Event Alert: Jane’s Salon Evening Dinner & Conversation with Special Guests

Published - 12 April 2021, Monday
  • Jane’s Salon Evenings Dinner & Conversation with Special Guests

How would you like to join a dinner with a local celebrity? Ask a question of a heritage or culture expert? Be part of a very small group of Jane's Insiders?  It's all possible when you join me and my special guests for a Salon Evening in my home.

I've opened my address book and chosen some of the most scintillating and sought after experts in the arts, politics, business, photography and more, to come to a small dinner and discuss what they do, their passions, and their lives.

We kicked off our series last night with SRT’s Creative Director Gaurav Kripalani, who shared the history of the Singapore Repertory Theatre and some secret, but exciting, plans for the future.

Moving into March, we continue with pillars of the local theatre community, including one of Singapore’s finest actors and Co-Creative Director of Pangdemonium, Adrian Pang, and Nathalie Ribette founder of Sing Theatre. 

In April, we go in a literary direction with award-winning Singaporean author Josephine Chia and anthropologist turned history and architecture expert and writer Julian Davison.

May takes us on a photo journey with fashion and portrait photographer Russel Wong and shophouse photographer Tatyana Kildisheva (27 May, tickets still available). 

I'm working on more for June onwards, but suffice to say my address book has lots of interesting names in that I cannot wait to introduce you to!

Each ticket will be $120 per person, which includes a simple (pescatarian) dinner and lots of wine to help lubricate the conversation. Please sign up quickly as these will sell out. We are limited to 7 guests max!

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Adrian Pang

After graduating from Keele University with a degree in Law and Psychology, Adrian spent the next eight years working as an actor in the UK, where his theatre credits include Hair; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Comedy of Errors; The Magic Fundoshi (Best Comedy at the London Fringe Theatre Awards); The Mens Womb; A Christmas Carol; Tormented; The Circles of Paradise; One for the Road; Sleeping Beauty; New Territories; Take Away; Leaving Turnpike Lane and Privates on Parade.

His UK television work includes The Fragile Heart opposite the late great Sir Nigel Hawthorne; Lovejoy with Ian McShane; Arabian Nights with Jason Scott Lee; and he has also appeared in Happiness; Bugs; Call Red; Taggart; The Knock; Trauma and The Bill.

Adrian’s international film work includes the lead role in Spiralling (Best Film Award at the International Solidarity Festival); Tony Scott’s Spy Game with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford; Nightwatch with Pierce Brosnan; Everybody Loves Sunshine with David Bowie; Michael Mann’s Blackhat with Chris Hemsworth; Peggy Su!; Night Swimmer; Yellow Fever; A Brief Walk; Offending Angels, Second Generation, Bait, I Do I Do, Dance Dance Dragon, Gone Shopping; The Carrot Cake Conversations; The Blue Mansion; The Faith of Anna Waters; Unlucky Plaza; Food Nation and Reasonable Blood.

During that period, he would occasionally return to Singapore for stage work, most notably in the title role of Hamlet; as well as roles in Little Shop of Horrors; Into the Woods; The Glass Menagerie and They’re Playing Our Song opposite Lea Salonga. At that time, he was perhaps best known for role in the landmark Singapore movie Forever Fever.

Relocating to Singapore with his family in 2001, he found a whole new audience with his work on Singapore TV, including dramas such as Portrait of Home, Nanny Daddy; Ah Girl (Winner of Best Actor in a Comedy Series at the Asian Television Awards); Red Thread (Winner of Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Asian Television Awards); Polo Boys; The Pupil (Seasons 1 & 2); Parental Guidance; Maggi and Me; Pulau Hantu; Do Not Disturb; 9 Lives; Durian King and the acclaimed Six Weeks, which he created and co-wrote.

On the Singapore stage, he has appeared in the title roles in Macbeth and The LKY Musical; Boeing Boeing; Twelfth Night; Forbidden City; Barefoot in the Park; A Twist of Fate and God of Carnage.

At the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards Adrian earned Best Actor nominations for The Odd Couple, The Pillowman, The Full Monty, Dealer’s Choice, Swimming with Sharks, Frozen and Next to Normal; and he is a four-time Best Actor Award Winner, for his work in The Dresser, Much Ado About Nothing, Rabbit Hole and The LKY Musical.

Adrian is among the Tatler 300 Industry Leaders honours list for Arts, Media and Entertainment. He was the recipient of the Tatler Leadership Award for Culture 2014, the StylexStyle Inspiration Award 2016, as well as the Elle Actor of the Year Award 2012.

Above all, the two productions Adrian is most proud of, are his sons, Zack and Xander.

 

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