Jiyoun Chang is making her HGO debut as the lighting designer for Il trovatore. Her Broadway credits include Stereophonic, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Cottage, KPOP Broadway, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, and Slave Play. Among her recent credits are Gavin Creel’s Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice, and The Far Country with Atlantic Theater Company. She received a 2020 Tony Award nomination for Slave Play on Broadway, a Henry Hewes Design Award nomination, also for Slave Play, and a 2019 Drama Desk Nomination for Slave Play at New York Theatre Workshop, as well as Drama Desk nominations for The Far Country in both 2023 and 2024. Chang is the recipient of the Suzie Bass Award for Lighting Design in Bina’s Six Apples, as well as the Obie Award for her work on The World is Round.