FLY Entertainment
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FLY Entertainment is a Singapore-based Entertainment agency specializing in Artiste Management. Having been in the entertainment industry for a decade, FLY has garnered wide-ranging support from local media, broadcasters, production companies and corporate clients.

History

Actress/Comedian Irene Ang was propelled to fame with her role as Rosie Phua in Singapore's longest running sitcom and top television series Phua Chu Kang
Phua Chu Kang
Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, also known as PCK Pte Ltd or Phua Chu Kang for short , was a Singaporean sitcom on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. The show debuted in Singapore in 1997. A sequel, Phua Chu Kang Sdn...

. In 1999,Irene Ang started FLY Entertainment with just a fax machine and two staff members.

Driven by their passion and belief in Asia's talents, Irene and her business partner, Lim Soo Ann have weathered storms to achieve a milestone of 10 years of FLY in the industry. To date, Irene Ang the founder of FLY has won multiple awards for her entrepreneurial achievements with FLY Entertainment.

Artiste Management

FLY represents over 50 artistes. In the past 10 years, FLY has managed local household names such as Celeste Chong, Mark Richmond, Michelle Chong
Michelle Chong
Michelle Chong is a Singaporean host, actress and film director .- Biography :Michelle Chong is bilingual, and appears on variety shows and dramas on Singapore's Channels 5 and 8....

, Andrea De Cruz, Hossan Leong
Hossan Leong
Hossan Leong is a stage and screen actor from Singapore.Educated at the Anglo-Chinese School for most his primary and secondary school years, Hossan was active in many stage productions even before he left the school system and embarked on a 2 year diploma course in electronics at the...

 and Aaron Aziz.

Notable People currently managed by FLY Entertainment.

Hosting:
Female(Local) Male (Local) Overseas Artiste
Angela May Bryan Gamboa Wendy Jacobs
Bernie Chan Chern Eu
Nadya Hutagalung
Nadya Hutagalung
Nadya Yuti Hutagalung , has been a model, film actress, was one of the first VJs on MTV Asia , TV host, MediaWorks artiste, painter and jewellery designer. Her father, Ricky , is Indonesian , and her mother, Dianne , is Australian.She married Desmond Koh at the Uma Ubud in Bali on 16 December 2006...

Pamelyn Chee
Rebecca Tan
Stephanie Carrington


Hosting/Acting:
Female(Local) Male (Local) Overseas Artiste
Adele Wong Allan Wu
Allan Wu
Allan Wu is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor and MTV Asia VJ who is recognized by many people as the host of the Asian version of The Amazing Race....

Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...

Amy Cheng Alaric Tay Archie Kao
Archie Kao
Archie David Kao is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Archie Johnson in the hit television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as the role of Kai Chen in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy...

Catherine Sng Chua Enlai Teo Kiat Sing
Elena Wang Jimmy T Steph Song
Steph Song
Steph Song is a Malaysian-born actress raised in Canada and Australia. She was voted Sexiest Woman in the world by Asian readers of FHM magazine...

Elizabeth Tan Shane Mardjuki Diana Chung
Irene Ang Timothy Nga Sonya Balmores
Karen Lim Lee Weng Kee Caroline Cheong
Wong Li Lin Benjamin Heng Chacko Vadaketh
Chacko Vadaketh
Chacko Vadaketh is a Malaysian actor, writer, television personality and MC.-Background:He is a Malaysian lawyer turned actor of Indian/Syrian Christian descent. He got hooked on acting as an undergraduate at Cambridge University playing roles like Othello, Benvolio and Siddhartha...

Magdalene See Brandon Fernandez Gof Akara
Mindee Ong Mark Zee Jack Prinya
Jamie Teo Bobby Tonelli
Bobby Tonelli
Robert Tonelli Jr., known as Bobby Tonelli is an American actor who has appeared in several Hollywood films including Cages, Running Red, No Tomorrow, and Darwin Conspiracy.-Early life:...

Mark Waite
Tracy Tan Hansen Lee Kelly Tanapat
Kenji Fitzgerald


Creative Artists:

Recognizing the art of their craft, FLY is the only Artiste Management agency managing Creative Artists, the people behind the scenes in Film, Theatre and Music. FLY is also spreading their wings to undertake managing local athletes in Sports Management.
Beatrice Chia-Richmond Dollei Seah DJ Evalicious (Eve Salvail
Ève Salvail
-Biography:Salvail was born in Matane, Quebec. While modeling in Japan in the early 1990s she made the decision to shave her head bald and have a Chinese dragon tattooed on her scalp. Her distinctive look was spotted by Jean Paul Gaultier and soon she became a top model in the European fashion...

