About
Inch Chua (iNCH) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter, musical theatre performer, playwright, filmmaker, composer, sound designer, and conceptual artist. Her work moves fluidly across music, theatre, tech, film, food, and conceptual art — held together not by category, but by a restless tenderness toward the human condition.
She has released four studio albums and performed in numerous stage productions with Singapore Repertory Theatre, Pangdemonium, TheatreWorks, Checkpoint Theatre, The Theatre Practice, and Dream Academy.
Inch is part of a generation of Singapore theatre and music artists who have helped shape the country's independent arts scene — collaborating with venues including the Esplanade, KC Arts Centre, Victoria Theatre, and Fort Canning Park. She is a recipient of the Woman of the Future Award (Arts & Culture, 2024), the Compass Award for Artistic Excellence (2024), and the Singapore Youth Award (2018).
On the Singapore Theatre & Music Scene
Singapore's independent arts ecosystem is small, layered, and deeply interconnected. Inch Chua has worked across nearly every major Singapore theatre company — Singapore Repertory Theatre, Pangdemonium, TheatreWorks, Checkpoint Theatre, The Theatre Practice, Dream Academy, The Finger Players, and W!LD RICE — and collaborated with many of the country's most distinct voices in music and theatre.
Her 2026 one-woman musical, Myles – Soulmate in a Box, presented by Singapore Repertory Theatre at KC Arts Centre, asks what happens when a woman builds an AI soulmate. It follows roles including Cathy Hiatt in The Last Five Years (SRT, 2025, opposite Nathan Hartono), a witch in SRT's sci-fi staging of Macbeth at Fort Canning Park (2025), Laura Wingfield in Pangdemonium's The Glass Menagerie (2022), and Rapunzel in Pangdemonium's Into The Woods (2023).
As a composer and sound designer, her theatre credits include Three Fat Virgins: Unassembled (TheatreWorks, 2019), The Book of Mothers (T:>Works, 2020), Angry Indian Woman: The Trial (Singapore Writers Festival, 2020), and The Wonderful World of Dissocia (W!LD RICE, 2023). She won The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Best Sound (2019).
Her original 2019 work, 'Til the End of the World, We'll Meet in No Man's Land, is a binaural anti-musical born from a 2018 expedition to Antarctica with the 2041 ClimateForce Foundation. The 2022 Singapore Night Festival commission Yesterday Once More: Queen Street, co-directed with Tim De Cotta, was a roving audio walk through the neighbourhood's history.
As a musician, her discography spans indie folk, alt rock, and electronic — from The Bedroom EP (2009) and Wallflower (2010), through the LA-mixed Bumfuzzle (2013), to Letters to Ubin (2015), a four-star Straits Times Album of the Week recorded while living without running water or electricity on Pulau Ubin. Her upcoming single marigold magic arrives April 30, 2026.
