{"id":11968,"date":"2022-11-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:49:40","slug":"get-to-know-ms-sharon-ismail-lecturer-by-day-actress-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/get-to-know-ms-sharon-ismail-lecturer-by-day-actress-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know Ms Sharon Ismail: Lecturer by Day, Actress by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Header&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_type=&#8221;circular&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction_radial=&#8221;top left&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.89) 30%|rgba(255,255,255,0) 80%&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.89)&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_position=&#8221;30%&#8221; 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CHERYL JUAN chats with Ms Sharon to find out more about what got her started in her dual-career journey and how she juggles her fast-paced and demanding professions.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-194px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; min_height=&#8221;84px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-67px|auto||auto||&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;-145px|auto|-100px|auto|false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat|300|||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-30px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;About Us&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; min_height=&#8221;1463px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-136px||-385px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;107px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_5,3_5,1_5&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-55px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;-35px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;2px|0|0px|0px|false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;|0px||0px||true&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat||||||||&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;Raleway|700|||||||&#8221; header_2_font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; header_5_font=&#8221;Montserrat||||||||&#8221; header_5_text_color=&#8221;#b3b3b3&#8243; header_5_font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221; header_5_line_height=&#8221;0.5em&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;Raleway|700||on|||||&#8221; header_6_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; header_6_letter_spacing=&#8221;5px&#8221; header_6_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; max_width=&#8221;659px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|79px|104px||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;-40px|79px|0px||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|0px||||&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;15px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; header_2_font_size_tablet=&#8221;35px&#8221; header_2_font_size_phone=&#8221;25px&#8221; header_2_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BY<br \/><b>Cheryl Juan<\/b><br \/><b>Section Editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hype Issue #55<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5>Published on<\/h5>\n<h5>November 6, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3003-1.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;IMG_3003&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; width=&#8221;262px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;1347px|-422px||-132px||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|12px||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;fc11c624-29d0-4bb0-90fa-a99635dac95a&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having taught in Ngee Ann Polytechnic\u2019s School of Interdisciplinary Studies for four years before coming to the School of Film and Media Studies, Ms Sharon Ismail, 47, is a familiar face among many of the school&#8217;s students. However, to some, her name and face might ring a bell elsewhere.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are as big of a TV junkie as I am and keep up with the local dramas that air on television, these characters may sound familiar to you. From <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Audrey Soh in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewatch.sg\/show\/Code-Of-Law-30295\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Code of Law<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Aishah, a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mee Rebus <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seller on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewatch.sg\/season\/128-Circle-97556\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">128 Circle<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ms Sharon gets into character and captures the essence and character traits of the roles she portrays, thus<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bringing her characters to life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/https___www.instagram.com_p_B33Ap0djgGB__hlen-1.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;https___www.instagram.com_p_B33Ap0djgGB__hl=en&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat|300|||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; transform_scale_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate=&#8221;0px|-22px&#8221; transform_translate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; transform_rotate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_skew_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_origin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_styles_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;31px|||||&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; transform_styles_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_styles_phone=&#8221;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind the scenes filming of 128 Circle, where Ms Sharon plays Aishah, the Mee Rebus seller. Photo taken from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBLNXGejpZi\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@sharonismail on Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;fc11c624-29d0-4bb0-90fa-a99635dac95a&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-35px||-1px||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, how did she get started in her acting journey?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Into the World of Drama and Acting<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up in a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kampong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until the age of 11, where most people worked blue-collar jobs, Ms Sharon acknowledges that there was \u201cno such exposure to the arts in [her] family at the time\u201d and she had a \u201crough-and-tumble childhood&#8221;, with most of her playtime happening outdoors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was not &#8217;til I enrolled in NUS (National University of Singapore) and happened to audition for Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences that I really got involved in the arts. [It was] all thanks to a blond surfer-dude looking lecturer who poked his head out of his office hollering, \u2018Anyone here to audition for Theatre Studies?\u2019,\u201d says Ms Sharon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before she knew it, Ms Sharon was landing the female lead roles in Theatre Studies, and that was when she thought to herself: \u201cMaybe I do have some talent for this acting thing\u201d. She was subsequently further encouraged by her English lecturer to take her talent to professional grounds. (Interesting side snippet: this same English lecturer was also Hugh Jackman\u2019s acting coach.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before long, she found herself auditioning for drama school in London, England, where she did her Masters in Performance Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her first professional theatre debut was in 1996 with a Malay language theatre company, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ekamatra.org.sg\/aboutus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teater Ekamatra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she starred in a play called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhavusya<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Ms Sharon took on the role of the queen, and she recalls scaling down the walls of Fort Gate at Fort Canning dressed in all-white, donning a long wig and in her own words, \u201clooking like a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/91dKjX\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabuki<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> performer\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Fun fact: Ms Sharon\u2019s husband actually recalls watching this play prior to their meeting and told his friend that he thought he was seeing things when he saw a woman who looked like a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/5Q8eeP\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pontianak<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (female vampire in Malay). Little did he know that this \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pontianak<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d would later become<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his wife.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just one<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">year later in 1997, Teater Ekamatra sent her for a screen test for a health and medical infotainment series on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/yTRmZU\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suria<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (known as Mediacorp TV12 back then), where she landed her first series as a host.