Board And Staff

  • Founder & 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.

  • Founder & Producing Director

    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).

  • Managing Director

    Tara P. Nyingjè is a New York–based theater-maker and arts administrator. She currently serves as Managing Director of Dreamborne Theater Inc., where she oversees organizational strategy, operations, and public-facing programs, supporting artist-led productions and long-term institutional development.

    With experience spanning Off-Off and Off-Broadway theater, touring productions, and public cultural events, Tara has overseen projects across multiple venues and partner institutions, including her original works such as Qingbai: Innocence, Bond, and Trapped in the Flash. Her work bridges artistic vision with organizational structure to support sustainable, public-facing artistic work. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

  • 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.

  • Marketing Director

    Estella is a New York–based, marketing-focused photographer and image-maker whose work spans film, television, fashion, and cultural programming. Trained in International Communication and now in Event Management, she is drawn to the spaces between things — and to what the lens finds waiting there.

  • Sponsorship & Partnership Manager

    Yiwei (Stan) Liu is a New York–based writer and director working across fiction, theatre, and performance. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Management, as well as an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. His creative work includes published novellas, speculative short story collections, and original Mandarin-language plays.

    Liu’s theatrical work has been presented at the Columbia Blue Glaze Theater Festival, where he later served as President and led large-scale productions along with partnerships involving artists, student organizations, and sponsors. His writing has received the Phi Kappa Sigma Fiction Prize, selection by the Penn One Act Play Festival, and recognition on The Masters Review 2025 Summer Short Story Award Longlist.

    With experience in directing, sound design, and interdisciplinary storytelling, Liu develops work that connects cultures, languages, and artistic forms. His practice emphasizes psychological depth, diasporic perspectives, and inventive narrative structures within contemporary performance.

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