Checkpoint Theatre is pleased to offer a SkillsFuture Credit-eligible course led by Associate Artists Adib Kosnan and Lucas Ho.

Aimed at participants with minimal or no prior experience of writing or performing, this course will teach you to craft and deliver a short self-written story about your personal life.

Participants will be given the tools to distil and craft their stories in a polished manner on the page, and then be equipped with effective communication techniques to present their story in an accomplished manner.

You will write a monologue over the course of this session, and deliver it at the end, with guidance and feedback from the instructors.

By the end of the course, you will have gained practical experience in the writing and performing of your personal story. The writing and speaking skills acquired will be effective in various personal, social, and professional situations such as job interviews, wedding speeches, networking sessions, and even first dates!

Course Outline

Writing (2.5hrs)

• Elements of a personal story
  – Strengths and challenges of your personal journey
  – Making it memorable
  – Reading and discussing examples of well-written personal stories
• Sharing your personal story
  – Knowing your audience: personal, social and/or professional
  – Identifying moments in your personal journey to share in your story
• Writing your personal story
  – Blending honesty and craft: shaping your personal story into something accessible and relatable

Delivering (2.5hrs)

• Telling your story
  – Using narratives for self-expression and confidence building
  – Connecting with your audiences
• Putting it all together
  – Exploring physicality and vocal variety through exercises which will help establish presence and focus as you share your stories.

Sharing (2hrs)

• Delivering your story
  – 5 – 7 mins per participant
• Feedback
  – Participants will be given feedback and space to refine their work to a presentation that is articulate and relatable.

Course Runs

DATES (Choose one): Saturday 11th, 18th, or 25th July 2026
TIME: 9am – 5pm (with a 1 hour lunch break)
LOCATION: The White Space at *SCAPE (2 Orchard Link, Singapore 237978)

*Do note that lunch is not provided

Course Fees

$350 (SkillsFuture claimable)

Registration

To register for this course, please click on the link below and fill out the registration form:

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/XttuTfRHsSnRMift9

 For more info: https://tinyurl.com/skillsfutureworkshop

When filling out the form, please select whether you would like to use your SkillsFuture credits — either in full, or partially, or not at all. 

If you wish to use your SkillsFuture credits to completely offset the course fee, you will be contacted by Checkpoint Theatre Limited with further instructions on payment and submitting a claim on the MySkillsFuture portal.

If you wish to use your SkillsFuture credits to only partially offset the course fee, you will be contacted by Checkpoint Theatre Limited with further instructions on submitting a claim on the MySkillsFuture portal, as well as for payment to the company for the remainder of your course fee.

If you do not wish to use your SkillsFuture credits at all, you will be contacted by Checkpoint Theatre Limited with further instructions on payment directly to the company.

Please note that credits under “SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career)” are not eligible to be used for this course.

Registration will only be confirmed when:

• For participants using SkillsFuture Credits to offset all or part of the course fee — Payment has been made to Checkpoint Theatre Limited for the remaining course fee if the course fee is partially offset by SkillsFuture credits, and once you have submitted a claim on the MySkillsFuture portal.
• For participants not using SkillsFuture Credits — Full payment has been made directly to Checkpoint Theatre Limited.

Please ensure that you are able to attend the entirety of the session. Refunds will not be given if you are not able to attend the session, or if you have to leave early during the session.

About The Instructors 

Adib Kosnan

Adib is an actor, writer, director, educator, and an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre. He is also a National Arts Council (NAC) scholar with a MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. 

Adib has performed in numerous productions for the English and Malay-language stage since 2003, and writes and directs extensively in both languages. His play 28.8 (2017) was nominated for Best Original Script at The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2018. He is also a founding member of Singaporean playwright collective Main Tulis Group. 

Adib views theatre as a space to shape thought and life through socially engaged work. As a co-lead artist for Both Sides, Now: Mengukir Harapan (2021–2022), Adib spearheaded engagement around end-of-life conversations within the Malay-Muslim community.  He also worked on Air (2024), a verbatim theatre project amplifying Orang Seletar voices on displacement and identity. Adib also teaches forum theatre and facilitation as an Adjunct Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.

As an educator, Adib conducts and facilitates Checkpoint Theatre’s school and public  workshops and programmes. He especially enjoys the collaborative nature of theatre and sharing what he has discovered from wearing his multiple hats.

Lucas Ho

Lucas Ho is a writer, director, and educator; and an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre in Singapore. In 2023, Lucas received the National Arts Council Postgraduate Scholarship, and attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK, where he completed an MFA in Writing for the Stage and Broadcast Media, with distinction.

His full-length plays include FRAGO (2017), The Heart Comes to Mind (2020), and Tender Submission (2023) which was nominated for Best Original Script at the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2024.

Lucas has taught the introductory and advanced playwriting seminars at the National University of Singapore, and was part of the faculty of Literary Arts at School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA). While at SOTA, he created Singapore’s first 7-hours-a-week, 8-week-long playwriting programme for 13-year-olds.

Lucas also serves as a script reader, moderator, and playwriting resource person for Centre 42, an incubatory space committed to the development, documentation and promotion of Singapore theatre. He has led table reads and mentored playwrights as part of this platform.

He has also edited various play anthologies by Checkpoint Theatre, including Faith Ng: Plays Volume 1 (2016) and Joel Tan: Plays Volume 1 (2015). Lucas continues to direct and facilitate Checkpoint Theatre’s school and public workshops and programmes — where original Singaporean writing is presented, and where participants are guided to create their own works.

Creative Team

Instructors

Adib Kosnan
Lucas Ho