Deborah Emmanual is a Singaporean writer, performer and educator. Her aim as an artist is to make work that is profoundly personal, provocative and passionate while exploring universal questions and her ever-evolving ethics. She does this with her powerful vocal, theatrical and improvisation abilities, developed with deep roots in the written word and metaphor.
Her formal training (if you’re into that stuff) was with courses in applied theatre and performance in institutions like Lasalle-SIA College Of The Arts (Singapore), the Singapore Repertory Theatre and Griffith University (Brisbane). Her writing and dialogue has featured at festivals like the Makassar International Writers Festival, the Barcelona Poetry Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. As a slam poet, she has won competitions in Singapore, Germany and Australia. Her performance work has seen places like Melbourne, Berlin, London, Bali and Kathmandu, and she has toured alongside poets like Anthony Anaxagorou and Sarah Kay.