About Me

Izzul Irfan (he/him) is an actor and theatre-maker based in Singapore. A dynamic and versatile performer, he strives to create performances that are authentic and emotionally resonant, believing it to be the heart of good theatre.

His acting work spans a diverse range of genres and forms, including but not limited to: plays, musicals, Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), performance-lectures, promenade and immersive theatre, as well as experimental works. Izzul’s most prominent stage credits include Hard Mode (Checkpoint Theatre), Desert Blooms (Centre 42), Four Horse Road (The Theatre Practice), Re: Assembly (Drama Box), _T0701_ (Zeugma/SIFA), ANGKAT (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival), Anything Can Happen/Something Must Happen (Wild Rice), and A Clockwork Orange (Teater Ekamatra). Beyond that, Izzul has also made his foray into on-screen acting through works such as Gallery of Secrets: The Lost Lily (The Theatre Practice), Sukar Melepaskan (Drama Box), and The Patch & Punnet Show (Patch & Punnet).

Izzul is an alumnus of Wild Rice’s Young & Wild program. Under the tutelage of acclaimed theatre-maker Edith Podesta, he was trained in the acting techniques of Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, and Declan Donellan. Through the course, he was also trained in Viewpoints, Laban, and Devising, with an appended course on Fitzmaurice Voicework led by Petrina Kow. As part of his continual study of the performer’s body, Izzul deepened his knowledge of movement and choreography in Edith Podesta’s Wild Moves program, exploring the works of Crystal Pite, Merce Cunningham, and Yvonne Rainer (to name a few). His current interests lie at the intersection of fat bodies and movement, in particular on the disjunct between mind and body, the fat body’s queerness, and the politics of desirability.

Beyond the stage, Izzul was the Founding Creative Director of The Runaway Company (TRC), a theatre company dedicated to creating an accessible platform for youths to produce music theatre works. His directing credits include Wilderness and Void Deck (TRC). Izzul has also worked as a playwright for The Concubine (Independent), The Story of Tonight (TRC), and Runaway: An Original Musical (Independent). He was also part of Teater Ekamatra’s Playwright Mentorship Programme. 

Izzul graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Yale-NUS College, majoring in Urban Studies with a minor in Arts & Humanities. For the 2025 season, Izzul is honoured to be part of several productions including Gateway Arts’ Gateway Hearts 2025, a musical fundraiser performance; Wild Rice’s Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1, an exhilarating romp through Singapore’s queer history through the eyes of a goddess; and The Theatre Practice’s Pickle Party, an inventive new multidisciplinary performance that is part pickling workshop, part performance-lecture.