Meet the 2026/27 Season Fellows!

As our 2026/27 season gets underway, we’re excited to welcome our newest cohort of 2050 Artistic and Administrative Fellows! Over the next year, these six emerging artists and administrators will join our community, gain hands-on experience across NYTW, and build formative connections with artists and audiences alike.

The new Artistic Fellows are Jasmine Sharma and Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui. The new Administrative Fellows are Carly Baker (Marketing), Chloe Jung (Education & Engagement), Jane Su (Development) and Anna Zheng (Artistic Workshop).

2050 ARTISTIC FELLOWS

Jasmine Sharma (she/her) is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. She aims to focus her work at the intersection of race/femininity/Americanness. Previous acting credits include Twelfth Night (The Public Theater), Love You More (Tank Core Production), you don’t have to do anything (HERE Arts, u/s perf.), Wives (Aurora Theatre), Calvin Berger (Colony Theatre), The Wolves (McCarter Theater), and a lot of new work development (Ojai Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, NYTW, Prospect Musicals, ASCAP x Musical Theatre West, Hypokrit, CTG, Ma-Yi, NAATCO, etc). Film: Reimagined (dir. Mateo Messina). As a writer, full lengths include Pigeonhole (Finalist for the 48th Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, NPC Finalist, developed with NYTW, Center Theatre Group commission), PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy (Judith Champion Series at The Public, developed with IAMA Theatre Company, taught/produced at Yale University, NPC Finalist), THE JAZMINES: a rage play – and for legal reasons, a parody (developed with PWC, NPC Finalist), Gunner (Leah Ryan Honorable Mention, OPC Finalist), Radial Gradient (World Premiere at Shattered Globe Theatre, The Kilroys Web 2023 selection), among others. Jasmine’s writing has been seen on stages at The Goodman, The Kirk Douglas, Jackalope Theatre Company, The Brick, The Flea, and The Valdez Theatre Conference in Alaska. Jasmine is a current Playwrights’ Center Core Writer. Other associations and honors include Colt Coeur’s residency, The LA Writers’ Workshop, The Reel Sisters Fellowship, The Kilroys, and inclusion on “Women to Watch on Broadway: 2026” by Broadway Women’s Fund. Northwestern University. @jasminesharmaa | jasminesharma.org

Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui is a director and photographer originally from the Dominican Republic with Lebanese and Spanish roots. He’s directed and developed work with Spanish Repertory Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, Soho Rep, People’s Theater, Keen Company, TheaterSquared, San Diego Rep & the Latino Theater Company. As an associate/assistant director he’s worked with the Atlantic, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, OSF, Cincinnati Playhouse, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He’s been a member of the Soho-Rep Writer-Director Lab, an SDCF Observer (on the Sweeney Todd Broadway Revival), Van Lier Fellow, Williamstown Boris Sagal Fellow, Drama League Director’s Project Alumni and an inaugural artist-in-residence for the XR2C2 in Cannes, France. He holds an MFA in directing from UCLA and BA in film and environmental science from the University of Notre Dame.

2050 ADMINISTRATIVE FELLOWS

Carly Baker (she/her) is a graduate from NYU Gallatin and is currently finishing her Master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration from NYU Steinhardt. She would like to thank her family, friends, and various mentors for their support and encouragement. As well as all of the amazing teams she has worked with at Gloucester Stage Company, American Ballet Theatre, and Broadway Bound Kids. Carly is a proud Chinese-American adoptee who advocates for Asian representation in the arts and believes in equal access to the arts for everyone. Carly joins us as our Marketing Fellow!

Chloe Jung is excited to be joining the New York Theatre Workshop as the 2050 Education & Engagement Administrative Fellow after working in higher education for the past 3 years. She is passionate about educational equity and making art more accessible to under resourced communities. Originally born in NYC and raised in New Jersey, Chloe has spent the last 7 years in rural Vermont/New Hampshire—initially as a college student, then later as a young professional supporting community engagement initiatives and youth education programming. Outside of work, she loves baking, exploring art museums and community theater, and spending time with her cat. Chloe joins us as our Education & Engagement Fellow!

Jane Su (she/her) is a theater designer-director and digital media artist. She works in the U.S. and internationally with her collective, in-version ensemble, as the artistic producing director, developing hybrid performance works of theater, installation, and live media. Jane has co-created Vanishing 1.0 (recipient of the Edinburgh Fringe Asian Arts Award), Vanishing 2.0, and Two for One (The Tank, NYC). With the ensemble, she co-organized ChuanFest, an AAPI contemporary performance festival (July 2026). Her work has been developed internationally, including a 2024 residency at Apartment Project Berlin. She is a two-time recipient of Berkshires Art Association Fellowship. Jane joins us as our Development Fellow!

Anna Zheng (any) is a director, deviser, and writer interested in adaptation—of stories, of bodies, to other people, to inhospitable environments—and the ways we change our narratives to survive in new spaces. They use playful interdisciplinary collaboration, adapted texts, and physical theatre to create unexpected, visceral, joyful messes. Recent-ish directing: Run all the way home (ODC Pilot 2025); Constellations by Nick Payne (Stanford IDA); Three States of Matter, a climate migration adaptation of Three Sisters; Man of God by Anna Moench (Asian American Theater Project). Anna is a New York Neo Futurist. Current fascinations include: puppetry, trash, birds, public transit. Anna joins us as our Artistic Workshop Fellow!

ABOUT THE 2050 FELLOWSHIP

The 2050 Fellowship is named in celebration of the U.S. Census Bureau’s projection that by the year 2050, there will be no single racial or ethnic majority in the United States. This projection provokes thoughts at New York Theatre Workshop about the transformations that will take place in the American landscape—demographically, technologically, environmentally and artistically—now and in the future. They’re a catalyst for broader questions about our ever-transforming field. How can theatre challenge our conceptions of storytelling? How can we push aesthetic boundaries in the 21st century? What’s the power of theater today?

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