- Donate
- Corporate Partnerships
- The Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship at Checkpoint Theatre
- The Fourth Trimester Gala Ticket and Fundraiser Ticket
- No Questions Asked Ticket Initiative
23 Years and Beyond
Since 2002, we have proudly developed and presented a rich array of Singapore stories and voices across different disciplines, platforms, and media. We are immensely grateful for your support as we fulfil our mission of bringing original Singapore stories that matter to you.
Please donate to Checkpoint Theatre and become our Checkpoint Champion. Join us in championing more original Singapore voices and stories that matter.
Become a Checkpoint Champion
Checkpoint Theatre is a non-profit company and a registered charity with Institution of a Public Character (IPC) status. With your support, we can continue to make theatre with honesty and humour, head and heart.
Please donate and become a Checkpoint Champion. Your donation will enjoy a 250% tax deduction and every dollar that you donate will be matched dollar for dollar by the Government under the Cultural Matching Fund: the more you give, the more the Government will give.
Donation Tiers
| Vermillion | $10,000 & above | |
| Flame | $5,000 – $9,999 | |
| Tangelo | $1,000 – $4,999 | |
| Amber | $500 – $999 | |
| Coral | $300 – $499 |
In Appreciation
We show our appreciation to our Checkpoint Champions in a number of ways:
- Priority bookings
- Invitations to selected productions, programmes and events
- Complimentary production programmes and selected publications
- Acknowledgement in our production programmes and on our website
Please write to [email protected] if you would like more details about becoming a Checkpoint Champion.
How to Donate
Donations may be made by the following methods:
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Please email us at [email protected] with the details of your transaction:
- the donor’s full name,
- the donor’s NRIC/FIN (should you wish to receive a tax deduction receipt),
- the donor’s mailing address & email address, and
- the donor’s mobile telephone number.
We salute and thank our wonderful Checkpoint Champions!
| Champion-in-Chief | Suon Kuok | |
| Vermillion | 68Monkeys Coleads Shirley Goh & Steven Luk Prakash Kannan & Joanne Yoong Dana Lam & Teo Teck Weng Leong Ka Tai & Rebecca Ng Abdul Nasheer & Zabrina Hamid William & Lena Lim Trust Annabelle Yip & Ronnie Quek Zaibun Siraj & Paul Drayson Blossom Hope Fund J Wong Lee Li-ming | |
| Flame | Zakir Hamid Janice Ngeow Susan Kong Victor & Nancy Tan Joshua Nair Nora Nordin Weiwen & May Ambar Agustono and Shirin Hamid William & Teresa Neo James Hare & Carolyn Lam Roland Lim and Karen Chew Roopa & Shiv Dewan Smitha Menon Zhou Suli | |
| Tangelo | Ow Choong Hon Teri Teo & Gan Ying Quan Meena Mylvaganam & Michael Tay Peggy Tan Belinda Chng Ken Wong Tippi Mak Cheah Yin Mee & Wong Seng Hon Dharmendra Yadav Jeremiah Choy Pavitar Kaur Gill Toh Bao En Doreen Poh Durreen Shahnaz & Robert Kraybill Halijah Mohamad Phua Jie-Ying Dixon Ng Hamzah-Abueva Family Sandhya Gupta Khor Su Min Kseniia Lobanova & Pius Chong Yvonne Tham Anne Nakhoda R Badhri Nath Barry & YT Clarke Christine Lee Dominik von Wantoch-Rekowski Emmett & Hazel Wong Evelyn Wong Farid Bin Abdul Hamid & Geraldine Lee Janek Schergen Julie Wee & Fabian Tan Angeline Wong, Legna Asia Low Eng Teong Lynette Ng Payton Tan, Mapconn Singapore Ng Chin Hin Ong Su-Chzeng P. Chua Thara Gopalan Vidula Verma & Christopher Chen | |
| Amber | Krystle Tse Quek See Yee Mark Teo & Olivia Ow Vasan & Jennifer Iyer Teo Guo Nian Azmeen Moiz Helen Lyou Kim Tay Patricia Yong Tay Ting Fang Davinia Daniel Abdul Rohim Sarip AK & SC Amanda Chong Amanda Wong Ang Siok Chen Ashley Hi Celeste Beh-Yoong Cheam Shou Sen Corinna Lim Dorothy Teo Faye Kwan Jeremy Wang Jiaying Gian Jill Wong Joan Ng Karin Lai Koh Yun Jing Lei Hsien Hsien Loong Seng Onn Melvin Yap Nithia Devan Ong Yen Lyn Pauline Gan Phan Ming Yen Ramesh Shahdadpuri Soh Lai Yee Su Lin Chionh Xie Shangbin Dr. Yong Tze Tein | |
