About the Course
The workshop will be facilitated by Fakkah Fuzz, who will take the participants through the fundamentals of stand up comedy, such as introduction to comedy, contextual history, translating lived experiences into punch lines for the stage, presentation skills, microphone skills and improvisation skills.
Participants will also get personal consultation sessions as part of the workshop, to get feedback and towards the final showcase.
Company
Teater Ekamatra
Teater Ekamatra is an established and exciting Singaporean arts company that spotlights artists of diverse ethnicities.
Teater Ekamatra has been commissioned by notable international arts festivals and has also won numerous accolades, especially at Singapore’s highest platform for excellence in theatre, the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards, where our trophies have included Best Original Script several times.
Guided by our values of diversity, inclusivity, integrity, accountability, and people-centredness, Teater Ekamatra is committed to our mission of creating engaging art that inspires, as well as incubating emerging talents, and expanding diversity within the industry.
Teaching Artist
Fakkah Fuzz
A comedic star has risen from the urban totalitarian seriousness of Singapore with the trail blazing tracks of Fakkah Fuzz. In the past six years the bald and bearded man of comedy has been delivering heavyweight punch lines all across the globe.
A feature at 2019’s Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival saw him cement a decade of gut cramping style – and swag – that are coupled with the weight of experience under his belt. Only in the previous year of 2018, he phenomenally sold out Esplande’s (Singapore) 2000 seater Theatre with the Unmarried show.
Fuzz’s capability to sell out a show in Singapore as a born and bred stand up comedian from the tropical metropolis was expected, when in 2017 he was the only Singaporean comedian to have his own A comedic star has risen from the urban totalitarian seriousness of Singapore with the trail blazing tracks of Fakkah Fuzz. In the past six years the bald and bearded man of comedy has been delivering heavyweight punch lines all across the globe.
