Phan Ming Yen is a Board Member of Checkpoint Theatre.
An independent producer, writer and researcher, Phan Ming Yen has been involved in Singapore’s music scene variously as a music critic, journalist, writer, arts manager, producer and educator for the past 30 years. He has written on music in 19th century Singapore and also on the Syonan Symphony Orchestra during the Japanese Occupation for Cultural Connections, the journal of the Culture Academy of the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth and a contributing writer to Singapore Soundscape.
Aside from his ongoing research on music during the Japanese Occupation, Phan is at present setting up a heritage and documentation centre on the history of a prominent tin ore dealer in Perak, Malaysia. Phan’s fiction and poetry have been published online in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and by Ethos Books and appeared as a featured writer in the 2016 and 2022 editions of the Singapore Writer’s Festival.