| Coral | Mustaqim R Jenson Chen Jobina Tan Puja Varaprasad Anthony Tann Chan King Fook Chee Li Shan Christopher Quek Elaine Chen Elaine Tan Elyn Yeo Ethan Yeo Fikri Alkhatib Harmin Kaur Hui-Lin Chua Jaiesh Sachi Jezreel & Huining Khoo Yik Lin Koh Kim Siah Malcolm Sim & E-Sean Lum Neville Godrej Dotivala Stefan & Alicia Altofer-Ong Tenaz Aga Teo Kien Boon Teo Swee Leng Tjhie Kwat Gien Dr. & Mrs. Winson Lay Quek Xuewei Zachary Chan |
And others who asked to remain anonymous.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
The Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship at Checkpoint Theatre
In 2025, Checkpoint Theatre launched the Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship: a yearlong, paid residency and traineeship programme to support one early-career theatremaker looking to elevate their skills and hone their artistic vision.
This Fellowship is created in memory of Checkpoint Theatre’s collaborator and friend Shahid Nasheer (1996–2024), who believed strongly in the importance of holistic development as theatremakers, and in uplifting fellow artists.
The inaugural Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellow for 2025–2026 is Krys Yuan.
The Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship is supported by generous donations from Shahid’s family and friends, and from other donors.
| Abdul Nasheer & Zabrina Hamid Zakir Hamid Nora Nordin Ambar Agustono & Shirin Hamid Red Velvet Ballroom Jeremiah Choy Akbar Ghani Angeline Wong, Legna Asia Payton Tan, Mapconn Singapore Zara Zakir Ng Chin Hin P. Chua Harish Narayanan Farid Bin Abdul Hamid & Geraldine Lee Parizad Nasheer Abdul Rohim Sarip Jaiesh Sachi Claire Kwan Tina Ng David Kim Michelle Tang Sai Lalitha Aiyer Yihui Hu Chang Seng Hock Jacob Kwan Serene Chia Andrea Yeong Vanilla Wong Chang Wei Sheng Joshua Ong Naomi Shamitha Skandarajah Mary Hoo Chandiramani Nita K Cathe Tian Lee Yu Xin Joanne Tan Vanessa Ng |
And those who have chosen to remain anonymous.
Checkpoint Theatre is dedicated to mentoring and nurturing new Singapore voices from diverse backgrounds and bringing original Singapore stories to everyone through our school and public outreach initiatives. We need the support of our corporate partners to continue our work. Partner with us to achieve:
Checkpoint Theatre is frequently commissioned to present work at the Singapore International Festival of Arts and its predecessor the Singapore Arts Festival. We are also regularly commissioned several times by the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, NUS Arts Festival and Singapore Writers’ Festival, and we have presented work in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore. Our work has toured cities worldwide, including Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and New York.
Checkpoint Theatre works with the Ministry of Education’s Singapore Youth Festival and Creative Arts Programme to champion arts education in Singapore. We have brought the arts to young people in over 30 secondary and tertiary schools and educational institutes.
Corporate donors enjoy a 250% tax deduction for cash donations and may be nominated for the Patron of the Arts award. In appreciation of our donors, we also offer complimentary tickets, invitations to exclusive gala receptions and priority access to our performances and events. As a corporate partner, your brand will be promoted on our collaterals and social media and will be associated with our mission of empowering young people and building communities through the arts. We can create bespoke opportunities tailored to specific interests and needs, from professional skills development workshops to exclusive behind-the-scenes access to our creative processes and our artists.
Checkpoint Theatre is supported by the Cultural Matching Fund, which provides dollar-for-dollar matching grants for cash donations. This means that any donation made by your organisation has double the impact. Partner with us to create greater impact, greater access and greater opportunities for all to experience the arts!
For more information, please contact us at [email protected].
The Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship at Checkpoint Theatre
In 2025, Checkpoint Theatre launched the Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship: a yearlong, paid residency and traineeship programme to support one early-career theatremaker looking to elevate their skills and hone their artistic vision.
