Amazon/Kilter Films

Directed by Jonathan Nolan

Costumes by Amy Westcott

Associate Costume Design (ep 101 - 107): Wendy Yang

Co-Costume Design (ep 108): Wendy Yang

About the film:

COMING TO PRIME 2024

Cast: Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarita Choudhury

Netflix/Plan B

Directed by Zal Batmanlij

Costumes by Amy Westcott

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

"Of all the ways Netflix's 'The OA' might blow your mind, what it means for cinema — and the future of narrative storytelling — is the most exciting."

- PETER DEBRUGE, VARIETY

"The year ends with one of its best surprises, a crazy-brilliant fantasy that obeys no rules-drama, launched with minimal fanfare that only enhanced its buzzed-about mysteriousness."

- TOM GILATTO, PEOPLE

About the show:

Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

Starring: Brit Marling, Jason Issacs, Emory Cohen, Phyllis Smith, Riz Ahmed, and Patrick Gibson

Focus Features

Directed by Eddie Huang

Costumes by Vera Chow

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

”In his brittle, brutal inner struggles, [Boogie] navigates the perpetual challenge of being a second-generation migrant, questioning whether his identity is a fusion of two cultures, a battle between them, something distinct, or simply a meaningless tag.”

- RICHARD WHITTAKER, AUSTIN CHRONICLE

The coming of age story of Alfred “Boogie” Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, who one daydreams of playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship from an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals, and the burden of expectation.

Cast: Taylor Takahashi, Pamelyn Chee, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Taylour Paige, Perry Yung, Pop Smoke, Eddie Huang

HERE Arts Center, NYC

Directed by Peter Flaherty
Co-Directed and Choreographed by Jennie MaryTai Liu

“… technologically impressive while being emotionally engaging and accessible. ”     

— ANDY HORWITZ, CULTUREBOT

“... after seeing the high-tech Soul Leaves Her Body, I’m still dreaming in images. ”

— HELEN SHAW, TIME OUT NEW YORK

“Highbrow/Brilliant”

— ON THE APPROVAL MATRIX, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

About the show

From a boat, a light blinks in a distant high rise. An intercom buzzes, a home is emptied. A cup of tea is left, still steaming. Set in Hong Kong and based on a 13th Century Chinese story about a young woman who rips her soul from her body, this densely choreographed film unfolds live onstage through dance theatre, video, and foley sound. Soul Leaves Her Body is a folk dance for modern life, love, and family.

Performed by: Leslie Cuyjet, Sean Donovan, Jennie MaryTai Liu, and Wai Ching Ho, Jackie Au, Makoto Hirosoko, Leslie Ho, Howah Hung, Rachel Lin, Eric Ng, Suetmann Wong

Designed by: Scott Hirsch, Peter Ksander, Lucky Dragons, Austin Switser, Brandon Wolcott, Pablo Colapinto, and Jeanette Yew

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

8 Ave Media Inc

Directed by Brian Li

Costumes by Wendy Yang

About the commercial:

Primal X is a yet to be released men’s skincare brand ironically aimed at uber-masculine gents, or those who think they are.

HBO Films

Directed by Alan Taylor

Costumes by Amy Westcott

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

“A sharp, lively, and engrossing movie, one that provides a fascinating running commentary on how the world of “The Sopranos” came into being.”

- OWEN GLEIBERMAN, VARIETY

About the film:

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities—and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano..

Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Vera Farmiga

NBC

Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts, Season 41

Costume Designer Leah Katznelson

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

Studio 8

Directed by Yaan Demange

Costumes by Amy Westcott

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

“The film … is by turns swaggering and sentimental, cocksure and callow.”

- ROGER MOORE, MOVIE NATION

“Amy Westcott’s costuming, especially intricately designed for the background actors, brings the flamboyance of the era to life without falling into the trap of overzealous nostalgia.”

- TOMRIS LAFFLY, FILM JOURNAL 

“A look at the American Dream that cuts through the bullshit to show what the term truly means outside of false promises.”

- JARED MOBARAK, THE FILM STAGE

About the film:

Inspired by the story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of fourteen, became an undercover FBI informant in mid-80s Detroit, and grew in that role enough to establish himself as a major drug kingpin.

Cast: Richie Merritt, Matthew McConaughey, Taylour Paige, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, RJ Cyler, Rory Cochrane, Piper Laurie, Bruce Dern, Eddie Marsan

Lionsgate

Directed by Peter Sollett

Costumes by Stacey Battat

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

"...Julianne Moore and Ellen Page, as lovers in crisis, give unerringly heartfelt performances.  You'll be with them all the way."

