Jian Jung (정지안) is an Obie Award winning set designer from Korea, based in New York City.

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While her productions range from classic masterpieces to new plays, her design always focuses on innovative delivery of the piece, provoking audience’s expectations. Jung’s design work has been acclaimed as ‘innovative’, ‘inventive’, ‘genius’ and ‘spectacular’ by major press such as The New York Times. 

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Recent theater credits include STAFF MEAL at Playwrights Horizons, THE FOLLOWING EVENING at PAC-NYC, THE NOSEBLEED at Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theater (DC), KISS at Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), ZOETROPE at Abrons Arts Center, OCEAN FILIBUSTER at A.R.T. (Boston), BODIES THEY RITUAL at Wild Project, THE DAY YOU BEGIN at Kennedy Center (DC), SUICIDE FOREST at Bushwick Starr and ART/NY, and LUDIC PROXY at Soho Rep and Japan Society. 

She has been working with Latino theater community in NYC closely for a long time, and designed Spanish and bi-lingual productions in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela.

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Opera and musical credits include DER FREISCHUTZ at Wolf Trap Opera (VA), PROMENADE at Fisher Center in Bard, LUCIO SILLA and EZIO at Huntington Theater (Boston), LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at Juilliard, and MOSKVA, CHEREOMUSHKI at Long Beach Opera (CA). 

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Jung received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Set Design, a Barrymore Award for KISS, and Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Award for LUDIC PROXY. She was nominated for Henry Hewes Design Awards for SUICIDE FOREST and STAFF MEAL. Her design in Venezuela was presented in Prague Quadrennial 2015.

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Jung received an MFA in Theater Design from New York University, and an MFA in Environmental Design from Ewha Women’s University in Korea, where she was born and grew up.

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She teaches at NYU Tisch Design MFA program and Sarah Lawrence College.

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