Corrie 陳霖靈
(she/her) is a
writer, researcher
and practitioner
from Singapore.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Theatre Studies on the joint doctoral programme between the National University of Singapore and King’s College London, fully funded by a President’s Graduate Fellowship. I am also contributing editor and resident critic with the Southeast Asian arts platform Arts Equator and assistant editor with AcademiaSG, and have written about performance regularly over the past decade for The Guardian, The Stage, Exeunt Magazine and The Straits Times. As a dramaturg, I collaborate frequently with theatre practitioner Chong Gua Khee and dance artist Bernice Lee on their long-term project Tactility Studies, and their practices and ethos have deeply informed and are densely intertwined with the work I do. I also often work with playwright and fellow critic Nabilah Said.

I’m committed to radical shifts in performance criticism – redefining the critic as dramaturg, collaborator, archivist, facilitator and shapeshifter – with a practice centered around care, intimacy and generosity. In that vein, I have run workshops, given lectures, and moderated panels on the arts, writing and critique at the National University of Singapore, the Singapore International Festival of Arts, the Singapore Writers Festival, the Intercultural Theatre Institute, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, and Centre 42, among others. I was on faculty for the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network’s Points of View: Critical Frames for Performance Writing & Making and Centre 42’s Pandemic Purpose: Rethinking Practice & the Practitioner, and part of the inaugural Asian Arts Media Roundtable that brought together writers and critics from the region.

Things I’m exploring and (un/re)learning: new modes of performance criticism; intimacy and care (including care ethics and performance as care); emotion and affect; postcolonialities and decolonialities; Southeast Asian performance (Singapore in particular); participatory performance; performance in public spaces and site-specific performance; inter- and multi-cultural work; arts and media censorship; contemporary feminisms; and dramaturgical practice.

I graduated from Brown University with a B.A. (Honours) in Literary Arts on a Singapore Press Holdings Journalism Scholarship and hold an M.A. (Distinction) in Performance & Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London as a recipient of both the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) and the Goldsmiths International Scholarship.