Who: Singaporean actress-playwright Jo Tan is a familiar face in the local theatre scene. The 42-year-old has won the Best Actress accolade at The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards in 2020 and 2022.

In October, she starred in dinner theatre show Por Por’s Big Fat Surprise Wedding, which she also wrote.

She has been a member of Dream Academy’s three-woman musical cabaret troupe Dim Sum Dollies since 2016 and will star in the upcoming production Dim Sum Dollies: The History Of Singapore: Sixty Sexy Years, which reflects on Singapore’s journey over six decades.

She is married to fellow theatre actor Edward Choy, 44.

“One highlight of my weekend is playing board games with my friends. Every two or three weeks, we go to the HDB flat of my buddies Mina Kaye and her husband Wyatt Biessel – she’s an actress and he’s a drama teacher – and break out the games to while away an afternoon or evening.

One game we are obsessed with is Ticket To Ride Legacy: Legends Of The West (2023). It is a railway-themed strategy game set in 19th-century America, in which each player manages a railway company through various campaign adventures.

The game’s objective is to be the player with the most money. But, for me, playing board games is more of an excuse to socialise.

I am an introvert and can run out of energy talking to people. But if there is a task before me, I can focus on it and have found it easy to strike up conversations when the game constantly introduces new elements.

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