVANNA
ACTRESS
Pok Sovanna was born in 1966 in Phnom Penh and began her studies in acting in 1981
at the National School of Fine Arts (NSFA). In 1984, she went to study a short theatreacting course in Vietnam. She graduated from NSFA in 1988, upon which she
immediately began to teach acting at the school while working as a professional actress
for organizations such as BBC and Cambodian Women Media Center. In 2000, she
pursued her studies at the Faculty of Choreographic Arts and in 2004 received a BA in
directing modern theatre. She is currently an acting teacher at the School of Theatre of
NSFA.
NAM NAREM
SINGER
Like Nam Narem’s other artistic family members who are committed to Cambodian
performing arts, she has inherited the cultural heritage from her grandmother, Em
Theay, a well-respected living treasure, who is a master teacher of classical dance,
singing and other dance-theatre forms. Narem entered the music school in 1994 where
she studied the Khim and finished high school in 2003. In 2005, she continued her
studies in classical singing at the Faculty of Music and will graduate in 2009. She is also
a freelance singer.
IENG SAKONA
MUSICIAN
Ieng Sakona entered the music school in 1993. He continued his studies at the Faculty
of Music in 2001 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Musicology. He participated as
a volunteer artist in the 2004 Mekong Project, an artist-to-artist exchange project. He is
also a member of Sakrova Mohori Band founded by a group of his fellow BA Graduates
of Music. He has also been involved in various collaborative and exchange projects with
Indonesian artists and dancers from Epic Arts. In August 2006, he participated in a
collaborative musical project Page out of Order in Japan.
FER SMIDT
SET DESIGNER (THE NETHERLANDS)
Fer Smidt studied set and costume design at the high school of Arts in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, where he graduated Cum Laude in 1990. He has designed sets and
costumes for numerous productions in theatre, opera and dance, both classical and
contemporary. Since 1992, he designed sets and costumes for over twenty operaproductions for the New Opera Academy (DNOA) based in Amsterdam and The Hague.
His first collaboration with Annemarie Prins was in 1999 with Purcell's opera Dido and
Aeneas at DNOA and they have worked together frequently since then. In 2002, he
designed the costumes for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro in Russia for the State Opera
House Kazan, Tatarstan. In 2006, he designed sets and costumes for A Midsummer
Nights Dream by Benjamin Britten under the direction of Alexander Oliver and conductor
Lucas Vis. He is currently teaching costume-design at the Amsterdam School for
Dramatic Arts.
ANDY LIM CHUNG KEAT
LIGHTING DESIGNER (SINGAPORE)
Andy Lim is a Singapore-based lighting designer and technical manager. A graduate of
LASALLE College of the Arts, he attended the Broadway Master Class 2006 in New
York. He has toured Europe with Ila Galigo and St Anthony directed by Robert Wilson. In
Asia, he has toured with Little Asia Dance Network as lighting and technical director. He
worked on two Asian tours with British Theatre Playhouse as a lighting designer on
Private Lives directed by David Warwick and A Bedfull of Foreigners directed by John
Nolan. He has also worked as assistant lighting designer with Tommy Wong in Beijing
on the musical Sound of Light and Shadow. He works very closely with Collective
Mayhem to create new works. He has also performed in the works of Zai Kunning, Jamie
Redfern, Lim Fei Sheng, Ivan Heng, amongst others.
ROY LEE
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR (SINGAPORE)
Since 1995, Roy Lee has worked extensively with both amateur and renowned
professional theatre companies in Singapore. He is highly sought after for his abilities in
production, technical and stage management, as well as set design. His passion and
commitment to the theatre industry earned him the prestigious LASALLE College of the
Arts Gunasingham Fund for the Performing Arts Scholarship in 2000. Presently, he is a
senior technician with the Esplanade Theatres on The Bay, Singapore where he has
helped installed productions like Zhang Yimoh’s ballet, Raising the Red Lantern; IMG’s
Singing in the Rain; Lincoln Arts Centre’s Peony Pavilion. He is also a member of
Collective Mayhem.
JEFFREY YUE SZE HSING
SOUND DESIGNER (SINGAPORE)
Jeffery Yue won the Glaxo-Wellcome/EDB scholarship to pursue a degree in technical
theatre at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Upon graduation, he returned
as Sound Coordinator for the Esplanade Theatres on The Bay, Singapore. He has
worked extensively in the UK and abroad. He was assistant production sound engineer
on several large-scale London West End productions, including My Fair Lady at the
Theatre Royal Drury Lane and My One and Only at the Piccadilly Theatre. He was the
associate sound designer for the world premiere of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by
choreographer, Adam Cooper in Tokyo, Japan. As an educator, he teaches in the
diploma/degree Technical Theatre Arts programme in the LASALLE College of the Arts,
Singapore. He is also an Artist-In-Residence of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing
Arts in the Entertainment, Design and Technology department. He is also a member of
Collective Mayhem – a multidisciplinary theatrical network.