Natalie Hennedige (born 1974) is the Artistic Director of Cake Theatrical Productions, a contemporary performance company based in Singapore.
Her father is a Tanjong Katong-based dentist of Sinhalese ancestry and her mother, Irene, is a former businesswoman who ran a dental goods business.
Hennedige "poured her savings into Cake" and up till 2011, the company's headquarters were situated at her father's dental clinic.
These works are highly theatrical and pop with elaborate set, props, costume and multimedia.
They saw a necessity to wrestle out of the ennui that threatens to cloud the creative space, that pushes risk, experimentation, defiance and stubbornness out of the picture, giving way to lethargy, fear and ease.
Strippers has grown to become a resistance against institution, coercion, the status quo - ambling along like a nomad, occupying odd non-spaces; un-defined insignificant vacant spaces, and moving on.