-PETER TRAVERS, ROLLING STONE

About the film:

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, decorated New Jersey detective Laurel Hester wishes to leave her pension benefits to domestic partner Stacie Andree. Denied by local county officials, Laurel receives help from hard-nosed colleague Dane Wells and activist Steven Goldstein, who unite to rally fellow police officers and ordinary citizens to support the couple's fight for equality.

Starring: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, and Steve Carrell

FilmNation Entertainment

Directed by Sebastian Lelio

Costumes by Stacey Battat

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

”If not a coming of age, the film is a ‘coming to terms’ of sorts – a portrait of a woman who owns her bad decisions… and moves on to claim the happiness that is her right.”

- WENDY IDE, THE GUARDIAN

About the film:

A free-spirited divorcee spends her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with the joys of budding love and the complications of dating.

Cast: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius, Michael Cera, Brad Garrett, Holland Taylor

The Claire Tow Theatre - Lincoln Center, NYC

Directed by Annie Tippe

“An imaginative new play with humor, insight, and a stellar ensemble…Wendy Yang’s costume design, from baggy cargo pants with a chained wallet to a patchwork skirt and Doc Maartens, is an instant rewind to the time when millennials reigned.”

- MAYA PHILLIPS, NY TIMES

"A very funny and moving new play!"

- VINSON CUNNINGHAM, THE NEW YORKER

Abut the show:

A new play by Julia May Jonas (author of the acclaimed novel Vladimir), YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXEGESIS is a bracingly funny and slyly devastating collision of coming-of-age eroticism and religious ecstasy. In the sanctuary, hallways and rec rooms of a liberal parish, Brian angles for power, Addie attempts transfiguration, and Beatrice battles with obscurity. Meanwhile Kat, the youth pastor, can’t stop gazing into the troubled eyes of her congregant Chris.

Performers: Hannah Cabell, Cole Doman, Annie Fang, Savidu Geevaratne, and Mia Pak

Designed by: Brett J. Banakis, Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, and Stowe Nelson. Original Compositions: Brian Cavanagh-Strong with Simone Allen

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

Photos: Jeremy Daniel

Belk Theatre, Charlotte NC

Choreographed by Kim Jones

About the show:

Traces is part of a larger work in progress that explores the movement vocabularies of empathy and reflection.  Featuring guest dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Performed by: Lloyd Knight and Lorenzo Pagano

Photos by: Jeff Cravotta

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

Anne R Belk Theatre - Charlotte, NC

Choreographed by Kim Jones

“Movement Migration, across its movement styles, across generational divides, across geographical boundaries, allows us to question what brings us together and share in a collective moved by dance.”

— DANA MILLS, MEDIUM

World premier of Movement Migration’s Phoenix. A collective of seasoned dance artists collaborating to create dynamic dance works that portray the depths of the human experience, the group members come from many places in the world and span four decades in age. From these varied backgrounds, the artists bring their passions, freedom, and inexplicable beauty of expression.

Performers: Kim Jones, E.E. Balcos, Abdiel Jacobsen, Lorenzo Pagano, Pablo Francisco Ruvalcoba, Jacqueline White, Dominique Willis, and Amy Claugus

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

Bron Studios

Directed by Josh Trank

Costumes by Amy Westcott

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

”… a phantasmagoric hall of mirrors rather than a traditional movie, one that shifts back and forth between reality and the decaying horror show in Capone’s mind.”

- TY BURR, BOSTON GLOBE

Once a ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Alfonse Capone was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore. At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Alfonse's mind and his past becomes present. Harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life. As he spends his final year surrounded by family with the FBI lying in wait, this ailing patriarch struggles to place the memory of the location of millions of dollars he hid away on his property.

Cast: Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellilni, Matt Dillon, Kyle MacLaughlin, Noel Fischer, Jack Lowden, and Katherine Narducci

The Bushwick Starr, NYC

Directed by Sean Donovan

”…multidisciplinary performance piece, set in an isolated rural retreat, finds the chill in summer hedonism… [A] darkly lyrical portrait of a sexual triangle.”

- BEN BRANTLEY, NY TIMES

About the show:

Part dance, theater, and film, CABIN explores violence, the complexities of queer desire and intimacy, and the lines between biography and fiction. It is a story, but it is also about story itself, how story is told and how disparate forms of expression can serve in the evocation of the feelings and sensations of memory.

