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Huzir is a playwright and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre, staging original Singapore plays since 2002. He teaches playwriting at the National University of Singapore. Work includes: Displaced Persons’ Welcome Dinner (2019), The Last Bull: A Life in Flamenco (2016), and the upcoming The Nuclear Family (March 2020).

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Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist and is the recipient of the prestigious Ani ng Dangal award in 2019 . His latest book, The Experiment of the Tropics, was the co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book prize and he received an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis on a Fulbright Scholarship. His work explores the intersection of text and image and examines the role of material culture in the construction of cultural memory and identity. His has received numerous awards and his forthcoming book is Ang Pagkadiskubre sa Balak (The Discovery of Poetry), a translation of his first book of poems, The Highest Hiding Place. He currently teaches creative writing at Yale-NUS College.

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Jean Tay is a Singaporean playwright, best known for her plays Everything But the Brain and Boom.