Big Ball ’14: Performers
THE HOSTS
PAM OEI
Pam has been in over 60 theatre, television and film productions. Her theatre credits as an actor include the critically acclaimed Animal Farm, The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ, Titoudao, Everything But The Brain, Rent and Boeing Boeing, but she is probably most known on stage for being one third of the Dim Sum Dollies â, a wildly popular cabaret act.Her film credits include Peggy Su!, Forever Fever, Blue Mansion and Porn Masala.
BENJAMIN KHENG
Benjamin Kheng is a Singaporean musician, actor, writer and former national swimmer.
He had his start in the arts and entertainment industry at the age of 17 as a radio producer / presenter on Lush 99.5FM, hosting two recurring programmes The Art of Lush and The Lush Lab. In 2012, alongside three other musicians, he founded the folk-pop quartet The Sam Willows. Since their inception, the group has gone on to grace both local and international stages, such as the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, the Canadian Music Festival in Toronto, Ontario, MU:CON and Zandari Festa in Seoul, Digital & Music Matters in Singapore, and the Western Australian Music Festival in Perth.
THE ENTERTAINERS
THE CHESTNUTS
Singapore’s very first and longest running parody show
CHESTNUTS has spoofed movies, TV, current affairs, popular music and the theatre scene, always with a loving sense of nonsense and a sharp sting of social commentary. Since 1996, their unique brand of parody have made fans of audiences and critics alike, and Chestnuts is now a must-see staple in many a Singapore satire-lover’s calendar.
Songs we know and love receive twisted new lyrics from the comic genius of creator (writer & actor) Jonathan Lim, while local musical theatre icon Elaine Chan weaves them into a musical mash-up to remember! Together with performers Dwayne Lau and Candice De Rozario, Chestnuts will have you rolling in the aisles and cheering till you’re hoarse as they skewer the past years most outrageous sexist instances – the nominees for AWARE’s infamous Alamak! Awards.
ELAINE W CHAN
Best known for the LTA jingle Love Your Ride, NDP 2005 theme song Reach Out for the Skies and 2013 One Singapore, Elaine Chan is a popular theatre composer-arranger-director.
She garnered songwriting awards in her teens, wrote and directed her 1st full length musical score at 18, toured the south of New Zealand, received the Wong Yee Hua Memorial Music Excellence Award, music directed NDP 2005 and together with Selena Tan, and was nominated in 2011s Life Theatre Awards for Cinderellah!
Her prolific portfolio encompass musical direction, original writing & arrangements for all Dream Academy Productions of Dim Sum Dollies, SingDollar, Hossan Leong & Broadway Beng Shows, the 1st Crazy Christmas, Wild Rices Pantomimes : Hansel & Gretel, CinderellaH! Jack and the Beansprout!, Aladdin, Snow White, Beauty & the Beast and a musical adaptation of the Bawds Romeo and Juliet.
THE SAM WILLOWS
The Sam Willows are made up of siblings Benjamin and Narelle Kheng and their friends Sandra Riley Tang and Jon Chua. They formed in mid-2012 and their rise to fame was described by leading Singapore broadsheet, The Straits Times, as “meteoric”. They released their self-titled debut EP to great acclaim in October 2012, and have won several awards since. The Sam Willows have performed at several major events and music festivals, including international festivals such as Canadian Music Week in Toronto, Canada; SXSW Music Festival in Austin, USA; and 2013 Formula One Singapore Grand Prix Night Race.
The Sam Willows have just joined the Shure Artist Family and are an independent band presently distributed in Southeast Asia by Warner Music, Singapore.
