Associate Professor Leow Puay Tin

Associate Professor Leow Puay Tin

  • Associate Professor
Department of Film and Performing Arts

Biography

Through writing, devising, and curation, Leow Puay Tin creates texts for performance that have been staged by prominent directors and theatre companies in Malaysia and Singapore, such as the late Krishen Jit (Five Arts Centre, Malaysia), Ivan Heng (WildRice, Singapore), Ong Keng Ken (TheatreWorks, Singapore), Loh Kok Man (Pentas Project, Malaysia), and Chee Sek Thim (Five Arts Centre, Malaysia). These texts include Three Children, Family, and A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui produced in the original English language as well as in translation. Leow has also produced a series of 'tikam-tikam" texts using a combination of text curation and writing which are meant for performed reading and performance using a chance device to determine the presentation sequence. She has been the recipient of grants from the Asia Centre of Japan Foundation and the East-West Centre in the USA, and the UK Chevening Award.

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • AdvDip in Voice Studies, Central School, London, UK (1990)
  • MFA in Theatre (Playwright), University of Hawaii, USA (1987)
  • BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Malaya, Malaysia (1980)

Research Interests

  • Contemporary performance and theatre-making
  • Creation of texts for performance from devising, curation, and research

Notable Publications

  1. Leow, P. T. (2017). Pichet Klunchun’s site-specific monkeys: A methodological monologue. Proceedings of the 5th International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (pp. 47–50).
  2. Leow, P.T. (2017, November 27). Tikam-tikam Japan: Table and chairs. Arts Equator. Retrieved from https://artsequator.com/tikam-tikam-japan-table-chairs/.
  3. Leow, P.T. (2017, November 15). Tikam-tikam Japan: chi too’s conceptual balloons in Sapporo. Arts Equator. Retrieved from https://artsequator.com/chi-too-balloons-sapporo/
  4. Leow, P.T. (2017, November 1). Tikam-tikam Japan: Site-specific monkeys by Pichet Klunchun. Arts Equator. Retrieved from https://artsequator.com/pichet-klunchun-tokyo-monkeys/.
  5. Leow, P.T. (2017, October 19). Ken Takiguchi: A dramaturg’s sanctuary. Arts Equator. Retrieved from https://artsequator.com/ken-takiguchi-dramaturg-sanctuary/.
  6. Leow, P.T. (2017, August 17). Tikam-tikam Japan: R.I.P.Tokyo. Arts Equator. Retrieved from https://artsequator.com/japan-rip-tokyo/.
  7. Leow P.T. (2015). A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui. In K. Rowland (Ed.), Staging History: Selected Plays from Five Arts Centre Malaysia, 1984 – 2014. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Five Arts Centre.
  8. Leow, P.T. (2015). Suara Rimba. In K. Rowland (Ed.), Staging History: Selected Plays from Five Arts Centre Malaysia, 1984 – 2014. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Five Arts Centre.
  9. Leow, P.T. (2015). Three Children. In K. Rowland (Ed.), Staging History: Selected Plays from Five Arts Centre Malaysia, 1984 – 2014. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Five Arts Centre.
  10. Leow, P.T. (2011). Family. In R. S. Patke (Ed.), An Anthology of English Writing in Southeast Asia. Singapore: National Library Board.
  11. Leow, P.T. (2011). Cultivating a Theatre of Malaysian Stories. In The Nut Graph (Ed.), Malaysia Vol. 2. Kuala Lumpur: ZI Publications.
  12. Leow, P.T. (2006). Translating and Performing Languages of Memory. In J. Lindsay (Ed.), Between Tongues: Translation and/of/in Performance in Asia. Singapore: NUS Press.
  13. Leow, P.T. (1996). Family. In C.W. Ping (Ed.), Playful Phoenix: Women Write for the Singapore Stage. Singapore: TheatreWorks.
  14. Leow, P.T. (1992). Three Children. Singapore: UniPres for NUS Theatre.