President

Yannis Ning is a singer, director, educator, and dramaturg whose work bridges literature with embodied performance. Rooted in multilingual and cross-cultural practice, Yannis creates theatre that explores memory, fragmentation, and the rituals of transformation.

Originally from China and now based in New York, Yannis is completing an M.A. in Educational Theatre and English Education at NYU. Their work draws from vocal performance, physical theatre, and ensemble devising, often centering marginalized identities and hybrid aesthetics.

As the founding president of Dreamborne Theater, Yannis leads the company’s vision to create mythic, memory-rooted performance that lives between dream, language, and lived experience. Recent work includes Nine Shadows in Bloom, a multilingual poetic ritual of inner re-membering and layered chorus.

Across all roles, Yannis is committed to building performance ecologies where contradiction breathes—and silence becomes song.

Secretary & Treasury

JC Chang is a theatre producer and stage manager currently based in New York. She is a founding member of Dreamborne Theater, where she serves as Secretary, Treasurer, and Residency Producer.

With extensive experience in production and organizational leadership, JC has contributed to over 30 stage productions spanning musical theatre, classical works, contemporary drama, and devised performance. She also leads the Culture & Media Department at X Academy, supporting interdisciplinary creative projects that bridge theatre and education.

JC is currently studying at NYU Tisch , majoring in Drama (Production & Design) with a minor in Philosophy. At Dreamborne, she focuses on fostering projects that emphasize cultural diversity, collaboration, and innovative storytelling.

Her recent credits include Zhao Benshan World Tour (Stage Manager), the original musical Lost in the Stars (Associate Director, dir. Wang Yixun), and Triptych by the China Opera House (Associate Director, dir. Wang Heng).

Artistic Advisory Council Member

Yiwei Lu 陆一苇 (he/him) is a New York based writer/performer originally from Shanghai. He identifies himself not as an artist (艺术家), but a laborer of cultural production (文化工作者). He composes anachronistic literary pieces in search of the sublime across the East and the West in the form of epic poetry; and he also participates in historical theatrical pieces to critique the bourgeois melancholia rooted in his mind. He used to study classics, psychoanalysis, literature, and theatre, but he recently sold his soul to capitalism by going into law school, in vain hope of buying it back one day with a company credit card or bitcoins. He now awaits a worldwide revolution to come and wash away his sins. His past works include: 俺抬杠/Anti-Gone?! as playwright (A.R.T. Theater), NYU Gala 2025 as co-director (Apollo Theater) Remorse as Dramaturge (Dixon Place), the President’s Invitation (the Tank).

Come pray for his sins on Instagram @fishermanlu

Artistic Advisory Council Member

Xuelai is an emerging writer and theater technician who has expertise in scriptwriting, lighting design, and stage management. Her professional journey includes working as a literary scout in the Chinese film & TV industry and publishing bilingual poetry. She aspires to elevate multilingual storytelling using both stage and screen to share humanistic narratives that resonate with audiences globally.