Alison YUEMING Qu
Executive Director
A 1.5-generation immigrant originally from Jilin City, China, Alison Yueming Qu (she/they) is an Actor, Director, Dramaturg, Creative Engagement Producer, and Community Organizer. Alison is a curator of joyful, challenging, and radical AAPI spaces that move everyone toward a queer future.
Their recent artistic endeavors include The Chinese Lady (Central Square Theater), Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater), Shrike (Fresh Ink Theater), We & Other Queer Goddexxes (Company One), workshop reading of Ascend! by Amy Zhang (The Tank, 2021 NY City Artists Crops grant), Earthquake by Tatyana Emery (Reground Theater Collective), Waiting for Kim Lee by Vivian Liu-Somers (Asian American Theater Artists of Boston), Miss November by Ethan Williams (Emerson Stage), and guest directing at NTI/O’Neill with Summer Theatermakers 2020. They have also worked closely with Pao Arts Center, Asian American Playwrights Collective, MIT Music & Theater Arts, TC Squared Theater Company, and more.
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 (Mass Humanities Grant Recipient). Alison was the inaugural Cutler Creative Producing & Engagement Fellow at ArtsEmerson. Audio immersive piece Imaginarium (Out of the Blue Theatre) at Applecarts Art and Georgetown Festival, curated with the help of the German-French Cultural Fund in Wuhan. They assistant-produced Season II of Artists Connectivity Series (Ping Pong Arts), an open dialogue series between art and community makers of the world.
Alison is a 2021-22 National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellow, and a steering committee member of API Arts Network. They are a proud alumna of the National Theater Institute and an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Alison graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre (Directing and Dramaturgy).
JENNY LEE
Community Engagement Associate
Jenny S. Lee is a Boston-based AAPI director, actress, and arts administrator. She currently serves as the community engagement associate at CHUANG stage. Regional directing credits: The Heart Sellers AD (Huntington), John Deserves to Die AD (Fresh Ink), and Mad Dash’s A Work of f(Art) (Fresh Ink). Regional acting credits: Concrete Dreams (TC Squared); Troublemaker, Takeover (Asian American Playwright’s Collective).
