Cha See
Lighting Designer — CUTE ACTIVIST
Cha See is a lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, environmental performance and installation exhibits. She has worked with leading designers from Manila for theatre companies which includes Atlantis Productions, Tanghalang Pilipino for the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Philippine Educational Theatre Association, Original Media in Singapore among others. She represented the Philippines during the Technical Theatre for Aspiring Women Conference 2013 held in Japan. She has been awarded by the Shubert Foundation Scholarship, Lew and Edie Wasserman Scholarship and Tisch School of the Arts Department Fellowship.
Cha See is originally from Manilla, Philippines. She received her MFA in Lighting Design from NYU-Tisch, and currently is based in New York City.
CUTE ACTIVIST was directed by Morgan Green for Bushwick Starr/Clubbed Thumb/New Saloon, January 2018.
Cute Activist is a playfully fabulist, wildly satirical, anti-romantic comedy, that asks questions about the way activism fits – or doesn’t fit – into our daily lives. In a spooky town in mythical Connecticut where inequality reigns, a shadowy ring of part-time activists battle a baroque, tyrannical Landlorde. Only True Love’s Kiss can save the local economy. Cute Activist is a pastel fable full of earnest questions about how to engage politically, at an everyday level, as a normal-feeling civilian. My goal in lighting Cute Activist is to highlight two things- Jen’s world versus the actual reality of the world we are living in. We start in a pink world where everything visually is striking, hence, hard- edge lighting, fuschia and lavender hues to enhance the pink walls, floating platforms and harsh shadows to help the puppets and let the audience understand that this is all Jen’s perspective. This perspective does not need to be seen all the time but it should be felt.
