Desmond Sim (b. 1961) is a prolific playwright whose plays have been staged professionally in Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States. He was the first-ever Playwright-in-Residence at TheatreWorks and served as Associate Artistic Director of ACTION Theatre, where he nurtured new and emerging playwrights in the developmental programme, Singapore Theatre Oasis. In addition to writing 30 works for the theatre, Sim has written short stories, screenplays and poems. He was the recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize Merit Award for Poetry in 1993 for his collection of poetry, Places Where I’ve Been.

Geraldine Song (b. 1961) is a Lecturer of English and a USP Fellow with the University Scholars Programme at Nanyang Technological University, where she mainly teaches undergraduate courses in academic writing. As a researcher, her interests include team-based learning (TBL), 19th-century English Literature as well as dramaturgy, which deals with research and development in theatre. She is passionate about playwriting, play production and the arts. She was awarded two grants from the National Arts Council (NAC) in 2014 to stage her plays, one of which was Absence. Song was named Patron of the Arts in 2016 by the NAC. 

Haresh Sharma (b. 1965) is the Resident Playwright of The Necessary Stage and a recipient of the Cultural Medallion in 2015. Celebrated both locally and overseas, Sharma has written over 100 plays and has 10 publications to his name. His play, Off Centre, is currently an official literature text that is studied for the O- and N-Level Examinations in Singapore secondary schools. He was awarded Best Original Script for Fundamentally Happy, Good People and Gemuk Girls at the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Life! Theatre Awards respectively, and was, in 2011, the first non-American to be named Goldberg Master Playwright by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.