Birth Place: Jilin, China
Originally from China, Alison Yueming Qu (chi-yuu) (she/they) is a Director, Dramaturg, and Creative Producer. Recently graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre (Directing and Dramaturgy), Alison was the inaugural Cutler Creative Producing & Engagement Fellow at ArtsEmerson, and the Co-Founder & Executive Producer of CHUANG Stage—a Boston-based Mandarin-English bilingual collective dedicated to cultivating new Chinese and AAPI narratives. Their recent directing credits include Miss November by Ethan Williams (Emerson Stage), Earthquake by Tatyana Emery (Reground Theater Collective), and Waiting for Kim Lee by Vivian Liu-Somers (Asian American Theater Artists of Boston). Their dramaturgy work for 10 Out of 12 by Anne Washburn (Emerson Stage) received the 2020 LMDA/KCACTF Region 1 Dramaturgy Award. She is a proud alumna of the National Theater Institute and an associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Currently, Alison serves as the Associate Producer of Pao Fellowship at Company One Theater (@companyoneboston), the Executive Producer of 2021 BOND International Virtual Performance Festival, and an Event Manager at BCNC Pao Arts Center
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