Dwayne Tan

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Dwayne Tan is a Singaporean actor and singer.

Tan 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, 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. To date, he has released an EP titled, Moments Alone.

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. He was last on Singapore television playing the lead in the premiering episode of Incredible Tales season four's "The Banana Tree Spirit". For 5 years, he hosted the Sunday morning show on the arts radio station Passion 99.5FM.

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. Dwayne fulfilled his Disney dreams when he sang for the opening of Disney On Ice in Kuala Lumpur.

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[edit] Updates

  • Dwayne will return to the Esplanade stage in July 2008 for Magic Box. And will be in SRT Little Company's "The Write Stuff" following that in August. Also look out for Dwayne in an upcoming episode of "Behind Closed Doors" on Singapore's Channel 5.
  • He was last seen in Singapore as Frankie Wong in Beauty World the musical (the 20th anniversary), presented by Wild Rice! in Jan 2008. Beauty World was Dwayne's first musical production as a performer in 1998.
  • In New York, Dwayne last played Ching Ho to good reviews in Merry-Go-Round-Playhouse's run of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (July - August 2007).
  • He booked his first US National touring gig with Random House Publishing's "Junie B. Jones & The Stupid Smelly Bus Tour", based on a successful series written by Barbara Park. The tour began in May and ended its run on July 11th.
  • Dwayne performed to 6,000 people at Central Park in New York City during the festivities for Singapore Day on the 21st of April.
  • He was in all three stagings of SRT's Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress 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.

[edit] Near misses

  • Dwayne was nearly cast in the upcoming Hollywood film MILK that is directed by Gus Van Sant and stars Sean Penn and James Franco.
  • During his auditions in New York, Dwayne was into final callbacks to be part of the original FINDING NEMO cast for the musical premiere at Disneyworld.
  • Another close Disney call was when Dwayne was one of the final 3 guys considered to host Disney Asia's STUDIO-D! Unfortunately, it was decided that he appealed to a younger age group than the show's target audience.
  • Following the success of the Singaporean series SPIN, UTV auditioned for the series ZOOM and Dwayne was cast as a series regular, but the project fell through when UTV closed.

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