Portfolio for The Young Artist Award 2026

Joel Tan’s sold-out debut at the Royal Court Theatre centres around a fictional bodhisattva statue in the British museum; Unfolding across the statue’s journey from China to Britain and back again, the play questions who can claim cultural artefacts – and why. The model box for this production design was featured at an exhibition as part of the London Design Festival in 2025.

Nick Payne’s popular multiverse two-hander blending rom-com, quantum physics, and euthanasia is widely staged across the world. Here it was programmed by the historically significant Stephen Joseph Theatre, the UK’s first purpose-built theatre in-the-round. The distinctive set design for the production was featured across various theatre and local news sites.

Part of Wild Rice's 2025 season, The Serangoon Gardens Techno Party of 1993 is the story of one young woman raging against the machine told over the course of a one-night bender. How brightly can you burn without killing yourself and the people around you?

A cult classic beloved across the world and an ambitious co-production between four regional theatres. This excellently-received production of Little Shop of Horrors toured and adapted across five distinct venues across the UK.

A scathing satire on censorship, complaint culture, and the ridiculous outbursts of moral outrage that frequently reverberate across the Singaporean internet. This Wild Rice production clinched Production of the Year at the ST Life Theatre Awards 2024.

An epic love story inspired by the playwright’s grandparents' lives as twice-migrants, the play traces a couple’s life across India, east-Africa, and the UK. The production design was a co-commission between the Octagon Theatre Bolton and the Linbury Prize for Stage Design (2019) and also won the Stage Debut Awards (2022) for Best Designer.

A stark and psychologically charged retelling of the Greek myth, Iphigénie en Tauride follows a priestess forced to enact ritual sacrifice, only to confront her long-lost brother. This was The Opera’s People annual mainstage show for 2025.

First staged at the Aliwal Lit Up Festival in 2013 (with the same designer), this decennial revival of Joel Tan’s time-capsule of a piece about nostalgia, memory, and loss was programmed as part of The Esplanade’s Studios season in 2023.

A powerful folk musical following three women across three centuries as they confront the stories they inherit and the choices that shape them. Blending Scottish, Irish and Appalachian influences, it’s a soaring tale of family, identity and legacy. This musical premiered in London after an initial run in Scotland.

An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic, this was the Cumbrian theatre’s Christmas offering in the Lake District for 2024; a yearly tradition drawing communities in from the region for a night at the theatre with their families young and old.