This Fellowship is created in memory of Checkpoint Theatre’s collaborator and friend Shahid Nasheer (1996–2024), who believed strongly in the importance of holistic development as theatremakers, and in uplifting fellow artists.
The inaugural Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellow for 2025–2026 is Krys Yuan.
The Shahid Nasheer Memorial Fellowship is supported by generous donations from Shahid’s family and friends, and from other donors.
| Abdul Nasheer & Zabrina Hamid Zakir Hamid Nora Nordin Ambar Agustono & Shirin Hamid Red Velvet Ballroom Jeremiah Choy Akbar Ghani Angeline Wong, Legna Asia Payton Tan, Mapconn Singapore Zara Zakir Ng Chin Hin P. Chua Harish Narayanan Farid Bin Abdul Hamid & Geraldine Lee Parizad Nasheer Abdul Rohim Sarip Jaiesh Sachi Claire Kwan Tina Ng David Kim Michelle Tang Sai Lalitha Aiyer Yihui Hu Chang Seng Hock Jacob Kwan Serene Chia Andrea Yeong Vanilla Wong Chang Wei Sheng Joshua Ong Naomi Shamitha Skandarajah Mary Hoo Chandiramani Nita K Cathe Tian Lee Yu Xin Joanne Tan Vanessa Ng |
And those who have chosen to remain anonymous.
Join us at The Fourth Trimester Gala Night (Sun 23 Nov 2025) or Fundraiser Night (Fri 21 Nov 2025) for an intimate and delightful evening of theatre, and to champion Checkpoint Theatre’s telling of original Singapore stories!
Checkpoint Celebrates! 2025: The Fourth Trimester Gala Ticket
For a $1000 donation, you will receive:
- • A premium CAT 1 seat for The Fourth Trimester on Sunday, 23 November 2025, 2.30pm
- • Exclusive refreshments
- • Gala Dinner at LUCE by Chef Giuseppe Di Gaetano, with the cast & creative team of The Fourth Trimester
- • Specially curated online auction of unique and rare items and experiences by Singapore artists
- • 250% tax deduction receipt
- • Acknowledgement as our Checkpoint Champion
Register here for The Fourth Trimester Gala Tickets by 31 October 2025.
The Fourth Trimester Fundraiser Ticket
For a $380 donation, you will receive:
- • A premium CAT 1 seat for The Fourth Trimester on Friday, 21 November 2025, 8pm
- • Exclusive refreshments
- • 250% tax deduction receipt
- • Acknowledgement as our Checkpoint Champion
Register here for The Fourth Trimester Fundraiser Tickets by 31 October 2025.
If you would like to make a general donation to Checkpoint Theatre outside of The Fourth Trimester Gala and Fundraiser, please do so here.
Every dollar goes towards our mission of telling original Singapore stories and continues to support our vibrant artistic landscape. Thank you for your generosity and support for Singapore theatre!
Your support will help us to:
- Further our No Questions Asked (NQA) initiative, giving the gift of Singapore theatre to anyone who may not have the means to afford a ticket to a Checkpoint Theatre production;
- Give equal access to The Fourth Trimester for d/Deaf audiences and others through creative captioning and Singapore Sign Language interpretation;
- Run The Playmakers x Checkpoint Theatre: A Parallel Arts Experience for Families, our new drop-off programme for children in collaboration with The Artground, allowing parents to enjoy The Fourth Trimester without worrying about childcare; and
- Continue developing original Singapore stories and nurturing our artists and collaborators.
These vital initiatives come with significant costs. By purchasing a Gala Ticket or a Fundraiser Ticket, you are directly investing in artists, stories, and ideas that define Singapore’s cultural landscape.
We have limited seats available, and we would be delighted to have you join us!
Please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions or for more information.
Checkpoint Theatre presents The Fourth Trimester by Faith Ng
Faith Ng’s beloved The Fourth Trimester returns, having clinched Production of the Year and Best Original Script at the 2023 ST Life Theatre Awards. This compelling play profoundly encapsulates the experience of life and parenthood in Singapore, and is essential viewing for all.
Touted as a “a must-watch for all sorts of people” (The Straits Times), The Fourth Trimester runs 20–30 November 2025 at the Drama Centre Theatre.
