Alison Yueming Qu (she/they) is a Chinese American theatre creative producer, dramaturg, director, and community organizer reshaping Greater Boston’s cultural landscape through radical accessibility and diasporic storytelling. Recognized as a 2023 ARTery Maker by WBUR (Boston’s NPR station), Alison is celebrated for their visionary leadership in centering Asian American narratives and reimagining theatre as a tool for spatial justice and collective liberation.

As Co-Founder and Executive Director of CHUANG Stage—Boston’s Asian American theatre company in residency at Boston Center for the Arts—Alison leads a two-show season that challenges inequities and empowers the Asian diaspora. CHUANG Stage's Pay-As-You-Are ticketing model dismantles financial barriers for immigrant and working-class communities. As a spatial justice advocate, Alison transforms public spaces into vibrant stages for multilingual storytelling. Their projects include the Boston Chinatown Musical: Stories on Our Streets (a Mellon Foundation-funded "Un-monument" initiative) and the Found in Translation series (supported by NEFA’s Public Art for Spatial Justice grant), which reclaim Chinatown’s streets as sites of communal heritage and resistance.

As a theatremaker and a creative producer, Alison has worked with institutions such as the Pao Arts Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Emerson Stage, Boston Playwright's Theatre, ArtsEmerson, UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center (AsACC), Guerilla Opera, Asian American Women's Political Initiative, Asian American Playwrights Collective, and Central Square Theater. Alison is a proud board member of the Boston Cultural Council (Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office of Arts and Culture) and the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA). Alison holds a BFA in Theatre (Directing and Dramaturgy) from Emerson College.