ABOUT

CHERYL CHARLI [she/her]

Cheryl Charli (b. 1998) is a multi-disciplinary artist and theatre practitioner based in Singapore. She creates experiential and experimental works especially inspired by philosophy, astrophysics, circus arts, and the integration of game design systems in interactive and participatory performance works.

Past projects have explored death, trauma, and the afterlife, Southeast Asian folklore and the supernatural, and Buddhist philosophy on mortality and death, temporality, and impermanence.

Recent works and projects include 'Creatures of the Night' (2023), an immersive promenade theatre experience with game studio Tableminis, 'The Curse and Catharsis of a Copper Mind' (2022) by collective Ritual Cats, producing Emergency Stairs' 'Offending the Audience' and 'Dream School' (2022) in collaboration with NAFA, managing the Singapore Art Book Library (SGABL22), theatre production '
ANAMNESIS' (2021), written, performed, and produced by herself and directed by Isaiah Lee, 'for lack of a better world through the cosmic menagerie', exhibited at Gillman Barracks’ Art Outreach, and 'Rehearsals for Impermanence', a theatre project done as an artist-in-residence for Centre 42’s ‘The Vault: Lite’. Theatre credits include 'Anything Can Happen, Something Must Happen' (2019) with W!LDRICE’s ‘Young&W!LD’, directed by Edith Podesta, 'The Moon Is Less Bright' (2018) by The Second Breakfast Company, and 'Without Reason' (2017) directed by Adib Kosnan, commissioned by the M1 Peer Pleasure Youth Theatre Festival.

As an arts writer, she has also had the honour to have written critically for various arts and culture sites, such as Arts Equator, Bandwagon Asia, Popspoken.sg, and Plural Art Mag.

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