Gabriel Chan

Recipient of the NAC Overseas Bursary, Gabriel graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with First Class Honours in Lighting Design. He was also awarded the Strand Lighting Scholarship, funding his training at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (’09 Winter Opera Season). He was conferred the Young Artist Award in 2019 for his artistic excellence and contribution to Singapore's performing arts scene. A chameleon of a designer, Gabriel is well versed in lighting for the theatre, dance, music concerts and live events. Signature theatre designs include Lifespan of a Fact, Constellations, Rising Son, Shakespeare in the Park: Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest (Singapore Repertory Theatre), The LKY Musical (Metropolitan Productions), First Fleet (Nine Years Theatre), A Dream Under the Southern Bough: Existence (SIFA 2021), Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Sometime Moon (Toy Factory Productions), and Fluid (The Theatre Practice). In the dance scene, Gabriel has designed for Frontier Danceland’s main seasons since 2012, featuring an array of international choreographers. Other notable dance productions: Festival Lighting Designer for M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2016 (T.H.E. DanceCompany) and Swan Lake 2015 (Singapore Dance Theatre). Gabriel also opened two European dance commissions in summer 2019–Ballroom for Festspielhaus in St. Pölten, Austria, and Dancing Mahler in the 21st Century, a double bill for Opéra National du Rhin, France. Lighting design credits for music include Pipa virtuoso, Wu Man, in Borderlands (SIFA 2016), SCO 25th Anniversary Virtuoso Series I, II, III (Singapore Chinese Orchestra), Nine Songs, Soul Journey Ten Years (Siong Leng Musical Association), Eight, Heirlooms (The TengEnsemble) and Sound of Wisdom–Heal (IMMPAC). Other design ventures include Symphony of Life, the Gardens By The Bay opening festival anchor, Marina Bay Countdown 2015: Drum Gaia, Halloween Horror Nights 2018 and 2019 theatre performances and, last but not least, Singapore’s National Day Parade 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021. Gabriel also goes by the moniker Linesmith (www.linesmith.net) authorised directly by Vectorworks Headquarters based in Washington for conducting training of the Vectorworks software, the leading drafting solution for Entertainment and Performing Arts technical design.