Fan Yu is a New York-based production designer and scenic designer working across film, theatre, opera, and live events. Her work is driven by spatial storytelling, and she’s passionate about exploring the boundaries between dreams and reality.

Recent credits: Queen, DREAD/D.R.E.A.D., Hudson Guild Operas (American Opera Projects/NYU), Till The Dead, Pedigree (Brooklyn Film Festival), Rooster Will Crow Again (New Hampshire Film Festival), Flake (Out On Film, Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival).

Fan holds a Bachelor of Architecture, and her design work has been featured in Deep Green at Olivolo Gallery, a parallel exhibition to the 2023 Venice Biennale. In 2024, her collaborative installation design was presented at the Valmiera Theatre Festival in Latvia.

Selected Work

Gattaca, INT. Gattaca Computer Complex. Thesis project.

Gattaca, INT. Eugene's Condominium. Thesis project.

Gattaca, INT. Gattaca Aerospace Corporation - Entrance. Thesis project.

Queen, Directed by Rakesh Palisetty, Photo by Fan Yu

Blood Wedding - Ending, all the women left alone

Pagliacci - The play within a play

Iphigenia in Tauris - Enter Orestes and Pylades

If Beale Street Could Talk, INT. Bank Street Basement

If Beale Street Could Talk, INT. Tish's Home - Bedroom

Stuck In A Cycle, Directed by Anooya Swamy

Till The Dead, Directed by Marco Adly

NYU Production Credits

Queen Written by Madhuri Shekar Directed by Rakesh Palisetty Costume Design by Xorlali Plange Lighting Design by Annie Garrett-Larsen Sound Design by Ryan Marsh NYU-Tisch Department of Graduate Acting, African Grove Theatre Stuck In A Cycle Written and Directed by Anooya Swamy Produced by Devin Carey & Sin Young Kim Cinematography by Bilal Hefner NYU-Tisch Department of Graduate Film Till the Dead Written and Directed by Marco Adly Produced by Vincent Accettola & Jack Auen Cinematography by Leo Zhang Costume Design by Sandrina Sparagna NYU-Tisch Department of Graduate Film

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