Corrie works at the intersection of research, facilitation, dramaturgy and criticism, and is currently exploring the confluences of care ethics, collaborative performance practices, and new articulations of performance criticism and dramaturgy in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Corrie cultivated her intimate knowledge of the regional arts ecosystem as an arts correspondent and theatre critic with The Straits Times. She has also written regularly about performance for ArtsEquator, The Guardian, and Exeunt Magazine. She received her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from King’s College London and the National University of Singapore. As an early-career academic, she is invested in engaging with Southeast Asian scholars and committed to making research accessible to the public. In that vein, she has worked with academic collective AcademiaSG as an assistant editor and was on the Future Advisory Board under Performance Studies International. She has developed curricula, taught workshops, and lectured at various institutions and platforms, including the Young Curators Academy, Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting, LASALLE College of the Arts, National University of Singapore, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, and Centre 42.
Her expanded practice of criticism and dramaturgy has led her to work with artists and platforms such as the intercultural festival Southernmost Arts Festival, M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival, participatory performance project Tactility Studies, and minority dance company P7:1SMA. She is often invited into projects where she can be a critical companion and co-thinker and offer rich textual accompaniment to a creative process or product. Corrie is currently the director of the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network and arts editor of independent digital magazine Jom.
Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre and Performance Studies
King’s College London and National University of Singapore
Master of Arts with Distinction in Performance and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Bachelor of Arts Honours in Creative Writing,
Brown University
Corrie is affiliated with the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network and the Asian Arts Media Roundtable—and is committed to forging connections and solidarities with fellow arts practitioners across Southeast Asia. This has manifested through the working groups and collectives she has co-founded and/or is committed to, including:
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Critical Ecologies Working Group, a gathering of critics from across archipelagic Southeast Asia, the collective is interested in mapping ecologies and vocabularies of critique in the region and theorising critique from regions of Southeast Asia in a collaborative way;
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Something-Something Working Group, which aims to imagine and prototype new paradigms and infrastructures for knowledge production, artistic practice and their contingent entanglements. In particular, the group facilitates ways in which artists, arts practitioners, arts workers, arts organisations and/or institutions in Singapore might question, reflect on and articulate their internal infrastructures and working processes;
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CITRUS practices, a community of practice hoping to explore and expand conversations around better practices in the arts.