Board Members
High School Student Representative: Yue Annie Wu 吴钥
A senior student at Nanjing Vista School, and a lifelong enthusiast of Kunqu Opera and drama, Annie has won the Special Prize in Foreign Language Drama in Jiangsu Province. She is one of the high school student founders of GYACD, and the organizer of the Drama in Schools events of the alliance.
Undergraduate Representative & U.S. Coordinator: Nico Yu 余子萱
Born and raised in Shenzhen, China, costume and character designer, Nico Yu, pushes herself into creating both visually stunning and rich-in-storytelling designs that bring characters to life. Nico has recently received her degrees in the Production and Design studio, NYU Tisch School of Arts. With a deep belief in the importance of costume design in world-building, Nico's design aims to capture the complex emotions and relationships of the characters. Recent credits include Moonshine Requiem (artistic director/costume designer); Waning Crescent (costume designer); Bonefruit (costume designer); and The Insanity (costume designer).
Theater Therapy Specialist: Cassie Tian 田芊懿
Cassie is very enthusiastic about the intersectionality betwen performance arts and psychotherapy. She recently received her Bachelor degree of Applied Psychology at New York Univesrity Steinhardt College. During her study at NYU, she studied and attended numerous creative art therpy workshops, and worked at the New York Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center. She was also the leading actress for an Off-off Broadway devised piece: "Here's a Blue Morpho For You". She looks forward to facilitate future theater therapy related events at GYACD.
Student Ambassadors:
Lynn Li 李婉琳 (Shenzhen Senior High School, China)
Sandy Liu 刘子涵 (Mount Pisgah Christian School, U.S.)
Eason Wu 吴雨宸 (Culver Academy, U.S.)
Jacky Sun 孙启轩 (BASIS International School Shenzhen, China)