Faculty Bio

Chong Tze Chien Adjunct Faculty Tisch Asia

Biography

Chong Tze Chien is an award-winning and published playwright/director in Singapore. Some of the awards he has won include the Singapore Dramatist Award and The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards: Best Director, Best Script and Production of the Year. He also writes frequently for local television channels, such as Channel 5, Okto/Arts Central and Vasantham Central. 

 In 2009, he co-wrote Singapore’s first Tamil feature film, Gurushetram-24 Hours of Anger, which has been sold to India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia since. In 2002, The Necessary Stage published his first collection of plays PIE to SPOILT.  In the same year, his contribution to the US publication of Monologues for Men by Men, Vol. 2was published by Heinemann Press. Not only have Tze Chien’s works been seen in the local scene, his works have also been read and dramatized by Royal Court’s Exposure: Young Writers 2000 in 2000 and Singapore London Playhouse’s double bill adaptation of his published plays PIE  to SPOILT in 2005. In August 2006, his work Furthest North, Deepest South made its international premier in Budapest, Hungary.

 In 2011, Epigram Books published his sophomore collection of plays, which includes Charged, 2011's Best Script for the The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards. For his contributions to Singapore Theatre, he was awarded the Young Artist Award by the Singapore’s National Arts Council. He is presently the Company Director of The Finger Players.