What to Send Up... Design Team Bios

Yu-Hsuan Chen (Scenic Designer). Playwrights debut. Yu-Hsuan is a set and production designer born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. Recent theater: The Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage); Measure For Measure (The Public Mobile Unit); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (ART/ NY, Under the Radar at The Public Theater, Woolly Mammoth, National tour); The Homecoming Queen, Nomad Motel (Atlantic Theater Company, NYC); Pumpgirl (Irish Repertory Theatre); Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre), Dancing at Lughnasa, M. Butterfly, Great Expectations (Everyman Theatre, MD); Dying In Boulder (La MaMa); SKiNfolK (Ars Nova), and many more. She is the associate set designer on SIX, and assistant set designer on Broadway shows including The Nap, Tootsie, and Kiss Me Kate. Awards: 2020 Obie Award for Outstanding Set Design, 2020 Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Set Design. yuhsuanchendesign.com.

Qween Jean (Costume Designer). Playwrights debut. Recent theater: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Siblings Play, Amen Corner, Rags Parkland, Good Grief, Othello, Wig Out! Mary Antoinette, and Little Shop of Horrors. Qween has committed her voice to advocating for marginalized communities, specifically Black trans people. Her passion is creating access for unsung heroes and people who are often overlooked. She feels their stories are valuable and deserve recognition. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Cha See (Lighting Designer). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway credits: one in two (Signature); What To Send Up When It Goes Down (ART/NY, NE Region Tour: Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T.). Other shows include: The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (Cherry Lane); Mondo Tragic (National Black Theatre); Cute Activist (Bushwick Starr); The Triumphant (Target Margin Theatre); Nora (The Juilliard School); SKINNAMARINK,House Plant, In The Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door); Then They Forgot About The Rest (Intar). Regional: EVERYBODY (Play Makers Rep), Marisol (Trinity Rep), On The Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre), America V2.1 (Barrington Stage), Yasmina’s Necklace (Premiere Stages), Legacy Land (Kansas City Rep). Upcoming: The Fever (Audible Theatre), Soft (MCC Theatre), Change Agent (Arena Stage), Exception To The Rule (Roundabout), The Antelope Party (Wild Project), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), The Alchemist (Red Bull Theatre). Training: MFA NYU Tisch. seelightingdesign.com / seelightingfoundation.com. @seethruuu 

Sinan Refik Zafar (Sound Designer). Playwrights debut. Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me. National Tour: What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: MCC, NYTW, The Public, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Movement Theatre Company. Regional: Kennedy Center, The Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and more. sinanzafar.com.

Genevieve Ortiz (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (BAM, Wooly Mammoth, A.R.T, Under the Radar at The Public Theater, The Movement Theatre Company); Hercules, Pretty Hunger (The Public); Lockdown (Rattlestick Theater); Recent Alien Abductions (The Play Company); The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (The Playwrights Realm); Is God Is (Soho Rep.); Seven Spots on the Sun (Rattlestick/Sol Project); Alligator (New Georges/Sol Project); The Block (The Working Theater); The Sun Shines East (The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater); The Golden Year (The Workshop Theater Company); Oleanna starring Austin Pendleton (The Players Club); Ghost Dancer (Mint Theater). Regional: The Christians (Baltimore Center Stage), A Nation Grooves Artist Residency (Mass MoCA), The Winter’s Tale (Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU).

Carolina Arboleda (Assistant Stage Manager). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement Theatre Company), Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick), She Calls Me Firefly (Parity Productions/New Perspectives Theatre Company). Virtual: American Dreams (The Working Theater). International: Festival de Teatro Alternativo, Festival de Mujeres En Escena Por la Paz. She is delighted to be collaborating once again with her WTSU family.