Carissa Yau /丘茵茵 (they/them/theirs) is a first year PATP student from Skokie, Illinois. They graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022 with a BA in Music, with emphases in voice and music education. They have worked with Illinois Theatre and CASCaDe on devised work that examines the intersection between theatre and science. They've also worked with various community theatre companies in Central Illinois, namely with The Station Theatre in Urbana, also serving on the board there.