Yiyuan Li is a Chinese lighting designer currently based in New York City. She is especially interested in collaborating on work that breaks the boundaries of certain culture landscapes. And she is always passionate about finding meaning in abstraction through the manipulation of lights in her process. Outside of design, she enjoys walking on the street with her camera to observe and capture stories. Selected Credits: Deep Blue Sound (USC School of Dramatic Arts); Garside’s Career (Mint Theatre Company); Cymbeline (NAATCO, Classic Stage Company); The Heart Sellers (Cape Rep Theatre); Richard II (Mark O’Donnell Theatre); Red Maple (Curtain Call Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Carroll Park); The Moors (NYU, Theatre C); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lenfest Center for the Arts); Story of A Bird (Shanghai Changjiang Black Box Theatre); Second Av Dance Company resident lighting designer (2022-2023). 

Education: MFA, Design for Stage and Film, NYU Tisch.