Jennifer Yuqing Cao (曹语晴) is a scenic designer and third-year M.F.A. candidate in Scenic Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Based between New York City and China, she works across theater and dance as an international artist, with a focus on space as an active, narrative-generating force rather than a static backdrop.

In 2024, she was a Yale–China Association Resident Artist, developing intercultural and site-responsive work. Her practice engages architecture, ritual, and temporality through a cross-cultural lens.

Selected credits include Once 一场 (China National Tour), ; Rhinoceros (Yale Repertory Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra and You Can Tell a Tree by Its Fruit (David Geffen School of Drama); Here’s a Blue Morpho For You (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); New York Housing Project (NYU Tisch); and The Mailroom (International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Yale–China Fellowship).

Her work centers on creating immersive environments that activate audience perception and reframe spatial storytelling.

CONTACT

jenncyq@outlook.com | Instagram

Wechat: Sin_Jenn