UBIN | by Teh Su Ching & Sabina Ahmed

Leanne and Ming are a pair of physically active newlyweds who are trying for a baby, when Ming suffers an accident while biking around Pulau Ubin. They must navigate his recovery with Tammy, a no-nonsense physiotherapist, and Bee Poh, Leanne’s mother, who has never liked Ming.

Ubin is a work-in-progress. After the reading, audience members are invited to share their thoughts on how we can improve the play.

Previous versions of Ubin have been performed in New York’s Workshop Theatre, and the Tisch Asia Black Box.

Teh Su Ching’s (Playwright) work in theatre and film has been performed and screened in New York, Moscow, London, Glasgow, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Singapore. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Asia (Singapore) with an MFA in Dramatic Writing, and from Yale University with a BA in Literature and Theatre Studies. She is the only Singaporean student in history to have been featured in the Yale Playwrights Festival. Ubin was her MFA thesis play, which she also work-shopped with MacArthur Genius Grant recipient David Henry Hwang in a Singapore Repertory Theatre Masterclass. Since grad school, Su Ching has co-written three telemovies with Singapore filmmaker Wee Li Lin, performed with Shanghai’s oldest improv comedy troupe, Zmack, in English and Mandarin, and played wise-cracking forensics expert Jean Wu on Mediacorp Channel 5’s Code of Law. Su Ching now lives in Bangkok with her husband and son, where she writes for Mediacorp TV series Lion Moms. She is also a published fiction-writer, essayist, and poet. 

Sabina Ahmed (Director) is the founder of visual and performing arts appreciation group Artizens, and was most recently experiencing an internal feminist revolution when performing in the Vagina Monologues. Previous directing credits include Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and María Irene Fornés’ Fefu and her Friends. She has been involved in various other creative pursuits including writing and acting. Sabina has a day job as a management consultant, which quite frequently seeps into the night. She met Su Ching on a production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth.