"It's hard to think of a more iconic exchange in the history of theater than the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet. Those legendary lines. That stolen kiss. It's been performed countless times the world over. And it was for that reason that Andrew Moerdyk, Kimie Nishikawa, and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, founders of the Brooklyn-based scenic design studio dots, hoped to reinvent it, when tapped by director Sam Gold for the Circle in the Square Theatre's recent Broadway adaptation. Together, the creative team conceived a bed of flowers-revealed by the opening of a circular panel-and, suspended above it, a mattress."
"In an industry that famously prizes one's own name in lights, dots has chosen the path of collective anonymity. Orjuela-Laverde, Moerdyk, and Nishikawa first met at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where all three got their MFAs in design for stage and film. After graduation, they were each, as Nishikawa puts it, "hustling and trying to do that freelance life." And successfully so at that."
dots is a Brooklyn-based scenic design studio founded by Andrew Moerdyk, Kimie Nishikawa, and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde. The partners met at NYU Tisch and share MFAs in design for stage and film. dots prioritizes collective anonymity and collaborative teamwork over individual recognition. The studio reinvents theatrical moments through engineering and inventive scenic solutions, as when they created a suspended mattress and a bed of flowers for a reimagined Romeo and Juliet balcony scene on Broadway. The pandemic prompted the founders to form dots in 2021 to gain more agency and change the status quo for how teamwork is presented.
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