Jaymee Ngernwichit

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BTS for “Full Service” - Written & Directed by Soma Helmi

Exec. Producers - Janet Yang/CAPE/Julia S. Gauw/Toni Wang

Producer - Po Wei Su

DP - Adam Lee

Production & Costume Designer - Jaymee Ngernwichit

Art Director - Taylor Licuan Chen

Costume Assistant - Genesis Hernandez

WAR OF THE WORLDS directed by Yuval Sharon and starring Lauded actress Sigourney Weaver -  is a new opera that eliminates the boundary between concert hall and the streets of Los Angeles. Three defunct air raid sirens located in downtown Los Angeles are re-purposed into public speakers to broadcast a live performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall, based on the infamous 1938 radio drama created by Orson Welles.

Performed simultaneously at four locations on November 12 and 18: the same piece with four different perspectives. Musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic play on the stage of Walt Disney Concert Hall and broadcasted through the sirens onto the streets of Los Angeles—while performers stationed at the sirens will send their live report of the alien invasion back to the concert hall.

Costume designs by Jaymee Ngernwichit

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts/music/review-war-worlds-los-angeles-philharmonic.html

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-war-of-the-worlds-review-20171114-story.html

WAR OF THE WORLDS is made possible in part by grants from the Dunard Fund USA, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Good Works Foundation.

An original 30 min film adaptation of Chekov's "Three Sisters". Produced in the cities of Ridgecrest, Long Beach, and Beverly Hills in the Summer of 2015.

Written by Leland Montgomery & Tom Dugdale

Director: Leland Montgomery

Production & Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

In 2017, Jaymee collaborated with Qualcomm engineers in San Diego to bring to life a "Robot Dress". Initiated and led by Saura Naderi, founder of Qualcomm's Thinkabit lab, Jaymee designed a steampunk themed robotic dress to interface with 3-D printed motors and hardware that are designed to make the dress dance, hug, and pose. She accompanied the Qualcomm team to present the dress at the opening ceremony 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition in St. Louis in front of an audience of 40,000 young robotics competitor and was joyful to see the awed and excited reactions of young STEM students. 

Project Leader & Originator: Saura Naderi

Designer of Dress: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Mechanical Engineers of Smart Crinoline: Donald Hutson & Paul Ferrell

Software Engineers of Smart Crinoline: Sarah Gibson & Jim Wilson.

UCSD Costume Shop: Head Draper: Elena Valentina, First Hand & Sticher: Karen Lehmann & Yangchen Dolkar, Costume Craftsmaster: Christine Jones 

Creative Team:

Director & Co-Creator: Noam Shapiro ; Composer & Writer: Paulo Tiról ; Music Direction: Jennifer Lin ; Music Direction & Conductor: Marc Macalintal ; Choreography: Allen Lucky Weaver ; Scenic Designer: Yi-Chien Lee ; Projections designer: David Murakami ; Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit ; Properties Design: Glenn Michael Baker ; Lighting Designer: Szu-Yun Wang ; Sound Designer: Maddi Deckard ; Stage Management: Edward Khris Fernandez ; Asst. Stage Management: Mikayla Bettner ; Asst. Costume Designers: Taylor Decker & Ashley Spikes

Cast & Understudies:

Steven-Adam Agdeppa, Zandi De Jesus, Michael C. Palma, Cassie Simone, Andrea Somera, Shaun Tuazon, Melvin Biteng, & Justine Rafael

1- The cast of On This Side of the World performs “One Way Ticket” at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

2- Steven-Adam Agdeppa as Miggy performs “Rice Queens” in On This Side of the World at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

3- Cassie Simone as Dee-Dee (center) performs “Yaya (Wish You Were Here)” with Zandi De Jesus (left) and Andrea Somera (right) in On This Side of the World at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

4- The cast of On This Side of the World performs “Hold On/In Mid-Air” at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

5- The cast of On This Side of the World performs “Ay! Amerika” at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

6- Shaun Tuazon as Kuya Mar performs “Maybe Today” in On This Side of the World at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

7- Michael C. Palma as Mr. Legarda performs “Proud” with the cast of On This Side of the World at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

8- Andrea Somera as Brianna performs “My Mother is an Immigrant” with the cast of On This Side of the World at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

9- Zandi De Jesus (center) as Jemmalyn performs “Things I Don’t Know Yet” with the cast of On This Side of the World at East West Players. Photo by Jenny Graham.

