Gua Khee Chong

Biography

Chong Gua Khee is a director and dramaturg based across Singapore and Helsinki/Finland. She is endlessly curious about so many things, but especially about how your everyday experiences are shaped by societal factors – and how you in turn shape the world around you!

Gua Khee is part of CITRUS practices, a ground-up collective of arts workers that supports other arts workers in Singapore to build capacities and networks around care practices in the arts. She co-directed the biennial gathering CITRUS fest in 2024, and is Festival Curator for 2026’s edition. Other recent projects include directing intercultural music theatre ‘Tea/Time & Love’ (2026), musical documentary ‘From me to you: How shall we eat v1.0’ (2026), and new chamber opera ‘Piggy Sparkle’ (2025).

Professional dream

To find Finland-based producers to collaborate with on a long-term basis, and to direct a large-scale multilingual music theatre performance that can tour within and beyond Finland!

Skills and competences

• Dramaturgy
• Facilitation
• Moderation

Language skills

• English (mother tongue)
• Mandarin (excellent)
• French (basics)

Thesis

Artistic work

From me to you: How shall we eat v1.0, 2026
Direction and text/lyrics curation: Gua Khee Chong
Composition and lyrics support: Gyula Jussi Lukács
Dramaturgical and costume support: Natania Prezant
Music arrangement: Aleksi Laukkonen
Scenographer: Anna Satu Kaunisto
Lighting designer: Titus Torniainen
Assistant scenographer and Props designer: Yö Heinänen
Sound engineer: Mika Savolainen
Performers: Maja Burggraaff and Merita Salihi-Hildén
Musicians: Viltė Kišonaitė and Felix Hirsch
Production and publicity: Matilda Anttila
Production: University of the Arts Helsinki, Theatre Academy

Written component

Directing Verbatim Theatre as a Pleasure Activist

Other education

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology Honours, Theatre Major), University of British Columbia, 2014

Work sample

HOT POT TALK: The Measure of a Meal, 2021
Production: supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore, powered by the National Youth Council, and in friendship with HOME (Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics)
Own role: Director

Songs for Tomorrow, 2019
Production: Singapore; as part of Both Sides, Now Carnival 2019
Own role: Director

Tactility Studies, 2019-ongoing
Production: various – for instance, Singapore International Festival of Arts, National Gallery Singapore, Prague Quadrennial
Own role: Co-Director