Dwayne Tan

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Dwayne Tan is a Singaporean actor and singer.

Dwayne recently graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. 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 proud 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 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. To date, he has released an EP titled, Moments Alone.

His work occasionally extends into TV and radio. You might remember him as one of the top 30 contestants in the 1st season of Singapore Idol. Dwayne has also lent his voice to many characters in cartoons like One Piece, Yu-gioh (Joey) and Machine Robo Rescue. For 5 years, he hosted the Sunday morning show on the arts radio station Passion 99.5FM.

On film, Dwayne has appeared in Cyber Wars (starring Joan Chen) and was involved in a scene as a NY tourist with Susan Sarandon, in Disney's Enchanted (to be released Nov 2007). Dwayne fulfilled his Disney dreams when he sang for the opening of Disney On Ice in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently in New York starting his acting career.

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He was last seen in SRT's Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress (Sept 2006) as Emperor Kuang Hsu.
He was also in David Wood's The Gingerbread Man (Nov/Dec 2006) playing the title role. The Gingerbread Man was nominated at the Life! Theatre Awards 2007 for the "Best Ensemble" category.
Tan plays a feature lead in an upcoming Incredible Tales episode of "The Banana Tree Spirit" on Channel 5 for MediaCorp Studios, Singapore.
Dwayne will perform in New York City during the festivities for Singapore Day on the 21st of April at Bryant Park.