Dwayne Tan

Dwayne Tan is a Singaporean actor, voice actor and singer.

Dwayne Tan
OccupationActor, voice actor, singer

Tan graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.[1] He began his training at the Singapore Armed Forces Music and Drama Company (SAF MDC). He is also a Singapore Repertory Theatre Young Company (SRT YC) alumnus and a member of the Association of Singapore Actors.

He began acting in Singapore with Theatreworks' musical, Beauty World and has worked with many other theatre companies like Action Theatre, The Necessary Stage, Imaginarts, luna-id, Wildrice and Igor's: The Main Event, in musicals and plays alike. For over a year, he sang at the comedy cabaret club, the Boom Boom Room.

His work occasionally extends into TV and radio. Tan was one of the top 30 contestants in the 1st season of Singapore Idol. Tan has also lent his voice to many characters in cartoons like One Piece, the second Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), and Machine Robo Rescue. For 5 years, he hosted the Sunday morning show on the arts radio station Passion 99.5FM.

He became a finalist on Singapore Idol; due to this he produced his Moments Alone, an EP.[2]

He also released his novel, "My Cup of Teh-O: A Singaporean Boy's Search for Home in America", which is a narrative loosely based on his life in New York City. On his official website, there are links to sample chapters of his work.[3]

On film, Tan has appeared in Cyber Wars (starring Joan Chen) and was involved in a scene as a New York tourist with Susan Sarandon, in Disney's Enchanted. Tan fulfilled his Disney dreams when he sang for the opening of Disney On Ice in Kuala Lumpur.

Tan has been trained in puppeteering by fellow voice actor Brian Zimmerman.

Voice acting credits

(For Singaporean dubs only)

Television acting credits

Performance credits

Musical credits

References
  1. "Dwayne Tan Archived 14 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine." Beauty World The Musical. Accessed 17 July 2008.
  2. "Beauty World Biographies Archived 14 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine." Meet The Creative Team. Accessed 23 July 2008.
  3. "Straits Times article." Want to publish a novel? Just click. Accessed 8 November 2009.
  4. "Channel 5, MediaCorp TV Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine." Behind Closed Doors episodic synopsis. Accessed 23 July 2008.
  5. "XinMSN Video Archived 23 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine." Sunshine Station full episodes on Okto Channel. Accessed 1 October 2011.
  6. " ." Heartland Hubby is first local animated sitcom series. Accessed 26 July 2016.
  7. " ." Serangoon Road IMDB. Accessed 26 July 2016.
  8. "Magicbox 1 April 2008 Archived 8 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine." Magic of Lawrence and Priscilla. Accessed 20 July 2008.
  9. "Singapore Repertory Theatre homepage. Accessed 5 July 2009."
  10. "W!ldrice Singapore homepage. Accessed 12 April 2012."
  11. "Fever Avenue interview Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 20 August 2012."
  12. "Thoroughly Modern Millie" Post-Standard Critics. Accessed 23 July 2008.
  13. "A Very Merry Millie" Ithaca Times. Accessed 23 July 2008.
  14. "Beauty World reveals a new beauty." Channel News Asia. Accessed 17 July 2008.
  15. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Archived 29 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine" Straits Times Online. Accessed 27 October 2008.
  16. "Pinocchio the Musical" Time Out magazine feature. Accessed 28 October 2010.
  17. "Spring Awakening Archived 16 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine" Pangdemonium Official Site. Accessed 2 February 2012.
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