Performers: Tyler Ashley, Sean Donovan and Brandon Washington

Designed by: Carolyn Mraz, Dan Dobson, Austin Switser and Jess Medenbach, Amanda K. Ringger, Original Compositions: Heather Christian

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

Protozoa Pictures/FilmNation Entertainment

Directed by Tobias Lindholm

Costumes by Amy Westcott

Assistant Costume Design: Wendy Yang

“…an assured, skillful sense of vision, tone, and meticulous character design… The Good Nurse, does the same while delivering an ingeniously subtle, precisely crafted nail-biter.”

- COURTNEY HOWARD, THE AV CLUB

About the film:

Based on the unthinkable true story, night nurse Amy Laughren is stretched to her limits by her demanding ICU shifts. Help arrives when Charlie, a thoughtful and empathetic fellow nurse, starts at her unit. While sharing long nights at the hospital, the two develop a strong and devoted friendship. After a series of mysterious patient deaths sets off an investigation that points to Charlie as the prime suspect, Amy is forced to risk her life and the safety of her children to uncover the truth.

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha

St. Ann's Warehouse, NYC

Directed by Paul Lazar

Written by Kirk Lynn

"...surely the happiest show to have been inspired by the horrors of 9/11. Though the subject of Mr. Lynn's self-deconstructing script is the possibility that a nuclear holocaust looms as close in your future as your next subway ride, "Major Bang" proves that laughter in the dark need not be desperate."

- BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"...simple human connection may be our best weapon against the fear that otherwise might smother us."

- ADAM FELDMAN, TIME OUT NEW YORK

About the show

Major Bang springs from the contents of a backpack left on the subway, samples the Kubrick film, and mixes in a radioactive boy scout, an over-caffeinated dad, and a love affair doomed for nuclear disaster.  Part magic act, part suspense comedy, part instructional seminar, Major Bang is a ride through the 21st Century notions of fear.

Performed by: Steve Cuiffo, Maggie Hoffman

Designed by: Michael Casselli, Wendy Yang, David Moodey, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Marilys Ernst

LACMA, Los Angeles

Choreographed by Jennie Liu

About the show

Commissioned to accompany the exhibition Merce Cunningham, Clouds and Screens. Exhaustively appropriating Cunningham’s compositional use of chance, this performance took place in LACMA’s Korean Art Gallery amidst 17th–19th century Korean screen paintings, highlighting the primacy of Asian thinking and aesthetic values in the production of the western avant-garde. Choreographer Jennie Liu playfully consulted contemporary feminist oracles, as well as the ancient Chinese divination text the I Ching, to determine all structural elements of the dance, manifesting in a theatrical display of indeterminacy.

Performers: Jennie Liu, devika wickremesinghe, and Hannah Heller

Live music: Andrew Gilbert

Lighting: Chris Kuhl

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

The Bushwick Starr, NYC

Directed by Jennie MaryTai Liu

"…appealingly spiky humor…"

— LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“...an idiosyncratic tour of the female subconscious... an exploration of what it's really like to be a girl, traversing territory that is often grotesque, but strangely charming.”

— MIRIAM FELTON-DANSKY, THE VILLAGE VOICE

"A riotous performance of a life lived not according to plan. The antithesis of desire - stability - rather than success at all costs becomes a favored choice."

— DANIELLE KALAMARAS, BUSHWICK DAILY

About the show:

Actress Fury is a passion play of one tormented actress as she takes on the role of herself. The audience sits inside a dressing room encircled by mirrors, as three female performers contest with their own deep-seated desire to be extraordinary. Dramatic scenarios unfurl through dance to reveal an anti-strategy about wrestling with ambition and being female in this 21st century moment.

Performed by: Jennie MaryTai Liu, Hannah Heller, and Alexa Weir

Designed by: Tanya Brodsky, Julia Bembenek, and Mark Nieto

Costume Design: Wendy Yang

TSOA Experimental Theatre Wing, NYC

Directed by Jennie MaryTai Liu

About the show

Set in 1960's Hong Kong, a movement exploring the relationships between a local man, a British woman, and a ghost.

Performed by: Jennie MaryTai Liu, Orion Tereban, and Heather Christian

Designed by: Courtland Preemo, Wendy Yang, and Alexander Gedeon

Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC

Directed by Jennie MaryTai Liu

'''Learning in Lower Animals (a biology sonata)' was fueled by the true stuff of science, namely experimentation … It's all so biological, and you can't quite tell where one organism begins, and the other ends. Such is the agony of family life."

- ERIKA KINETZ, THE NEW YORK TIMES

About the show

A dance/theatre work inspired by a 1968 zoological textbook on invertebrates, Beethoven’s ‘Tempest Sonata’, text messages from mum, videos of my grandma’s garden, and inchoate romance.

