- Height
- 172cm
- Ethnicity
- Australian
- Race
- Chinese
- Language Proficiency
- English, Cantonese
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CRISPIAN CHAN
Crispian has worked in Australia and Singapore’s theatre and TV/film industry for the past 20 years.
Graduating from Curtin University with a BA of English in Theatre & Film in 2002, his Australian theatre credits include Deborah Warner’s The Angel Project (UK); Barking Gecko Theatre Company’s Sarena’s Song, Hidden Dragons and The African Magician; and Black Swan State Theatre Company’s A Man with Five Children which earned him a ‘Best Newcomer’ award and ‘Best Supporting Actor’ nomination in the 2004 West Australian Actor’s Equity Awards. He also scored a ‘Best Actor’ nomination at the same awards for his performance in Micky.com at The Blue Room the following year.
In 2005, Crispian moved to Singapore to join LASALLE College of the Arts as the pioneer cohort from the BA(Hons) Acting programme. Soon after, he made his debut on Singapore TV in Art Central’s ground-breaking improvised drama, 9 Lives, produced by Tan Kheng Hua and directed by Malaysia’s Saw Teong Hin.
Other Singapore TV credits include appearances in 80s Rewind; Life Story 2; My Classmate Dad; Koji Cooks; Shy Guys; Code of Law; and the OKTO tele-movie Christina and the Runaways. Internationally, his TV credits include: The Philanthropist (NBC/Carnival Films); Marco Polo (Netflix); and HBO Asia’s SENT.
Crispian’s recent film credits include Kelvin Tong’s The Offering; and Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice which had its’ world premiere in the Un Certain Regard Section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Singapore theatre credits include The Importance of Being Earnest (Wild Rice); The King Lear Project (Singapore Arts Festival/Kunstenfestivaldesarts); Equus (Toy Factory); Swimming with Sharks (Pangdemonium); Lord of the Flies (Sightlines Productions / Blank Space Theatre); Paradise (Teater Ekamatra); The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate 'S' Machine (Esplanade); Dark Room x 8 (Edith Podesta/Esplanade); and Becoming Graphic (Edith Podesta/Singapore International Festival of the Arts).
Crispian’s latest projects include Zombiepura the movie and Mixed Signals, a television adaptation of the play by Michael Chiang.
Crispian is proudly represented by Fly Entertainment.