)
The Straits Times Life! Awards, Best Director for the play Shopping and F***ing 44th Golden Horse Awards Celebrity Makeup Artiste Nominee, Hair & Makeup for "881 (film)
881 (film)
881 is a 2007 Singaporean musical-comedy-drama film written and directed by Royston Tan, based on the Singapore Getai scene. It is only the second Singaporean film that has been released in Japan....

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International Supermodel/Actress turned celebrity DJ.

FLY Casting

The first full-fledged casting agency in Singapore to undertake casting for film (TV, movies, commercials,etc.), FLY has worked with Ming Productions, Ochre Pictures, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is a film production company based in Singapore. The company, a division of MediaCorp Group, was established in 31 March 1996. The company occasionally ties up with other film companies to produce Asian or Western films...

, Mise En Scene (Thailand), Touchdown TV (NZ), STAR Group Ltd(HK), Lion TV (UK), RHI Entertainment
RHI Entertainment
RHI Entertainment , formerly known as Hallmark Entertainment, is an American producer of television movies and miniseries, founded in 1979 by Robert Halmi Jr. and Robert Halmi Sr. as Robert Halmi Incorporated....

, AXN
AXN
AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...

 Sony Networks, Darlow Smith Productions, Bigfoot Entertainment
Bigfoot Entertainment
Bigfoot Entertainment is the parent company of Bigfoot Films, Bigfoot Productions, Bigfoot Production Services, Bigfoot Partners, the International Academy of Film and Television, and New Cebu Films...

, Walt Disney Television
Walt Disney Television
Walt Disney Television was the former name of the television production division of The Walt Disney Company.-History:It was formed in 1983, as the Walt Disney Pictures Television Division, the name was later shortened to Walt Disney Television in the mid-1980s...

 (Singapore), Gateway Entertainment Pte Ltd, Roleplay UK, etc. to cast international and local Actors/Actresses/Talents/etc.

FLY is the only entertainment agency in the region to house artiste management and casting in an agency. The film projects which FLY has worked on include Wherever You Are
Wherever You Are
Wherever You Are is an EP by singer/songwriter David Mead, released on Eleven Thirty Records in 2005.Initially recorded for RCA in 2002, the album was withheld from release after David found himself without a label shortly after recording...

, Dance of the Dragon, The Tattooist
The Tattooist
The Tattooist is a 2007 New Zealand film directed by Peter Burger and starring American actor Jason Behr and New Zealand actors Nathaniel Lees, Michael Hurst and Robbie Magasiva among others...

, The Children of Huang Shi
The Children of Huang Shi
The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...

, Bitter Sea, The Leap Years
The Leap Years
The Leap Years is a Singapore film produced by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, based on the novella Leap of Love by the author Catherine Lim. The production for the film started in 2005, and the film was initially to be released in December 2005 release...

, The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker....

, The Coffin (film)
The Coffin (film)
The Coffin is a South Korean/Thai/Singapore horror film starring Ananda Everingham and Karen Mok.- Synopsis :A young man named Chris and several years later a woman undergo a Thai ritual of lying in a coffin, which is supposed to ensure long life and rid people of their bad luck. The ritual is also...

 (Bangkok), Chowick, Holly
Holly
Ilex) is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. The species are evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones world wide....

, One Last Dance
One Last Dance
One Last Dance is an American romantic drama about three dancers in New York City, released in 2003. It was directed by Lisa Niemi, wife of actor Patrick Swayze. The movie starred both Swayze and Niemi.It was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....

, The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is a film released in 1918 starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess and an American . When palace officials discover she has become pregnant she is sentenced to death...

, The Great Wall, Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...

, The Amazing Race Asia, Seconds From Disaster
Seconds From Disaster
-By original broadcast date:National Geographic Channel has broadcast many episodes under multiple titles. The title currently or most recently listed on the NGC Calendar is shown first...

,etc.

FLY Events Management

FLY specialises in providing creative consultancy, management and execution for event companies and corporate clients. In 2001, FLY pioneered the use of interactive skits and musicals in events. Leveraging on FLY's strong media relations, the events team manages events such as product/service launches, roadshows, charity events and hosting (standup comedy, celebrity performances, etc.)

