Chong Tze Chien is a multiple-award-winning playwright who has been the company director of The Finger Players since 2004. Some of his prize-winning scripts include Pan Island Expressway (Singapore Dramatist Award 1998), Furthest North, Deepest South (Best Production of the Year at the 2005 Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards) and Charged (Best Original Script at the 2011 Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards). Upon graduating from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Theatre Studies, he joined The Necessary Stage as a playwright and director from 2000 to 2004. He was awarded the Young Artist Award for theatre in 2006 by the National Arts Council for his contribution to the arts scene. In 2010, Chong Tze Chien represented Singapore at La Ma Ma—Playwright’s Symposium in Italy, where he wrote To Whom It May Concern.