BOOK A TELLER: Verena Tay

A theatre practitioner for over two decades, Verena Tay is an Associate Artist with The Substation since 2002 and has been concentrating on solo performance for the last ten years, most of which have been featured at The Substation with its support. As a playwright, Verena won ACTION Theatre's 2005 Theatre Idols contest with her play, The Car, and was an Honorary Fellow at the renowned International Writing Program, University of Iowa (Aug–Nov 2007) where she gain much insight on the craft of writing from her peers around the world.

Since 2003, Verena has been using all of her theatrical background to bring stories vocally and physically alive in a unique fashion. She chooses her stories carefully, adapting folktales with strong characters or creating original tales with a twist. Where possible, she invests her  quirky brand of humour, especially in her stories for adults, to titillate and tantalise...

Together with Kamini Ramachandran as MoonShadow Stories from November 2004, Verena has been delighting adults and children with stories at The Substation, museums and other venues. In addition, she has been telling stories in her own right and through ASN, Talespin, Storytelling Association (Singapore), the Storytelling Circle and other groups. She has also conducted storytelling-related workshops during the annual Asian Congress of Storytellers (2005 & 2006) and with various community groups. During the fall of 2007, she had the pleasure of telling stories for the first time beyond Singapore, thrilling both children and adults in upstate New York and New Orleans.

Outside of theatre and storytelling, Verena gained an MA in English Literature (National University of Singapore, 1993) and pursued a career in public affairs, marketing, editing and teaching. From 1998 to 2003, she worked as a Publications Officer at the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore, where she edited newsletters and books on teaching and learning issues in higher education. With the moral support of The Substation, she pursued a second masters degree, an MA in Voice Studies (2005) at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, during 2003-04. She now earns part of her living teaching voice, speech and/or presentation skills at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and other local institutions.

For more information about Verena, please visit http://www.verenatay.com.

 
How to Contact Verena:  

● Email: verena@moonshadowstories.org