ALISON YUEMING QU
Executive Director
Alison Yueming Qu (she/they) is a Chinese American Theatre Producer, Dramaturg, Director, and Community Organizer. Alison curates joyful, transformative, and radical Asian American spaces through the power of arts and culture. Alison was named by WBUR (Boston’s NPR station) as a 2023 ARTery Maker—emerging artists of color shaping the culture and arts landscape in Greater Boston.
Alison is the Associate Producer of HowlRound Theatre Commons/Emerson College Office of the Arts, administering projects including the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residency Program and International Presenter Commons. Before this role, she served as the Connectivity Producer at Company One Theatre in Boston, MA, emerging from their previous role with C1 as the Associate Producer of the Boston Chinatown Musical project by Kit Yan & Melissa Li, which later evolved to become Chinatown Open Gates (Mass Humanities Mass Stories Grant Recipient).
Their recent artistic endeavors include The Fortune Teller (CHUANG Stage & TC Squared Theatre Company), How I Disappeared (New Ohio Theater, Ice Factory 2023), Break, Break (Legion Theater Project), The Chinese Lady (Central Square Theater), Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater), Shrike (Fresh Ink Theater), We & Other Queer Goddexxes (Company One). As a moderator and a speaker, they have also worked with Pao Arts Center, Asian American Playwrights Collective, Asian American Theater Artists of Boston, ArtsEmerson, The Huntington Theatre Company, and Guerilla Opera; they have also worked with HERE Arts Center, MIT Music & Theater Arts, TC Squared Theater Company, Design Studio for Social Intervention, the Boston Public Library, MassCreative and more. Alison was the inaugural Cutler Creative Producing & Engagement Fellow at ArtsEmerson. They are a proud alumna of the National Theater Institute, the Harvard University/American Repertory Theater Arts & Cultural Organizational Management (ACOM) program, a board member of Boston Cultural Council, a steering committee member of API Arts Network, and an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. They are a proud alumna of National Theater Institute, the Harvard University/American Repertory Theater Arts & Cultural Organizational Management (ACOM) program, MassCreative Arts and Culture Advocacy fellow, a board member of Boston Cultural Council, a steering committee member of API Arts Network, and an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
JENNY S. LEE
Associate Producer
Northern Virginia native and Boston College graduate Jenny S. Lee (she/her) is a Boston-based Korean American director, actress, and arts administrator who serves as Associate Producer at CHUANG stage. As an artist, she finds meaning in theatre as a method of philosophical explication, a necessary mover of social change, and a space for radical catharsis, conversation, and curiosity within and around the AAPI community. Select regional directing credits include The Heart Sellers (Assistant Director) at Huntington Theatre, Luz & Urduja at CHUANG Stage, Volt Lab Directing fellow at Company One, and John Deserves to Die (Assistant Director) at Fresh Ink. Select regional acting credits include Yellowface (Jane Krakowski & Others) at Lyric Stage, Stir Frying Mahjong (Winnie) at Mass Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Concrete Dreams (Tala) at TC Squared, and Troublemaker (May Yu) and Takeover (Pansy) at Asian American Playwrights Collective.
JENINE JACINTO
Marketing and Communications Associate
jenine.jacinto@chuangstage.org
Jenine is a nonbinary California raised Filipino-Chinese American actor/creative now turned New England native. As an actor they have worked with various groups in the Greater Boston area including Company One (The Interrobangers), Umbrella Stage Company (Middleton Heights), Moonbox Productions (Swan), Chuang Stage (Green), and Lyric Stage Company (Lyric Back Stage). When not acting on stage, you can find them playing board games with friends, producing TTRPG podcasts or crocheting. Instagram: @jenine.florence
RENEE RUIHAN YANG
CHUANG Lab@Emerson Summer Intern
Renee Ruihan Yang (she/they), originally from Beijing, China, is currently a Boston University student majoring in journalism and minoring in theater arts. Renee is proud of her bicultural background and passionate with creative storytelling. She’s beyond thrilled to be a summer intern at Chuang Stage and work together with and learn from great artists in Boston area. She was the SM for Elephant silenced (Chuang Lab@Emerson), ASM for Rent (Stage Troupe) and set decorator for Something Rotten (BU on Broadway).
