Yuyoung Chung

Yuyoung is a Performance Studies major at NYU Tisch and a student-athlete on the NYU Women’s Golf Team, earning UAA and Liberty League All-Academic honors. She is a content creator with a background in photography and videography, and recently made her modeling debut at NYFW. Her work spans short films, including a 3D film screened in Cannes, as well as music production and songwriting. She is the co-founder and curator of Performance&, an interdisciplinary podcast and digital magazine exploring performance and global culture, informed by her transnational upbringing across Korea, the U.S., Italy, and Singapore.

Why Performance Studies?
What I was trying to do all along in high school, across IB courses in Sports Science, History, and Theatre, was essentially Performance Studies. The throughline between them I could only vaguely name as storytelling, embodied memory, and how we measure excellence under pressure and constraints. Now, Performance Studies allows me to combine these different threads under a formal structure while welcoming my lived experiences as an athlete and creator. What I learn in class shapes how I analyze behavior and navigate spaces, and encourages me to be a more critical and ethical thinker. I’m excited by the idea that nothing is outside of this performance lens, and I can keep using it to question and connect, and remain a constant learner.


Education
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Major: Performance Studies
Minor: Business of Entertainment, Technology, Media; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies

United World College of South East Asia (Dover Campus); International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, Bilingual Diploma (IB Korean); Singapore, Singapore

Honors & Awards
- Published essay "X-ing the Street" on "Streetnotes 31: Urban Habits," a forthcoming digital book on performances in the city

- Student Athlete awards: UAA and Liberty League All Academic. 

- Highschool Sports Awards: Phoenix Roll of Honour, Colours with Distinction 2021-23

- Highschool Academic Awards: Sports Science