Some of FLY's clients include AIG
AIG
AIG is American International Group, a major American insurance corporation.AIG may also refer to:* And-inverter graph, a concept in computer theory* Answers in Genesis, a creationist organization in the U.S.* Arta Industrial Group in Iran...

, amadeus
Amadeus
Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...

, Asia Pacific Breweries
Asia Pacific Breweries
Asia Pacific Breweries is an Asian brewery company founded as Malayan Breweries Limited in 1931, in a joint venture between Heineken International and Fraser and Neave, and given its present name in 1990. It currently controls 30 breweries in 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region, selling over...

, Bridge Alliance
Bridge Alliance
The Bridge Alliance is a business alliance of eleven major mobile telecommunications companies in Asia and Australia. The alliance is built on seamless service connectivity and a suite of integrated value-added services for all alliance members' subscribers while roaming on each other's networks...

, Canon, CapitaLand
CapitaLand
CapitaLand Limited is the result of a merger in the year 2000 of then DBS Land and Pidemco Land. It is one of Asia's largest real estate companies. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, the company's core businesses are real estate development, hospitality and real estate financial services...

, Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...

, Citibank
Citibank
Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

, DBS Bank
DBS Bank
DBS Bank Ltd is a bank incorporated in Singapore. It was previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, before the present name was adopted in July 2003 to reflect its changing role as a regional bank....

, Epson, ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

, Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder Companies
Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.-History:...

, gemalto
Gemalto
Gemalto is an international digital security company, providing secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens in addition to software applications and managed services. The company was formed in June 2006 by the combination of two companies Axalto and Gemplus International...

, Genentech
Genentech
Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...

, Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

, HSBC
HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...

, Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch Whisky owned by Diageo and originated in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.It is the most widely distributed brand of blended Scotch whisky in the world, sold in almost every country with yearly sales of over 130 million bottles.-History:Originally known as Walker's...

, Kenzo
Kenzo
is a common masculine Japanese given name.-Possible writings:Kenzō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:*賢三, "wise, three"*健三, "healthy, three"*謙三, "humble, three"*健想, "healthy, concept"*建造, "build, create"*健蔵, "healthy, storehouse"...

, King Koil
King Koil
King Koil is a United States-based brand of mattresses and bedding with 60 factories in 40 countries operated by independent licensees. It was founded by Samuel Bronstein in 1898 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The company is now based in Willowbrook, Illinois. In 2005 it adopted the name Comfort...

, Lancôme
Lancôme
Lancôme Paris is a makeup brand. Owned by L'Oréal since 1964, Lancôme is part of the Luxury Products division, which offers skin care, fragrances, and makeup at higher-end prices....

, M1, McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Ministry of Manpower (Singapore), Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

, National Arts Council Singapore
National Arts Council Singapore
The National Arts Council of Singapore was established in September 1991 "to nurture the arts and make it an integral part of life in Singapore.-History :...

, Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

, OCBC Bank, PacNet
Pacnet
Pacnet is a global telecommunications service provider formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet on 8 January 2008...

, Singapore Exchange
Singapore Exchange
Singapore Exchange Limited is an investment holding company located in Singapore and providing different services related to securities and derivatives trading and others. SGX is a member of the World Federation of Exchanges and the Asian and Oceanian Stock Exchanges FederationSingapore Exchange...

, Singapore Turf Club
Singapore Turf Club
The Singapore Turf Club was founded in 1842 as the Singapore Sporting Club to operate the Serangoon Road Race Course at Farrer Park.It is today the only horse-racing club in Singapore and is part of the Malayan Racing Association, which also regulates the three Turf Clubs in Malaysia, the Selangor...

, Singapore Post
Singapore Post
Singapore Post Limited or commonly known as is Singapore's designated Public Postal Licensee which provides domestic and international postal services. It also provides logistics services in the domestic market and global delivery services...

, SingTel, Singapore Press Holdings
Singapore Press Holdings
Singapore Press Holdings Limited is a media organisation in Singapore with businesses in print, Internet and new media, television and radio, outdoor media, and property. SPH has over 4,000 employees, including a team of approximately 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating around...

, Standard Chartered, Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...

, StarHub
StarHub
StarHub Limited is a full-fledged telecommunications company providing a full range of services over mobile, internet and fixed platforms in Singapore...

, Singapore Tourism Board
Singapore Tourism Board
The Singapore Tourism Board is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, tasked to promote the country's tourism industry.-History:...