Performed by: Abigail Browde, Heather Christian, Felix Ciprian, Sean Donovan, Hannah Heller, Julia May Jonas, Brad Kisicki, Orion Taraban and Laura Berlin Stinger

Designed by: Heather Christian, Wendy Yang, Jay Ryan, Nadia Ries-Shen, and Courtland Premo

The Brick Theatre, NYC

Directed by Julia Jonas and Jess Barbagello

"... a sparkling cabinet of wonders... naughty and awkward and hard-charging at once; we scarce know where to look. Suffice it to say, all of her deserves three cheers."

- HELEN SHAW, TIME OUT NEW YORK

"... the style, nicely feminine and sometimes feminist.. rousing, restless structure."

- ALEXIS SOLOSKI, THE NEW YORK TIMES

About the show

Emily Climbs (Machine Méchant) imagines a future looking back on a past that is still in our future. Through a collection of performed materials (an amateur stand up routine, excerpts from a one-woman show, interview transcripts, found documents, role playing scenes, and more) the show explores person-hood of Emily Climbs: a failed science-experiment, a devoted companion, a benign provocateur, a socialized woman struggling with the burden of individualism and the American Dream.

Performed by: Hannah Heller, Kate Schroeder, Caitlin McDonough-Thayer, and Marisa Lark Wallin

Designed by: Heather Christian, Sara C. Walsh, Wendy Yang, and Sarah Bruning Johnston

The Bushwick Starr, NYC

Directed by Jennie MaryTai Liu

“It’s hilarious, inspired, and original, with an underlying rhythmic musicality to the sounds of water breaking.”

– GAY CITY NEWS

About the show

Home Birth is a dance play about two crooked women as they prepare for a birth. The secular and superstitious collide as archaic customs are enacted in a contemporary household, using dance to evoke the sublime buried in idiosyncrasy. Borrowing text from home-videos and British reality TV, the form is inspired by biological mutation, constantly morphing. Abstract movement rears its head then submerges back into crass-talking over coca-colas; prolonged moments of frenetic ritual are relieved by housecleaning, folk singing, and disco dancing. Home Birth is an attempt to evoke the invisible biology that lines our prosaic conducts.

Performed by: Heather Christian, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Hannah Heller, Kerry Huang, and Elizabeth Rannenberg

Designed by: Raky Sastri, Heather Christian, Courtland Premo, Laura Mrockowski, and Wendy Yang 

Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theatre, NYC

Dixon Place, NYC

Directed by ANIMALS: Mike Meekos, Nikki Calonge, Michael DeAngelis

Created with Brighid Greene, Lucy Kaminsky, Madison Krekel, Eva Peskin, and Linda Mancini

“Animals’ performances are irreverent mashups of video, dance and puppetry...poignant and hilarious.. ”

— BRIENNE WALSH, PAPER MAGAZINE

“[...] more than a re-telling of the Baroness' life based on original source material; instead, it is a meditation on the contrast between making art and being a successful artist.. ”

— CHRISTOPHER GABELLO, INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

About the show

Exploding into incantation and dance, The Baroness is the Future unfolds the life and work of poetess, found object sculptor, and proto-Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, whom Duchamp called simply, “the future.” 

The Baroness’ cross-dressing, kleptomania, outlandish costumes, found object sculptures, sexual escapades, brawls, and abstract poems shocked, delighted and inspired the greatest names of the Dada movement. However, due in part to her own unwillingness or inability to conform, the Baroness was ultimately excluded from their successes and died alone and penniless in a Parisian garret.

In a collision of the Baroness’ ecstatic early poems with unpublished fragments of a regret-filled autobiography, TBITF asks what happens when creativity and responsibility fight.

Performed by: Brighid Greene, Lucy Kaminsky, Madison Krekel, Eva Peskin, Nikki Colonge, and Linda Mancini

Designed by: Joel Melton, Michael DeAngelis, Joe Cantalupo, and Wendy Yang

Experimental Theatre Wing Mainstaige, NYC

Directed by David Neumann

About the show:

An experimental and irreverent take on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale with live music and dance.

Performed by: Caleb Hammonds, Meng Ai, and Jess Barbigello

Designed by: Jason Schuler and Wendy Yang 

Danza in Arte a Pietrasanta - Pietrasanta, Italy

Choreographed by Blakey McGuire

About the show

The world premiere of “Lullaby - The Stories We Tell", set to music by Mark Lewis, and performed by Movement Migration company artists Dominique Willis, Amy Claugus, EE Balcos, Jacqueline White and Lorenzo Pagano, with Artistic Director Kim Jones.

Costume Design: Wendy Yang