Jungah Han

Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama

Department:  Theatre & Drama,
Teaching Focus:  Scenic Design,

Bio

Jungah Han brings broad and deep experience as a set designer and educator. She has worked as a set designer across many styles of theatre production as well as in film and television. Her set designer credits include The Barber of Seville (SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center); The House That Will Not Stand (Le Petit Theatre); Vier Letzte Lieder by Richard Strauss (Alchemical Studio); My Onliness & Numbness: Chapter 2 (New Ohio Theatre); Shockheaded Peter, When the Rain Stops Falling (Cygnet Theatre); Coriolanus, Paradise Lost, Cardboard Piano, Measure for Measure (Yale Iseman Theatre); Solo Bach (Yale Cabaret); A Number (Cygnet Roland Theatre); and No Exit (Diversionary Theatre).

Han has worked as an associate and assistant scenic designer for several Broadway and international productions, including Jagged Little Pill (National Tour 2022); The Empire of Light (Théâtre National de Bretagne, France); Red Waters (Opéra de Rennes, France); Derren Brown: Secret (Cort Theatre); Once On This Island (Circle in the Square Theatre, National Tour); Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadhurst Theatre); Harlequinade (American Ballet Theatre); Rigoletto (Die Staatsoper Unter den Linden); and Tosca (Cincinnati Opera House).

Han’s academic experience includes teaching courses in set design at a number of universities, including Long Island University Post, SUNY Purchase, University of California Riverside, and University of San Diego.

Han earned a master of fine arts degree in set design from San Diego State University and from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.