Yang Yu is a New York based lighting designer for performing arts. She is interested in using light, space, and timing to create an emotionally charged environment, as well as visualizing music.

Recent credits include Primordial (The Tank), Unresolved Rage Game (Soho Rep/Writer Director Lab); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Crossroads Theatre Company/NBPAC), Lewberger & The Wizard of Friendship (Theater Row), Monstress (New Ohio Theater), Simon and His Shoes (The Tank), Take Shape (Broken Box Mime Theater), This Stretch of Montpelier (Parity Productions/2023 Off-Off Broadway awards nomination), and The Shes (The Public Theater/Weasel Festival). MFA from Brooklyn College.