WRITINGS

Reviews and responses to FYiP 2024

Hear what graduating student Mika Oskarson Kindstrand has to say about her time at ITI.

Graduating student Abinaya Jothi reflects on her time at ITI and how it’s shaped her as an actor.

Graduating student Cheng Kam Yiu (Yolanda) shares her thoughts and memories from her ITI journey.

What has graduating student Swathilakshmi Perumal taken away from her training here? Read the full interview to find out more.

Find out what graduating student Choy Chee Yew has to say about what he’s gained from his time at ITI!

Ahead of his panel discussion at SRT's inaugural Theatre360, we take a moment with Yazid Jalil to gather insights on his time as a student, the impact of an ITI education on his practice, and what sets ITI apart as a school.

National University of Singapore Honours ITI Director T. Sasitharan with FASS Distinguished Alumni Award

ITI Co-Founder and Director T. Sasitharan (Sasi) presented a Talk on "What Does it Mean to be Singaporean on Stage?" to theatre students of the School of the Arts Singapore, 10 March 2023.

Takashi Kuwata, a Noh actor from the Kanze school, shares his experience teaching at the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) in Singapore.

Harvard Club of Singapore Fellow 2022 Lecture by ITI Co-Founder and Director T. Sasitharan

Read about graduating student Karlwinn’s journey to ITI from the Philippines, and his experience here.

What has graduating student Ismael Gallaza Pantao taken away from his training here? Read the full interview to find out more.

Find out more about Jemima Dunn’s journey with ITI, which began in 2020 as a visiting student from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and now as a Special Placement Student completing her degree here.

Hear from graduating student Peh Jun Kai on how he found his way to ITI.

Graduating student Will Wong Keng Ip shares his thoughts and memories from his ITI journey.

Graduating student Ruthi Lalrinawmi reflects on her home away from home and how it’s shaped her confidence as an actor.

Hear what graduating student Ng Yuan Ci has to say about her time at ITI.

Read about graduating student Wan Ahmad’s journey to ITI and how the training strengthened his actor roots.

Find out what graduating student Kaleem Zafar has to say about ITI training has shaped him as an actor!

Graduating student Wong Jin Yi reflects on her time at ITI and how it’s shaped her as a theatre-maker.

Find out what graduating student Oliver S. K. Wu has to say about what he’s gained from his time at ITI!

Kicking off our 2022 Q&A series with the graduating cohort, Daisy Zhao Xiaoqing shares about what she’s gained from his time at ITI.

What does intercultural actor training mean in the time of COVID-19?

ITI Director T. Sasitharan speaks about the importance of arts education in the acceptance speech.

Welcome speech by ITI Director T. Sasitharan on the first day of school.

Here’s Marvin Acero Ablao to round off this year’s interview series with the 2021 graduating cohort! Read on to find out what he has to say about his experience at ITI.

Graduating student Kewal Kartik shares how he’s strengthened his roots as an actor in his time at ITI.

Coming from a dance background, graduating student Aaron Kaiser Garcia immersed himself in the world of theatre at ITI.

Graduating student Sandeep Yadav reflects on his time at ITI and how it’s shaped him as an actor.

Find out what Lin Jiarui has to say about how ITI training has changed him as an actor and as a person!

Kicking off our 2021 Q&A series with the graduating cohort, Sonu Pilania shares about what he’s gained from his time at ITI.

ITI Director, T. Sasitharan pens a tribute to ex-faculty member John Saltezer who passed away on 6 Oct, 2021.

ITI board member Nazry Bahrawi is the editor and translator of Singa-Pura-Pura, which features a selection of Malay speculative fiction — both new and old — from Singapore.

ITI board member Nazry Bahrawi's essay on female images in Khmer literature and cinema was published in Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Grace V. S. Chin.

ITI Director T. Sasitharan, faculty member Phillip Zarrilli and former academic board member Anuradha Kapur co-edited Intercultural Acting and Performer Training, a collection of essays published by Routledge Books.

Contributors include alumna Giorgia Ciampi ('14) and academic board member Frances Barbe.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI) Singapore was invited to ITI's 2019 Noh presentation. Their article on the presentation was published in the June 2019 issue of the JCCI magazine.