The first month is always the roughest.
Exhausted from battling sleepless nights and endless diaper changes, first-time parents Samantha and Aaron find themselves overwhelmed caring for their newborn. Close friends rally around them in support, but picture-perfect couple Lisa and Daniel are beginning to feel the strain of family life on their relationship, while Ann yearns for a space of her own. Next door, newlyweds Sofia and Johan deal with the pressures of starting a family. Faced with the tangle of life and its hurdles, ‘adulting’ has never seemed so complicated.
Incredibly rich, humorous and compassionate, The Fourth Trimester is achingly familiar in its portrayal of family life and all its uncertainties. With sensitive, nuanced direction by Claire Wong and insightful dramaturgy by Huzir Sulaiman, Faith Ng’s work casts a refreshing and timely light on parenthood, identity, and what it means to be happy in contemporary Singapore.
Expect the unexpected in this hopeful and heartfelt ode to the places we call home, and the people we choose as family.
About Checkpoint Theatre
Who are we?
Established in 2002, Checkpoint Theatre is a company of multi-disciplinary storytellers. We focus on creating and presenting original Singapore content with strong writing, performance and direction, across different media, disciplines and platforms.
With honesty and humour, head and heart, we produce and develop vibrant and important contemporary Asian stories that connect with, challenge, and inspire both local and international audiences.
We are the home of new Singapore playwriting, and we nurture the next generation of Singapore theatre-makers and creatives.
How does Checkpoint Theatre make an impact with your donation?
There’s no simple answer to this question, but we’re proud to share some of the ways Checkpoint Theatre has been working hard to stretch every dollar of your donation:
- For the past 23 years, we have been exclusively telling original Singapore stories that belong on a world-class stage. We spend 1.5–4 years researching, developing, and writing a new script, with the rehearsal and production process then taking 1–2 more years.
- We have spent the past decade creating and conducting educational programmes in schools, for both students and educators. We are also committed to sharing the theatremaking process with the public, in order to nurture and inspire the next generation of artists and audiences.
- We pay fair and progressive wages to our artistic professionals, ensuring everyone in our community is taken care of.
- We continue to seek different avenues to make the arts accessible to all, launching our No Questions Asked initiative just last year, so audiences of any financial means can enjoy our productions, no questions asked.
Telling original Singapore stories that matter takes thousands of hours, hundreds of theatremakers, and the support of you, our dear audience. Please donate to Checkpoint Theatre – make a meaningful difference by allowing us to continue enriching Singapore’s cultural landscape and uplifting Singapore’s artistic community.
Checkpoint Theatre is proud to have launched our No Questions Asked programme in 2024. Since then, we’ve organised NQA tickets to our world-class theatre productions such as Secondary: The Musical, Playing With Fire, Hard Mode, and The Fourth Trimester. We appreciate the generosity of our Checkpoint Champions for donating and making this initiative possible.
What is Checkpoint Theatre’s NQA Ticket Scheme?
We are committed to championing and sharing original Singapore stories with as many theatre-lovers as possible. Checkpoint Theatre’s No Questions Asked (NQA) Ticket Scheme is our initiative offering complimentary tickets to audiences in need, based on an honour system. This means we trust you to act with integrity and help us ensure that NQA tickets get to theatre-lovers who genuinely can’t afford a ticket.
Who can book an NQA ticket?
Anyone without the means to buy a ticket can book an NQA ticket, no questions asked.
Each person may only book ONE NQA ticket. NQA tickets are issued on a first-come-first-served basis.
In keeping with the spirit of the NQA initiative, please consider if other audience members may benefit more from the complimentary ticket. If you can afford to do so, please purchase a ticket instead. There are various discount tiers detailed on each show’s event listing, should you need them for your purchase.
How do I book an NQA ticket?
You may book an NQA ticket when we announce them for a production.
We are currently accepting NQA ticket bookings for The Fourth Trimester. Learn more about how to book an NQA ticket for The Fourth Trimester here; bookings close on Wednesday, 5 November, 12pm.
This sounds great! How can I help to support the NQA scheme and other similar initiatives?
Initiatives like our NQA ticket scheme are made possible through the generosity of our supporters and donors who we call our Checkpoint Champions. If you would like to donate to our NQA programme or any of our other initiatives to bring original Singapore stories to a wider audience, please visit our Donate page for more information.