Directed by Johnnie Hobbs

Written by Aviv Rubinstien & Johnnie Hobbs

BTS stills by Jared T Photography (film in editing)

Yuri, a gentle, sensitive Black-Russian weightlifter fears himself and his body because of how society hurtfully perceives and treats him. He finds community where he leasts expects…with a larger than life elderly Japanese lesbian woman. Both develop a powerful friendship beyond language and cultural barriers that empowers their healing through self-acceptance, vulnerability and empathy. Mindfulness practices such as Ikebana and meditation play a huge role in this coming back-to-self short.

Playwright: Keith Glover ; Music & Lyrics: Keb’ Mo’ & Anderson Edwards

Powerhouse Performers: Troi Coleman • Sarah Sachi • Steven J. Scott • Labraska Washington • Kaleb Womack

Creative Team: Director - Tevyn Washington • Assistant Director - César Jáquez • Music Director - Ronnie “King” Mason, Jr. • Scenic Designer - Brandi Alexander • Costume Designer - Jaymee Ngernwichit • Costume Shop Manager - Leah Smith • Costume Shop Associate - David Jezek • Lighting Designer - Roma Flowers • Assistant Lighting Designer - Ash Parra • Sound Designer - Isaiah Parnell • Assistant Sound Designer - Coda Pariselli • Choreographer - Eboni Bell Darcy • Properties Designer - Jodi Bobrovsky • Stage Manager - Megan Lee Brooks

Photos by Melissa Taylor

“Thunder Knocking on the Door” is a “Bluesical” fairy tale based in 1966 civil rights era Bessemer, Alabama and presents themes of resilience, magic, love, family & celebration that came from creating beauty and songs of grief, loss, pain, love, faith, hope & renewal in the face of systemic racial oppression which continues to this day. Live blues music, and a phenomenal triple threat cast (dance, sing, act), and a largely BIPOC/Queer creative team bring this Stages Houston performance to life with a blast of sound and a bold set with dynamic lighting that immerses the audience in a soulful, bright, and sometimes cheeky way.

For costumes, I gained insight & inspiration from researching African-American Delta Folklore history (i.e. Robert Johnson’s crossroads tale, Voodoo, Yoruba, lwas, veves/cosmograms, haint blue, igpoema purma/morning glory flower/John the Conqueroo) to 19th to 20th century Blues, R&B, and Afro-funk/Futurist music artists (Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic, etc.) to general fashions of the 1960s from archival images of Black families to Instagram vintage influencers like @_sewrena to key figures from the civil rights movements and more. I thoroughly enjoyed working in tandem with multiple departments to help support and breathe life into this effusive and effervescent tale. I wish this show could be mounted at all House of Blues - it certainly is an enjoyable night of music and celebration that makes it easy to overlook a predictable plot with a strong cast and creative team.

**Fun on-stage Costume Transformation: Glory’s gold vintage a line boatneck dress comes apart by Thunder pulling the little gold bow at the back while Glory unclips the shoulders and reveals the Nefertiti-Whitney Houston/Marc Bouwer-Betty Davis inspired gown for Glory in the cutting contest. Many thanks to Leah Smith, David Jezek, Jodi Bobrovsky & more for helping me create these costumes.

Director: Lava Alapai • Scenic Design: Robin Vest • Costume Design: Jaymee Ngernwichit • Assistant Costume Designer: Maia Denzler • Lighting Design: Kristeen Willis • Original music composition: Joe Kye • Sound Design: Matt Wiens

Challenge: Design & execute costumes 100% remotely while maintaining costume quality and vision, and coordinate with on-site collaborators.

Playwright - Lynn Nottage

Creative Team: director - Sarah Wansley • scenic - David Arsenault • costumes - Jaymee Ngernwichit • lighting - Mary Ellen Stebbins • sound - @melaniechencole • fight director - Casey Kaleba • stage manager - Colt Luedtke • costume assistant - Lexy Piton • costume shop manager - Lexi Spanier • wardrobe supervisor - Moriah James • stage manager - Colt Luedtke

Photographs by Kata Sasvari

Director: Jerry Ruiz

Set Designer: Inseung Park

Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Lighting Designer: Miranda K. Hardy

Sound Designer: Matt Wiens

“And the costumes, by Jaymee Ngernwichit, are sneakily brilliant. Contemporary theatrical dress can sometimes feel like an afterthought, with actors wearing more or less what they might find in their closet at home; in Ngerwichit’s hands, every garment matters. Consider Bo’s Westchester Dad zip-up vest, or Rachael’s Ann Taylor cardigans, or the slightly too-loud Portlandness of River’s vegan-chef-who-believes-in-spirits getups. These are people begging to be seen in a particular light, and they wear that effort plainly on their bodies.” Link to complete PDX Monthly review

Conner Reed. "Profile Theatre’s Appropriate Sees the Forest, the Trees, and a Whole Lot More" Portland Monthly, 11 May 2022.

