EXHIBITION RESEARCH TEAM:

Zhen Yhue Dennis Ong
Dennis Ong is a heritage and culture enthusiast with a great fondness for all things KL - his kampung. His main interest lies in the metamorphosis of space and the value of nostalgia in cultural preservation. Dennis can often be found deep diving in a pool old photographs. He is also a museum volunteer at Muzium Negara.

Hern-Ee Caleb Goh
Caleb Goh is a lawyer by day and armchair historian by night. He is interested in the formative histories of the towns and cities of Malaya and Singapore as sites where cultures converge. He is also a collector of early phonograph records, rare books, and old photographs - an effort towards the building of his own time machine.

Ken Lim
Ken Lim is an interior designer, and currently working at the Sin Sze Si Ya Temple in Kuala Lumpur. A history buff and museum volunteer at Muzium Negara, he is also pursuing a postgraduate degree at Universiti Malaya examining Kuala Lumpur's social history and cultural landscape.

EXHIBITION DESIGN TEAM:

Fairuz Sulaiman
Fairuz’s interdisciplinary practice covers digital and analogue visual formats that have been used as music videos, animation for short films, moving visuals for stage and immersive visual installations. His methods include puppetry, 2D/3D animation and live video mixing. He presented Laksamana Doremix (National Visual Arts Gallery, 2013), a hybrid wayang kulit and multimedia performance based on the famous P. Ramlee film.

His visual work for various notable theatre directors include Zahim Albakri’s Tarap Man (2007), and Loh Kok Man’s Arus Gangsa (2014) and The Swordfish Then Concubine (2016). His visuals for Kwang Tung Dance Company’s Bisikan Monsoon (2018) landed him the Best Multimedia Design at the 16th BOH Cameronian Awards.

His current projects include his Sekolah Main Wayang workshop that engages underprivileged kids using shadow puppets, DIY instruments, and analog & digital projection.

Nawfal Mohd Zamri
Nawfal Mohd Zamri was born in Kuala Kangsar, Perak and has been actively involved in the theatre scene since 2006 for stage management.

Besides directing, he is also actively a sinographer. In 2018, he won the Best Sinographer Award in Festival Teater Malaysia through “Mat Derih Kuala Perlih”. He was also nominated for Best Set Design in Boh Cameronian Arts Award for “Mona Ke Daerah M” alongside Ola Bola The Musical in 2019. Prior to that, in 2010, he entered the Malaysian Book of Records for directing "The First Musical Theatre Performed by Down Syndrome Kids".

Nawfal has also involved in international level theatre projects in Jogjakarta, Indonesia and with theatre group in Adelaide, Australia.