ABOUT
Jaymee Ngernwichit is a 1st Generation, Filipina & Thai - American interdisciplinary/collaborative Storytelling artist & Theatre/Film designer based in Los Angeles. She is currently focusing on Production Design for Film/TV/Ads & Costume Design for Theatre.
Her projects run the gamut from theater and experimental opera to film, advertisements and curated immersive walkthroughs. Jaymee has collaborated with Qualcomm, ABC, Disneyland Parks Live Entertainment, Sigourney Weaver, Macarthur recipient Yuval Sharon, Obie award winning scenographer David I. Reynoso, Janet Yang's CAPE and others. Her costume design for Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate at Profile Theater in Portland in 2022 was described as “sneakily brilliant…in Ngernwichit’s hands, every garment matters.”
Jaymee has been honing her skills in scenography & storytelling for over 10 years. Through deeply thoughtful and dramaturgical-esque research, Jaymee unearths the clues that enrich stories with socio-historical-contemporary resonance and hopes to move the audience to open their minds, think deeper, and critically question what they may take for granted. She is passionate about making stories that challenge the audience (and herself) to open our hearts and minds and celebrate together the full breadth of our humanity in all our shared similarities, differences, joy, beauty, redemption, failure, compassion, humor, fears, absurdity, wrath, ugliness, hope, and courage. Jaymee enjoys visualizing the poetic ideas and conflicts of a story and subversively move the audience to think deeper and critically question ideas they may take for granted. She thrives in open, collaborative, experimental, and brave (not only safe) spaces.
After working for a social media company in Hollywood as a PR Strategist, she worked as a social worker in Compton, CA from 2012-2014, navigating bureaucracy while managing 1,292 English & Spanish cases. Witnessing governmental negligence and the extreme hardships of everyday people (workers and clients) and immigrants (her family included) struggling to survive in the “Land of the Free” sparked in her an immovable fortitude and renewed passion for overall justice and holistic representation. She is committed to the collective alleviation of suffering through thought-provoking, evocative storytelling to inspire change/to engender real human connections in community & solidarity across cultures, genders, & classes.
Jaymee graduated with an MFA in Theatre Design from UCSD’s Theatre & Dance Department in 2017.