ITI's master teacher, Kanze Yoshimasa accounts his teaching experience in ITI, published in Kanze Kyukohkai's newsletter.

ITI Director T. Sasitharan and board member Tan Tarn How were featured in a book by Simon Vincent, The Naysayer's Book Club, which features members of Singapore civil society.

Richard Gough explores the strategies, conditions and precedents of a theatre-training programme aimed to nurture practitioners not for the profession as it currently exists but rather for how it might be – in the future, as yet, unforeseen and unimagined. ITI is mentioned as one such example.

ITI alumnus Sankar Venkateswaran’s production of The Water Station was reviewed by Mari Boyd for the Asian Theatre Journal. Sankar's and ITI's philosophy of intercultural exchange are mentioned in the review.

The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) has published a full report on their Roundtable on The Future of Cultural Leadership in Singapore, which was held on 27 October 2017. ITI Director T. Sasitharan and ITI Chairman Arun Mahiznan, who is also a Special Research Adviser at IPS, were presenters at the roundtable.

A Korean Approach to Actor Training develops a vital, intercultural method of performer training, introducing Korean and more broadly East Asian discourses into contemporary training and acting practice.

Jeungsook Yoo draws on her experience in productions including ITI's (then known as TTRP) production of Water Station.

ITI Director T. Sasitharan's essay on pragmatism in artistic practice, originally presented at a symposium at the University of Buffalo in 2009, was published in the journal Philosophy of Management.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI) Singapore was invited to ITI's 2017 Noh presentation. Their article on the presentation was published in the June 2017 issue of the JCCI magazine.

A special issue of Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training on “intercultural acting and actor/performer training” (Vol.7, Issue 3) was guest edited by faculty member Phillip Zarrilli, ITI Director T. Sasitharan and academic board member Anuradha Kapur. Paris-based alum, Giorgia Ciampi, also contributed a first-hand view of the actor training at ITI.

Reenactments as media practices of re-staging and re-experiencing never just repeat, but are always creative-productive media appropriations, which in turn create new medial forms.

Higher Education and the Creative Economy critically engages with the complex interconnections between higher education, geography, cultural policy and the creative economy.

ITI Director T. Sasitharan's interview with Kutiyattam master teacher Kapila Venu was published in Seminar, Issue 676.

Director, T. Sasitharan penned an essay for Singathology: 50 New Works, a collection of original Singapore literature written by celebrated Singaporean writers

This yearbook is the third in an annual series of publications by the International Network for Research in Arts Education (INRAE). It provides an inclusive study of contemporary research trends in arts education. The book is based on the idea of constructing knowledge in arts education with the wisdom of the many. 104 scholars from across the world convey the zeitgeist of key issues in research in arts education through 91 entries.

This book proposes that the highest expression of ethics is an aesthetic. It suggests that the quintessential performance of any field of practice is an art that captures an ethic beyond any literal statement of values. This is to advocate for a shift in emphasis, away from current juridical approaches to ethics (ethical codes or regulation), toward ethics as an aesthetic practice—away from ethics as a minimal requirement, toward ethics as an aspiration.

This edited book not only makes a much-needed contribution to research in arts education but also provides a strong grounding of evidential support for Singapore arts education, in contrast to the current state of affairs in arts education in many parts of the world where severe cuts in funding, lackluster support for the arts and imperialist agendas are pervasive. The case of and for Singapore – presented in this edited book through rich descriptions of the dedicated, contextualized practices of arts educators, artists and researchers – offers readers many valuable lessons and reflections on the continued survival and advancement of arts education.

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work.

ITI Director T. Sasitharan was invited to a Drama Box dialogue with two other key players in arts education, Nazreen Osman and Kenneth Kwok. They discussed the implementation of arts education in schools, their roles in arts education and the challenges they faced. An excerpt of the dialogue was published on the Drama Box website.

This book is a loving tribute to "the most important cultural figure in Singapore's history" and a most significant dramatist, teacher and public intellectual in Asia. Both visually and intellectually strong, this book - including the video CD - weaves a rich tapestry of Kuo Pao Kun's lifework. The book is bilingual in Chinese and English, with some translations in Malay and Tamil.

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Traditional Arts Forum, held on 9-12 October 2000 at the National Center for Traditional Arts, Taiwan.