Fan Zhang is a New York–based sound designer and composer working across theatre, dance, film, radio, and installation. Her work has been described as “smart” and having an “otherworldly quality” by The New York Times and Vulture. She is a Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Sound Design.

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Recent Off-Broadway credits include Good Bones ( The Public), Jordans (The Public), At the Wedding (Lincoln Center Theater), The Far Country and Paris (Atlantic Theater), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company), This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), The Golden Age and On That Day in Amsterdam (59E59), A Kid Like Rishi (Origin Theatre), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage & WP Theater), Pumpgirl (Irish Rep), Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi & A.R.T), Molly Sweeney (Keen Company), Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Round Table (59E59), Beautiful Day Without You (West End Theatre), Calling: Dance With a Faith (Ping Chong & La MaMa), and many others.

Regionally, she has designed for leading institutions including Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Milwaukee Rep, American Repertory Theater, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Huntington Theatre, and the Old Globe, among others.

Zhang is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 (IATSE), ASDP, and TSDCA, and serves as Assistant Professor of Sound Design at Purdue University. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.