LATCH | Samantha Chia

Synopsis

Young police investigator Kim has been assigned to her first station. She thought that criminals and suspects were her biggest concerns but soon realizes there are other things she has to protect herself against.

Artist’s Statement/Inquiry

At this stage, the work is ready for the following:

• Collaboration with actors and director so that Latch can be experienced and viewed by an audience, allowing further development through feedback.
• An invitation to designers, producers and other investors to help Latch reach its full presentation. In light of recent climate, I believe there is potential and merit in the work to explore unconventional styles of staging, be it digital, multimedia, movement or mixed reality.

Samantha Chia – Playwright

Samantha loves a good story.

And as a Stage Manager, it gives her great joy to bring people’s stories to life.

She is also equally passionate in telling her own stories. That is, if she ever found the time to sit down and write. In 2019, Samantha wrote and produced a dramatized reading performance, A Piece of Cake under the C42 Basement Workshop Residency. Latch would be her sophomore attempt in creating, what she hope would be an entertaining play.

Henrik Cheng – Director

Henrik is a “theatre generalist” from New York based in Singapore. They had the fortunate experience to take on the role of: a venue coordinator with New Orleans Fringe, a facilitator & deviser in Speakcryptic’s The Tribe at SIFA OPEN, performer & deviser in Attempts: SG for the M1 Fringe, graduate from the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) in 2017, and devised a site specific online experience under Substation’s Novel Ways of Being 2021, entitled part\wh.  Abroad/online Henrik directed a zoom piece in Mexico City. Henrik personally gravitates towards works aiming to provide hope, healing, and to encourage positive and proactive change.

Zaaki Nasir – Cast
Zaaki is an actor, scriptwriter, voiceover actor, educator, as well as a certified Medical Clown. Would love to voice a cartoon someday.

Tysha Khan – Cast
TyshaKhan is an artistic force, known for her versatile acting and powerful writing. Her practice centres around extracting truth, and finding simple ways to present it, in order to facilitate understanding. She is a graduate of the intercultural theatre institute, and can currently be seen on mewatch and Suria as Sarah on the sci-fi thriller “Dualiti”

Al-Matin – Cast
A graduate from Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) with a Professional Diploma In Intercultural Theatre (Acting), class of 2015. He has been working professionally in the theatre and television since 2010, but mainly as stage actor. He has worked with many notable local companies like The Necessary Stage, Cake Theatrical Productions, The Theatre Practice, DramaBox, TheatreWorks and many more. He has also performed internationally in cities like Brisbane, Braunschweigh and Edinburgh. His background in Dikir Barat in his early days and ITI has enabled him to interweave his craft across multi-dimensional performance, from traditional to contemporary , physical and animation/digital.

Julius Foo – Cast
A theatre practitioner
Started as an administrator and actor with The Necessary Stage
Trained and worked at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards (Italy) between
1999 and 2002, as a member of Theatre OX

Enjoys working in the community
Continues to enjoy the process of discovery and creation
Working Online is a work in progress

Nicholas Bloodworth – Cast
Nicholas Bloodworth is a performer based in Singapore with over 15 years of experience. With a BA (Hons) in acting, his work encompasses theatre, television, film and voiceovers. Nicholas has worked with Theatre companies like TheatreWorks, TNS and Generasia. He is also a core member of Howdrama’s comedic Ensemble group “Fat Kids Are Harder To Kidnap”.

Rilla – Stage Manager
Rilla is a recent diploma graduate from LaSalle, her versatility as a theatre and events professional is evident of her production credits during her time in the Diploma in technical and production management. She took up different roles as she believes that it is useful to go through different roles to understand different departments better and to be able to take up different jobs. Although her main interest is in props making and sewing. She likes to craft things with her hands and the end product gives her a satisfaction of completion. The crafts can be seen from the recent jobs she has done recently in “Dualiti” on Mewatch and “The Time Machine” with Toy Factory.