Meet Our Team

Co-founder & Artistic Director
wisteria.deng@yale.edu

Wisteria (she/her) is the associate artistic director of Vermilion Theater, and a Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate at Yale University. Specialized in trauma-informed care, she serves as a therapist at the Yale Gender Program and Yale Psycho-oncology/Palliative Care. She carries fond memories of the Singapore rain (The Theatre Practice, 2013-2015), the Ann Arbor snow (Thus Spoke Ann Arbor, 2016-2018), the Boston potholes (Wuming Drama Club, 2019-2021) in founding Yale Vermilion Theater (2021 to Present) and Vermilion Theater INC. Ins: @wisteria__

General Manager, Public Relations Director
kaye_hu@vermiliontheater.com

Kaye Huiyuan Hu (she/they) is an arts administrator and theater artist from Shanghai, passionate about cross-cultural collaboration and healing through the arts. Currently pursuing an MA in Performing Arts Administration at NYU, Kaye holds a degree in Public Relations from Emerson College. Her work spans various roles that promote cross-cultural arts, including facilitating Chinese heritage events with the Peabody Essex Museum’s public programming team and supporting AAPI new works at CHUANG Stage through directing, public relations, and marketing.

Director of Visual Art & Media yolandayuanlupeng@gmail.com

Yolanda is a recent graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design, whose interest and practice focus on the intervention of art, design, curation, and performance in public domain and urban contexts. She has extensive experience in curatorial and educational programs at design agencies as well as museums and art institutions, also works as a versatile theater designer straddling set, projection, puppet design, constantly exploring the intersection of theater and public engagement. website: https://pengyuanlululu.wixsite.com/yolanda; ins:@y_l9714

Business Development Director

Ziqi Zhang received her master’s degree in Public Humanities from Brown University and her bachelor’s degree in Financial Management from Fudan University. She worked for financial companies, media, and art museums. She once drew slides for consulting companies, and also wrote for magazines. Now she has become a professional in the nonprofit grants and finance field and hopes to establish her presence in the theater and cultural industry. ins: @ziqi__zhang

Multimedia Scenographer

Yiou Wang is a multimedia artist and scenic designer who uses emergent interactive media and technologies to craft experiences and storytelling across physical and virtual realms. Coming from a mixed background of art, architecture and tech, Yiou realizes new visions of reality through an experimental, interdisciplinary approach integrating diverse real-time and animated technologies with theatrical performance.

Website: www.yiouwang.org / Instagram: @yiou_wang_

Director of Marketing - Boston claire_yang@vermiliontheater.com

Claire is an electroacoustic music composer/sound designer/marketing specialist, graduated from University of Oregon with a degree in Music Technology, specializing in Interactive Electroacoustic Music Composition and Computer Music Composition. Her works have been selected and invited to participate in ICMC, SEAMUS, NYCEMF and other international computer music conferences. She has worked in various marketing departments in different industries and has been working with different groups and businesses. She is currently a graduate student at Northeastern University.

Join our team and let the vermilion bird soar!