Julia Riew

[3] While in school, she was a member of the St. Louis Children's Choirs[4] and the Arch City Kids Theater Troupe, which put on cabarets to raise money for juvenile diabetes.

[7] In April 2019, East Side, a student-produced musical Riew co-wrote about a Chinese-American family dealing with gentrification in New York City, premiered at Harvard's Farkas Hall.

[2] In June 2022 she premiered Alice's Wonderland at the Coterie Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, a show she co-wrote with J. Quinton Johnson.

[7] For her senior thesis, Riew began developing a musical inspired by the Korean folktale Shimcheong and her own experiences with Korean-American identity.

[11] In April 2023 ART announced they would further develop Dive with the help of Riew, Diana Son, and Diane Paulus.