Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew is an award-winning designer for theater, opera, dance, musical, music performances, installation and immersive experiences. As a designer she aims to create a visual environment that is organically integrated into the landscape and language of the production. 

Her works have been seen across US cities and internationally at Havana (Cuba), Prague (Czech Republic), Lima (Peru), Edinburgh (Scotland), Tokyo (Japan), Graz (Austria), Shanghai (China), Paris (France), and Bloemfontein (South Africa).

In addition to lighting, Jeanette is projection designer with extensive experience designing for new works and original adaptations. Recent: In the Wake with Josh Hecht, Top Girls, Relevance (Lortel nomination) and Informed Consent with Liesl Tommy, Aya Ogawa’s Ludic Proxy (Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund), Erik Ehn’s Clover, Company XIV’s Snow White, The Civilians’ Paris Commune and In the Footprint, Matthew Paul Olmos’ So Go the Ghosts of Mexico Part One, Elizabeth Swados and Cecilia Rubino’s From the Fire (winner of the 2011 MTM: UK Musical Theatre Awards for Best New Production), and NPR’s WATER +/- with Kenny Leon.

Lastly, Jeanette is also a generative artist in devising interdisciplinary productions through contemporary puppetry aesthetics and technique. NY Times described her recent project with Target Margin, Act 4 of The Iceman Cometh as “consistently inventive”. Her immersive production, Are They Edible? premiered at La MaMa to sold-out houses and it was called “bold” and “inventive”. And Here We Are, a shadow puppet opera with composer Matthew Welch was premiere at National Sawdust in 2018. Additionally, her toy theater production of The Butcher Men was invited to the 2006 Prague Quadrennial and her digital puppetry adaptation of the Book of Genesis, MILK, was part of the Labapalooza 2007 presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC).

Jeanette is the Associate Arts Professor and Head of Lighting Design Training with NYU’s Department of Drama Production & Design Studio (P&D). Member of Woodshed Collective and Caborca. Member of USA29. Recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program.