Frankie’s work has been featured in a variety of press and media agencies, including:
Broadcast
TVMobile – Coverage for Out of the Box Puppet Festival
ChannelNewsAsia – Coverage for Out of the Box Puppet Festival
Channel 8 – CityBeat (Variety Show)
Arts Central – Various Children’s Programmes
SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) – Feature Coverage on Let Your River Flow Creative Arts Conference 2008
VTV (Vietnam Television) – Coverage for First International Marionette Festival 2008
Film
A Wicked Tale (Director: Merwyn Tzang) – Custom marionettes for this award-winning film
TODAY Newspaper Interview with Frankie - 12/02/09
- 2008 – Straits Times Review of Broadway Beng 3
“(The show) opened with a mini puppet of Tan dancing on a mini-stage. It was surprising and very funny, not least because the puppet was a spitting image of the actor, right down to the sequinned suit and blonde highlights.”
2008 - Berita Harian (Malay-language Newspaper) Feature for Out of the Box Puppet Festival 2008
2008 - Sumatera Express (Indonesia) Front Page Coverage for 1st ASEAN Puppetry Association Meeting
2007 - KOMPAS (Indonesia) Coverage on 1st ASEAN Puppetry Association Meeting
2007 - Straits Times Article for the Out of the Box Puppet Festival
2007 - Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards Nomination
2006 - Straits Times Puppetry Feature
2006 - Straits Times Feature on Theatre (Little Shop of Horrors)
2006 - Straits Times Review of Little Shop of Horrors Theatre Production: "Mascots and Puppets Specialists did a great job with the various versions of the plant (Audrey II), which eventually becomes a turgid, fluorescent creature, waving its vines and flapping its jaws with malevolent glee."
2006 - Lianhe Zaobao (Chinese Newspaper) Feature on Out of the Box Puppet Festival
2005 - Straits Times Mention for 'Worlds of Imagination' Production
2005 - Straits Times Feature on Puppetry in Singapore
