Pearlyn Cai

Pearlyn is an independent producer and arts consultant. She recently produced ‘Off Kilter’ by Ramesh Meyyappan, a Scotland-Singapore visual theatre collaboration co-presented by TheatreWorks Singapore and Tron Theatre Scotland, which received 4 star reviews in The Guardian and The Herald and garnered a Life! Theatre Awards ‘Best Actor’ nomination. 

Her works with independent artists such as Samantha Scott-Blackhall, Remesh Panicker, Lim Chin Huat and Alessandra Fel have been commissioned by Arts House, National Gallery and the M1 Fringe. Formerly, she programmed and co-produced theatre, music and community programs and festivals at the Esplanade which resulted in several critically acclaimed works and box office successes, some of which were nominated for and won Life! Theatre Awards. 

Notable productions she has commissioned for Esplanade’s The Studios, are visual artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s ‘Song of the Brokenhearted Tiger’ (picked by TODAY newspaper as one of 2012’s cultural highlights) and ‘Ten Thousand Tigers’, Blank Space Theatre’s ‘Freud’s Last Session’ (Singapore) (selected by Straits Times’ Life! as one of 2012’s best theatre productions), and Ramesh Meyyappan’s ‘Snails & Ketchup’ (2011) which won Best Actor and was nominated for Best Sound Design at the Life! Theatre Awards in Singapore and nominated for Total Theatre Awards (UK). 

Previously she had worked at the Singapore Biennale and Singapore Art Show, Singapore International Jazz Festival, ArtsWok Collaborative and on productions such as Singapore’s first staging of Wagner’s ‘The Flying Dutchman’ and Art Fission and The Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘The Mazu Chronicle’ and ‘Garden.Uprooted’. She currently consults for new performance venue Gateway Theatre. 

She was invited to speak as a Roundtable panellist at Yokohama Dance Collection (2011) and Asian Performing Arts Festival (Tokyo, 2012). She graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne on a National Arts Council (Singapore) bursary award and is a recipient of NAC’s Creative Producer Development Program.