FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Hailing from Malaysia, May has worked across the arts, culture and entertainment industries throughout APAC for 16 years — moving fluidly between external strategic partner and embedded in-house leader at the senior level. She currently serves as Partnerships Lead for Singapore Gallery Month 2026, and most recently stepped in as Interim Director of Marketing and Communications at ART SG (2025–2026).

Her career began at IMG Artists, one of the world's leading performing arts and festival management agencies, touring artists including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Soloists, Tango Fire and Soweto Gospel Choir, alongside work on award-winning events such as the Singapore Sun Festival. She went on to become one of the founding members of Neon Lights Festival, Singapore's premier outdoor music and arts festival, building partnerships and programming for the festival from 2015–2019. In 2024, she was appointed Project Director for the inaugural Ombak Festival in Desaru Coast, Johor, Malaysia, and continued as Programming Lead and Advisor for the 2025 edition.

Other notable consultancy experience includes festival partnership work with Magnetic Asia (Hong Kong), creators of Clockenflap; Ticketflap Asia; the inaugural ASEAN Music Festival (2022) and Kyodo Tokyo's "TOKYO〜the city of music and love〜" (2024) in Singapore. Adept at working across the private, public and non-profit sectors, May brings grant administration and cultural policy experience from the National Arts Council Singapore, and has managed visual and performing arts projects for non-profits including the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (S.E.A. Focus, 2022–2024), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Art Outreach and Dance Nucleus.

May holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Politics and Psychology from the University of Melbourne and a Master in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She continues to explore the intersection of arts, culture, society and economy — guest lecturing for Singapore Management University's Arts and Cultural Management Programme, and contributing to Asialink's Singapore Arts Now workshop and the National Arts Council's Singapore Arts Plan 2.0 focus groups.

Outside of work, May's love of salsa dancing and Latin music led her to create the popular Salsa Under the Stars SG and Salsa y Comida parties. Her other interests include global politics, history, live music, contemporary art and gender issues.