Lucas Ho

I am a Singaporean writer, director, and educator; and an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre in Singapore. I am currently based in London.

I personally am first and foremost interested in exploring the riches of language in performance. I love to dig into the poetry of speech for the stage: the granular aspects of how sounds and words coalesce to create meaning and emotions in spoken dialogue. This is not to say that I’m not interested in politics or social commentary, but as a playwright, I believe you absolutely have to have one hand firmly on the thematic, and the other just as assuredly on the linguistic.

I would love to work on boundary-breaking projects, and engage in more formal experimentation.

Credits

PLAYWRIGHT, Tender Submission. Directed by Huzir Sulaiman. Checkpoint Theatre. Drama Centre Black Box, Singapore, 2.5 weeks. 2023

PLAYWRIGHT, Tender Submission as part of “Works in Development”. Directed by Claire Wong. Checkpoint Theatre. Digital Presentation, One-off, 2021

PLAYWRIGHT, The Heart Comes To Mind. Directed by Claire Wong. Checkpoint Theatre. Esplanade Theatre Studio, Singapore. Digital Presentation, 3 weeks, 2020

PLAYWRIGHT, FRAGO. Directed by Huzir Sulaiman. Checkpoint Theatre. Drama Centre Black Box, Singapore, 2.5 weeks 2017

PLAYWRIGHT, FRAGO as part of “Works in Development”. Directed by Huzir Sulaiman. Checkpoint Theatre and Singapore Writers’ Festival. Play Den, The Arts House, Singapore, one night, 2016

PLAYWRIGHT, And One For Yourself, as part of “What I Love About You Is Your Attitude Problem”. Directed by Lucas Ho. Checkpoint Theatre. Living Room, The Arts House, Singapore, one night. 2015

PLAYWRIGHT, The Historian’s Tour / The Cleaner’s Account as part of “The Next Page”, for the 10th Anniversary of the Arts House. Directed by Chong Tze Chien. The Finger Players. Play Den, The Arts House, Singapore, 3 shows, 2014

PLAYWRIGHT, Midnight Surcharge, as part of “Associate Artist Play Readings.” Directed by Lucas Ho. Checkpoint Theatre. Play Den, The Arts House, Singapore , one night, 2013

PLAYWRIGHT, The Last Chief Minister of Singapore, as part of NAC’s Watch This Space! initiative. Staged Reading. Directed by Chong Tze Chien. The Substation, Singapore, one night, 2013

PLAYWRIGHT, The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole / The _____ is Too Big for the ______. Devised piece. Co-written, co-directed and co-dramaturged with Cheryl Lee. Buds Youth Theatre. The Substation, Singapore, 3 shows, 2012

PLAYWRIGHT, The Artist Who, as part of “The Power of Notions/Notions of Power”. Directed by Claire Wong. Checkpoint Theatre. NUS Museum, Singapore, 3 shows, 2011

PLAYWRIGHT, Idk, You Noob!, for the Singapore Cyberwellness Conference for Parents 2009. Staged Reading. Directed by Adelina Ong. Play Den, The Arts House, Singapore, one show, 2009

PLAYWRIGHT, Everyday Miracle (sole writer) and Mole (co-writer), as part of “It’s Complicated”. Directed by Huzir Sulaiman. NUS Stage. UCC Theatre, Singapore, one night, 2009

PLAYWRIGHT, “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue”. Writer (Something New); Co-writer (Something Borrowed). University Scholars Club. Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore, 3 shows, 2009

Training

MFA Writing for the Stage and Broadcast Media, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2023 - 2025.