Acting in Singapore, Acting from Singapore

Janice Koh is a celebrated Singaporean actress with over 30 years of stage and screen acting experience. She has participated in international co-productions that have toured to festivals and performing venues worldwide, including Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, and Edinburgh.

A former Nominated Member of Parliament, Janice currently co-chairs theatre company, Wild Rice, and is a co-founder of social enterprise, Pasar Glamour. Janice is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher, and coaches voice and communications in the corporate sector. In 2022, the French government honoured her with the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Arts and Letters) for her contributions to the arts.

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Daisy Irani is a veteran media executive, creative director, and acclaimed actress with over three decades of experience. As a former Vice President at Mediacorp, she oversaw English Entertainment, Drama, and Comedy, while leading the launches of the Okto and Vasantham channels. She is a four-time Asian Television Award winner for Best Comedy and a Straits Times Life! Theatre Award winner for Best Actress.

Widely recognized as Daisy in Singapore’s landmark sitcom Under One Roof (now on Netflix), her screen credits include the SGIFF-nominated short film Thank You, Daisy (2024) by Dave Tan and the feature film We Can Save The World!!! (2025) by Cheng Chai Hong.

As Founder and Creative Director of HuM Theatre, Daisy has directed and produced acclaimed works like Train to Pakistan, earning the National Integration Award. An International Emmy Awards juror, she also serves on the Singapore Indian Fine Arts board and Rotary Club.

Fir Rahman is a multi-disciplinary actor with over 20 years of experience in local and regional theatre, film and television. He is most recognised as the lead actor in Apprentice, Singapore’s submission for the Un Certain Regard category in Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Fir made local history by being the first Singaporean to be nominated as Best Newcomer in the acting category in the 11th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.

Fir is also a familiar face on local TV screens. In 2002, he was crowned winner of Mediacorp Suria’s reality talent contest, Juara. Among his many achievements include being crowned Best Actor for a Supporting Role in 2019 and Best Actor for a Lead Role in 2021 Suria’s Pesta Perdana. Fir is also part of Mediacorp Channel 5’s Lion Mums series, which he won recently for Asian Academy Creative Awards as National winner for Best Supporting Actor.

Lim Shi-An is a 28 year old actress. Her notable TV screen credits include Alienated and Come Closer, both with MediaCorp Channel 5. She has also done several short films including Motherland, which received several global short film awards and Full Month, which premiered at Sundance and SGIFF. Her first feature film, Amoeba premiered at Toronto and competed at SFIFF in 2025. She is the lead in Nelson Yeo’s genre-bending feature, The House On The Moon which premiered at Locarno and competed at SGIFF in 2026.

Oon Shu An is an actor, writer, host and advocate whose work spans Theatre, Film and TV. An Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre and a Board Member of socially engaged theatre company Drama Box, her recent stage credits include The Christians (Wild Rice), God of Carnage (Nine Years Theatre), MONSTRESS (ART:DIS and Esplanade Theatre) and Grounded (SRT). For television projects, she has participated in Marco Polo (Netflix), Code of Law (MediaCorp), How To Be A Good Girl (HOOQ, Asian Creative Academy National Best Actress Award). For film projects, she has participated in The Sandbox by James Thoo, Rubbers by Han Yew Kwang and 4Love by Sam Loh. Shu An is also deeply committed to social justice and advocacy through storytelling.

Tay Ping Hui is an award-winning Singaporean actor and filmmaker whose career spans television, film and theatre. Since making his acting debut in 1998, he has become a prominent figure in Singapore’s entertainment industry, known for his versatile performances in Mandarin, English and Malay-language productions.

He subsequently expanded his career into mainland China, appearing in major productions including Handsome Siblings and Legend of the Condor Heroes, in which he portrayed Genghis Khan. His experience working across Singapore and China has broadened his reach among regional audiences and enriched his craft. Beyond acting, Ping Hui has directed television productions and feature-film Meeting the Giant, a Singapore-China co-production, further expanding his creative repertoire as a performer and filmmaker.