He obtained his PhD in Intercultural theatre and performance from Royal Holloway University of London. Robin is also an active participant in the Singapore theatre scene: both as practitioner and assessor for the National Arts Council, Singapore. Effectively bilingual in Chinese and English, Robin hopes to merge the traditional and the modern, the east and the west through his creative and academic work. He has maintained close ties with Singapore's premier English-Language theatre company, TheatreWorks, and his recent work for the company as a writer/dramaturg is a collaboration with its artistic director, Ong Keng Sen, on an intercultural production entitled GEISHA, which has toured the USA, Europe and Asia. He has also recently been appointed the head of the TheatreWorks Writer's Laboratory, a writer's incubation program into its 16th year.