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat gig resulted in my first acting role for Suria, called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewatch.sg\/episode\/Sayang-Semuanya-S1-E1-199485\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sayang Semuanya<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It&#8217;s a family drama about six kids who had to fend for themselves after their parents died in a car crash. I was the eldest child, trying to keep the family together,\u201d says Ms Sharon. \u201cI remember asking the director why he gave me the lead role without auditioning me, and he said it was because I was from Teater Ekamatra. Turns out, he was one of the original founders of the company before he stepped down and said if I landed a role with the company, that was proof that I could act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That acting role earned her her first Best Actress in a Leading Role award at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/tLivAM\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pesta Perdana<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Suria\u2019s annual television awards, of which she would go on to win three times in total over the years. Furthermore, her own bucket list item was fulfilled when <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewatch.sg\/show\/Forensik-115934\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forensik<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a spin off from the popular police procedural \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Code of Law<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, started streaming on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/sg\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an American subscription-based streaming and production company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/https___www.instagram.com_p_B7YD831nWPv_.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Keshi-vinyl-release-debut-album-gabriel&#8221; title_text=&#8221;https___www.instagram.com_p_B7YD831nWPv_&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat|300|||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; transform_scale_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate=&#8221;0px|-22px&#8221; transform_translate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; transform_rotate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_skew_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_origin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_styles_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;31px|||||&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; transform_styles_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_styles_phone=&#8221;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms Sharon\u2019s (middle) first day on set for Forensik. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo taken from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7YD831nWPv\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@sharonismail on Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_sidebar _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_sidebar][et_pb_sidebar _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/anxiety-girl.png&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_sidebar][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;fc11c624-29d0-4bb0-90fa-a99635dac95a&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-20px||-1px||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms Sharon says that the most fulfilling part of being an actress is how she is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;given the privilege to step into the shoes of someone who&#8217;s not me, whose stories I help tell, whose shoes I get to walk in, and whose life I get to breathe life into.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;- Ms Sharon Ismail&#8221; job_title=&#8221;@sharonismail on Instagram&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the privilege to step into the shoes of someone who&#8217;s not me, whose stories I help tell, whose shoes I get to walk in, and whose life I get to breathe life into.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Libre Caslon Text||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;2em&#8221; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><b>Enabling Students for the Future<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms Sharon&#8217;s first venture into education was when she was an undergraduate in NUS. She taught speech and drama, as well as creative writing on a part-time basis at Henry Park Primary School and Raffles Girls Primary School under an arts enrichment company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGood money and flexible hours, loved it,\u201d Ms Sharon says about her jobs at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward to her teaching journey at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Ms Sharon has been teaching here since May 2005, where she first taught communication, drama and poetry, popular culture and enterprise modules at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies until 2008. At the moment, she teaches at the School of Film and Media Studies and is our dear Media Entrepreneurship lecturer!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/https___www.instagram.com_p_BiVo6Efhcp___hlen.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Keshi-vinyl-release-debut-album-gabriel&#8221; title_text=&#8221;https___www.instagram.com_p_BiVo6Efhcp___hl=en&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;||62px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat|300|||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; transform_scale_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate=&#8221;0px|-22px&#8221; transform_translate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; transform_rotate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_skew_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_origin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_styles_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-56px|||||&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; transform_styles_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_styles_phone=&#8221;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms Sharon with her 2018 class during their graduation. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo taken from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BiVo6Efhcp_\/?hl=en\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@sharonismail on Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;fc11c624-29d0-4bb0-90fa-a99635dac95a&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; min_height=&#8221;259px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-35px||-1px||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><b>The Secret: Do it with Passion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of us are already swamped with handling just one project. So how does Ms Sharon juggle two demanding professions, yet do them with the high standards that she has set for herself?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Ms Sharon\u2019s case, she mentioned that she\u2019s always been outside of her comfort zone, even at a young age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that, Ms Sharon naturally leaned towards making the most out of her days, keeping productive and doing the things she loves.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI always had parallel career tracks since I graduated. It started with a part-time job as an undergraduate, and after I graduated, I wasn&#8217;t sure I could land a scholarship to do my Masters, so I worked three jobs &#8211; day job as [an] arts programming executive at NLB (National Library Board), hosted TV (television) shows and worked as a research assistant for my professor on the weekends. That hustle never stopped, even after I landed a scholarship and a bursary for my Masters,\u201d says Ms Sharon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She even recalls years where she worked seven days a week, working at NLB from Monday to Saturday and hosting a \u2018live\u2019 morning show on Suria on Sunday mornings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As much as she loved the media industry, she was as interested in the education industry too. Hence, being an educator became her full-time job, and since a part of being a media lecturer is to keep in touch with the media industry, being an actress doubles as a win-win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a student in her Media Entrepreneurship class, she has helped us to tap into our creative cells and has challenged us to innovate new media business ideas and concepts to help solve a problem or fill a gap in the market. I also appreciate how patient she has been in guiding us when it comes to simulating our own business companies, and teaching us to pitch in engaging ways. One can be sure to learn valuable skills as her student, and might also cultivate an interest in being an entrepreneur one day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked for advice for anyone who plans to have a double career, Ms Sharon shares: \u201cKnow the reason WHY you want to do what you do: You&#8217;re going to be hustlin&#8217; very hard to build your career, so [you] better know what drives you because that will keep you going in tough times. It will be your moral compass to help you make decisions, and it will keep you honest. It will also draw the right people to you, and I cannot emphasise this enough &#8211; the right people believe in you and set you up for success. They tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. 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