Asher Young '17
Principal Creative Director
Asher Young Studio
Asher Young is a creative director, producer, and artist. Growing up in New York City, he designed theatrical haunted houses instead of going trick-or-treating, trained with a vaudeville magician, and worked music concerts and festivals.
Young’s current work spans immersive theater, music, fashion, and art and media installations. He has put A$AP Rocky through physical and psychological tests on the sales floor of Sotheby’s; tied up 40 audience members in shibari ropes and served them tuna after an aerial duet; developed a three-dimensional hologram to represent memory and physicalize lost loved ones; brought together 30 artists and researchers to project onto Yale’s rare book and manuscript library; and woven 33,000 milliwatts of light through a garden of trees to represent mycorrhizal networks.
Collaborators include Dior, Sotheby’s, Yale, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Big Apple Circus, Double Chicken Please, The Valentine Museum, Virgin Voyages, and Korean music collective DPR, in addition to real-estate and cultural development partners around the world.
Most recently, he served as Executive Producer and Creative Director of Masquerade, an immersive version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Young studied Computing and the Arts at Yale University, where he received the Susan J. Smith Arts Prize; he has also been recognized with the LIT Award for his piece Living Memory.
Young’s current work spans immersive theater, music, fashion, and art and media installations. He has put A$AP Rocky through physical and psychological tests on the sales floor of Sotheby’s; tied up 40 audience members in shibari ropes and served them tuna after an aerial duet; developed a three-dimensional hologram to represent memory and physicalize lost loved ones; brought together 30 artists and researchers to project onto Yale’s rare book and manuscript library; and woven 33,000 milliwatts of light through a garden of trees to represent mycorrhizal networks.
Collaborators include Dior, Sotheby’s, Yale, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Big Apple Circus, Double Chicken Please, The Valentine Museum, Virgin Voyages, and Korean music collective DPR, in addition to real-estate and cultural development partners around the world.
Most recently, he served as Executive Producer and Creative Director of Masquerade, an immersive version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Young studied Computing and the Arts at Yale University, where he received the Susan J. Smith Arts Prize; he has also been recognized with the LIT Award for his piece Living Memory.
