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fezhah maznan (Singapore/Los Angeles) is a creative producer and performance dramaturg. She is interested in democratising access to resources and opportunities for artists who are in the margins, and finding solutions to issues that get in the way of sustaining and growing a creative practice. In supporting the artists’ pursuit of new artistic languages and audiences, she takes on a gotong-royong approach (a Malay term referring to the spirit of collective effort), as art making is incomplete without community. 

fezhah’s belief in the importance of community stretches across borders. She cultivates deep and lasting relationships with local artists, and her networks span across the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, and The Americas. Her portfolio is diverse and international, including transnational and intercultural works across formats and forms She has also produced and consulted for leading arts centres and festivals in Singapore, United States and Argentina. 

In 2009, at 23 years old, fezhah took the helm managing Singapore’s boundary defying ethnic minority theatre company, Teater Ekamatra , producing works that created a lasting wave in Singapore’s theatre canon while growing its audience. Between 2014 to 2019, she programmed and produced wide ranging works and platforms (theatre, dance, community arts) for Esplanade - Theatres by the Bay, focussing on supporting independent artists and finding new ways to gather, talk and engage with performance. After, she was a Producer with Singapore International Festival of Arts and Singapore Writers Festival where she contributed till 2023 to festival making in times of the Covid-19 pandemic (digital and hybrid) and creative transitions (across different festival directors). Her commitment remained to producing local and international commissions that speak to the time that we were in. 

Currently, she serves as an organising member of Producers SG, international consultant for Proyecto Tsunami and the Strategy and Partnership lead for a research and advocacy group on Malay/Muslim issues, Lepak Conversations. Under the producing company she co-founded The Public Space, she works with artists on their long-term projects, and through the exchange platform she founded, CurrentSEA, she promotes and connects Southeast Asian artists with each other and the rest of the world.

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