Jennifer Chin (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, and teaching artist. She has performed and taught throughout the US and abroad with a variety of inspiring choreographers, including Alan Danielson, Kristin Jackson, Arthur Aviles, Michael Mao and Carrie Ahern. Her work has been performed in Mexico City, Mexico; Guatemala City, Guatemala: Varazdin, Croatia; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh; Florence Dance Festival and San Nicola Festival, Bari, Italy; International Contemporary Dance Festival, Nicaragua; and Breaking Ground Festival in Tempe, Arizona. She also choreographs for theater and has worked in opera on Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, a Theatre Piece for Players, Singer and Dancers with a cast of over 100 performers. She received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and BA from Queens College. Jennifer is an instructor in the Humphrey-Limón technique, yoga, pilates and embodied anatomy. She has taught Master classes at Arizona State University, in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Finland, and was a resident choreographer at Toscana Dance HUB (now WADE) in Florence, Italy. She has been on faculty at The José Limón Institute, The Martha Graham School, Montclair State University, Dance Space Center, Peridance, Université du Québec á Montréal, and Brooklyn College. Jennifer also choreographs for theater and is a longstanding collaborator with MultiStages. LUMINOUSbody, transformative health and fitness, is her small business offering private lessons in yoga and pilates.  www.luminousbody.net

         Originally from Honolulu, Hawai’i, Richard Sayama graduated early from Marymount Manhattan College with a double major in B.F.A Modern Dance and B.A Business Arts & Management. Upon graduation, Sayama joined Jon Lehrer Dance Company, where he toured domestically and internationally for over 5 years. He finished seasons with Jon Lehrer Dance Company, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, iKADA Contemporary Dance Company, H.T Chen & Dancers, Rock Dance Collective, McKoy Dance Project and XY Dance Projects. Sayama currently dances for the 2nd company of Limón Dance Company, L2. He also dances for LaneCoArts, Obremski/Works, One Day Dance, and General Mischief Dance Theatre. Sayama had the privilege of performing as a guest artist with the Limón Dance Company in the 2023 Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center. Sayama is excited to explore A Love Letter with Jennifer Chin through a deepened artistic maturity since he first performed it in the Winter of 2022.

Patti Gilstrap, CostumeDesigner, holds a BFA in dance and choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. She attended the American Dance Festival on scholarship as the costume assistant. In 1997 she toured with Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble as their wardrobe supervisor. She has spent her career designing costumes for many choreographers and performers: most recently her work can be seen on singer Julie Christmas. She has worked extensively with Treehouse Shakers designing costumes, headdresses, and puppets. She spent 17 years as the head designer and co-owner of Flirt Brooklyn with 5 clothing stores in NYC. Her book with business partner, Seryn Potter, “Flirt Skirts: Learn How to Sew, Customize, and Style Your Very Own Skirts” was released in May 2011. She has also created two McCall Patterns. She opened a sewing school in 2010 and still teaches classes to share the love of sewing. In 2021 she became a member of the wardrobe union Local 764 and had been working on Broadway and TV ever since. She is always excited to be designing for JENNIFERCHINdance!

Sun Hee Kil has been associate designer from Broadway productions to PyeongChang Winter Olympics Opening & Closing Ceremonies in South Korea. Her sound design includes Off Broadway, regional and international theatre productions. Her sound designs were nominated for Henry Hewes Awards and World Stage Design and selected to exhibit at Prague Quadrennial. Sunny is an Assistant Professor of Sound Design at Purchase College, State University of New York and a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, Audio Engineering Society and Theatrical Sound Designers & Composers Association. www.sunheekil.com

Ian Chen (he/him) is a filmmaker born and raised in Queens, NY, with a special interest in using film and media as a tool for community building, justice, and action. He started filmmaking through a nonprofit film education organization called Reel Works, and became their primary cinematographer for their in-house production company in 2019, as well as a Teaching Artist for the Reel Works Fellowship Program. Since then, he has freelanced as a 1st and 2nd Assistant Camera, Gaffer, and Grip on set. He now works as the Operations/Production Manager of Madhura Studios, a start-up arts and yoga laboratory that platforms unique and ground-breaking artists of all disciplines.

Chinese-American artist Colleen Kong-Savage hopscotched between Hawaii and various Asian countries before settling in NYC. As an arts educator, she guides communities through mural painting. But as an illustrator her favorite medium is paper collage. Her next picture book, Fortune Cookies for Everyone, is a historical fiction by Mia Wenjen, to be published October 2025. 

Hyejin Kim was born in Daegu, South Korea, and while in middle school began studying Pansori under Master Myung-hee Lee, a recognized Important Intangible Cultural Property holder. She majored in Pansori at Gyeongbuk Arts High School and later entered Chung-Ang University to continue her studies in traditional Korean music. During high school, she was honored with the Minister of Culture Award, and around the time of her university entrance, she received the prestigious Presidential Award for her artistic excellence. After graduation, she began performing both as a Korean traditional Pansori singer and as a vocalist of popular Korean songs from the 1930s. Deeply interested in theatrical expression, she created and performed a number of monodrama-style productions, many of which were staged to critical acclaim. Now based in New York, she performed Pansori at the MASS MOCA Summer Festival and continues to lead projects introducing and promoting Korean traditional music and Pansori to American audiences.