Maria Au Mong Chao (Macao) has just completed her MA in Directing at Rose Bruford College in London. After graduation, she will return to Macao to teach at the Conservatory of Macao and serve out the bond for her scholarship to TTRP, awarded by the Cultural Institute of Macao.

Email: mariaaumongchao@yahoo.com.hk

Felimon Blanco (the Philippines) is currently an Actor in Residence at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines. He was last seen on stage in the Initiation International festival in Singapore, November 2006, by The Fun Stage, performing his original work The Last Tape. The show is based on a collaborative theatre project called My Sister..My Friend in India, with the support of Arts Network Asia. In May 2006 he was part of the Artistic team for a Mindanao production to be staged for the World Congress of the International Theatre Institute.

Just last December he performed in Singapore in Initiation International at the invitation of The Fun Stage, with his piece That Day, I Met A New Friend. Felimon is founding Artistic Director of the Tambul Dance and Theatre Ensemble, and also leads the Kumbingan Ensemble, a community-based performing arts group in Pagadian City, whose works include dance-theatre productions inspired by Mindanao arts and culture as well as exploratory and experimental forms.

Email: fbb1973@yahoo.com

Miyuki Kamimura (Japan) recently performed in Japan in a Buto performance entitled No Roots No Leaves – Absurd Day Dream. Prior to that he was in Taiwan in Chen Hui Wen's production of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis, which is intended to tour to Poland and Germany in 2006. He is also working on movie projects, details of which are still confidential.

Email: kamimuramiyukijp@yahoo.co.jp

Adrianna Koralewska (Poland) is currently teaching Movement and Dance at the Shanghai Singapore International School in Shanghai, China. She co-founded Modus Vivendi, a Theatre and Education company in Poland, in early 2006.

Email: adrianna_koralewska@go2.pl

Chris Lee Ban Loong (Singapore) has worked in more than 50 artistic productions for professional companies, TV, films and institutions over the last decade. He had the lead role in the Singaporean short film Ball is Round, directed by Matthew Lim, which was awarded 3rd Prize at the Ho Chi Minh Sports Film Festival 2006. Chris' last performance was a theatre and music collaboration with Singaporean Guzheng soloist Doris Tsern, at the Southeast Asia Regional Sonic Festival in July 2005. Chris is currently Aesthetics Coordinator and Drama Teacher at the Shanghai Singapore International School in Shanghai, China.

Email: chrisleebanloong@yahoo.com.sg

Melissa Leung Hiu Tuen (Hong Kong) is currently an actor with Hong Kong theatre company, Theatre Ensemble. She also returned to Singapore last year to perform in furnitur, a play by Drama Box, presented by the Esplanade in their Studios series. She was also part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2006, performing in Ending the World, created and directed by Andy Ng. While not acting Melissa actively takes part in arts education projects.

Email: hiutuenl@yahoo.com.hk

Mohamed Kunju Noushad (India) has returned to a busy acting career in India, as well as teaching in the Outreach programme of the National School of Drama, after performing in Teater Ekamatra's Impenjarenment for the Singapore Arts Festival 2005, and in Chen Hui Wen's production of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis in Taiwan. His most recent performance was in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Ladakh, Kashmir. He is currently acting as well as coaching voice and movement in a Japan Foundation project based on Greek drama, and involving artists from Japan, Iran, Uzbekistan and India.

Email: nadan_noushad@hotmail.com

Xiao Jian (China) is now in a teaching position at an international school in Shanghai. Prior to that, he was employed as a drama teacher by Julia Gabriel Centre in Singapore and performed in Lan Ma for the Chinese Theatre Circle in Singapore, and for the Festival of World Cultures in Dublin, Ireland, in 2005.

Email: jamesxiaojian@yahoo.com.sg

Hung Pei Ching (Taiwan) works as a freelancer in Taiwan. Since graduation, she has performed in various venues in Taiwan, and in EX Theatre Asia's production of The Night I Met The Prince in Shanghai's Asian Contemporary Theatre Festival 2006. She has also worked with the Taiwan Song Song Song Children's Theatre, Shang Oriental Theatre and other companies in Taiwan. Her most recent performance was as part of an international cast in a production of The Vagina Monologues that raised funds for 3 organisations assisting women and children who are victims of violence. She is also teaching drama to senior high school students.

Email: bei_gi@yahoo.com.tw