⚫︎ ABOUT THE HOST

Annie Low is a Singapore-based theatre practioner by night and researcher by day, and is working on marrying the two selves! Recently, she's been focused on interdisciplinary approaches (using tech, visual arts, and traditional and contemporary Asian practices) to develop improv shows and expanded ways of thinking. She's been found onstage at festivals in China, Australia, France, and the Philippines, and most recently was Co-Artistic Director of the Singapore Improv Festival 2024.

She is also an experienced corporate trainer and has facilitated workshops for clients in the government and private sectors. As an improv teacher, she loves drawing from all kinds of art forms and finds deep satisfaction in helping others experience the feeling of joyful, provocative inspiration.

Jasmine Cruz is part of a team that is developing a feminist improv festival. She is a co-founder of political improv workshops called Maki-Improv Huwag Matakot, performed at Manila Fringeprov in 2018 and at the Singapore Improv Festival in 2018. She has created improv workshops for feminist research, for gatherings of sexual justice advocates, for feminist media creatives, and for feminist political leaders. 

She is a university research associate at the UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS); a member of Time’s Up Ateneo, which is a collective of survivors and advocates fighting sexual violence and impunity in Ateneo de Manila and beyond; and a graduate student at the Department of Women and Development Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman.