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Playwright and Dramatist
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Joel Tan is a Singaporean playwright based in London and Singapore. Recent work in the UK includes No Particular Order at Theatre503; When The Daffodils at the Orange Tree Theatre; Living Archive at the Royal Court; Ghosts in the Blood for Audible UK; Overheard, and Augmented Chinatown with Chinese Arts Now. He is under commission with the Royal Court, Headlong Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre.In Singapore, recent work includes G*d is a Woman and a new adaptation of Tartuffe, both with Wild Rice, where Joel is Artist in Residence. Joel has made work with other major theatres like Checkpoint Theatre and Pangdemonium, and several are available in a collection, Joel Tan Plays Volume 1, published by Checkpoint Theatre. He is a Creative Associate with Centre 42’s New Writing Development Programme, and runs its Professional Development Residency for playwrights. He also serves as Literary Manager at Wildrice.His play Love in the Time of the Ancients was a finalist for the 2019 Papatango Prize, and no particular order was shortlisted for the George Devine Prize 2022. Joel also writes for screen and audio, and frequently works inter-disciplinarily, and in contemporary art.
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