Alumna Mengyuan “Mia” Qin (B.A., theatre and dance, ‘20) has recently served as a production assistant on the new Broadway musical Shucked. In addition, Qin received her MFA in stage management from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2023.

While at UC Davis, Qin was stage manager for Peter and the Starcatcher and worked in various capacities on Paper or Plastic; The Threepenny Opera; Ranked A New Musical; Jane Eyre; {LOVE/Logic}; Flora the Red Menace; Everybody-Nobody; Gypsy; 7 Brides for 7 Brothers; The Bluest Eye; Gibraltar; The 39 Steps; Collaborative Stage; and Pippin. She also directed Cha Jiu Lun in 2020. 

Shucked, which was nominated for nine 2023 Tony Awards including Best Musical, is playing at the Nederlander Theatre in New York.