Andrei in stage smoke, pointing out into the dark
Andrei Rasmussen

Theatre-maker · Writer · Movement director · Educator

Andrei
Rasmussen

The practice

Stories cross borders.
Bodies carry them.

Andrei makes theatre through movement, language and the stories people inherit. He grew up between Russian, Chinese and Singlish, and trained in Latin dance and Kathakali as seriously as in Shakespeare and Beckett. The work looks for one moment: when an unfamiliar life becomes recognisably human.

Works in

EnglishNative
РусскийHighly proficient
中文Proficient
EspañolLearning
Bahasa MelayuLearning
George / Unbecoming Laertes / Hamlet Pozzo / Waiting for Godot Charles Webb / Our Town Tommy / Pippi Longstocking Demetrius / A Midsummer Night’s Dream Neil Fail / Failure: A Love Story Kok Sean / A Storied Life Jade Emperor / Monkey Goes West Young Shrek / Shrek The Musical

01 — Authored work

Unbecoming

George · Writer, director, performer
Method Productions at Nineteen Eighty Studios · 2026

Andrei alone on a dark stage in Unbecoming
Poster for George, part of Unbecoming, a collection of solo shows

George is Andrei’s own. He wrote it, directed it and performed it alone, as part of Unbecoming, a collection of solo shows. One body, a bare stage, and red light.

Andrei with his face in his hands in Unbecoming
Andrei reaching into red light in Unbecoming
“A story could outlive its century without surrendering its soul.”

From Andrei’s writing

02 — The classics

Hamlet

Laertes
IBCP graduating performance · Directed by Sean Tobin · 2024

Laertes, wounded, recoils from the duel
Andrei in a pale suit, fist clenched, against blue light
Andrei holds a weeping scene partner, a bouquet in his hand
Andrei in tears, held by a scene partner in a tiara
Andrei, in black and white, mid-gesture as he talks a group through a scene

In his own words

“I will build stages where others can enter without disguising themselves at the threshold.”

Andrei’s college essay is written as the letter he wished he’d been given: a piano, a battered atlas, Pushkin read aloud, and a pink SCUBA set. It’s a coming-out story. More than that, it’s about what came after: growing comfortable in himself, and learning to share that self with the people around him. It’s also where his theatre comes from.

“I will leave the door unlatched for those who have only ever heard themselves described as noise.”

03 — On stage

Selected roles

Pippi Longstocking on stage, Andrei in checked trousers

Pippi Longstocking

Tommy · Choreographer · Dramaturg

Russian Children’s Theatre Festival, Singapore · 2024

Waiting for Godot, a bare stage with a single tree

Waiting for Godot

Pozzo

School of the Arts Singapore · Directed by Matthew Lyon · 2023

Andrei in a letterman jacket with a baseball bat in Our Town

Our Town

Charles Webb

Very Youthful Company · Directed by Timothy Koh · 2024

A Midsummer Night’s Dream under a glowing moon

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Demetrius · Choreographer

School of the Arts Singapore · Directed by Serena Ho · 2022

Failure: A Love Story, Andrei reaching toward a scene partner

Failure: A Love Story

Neil Fail

Very Youthful Company, Pangdemonium training programme · 2022

A Good Citizen, three performers under a New Player Integration Programme sign

A Good Citizen

Devising ensemble

Singapore Youth Theatre · 2021

Andrei as a child, in costume as Young Shrek

It started in green face paint, as Young Shrek for Base Entertainment Asia.

A Storied Life: Remembering Adrian Tan · Kok Sean · W!ld Rice · 2024 Tartuffe · Dancer and actor · W!ld Rice · 2024 Monkey Goes West · Jade Emperor · W!ld Rice · 2015 Peter Pan: A Never-ending Story · Orphan · 2015 Shrek The Musical · Young Shrek · 2014 Madame Butterfly · Sorrow · Singapore Lyric Opera · 2012

04 — Movement

He thinks
through the body.

Andrei, arms raised, leads an ensemble in white among coloured fabric
Ensemble in white over a floor of coloured fabric

Movement direction

Accustomed2024

SOTA Collab Theatre Festival. Ballet, Kathakali and ensemble work on culture’s metamorphosis in the age of modernity.

Singapore Youth Festival2023

Distinction Award. Sequences on urban living and human struggle.

Tartuffe2024

Dancer and actor, W!ld Rice main stage. Vogue, waacking and Latin in Joel Tan’s adaptation.

SOTA Greek Modules Showcase2020

Greek-theatre monologues fused into one movement-based piece.

On the competition floor

Latin Champion2024

Johor Raya Open Dance Championship

Champion, twice5th and 6th editions

Brillante Competition Singapore

Cha Cha and Jive Champion2017

Merlion International Dance Championship, under 12

Also dances

Russian and Ukrainian folk, waacking, jazz-funk, hip hop, Kathakali

05 — On screen

Closer.

Andrei in the back seat of a car at night, leaning toward the driver
Close-up of Andrei in low light
Snatch and Grab2025

Lead · Quinnsta Studios

Picture Perfect2023

Andre Tate · Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF18), BLINK Film Festival

Whoopie’s World2018

Season 2

Missed2016

Lead · Nominated, Best Short Film, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Film Awards

Commercials2014–2018

Mastercard, Cartoon Network, uHoo, Spalet

06 — The archive

Every role,
one turn.

Drag to spin

“Let translation become a kind of alchemy, preserving the pulse of an old text while changing the shape of its heart.”

From Andrei’s writing

07 — Teaching and community

Making room
for others.

Andrei mid-gesture, eyes up, in a sweater vest under violet light
Project DyslexiatreCo-founder

Theatre lessons for dyslexic children and youth.

Project AiDHDFounder

Set up a peer supporter programme and raised awareness of ADHD and neurodivergence.

Multilingual tutorOngoing

English, Mandarin and Russian. Theatre educator and workshop facilitator.

Preschool for Multiple Intelligences2023–2024

English, Chinese and public speaking for K1–2.

Behind the stage2019–2025

QLab sound design and lighting rigging. Co-organiser and lead sound engineer, SOTA Collab Theatre Festival 2024.

Headshot of Andrei Rasmussen

Contact

Next scene?

rasmussenandrei@gmail.com @m.drandre Singapore — Las Vegas
Colour of freedomAzure blue
Most re-readThe Monkey King
Favourite danceCha Cha Cha
Any dayBorscht
Relates toDaredevil