YI-HSUAN (ANT) MA
SET / PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Ant is a New York & DC based Taiwanese, a scenic and production queer designer.
A member of Local USA829, IASTE.
As a visual storyteller that encompasses interdisciplinary approaches to scenic design informed by historical contexts, abstraction, and visual arts, Ant has designed extensively across Taiwan and the United States. Coming from the background of literature training, her design is poetic, political and inclusive. She is always interested in exploring the environment for characters live in that involves the audience's participation immersively. Ant's personality is easygoing and always a creative problem solver.
Selected design works: The Secret Sharer (ART Emerson); The Royale &The Wolves (Playmaker Rep); Cymbeline (NAATCO, CSC); Good Penny (Fisher Center); Usus (Clubbed Thumb); Blood Work (National Black Theater); Smart (Ensemble Studio Theater); Bloom Bloom Pow (ART/NY)
Associate/assistant credits: Wolf Play (MCC); The Ally (Public Theater); We Are Your Robots (TFAN); The best we could (Manhattan Theatre Club) La Traviata (Wolf Trap opera); Don Giovanni (Royal Swedish Opera)
Her theatrical installation artwork "Samuel" has been nominated as NOTABLE EFFECTS SHOW in the 2021
