A4 Lunar New Year Celebration

Cinthia Chen (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in theater and film. She was a SUITE/Space artist at Mabou Mines, Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Resident Artist, Creators Collective’s “Artist Elevating Immigrant Narratives” and is currently participating in the A4 Virtual Residency Program. Most recently she was a Theater Mitu Hybrid Arts Lab fellow, which is a program dedicated to supporting trans, non-binary, and femme identified artists working at the intersection of performance and technology. She was also a guest artist for Theater Mitu’s development of their upcoming show UTOPIA. Cinthia also works as a prop designer and video designer in theater. She was recently recognized for her work in projections at La MaMa’s Design Fest. Highlights include serving as the festival prop designer for Corkscrew Theater Festival and video designer for Notes from the Basement (Dixon Place), Chinese Opera and a Modern Drama (Lenfest Center for the Arts), The Yellow Wallpaper (IRT Theater). In film, she has worked as a documentary and narrative editor for independent artists as well as production companies such as NextRound Productions, Five Sisters Productions, and ARRI China.

Angelique De Castro (she/they) is an artistic technologist exploring the intersections and impact of code and culture. de Castro is a developer at The New York Times where she engineers reader and editorial facing products that help readers dive deep and understand the news. She is also an illustrator and experimental 3D animator and a part of the A4 Virtual Residency pilot cohort.

Alex Lin (she/her) is an award-nominated Asian-American playwright, screenwriter, and journalist. As an ex-STEM kid from Bergen County, her work is powered by a drive to bridge the gap between the science and entertainment industries. Her plays have been workshopped and produced with Women’s Theatre Festival, The Rude Mechanicals, Miami University, Actors Theatre of Louisville (PTC), University of Idaho, and Gabriel Stelian-Shanks’ directing cohort at Pace University. She is a 2020 Pass the Pen nominee at Ashland New Plays Festival, a 2020 ScreenCraft Stage Play Quarterfinalist, and a member of the A4 Virtual Residency pilot cohort.

As a space journalist with A24 Film’s media outlet, Supercluster, she’s had the privilege of working with former astronauts Nicole Stott, Mike Massimino, Victor Glover, and Alvin Drew, NASA Flight Director Pooja Jesrani, JSC Social Media Lead Leah Cheshier, NASA executive Kathy Lueders, Mark Heyman (Black Swan), Cathy Ang (Over the Moon), Felicity Jones (Star Wars: Rogue One, The Theory of Everything), David Oyelowo (Selma, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), SpaceX, Boeing, and Netflix to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and the popular culture it influences. Her project with Drew and Oyelowo, “A Conversation with a Real Life and Silver Screen Astronaut,” provided exclusive coverage of George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky and raised awareness for Drew’s initiative, the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship - a scholarship empowering Black excellence in the aerospace industry. Lin has also covered several #LaunchAmerica missions, including DM-2 and Crew-1, and the ISS 20th anniversary of continuous human presence, for which her article “Peace and Progress Aboard the International Space Station” sat at #1 on Reddit r/space’s front page for three consecutive days and hit over 36,000 upvotes.

Tina-Hanaé Miller (she/her) is a writer and composer, creating work for experimental theater, television, and AR/VR. After writing the soundtrack for the Augmented Reality piece, Heisenberg, which premiered on the High Line, she was in residence at Sundance Institute for their Theatre Lab, composing music for an immersive, astrophysics-based piece, The Gift, which previewed at Under the Radar Festival. She was in residence at Theater Mitu, The Public Theater, produced music for POE: The Musical, and collaborated with Splice on a sample pack. As a musician, she has performed at the Brooklyn Museum, The Echo, The Imperial, U Street Music Hall, The Sinclair, and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, among others. She was the touring keyboardist for Cruel Youth on their sold-out international tour supporting Atlantic Records’ artist Kiiara. More recently, as Hanaé, she collaborated with artist Umico Niwa on a music video for her solo debut, All Of This, on ecological disaster and grief.

Dong-Ping Wong (he/his) is the Founding Director of Food New York, a design firm based in New York City. The studio focuses on designing environments, from ground-up structures to renovations to landscapes, all with the intent of transforming how people relate to the context, culture and resources around them. Ongoing projects include the 19,000sf New York headquarters for a Hong Kong-based media company, a garden in the Cayman Islands, and + POOL, the world’s first floating, water-filtering pool. Past and completed projects include the designs of contemporary art museums in Mantaa, Finland and Maribor, Slovenia, stand-alone stores for Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong, the stage design for Kanye West’s Yeezus Tour, and residential projects for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West in Paris and Los Angeles.

Dong’s work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Complex and Wired and has been awarded the Diamond Award for Engineering Excellence, the New York Design Award for Best Young Practice and was nominated for the INDEX Awards in Copenhagen. In addition to the above, clients and collaborators include The Office of PlayLab, Arup, 2x4, Axel Vervoordt, MoMA, the New Museum, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Milk Studios, The Standard Hotel, Nike, Adidas, Yeezy, Les Benjamins and Hypebeast.

Before founding Food in 2018, Dong was a co-founder of Family with Oana Stănescu. Prior to starting a practice, Dong worked as a designer at OMA and REX in New York and EHDD in San Francisco, specializing in public, cultural, and hi-density mixed-use buildings. Dong earned his Master of Architecture from Columbia University and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.