Sheila Wee has been a professional storyteller for 20 years and has been described as a Godmother of Singapore storytelling. She co-founded Singapore’s first storytelling circle and its first professional storytelling company and has taught, or mentored most of the professional storytellers now active in Singapore. Sheila is a founding Professional Member and Committee Member, a 3 term President, 3 term Vice-President and the current Workshop Chair of the Storytelling Association (Singapore).   She is also a Founding Director of two storytelling non-profit organisations,   Story Connection and the Federation of Asian Storytellers.

Sheila began telling stories to children, but quickly moved into telling stories to adults and was a pioneer in bringing storytelling to adult audiences in Singapore. She is comfortable telling to audiences of more than a thousand and is adept at varying her storytelling style according to her audience. Her storytelling has been described variously as warm, engaging, elegant and captivating.

Sheila’s work in Singapore includes performances for museums, schools, conference openings, community events and storytelling skills courses and workshops for adults, teens and children. She also conducts workshops that cover a wide range of storytelling applications, including storytelling for intergenerational bonding, language and literacy development, special needs education, character education, and leadership in organisations.

As well as her work as a performance storyteller, Sheila teaches workshops in the craft and applications of storytelling. These include:

• Introduction to storytelling (basic)
• Into the heart of the story (intermediate)
• Leadership in organisations 
• Storytelling for fundraising
• for trainers and lecturers 
• for interviews and career advancement
• storytelling in the curriculum
• special needs teaching
• creative writing 
• character education
• values education and citizenship (including National Education)
• religious education 
• historical and cultural interpretation
• community storytelling projects 

Sheila is enthusiastic about passing on her skills and her highly practical and inspirational workshops have garnered consistently high ratings from participants.

As well working with educational and cultural organisations and in the wider community in Singapore, Sheila also works internationally, and has been featured storyteller and speaker at many festivals and conferences and workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, UK and Vietnam.