Jean Tay has written over 20 plays and musicals, including Chinatown Crossings, The Shape of a Bird, Senang, Everything but the Brain, Boom and Plunge. Her plays have been performed in Singapore, US, UK, and Italy. She has been nominated four times for Best Original Script for the Life! Theatre Awards, and won for Everything but the Brain in 2006. Her plays Everything but the Brain and Boom have been used as ‘O’ and ‘N’ Level literature texts for secondary schools. Jean is the founding Artistic Director of Saga Seed Theatre, which aims to provide a platform for new writing in Singapore.