Mohamad Shaifulbahri (Shai)

Shai is a creative producer and arts educator based in Singapore. He is the Artistic Director of producing company, Bahri & Co and the former Joint Artistic Director of Bhumi Collective. He is also an Organising Member of Producers SG and an adjunct lecturer on the BA Arts Management course at LASALLE College of the Arts.

He enjoys working with artists who make art collaboratively across mediums, with a view towards transnational collaborations that break borders and barriers in art making. He believes in arts education and provides mentoring and development opportunities for emerging arts producers.

Shai is an alumnus of the MA in Creative Producing course at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and was also a TEDx speaker at TEDxRoyalCentralSchool having spoken about "Diversifying, Diversity: Tomorrow’s Theatre Today". He has produced work in Singapore, Malaysia and the UK and is currently developing new projects with Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea. Shai is also currently an ISPA Singapore Fellow from 2021-2024.

Internationally, his credits include: 
PIAF (Charing Cross Theatre), Charlie (Edinburgh Student Arts Festival, Melbourne Fringe), everything that rises must dance (Resolution 2016), Last of Their Generation, bhumi (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), In Celebration of Mo (Wandsworth Fringe 2016), Bunker Without Borders (The Bunker Theatre), Sau(dara) (Five Arts Centre).

In Singapore, his credits include: Failing the Dance (da:ns Festival),  Mak-Mak Menari, yesterday it rained salt (m1 Singapore Fringe Festival), Rasa Sarang (Textures) Ethni-City III: Kali Yuga (SAtheCollective), dead was the body till i taught it how to move, Every Brilliant Thing (Bhumi Collective), Ikan Girl (Singapore International Festival of Music), The Last Five Years, Off Centre, Those Who Can't, Teach (Yellow Chair Productions), Lord of the Flies, Everything but the Brain (Sight Lines Productions).