“Song of Me” written by Mai Le and Dat Peter Ton world premiered at Stages Theatre in Houston, TX in June 2022. It is a striking two-hander play that showcases brother and sister Phillip and Luci Pham (Both 1st Generation Vietnamese-Houstonians from the community of Alief) working through specifically Vietnamese-American intergenerational and queer trauma, healing themselves, and coming through for each other through raw, open and honest dialogue and finding compassion and love for each other and themselves. What sets this play apart from other Asian-American plays I’ve seen or read thus far, this play enacts for us onstage the actual act of owning up to our own shortcomings, mustering courage to grow, and healing from intergenerational complex traumas packaged within a deceptively simple, sitcom-esque narrative that’s as cleverly playful and funny as it is heart-wrenching.

A Dance Film conceived & directed by Rebecca Salzer

Performers: Liam Clancy & Liz Burritt, Camera Op/Editor: Tara Knight, Production Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit, Costume Designer: Alina Bokovikova, Sound Designer: Omar Ramos, & Gaffer: Jeff Corales 

3 Conversations has been shown at: Utah Dance Film Festival; Dança em foco, Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil; Braga International Video Dance Festival, Braga, Portugal; Third Coast Dance Film Festival (Best of the Fest Award!).

Right Here has been shown at: Loikka Dance Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland; Utah Dance Film Festival; Dança em foco, Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil; Braga International Video Dance Festival, Braga, Portugal; Montecatini International Short Film Festival, Montecatini, Italy

Directed by: Betsi Morrison

Scenic & Projections Designer: Stephanie Busing

Scenic Associates: Jaymee Ngernwichit & Jeff Kurihara

Near Lifetimes by: Dina Apple; Original Music: Kristopher Apple

Near Lifetimes is a living installation brought to life by populating the living space with people who interact with ideas, props, media, and each other. Projections run through Isadora to give the audience and interactive feeling with media through projection surfaces and shifting cues to the original score chapters by Kristopher Apple.

Projection Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit; Scenic Designer Samantha Rojales; Lighting Designer: Gwik-Yong Ko

Writer/Director: Everett Lewis

Costume Designer: Mimi Maxman

Art Director: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Feature length - Homoerotic Psychological Thriller/Drama centered around a young modern artist named Balt who begins his risk-taking new video projection media series - secretly filming his BDSM encounters with strangers he finds on Craigslist.

Designed/dressed set & created original content for all digital media.

Founded, Directed, and Designed by David I. Reynoso the Obie-Award winning Scenographer of New York’s Immersive Theatrical interactive walkthrough show “Sleep No More”, Optika Moderna brings the tragic stories of La Malinche & La Llorona to life. Full of mystery, danger, history, hard realities about the price indigenous people payed for colonialism, and infused the physical senses with sensuality, this premiered at the 2017 La Jolla Playhouse WOW festival at Bread & Salt in San Diego. Consisting of 5 actor/characters that led you with eye goggles that limited your range of vision to a straight forward frame like a movie, this brilliant experience was such a joy to work on and so evocative and effective in it’s storytelling style. It’s like a video game or virtual reality but even more dangerous and intimate because the performers had to touch you to guide you.

Director & Designer: David I. Reynoso

Asst. Director, Host, & Press: Santiago Iacinti

Costume Associate & Set Dresser: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Stage Manager: Melissa Ballard

Director: Andreas Chalikias

Production Designer: Ying-Te Julie Chen (yingjuliechen.com)

Assistant Production Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Chapman Film Thesis called "Dead Hearts" was filmed 10 days in the frosty snows of Jenks Lake.

Written by Philip W. Chung

Creative Team: director - Jeff Liu • assistant director - Desiree Fernandez • scenic - Mina Kinukawa • costumes - Jaymee Ngernwichit • lighting - Wes Charles Chew • sound - Cinthia Nava • projections designer - Sam Clevenger • fight director - Cesar Cipriano • stage manager - Brandon Hong Cheng • asm - Irene Lee • costume assistant/wardrobe supervisor - Taylor Decker • Wig/Makeup Designer - Yoko Ka Haitz • intimacy choreographer - Shinshin Yuder Tsai

LA Times Article

All Photos by Zev Woolley unless otherwise credited.