When Strangers Meet...

Grace Kalaiselvi is an independent theatre actor, director, educator and writer. An alumnus of Intercultural Theatre Institute, she hopes to create more works representing minorities and the suppressed. Working in both English and Tamil languages, she does a range of creations suitable for young audiences, teenagers and adults.

Some her works include Come Back Home with Polyglot Theatre Australia, The Indigo Jackal, Marma Medai -Theerppu, Watching the World Go By, Paper Paravai & Amma’s Sarees for Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay; Rasanai and 3FVU for T:>works for N.O.W Festival and Angry Indian Woman - The Trial for Singapore Writer’s Festival. Her independent creations include the Mother I series and Goddesses of Words series. She has also acted in The Silence of a falling Tree and 0600 for Singapore International Festival of Arts and a line could be crossed… and Precise Purpose of Being Broken for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival.

Liz is a multidisciplinary performer from Singapore. She is a graduate of School of the Arts and the Intercultural Theatre Institute (2016). She has performed with companies like Singapore Theatre Company (Caught, 2019); The Theatre Practice (Four Horse Road, 2017, 2020), and in festivals like the M1 Fringe 2021, in Kalaa Utsavam 2021, 2022 and 2023, and even as the devil in Devil’s Cherry, SIFA 2022. As of April, she has been an associate artist at Chowk Productions, a movement company specialising in odissi dance.

Having enjoyed a broad swath of performances in plays and movement pieces, she’s now leaning towards movement forms like butoh to stretch her expression, and also towards the camera, in commercial work and short films. Recently, she got to be on her first television set, playing Rosita in Come Closer, available on MeWatch. Some things that interest her include cultural liminality, gender perception/performance, and the way bodies fit in architecture. She's very pleased to be working with masks again in this year’s edition of Flipside!

As an actor, director, writer, and devising collaborator, Yazid has credits in over 60 professional theatrical productions in the last 18 years.

As an alumnus of the Intercultural Theatre Institute and the École Philippe Gaulier, Yazid believes in cross-disciplinary collaborations through encountering the unknown.

When not performing, Yazid enjoys sharing his knowledge and experiences with students. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts.

As a teaching-artist, Yazid values sincerity, sharing of joy, and collaboration above all else. He hopes to empower more youths with agency and critical thinking through arts education.