ALISON YUEMING QU
Executive Director
Alison Yueming Qu (she/they) is a Chinese American Theatre Creative Producer, Director, and Community Organizer. Alison curates joyful, transformative, and radically inclusive spaces for Asian American artists, using arts and culture to power community activism, intercultural exchange, and translingual expression. Recognized as a 2023 ARTery Maker by WBUR (Boston’s NPR station), Alison is celebrated as one of the most exciting artists of color shaping Greater Boston’s cultural landscape.
As Co-Founder and Executive Director of CHUANG Stage, Alison leads the company’s artistic vision and organizational strategy, and her love for new work—building an engine for translingual, pan-Asian storytelling while strengthening the resources to produce it year after year. She has advanced CHUANG Stage’s radical access work through its Pay-As-You-Are ticketing model, designed to reduce financial barriers for working-class immigrant communities and widen entry points for Asian American diaspora audiences. Alison develops and produces emerging AAPI playwrights, guiding projects from early workshops and readings to world premieres and full productions. She is also a hands-on fundraising and grants leader, securing support from major public and private funders to underwrite new work development, community partnerships, and CHUANG Stage’s long-term capacity building, so artists are resourced, audiences are welcomed, and ambitious work can thrive.
From 2020 to 2025, Alison served as Associate Producer at HowlRound Theatre Commons, producing national and international projects such as the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residency Program and the International Presenter Commons, Under the Radar Symposium, and as Connectivity Producer at Company One Theatre, producing initiatives like the Better Future Series and Branch Out with C1 in partnership with the Boston Public Library.
In Summer 2025, Alison joined Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City as a Seasonal Line Producer, primarily producing the Summer for the City festival, Juneteenth outdoor activations, and collaborations with Shanghai International Arts Festival. This role expands her national presence and reflects her growing impact as a dual-city arts leader, bringing her producing expertise to one of the nation’s most iconic cultural institutions while continuing her equity-driven, community-centered work in Boston.
Her directing and dramaturgy credits include I Love XXX at Emerson Stage (Jinghui Meng, translated by Claire Conceison), The Fortune Teller (a collaboration with TC Squared Theatre Company), and The Chinese Lady (Central Square Theater). As a sought-after facilitator and speaker, Alison has led conversations on Asian American representation in the arts with organizations such as Pao Arts Center, Huntington Theatre Company, ArtsEmerson, UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center, Guerilla Opera, Asian American Women’s Political Initiative, Asian American Playwrights Collective, and Central Square Theater.
Alison serves on the boards of the Boston Cultural Council (Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office of Arts and Culture) and the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA). She is a proud alumna of Harvard University/American Repertory Theater’s Arts & Cultural Organizational Management program, a 2023–24 MassCreative Arts Advocacy Fellow, and a National Arts Strategy Creative Community Fellow. She holds a BFA in Theatre (Directing and Dramaturgy) from Emerson College.
JENNY S. LEE
Director of Artistic and Community Programing
Jenny S. Lee (she/her) is a Boston-based Korean American actress, director, producer, and arts administrator. She currently serves as Director of Artistic and Community Programming at CHUANG Stage, where she leads bold, community-centered initiatives that amplify Asian American storytelling across Greater Boston.
As a creative producer, Jenny develops cross-institutional, community-centric programming that activates theatre into a citywide conversation across neighborhoods. Her producing practice bridges dramaturgy and visual storytelling, translating text into immersive, interactive, museum-style lobby exhibits rooted in audience aftercare that blur the boundaries between the stage and lived experience. She spearheaded Asian Joy Night, a radical access affinity initiative with past partnerships including Central Square Theatre, ArtsEmerson, Huntington Theatre Company, and Lyric Stage Company of Boston, fostering gathering spaces for Asian American audiences and artists to celebrate the art and one another. Working in close collaboration with company leadership, she helps shape the artistic vision, direction, and programmatic heart of CHUANG Stage—centering authentic storytelling for, by, and about the Asian community that moves with purpose to create meaningful cultural change.
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 acting credits include Wait Until Dark (Susan, Greater Boston Stage), Silent Sky (Henrietta Leavitt, Central Square Theatre), Founding F%!#ers (Peggy Shippen & Others, Greater Boston Stage), The Recursion of a Moth (Chrys, Boston Playwrights Theatre), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Watson, Central Square Theatre), Yellowface (Jane Krakowski & Others, Lyric Stage Company of Boston), and Troublemaker (May Yu) and Takeover (Pansy) with Asian American Playwrights Collective. Select directing credits include DOSAN: The Musical (Seasun Theatre Artists Group), Stories on Our Streets: The Boston Chinatown Musical (CHUANG Stage & Company One), The Heart Sellers (AD, Huntington Theatre), Luz & Urduja (CHUANG Stage), and John Deserves to Die (AD, Fresh Ink Theatre).
IG: @jennyslee
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JENINE JACINTO
Marketing and Communications Associate
jenine.jacinto@chuangstage.org
Jenine is a nonbinary California raised Filipino-Chinese American actor, creative, and nerd. They have been proudly active in the Boston theatre community as an actor and content creator. And they happily show their Filipino and queer pride in every project that they work on.
As an actor, they have been worked with theatres like CHUANG Stage (Learning How to Read by Moonlight), Horizon Theatre Company (The Heart Sellers), The Footlight Club (Yellow Face), Company One (The Interrobangers), Umbrella Stage Company (Middleton Heights) and Lyric Stage (Lyric Back Stage) Behind the scenes, they have worked as the production assistant for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.
As a creative, they have worked as marketing advisors, photographer, and model throughout the country. Worked with groups like Horizon Theatre Company, Marriott Bonvoy, Duct Tape Productions, and 1Up Podcasts. Outside of theatre they make nerdy content with Thank You D6, a TableTop Roleplaying Podcast. As well as hosts and participates in local and national TTRPG fundraisers with Sword & Key, SideQuest Games, and Girls Run These Worlds.| jenineflorencejacinto.com
EMIE YIZHEN LIU
CHUANG Stage Intern
Emie (they/them) is currently a Theater & Performance major junior in Emerson College. As an actor, a director, and a multi-hyphenated theater artist, they find such great pleasure taking this amazing opportunity as CHUANG Stage's current seasonal intern. Growing up in Beijing in International schools, Emie finds great joy in multi-cultural artistic expressions. They have always wished to make authentic arts that share the Asian community stories to the world. Emerson Stage credits include The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee (Dramaturg), Confederates (Company Manager. Select Emerson College credits include Nüwa in Fairyland (Director), The Omniscient Bus (Director), No Exit (VALET), Hamlet (POLONIUS), Days of Rage (Costume Designer), The Effect (Co-Costume Designer).