, Swarovski
Swarovski
Swarovski is the brand name for a range of precisely-cut crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria...

, Swissôtel
Swissôtel
Swissôtel Hotels and Resorts is a group of hotels pitched at the higher end of the hotel market. The chain currently includes 28 properties in 15 countries....

, Tangs
Tangs
Tangs is a company that specialises in the retail market, selling goods to customers. It is based in Singapore, and owns Singapore's oldest store which has become an icon of the Singapore retail market...

, Unilever
Unilever
Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....

, Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

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Special projects

The Special Projects Unit was set up in 2006 to manage original shows created and produced solely by FLY, to bring world class acts and performances to local audiences.

The inaugural Camp Comedy in 2006 and 2008 saw the gathering of Asian comedians from different countries convening on the same stage for the first time. In 2007, Special Projects started the first installment of http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/301733/1/.html The V Conference series. The V Conference is a comedy skit performed in a club setting. The V Conference was followed by The Return of The V in 2008 (conceptualized by Irene Ang and directed by Beatrice Chia-Richmond). The third installment to The V Conference series, The Extraordinary V opens late 2009.

Special Projects has organised major regional parties such as Qtopia (an annual beach party), The White Party, and Lah! Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras
The terms "Mardi Gras" , "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday...

 (2009) http://www.lahmardigras.com/ http://www.timeoutsingapore.com/clubs/event/lah-mardi-gras. Lah! Mardi Gras is Singapore's very own Mardi Gras celebration. The 3-day event featured international DJ acts such as http://www.jakekilby.com/ DJ Jake Kilby (Syd), http://www.djtonymoran.com/Tony Moran
Tony Moran
Anthony "Tony" Moran is a remixer/producer and DJ known for remixing popular songs. In 2007, he hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Walk Away" featuring Kristine W.-Career:...

 (USA) and http://www.djevalicious.com/ DJ Evalicious (NYC) which attracted party-goers from around the region.

Academy

FLY Academy is a professional acting and grooming school, which works with celebrity coaches such as Irene Ang, Amy Cheng, Paul Carr
Paul Carr
Paul Carr is a British writer, journalist and commentator, based in San Francisco. He has also - as Carr writes on his official website - "edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure."-Memoirs:Carr's first autobiographical book Bringing...

, Julie Wee and Chen Huihui.

Ranging from acting courses, to hosting courses, and children courses, FLY Academy grooms professional actors, aspiring newcomers and drama enthusiasts.

Some of the courses which FLY conducts are:

From Wubbie to Host - A Hosting course taught by Irene Ang.

M.A.D Camp! - A day camp for children aged 6–12 covering modelling, acting and dancing by celebrity coaches)

The Art of Voice - A class which helps you discover the optimum potential of your voice,taught by Paul Carr.

The TV Actor's Workshop - A one of a kind workshop to equip aspiring actors with basic industry knowledge and techniques.

Production

FLY's production team consists of a creative team of directors, producers and crew. FLY conceptualizes, produces and edits videos for various clients spanning all genres - reality
Reality
In philosophy, reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible...

, infotainment
Infotainment
Infotainment is "information-based media content or programming that also includes entertainment content in an effort to enhance popularity with audiences and consumers." It is a neologistic portmanteau of information and entertainment, referring to a type of media which provides a combination of...

, documentaries, and travelogues.

Clients include: HP, Health Promotion Board (Singapore), asiaone
AsiaOne
AsiaOne is an on-line news portal property of the Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co. It covers a number of topics, including news, stock markets, real estate, trade, conventions and economic statistics, and carries headlines from The Straits Times and The Business Times. In November 2008, it had an...

, Monetary Authority of Singapore, InterContinental Hotel Group, BLUE, International Furniture Fair Singapore, People's Association, Citibank
Citibank
Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Anthem
Anthem
The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music , or more generally, a song of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term "national anthem" or "sports anthem".-Etymology:The word is derived from the Greek via Old English , a word...

, Profero
Profero
Profero is an independent, privately owned digital marketing agency founded in London in March 1998. Specialising in advertising and marketing with over 500 employees, covering all aspects of digital marketing; creative, media, technology, UX and strategy in fifteen cities: Beijing, Hong Kong,...

, Polycom, Genentech
Genentech
Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...

, Denim
Denim
Denim is a rugged cotton twill textile, in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This produces the familiar diagonal ribbing identifiable on the reverse of the fabric, which distinguishes denim from cotton duck. Denim has been in American usage since the late 18th century...

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