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Santiago Orjuela-Laverde: He // Him // His
Andrew Moerdyk: He // Him // His
Kimie Nishikawa: She // Her // Hers

Scenic Design Collective

Brooklyn, New York

Three people, a white man, a Latinx man, and a Japanese woman, sit on the steps of a fire escape of an industrial building. All three wear black and look into the camera. 

Photo by Gabriela Molano.

“dots aims to (and so far has been proving to) create a more equitable, sustainable and harm-reductive working platform for theater designers, formalizing aspects of the profession which until now have been unspoken or unconsidered.”

dots is a multi-disciplinary collective designing spaces for performance, narratives, and experiences. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa, and Japan, dots is led by Santiago Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. As collaborators, they believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 

Their recent credits on Broadway include Romeo + Juliet; Appropriate (Henry Hewes Design award; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations); An Enemy of the People (Tony nomination); The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window; and Oh, Mary!. Other credits include The Big Gay Jamboree (Orpheum Theater); Dark Disabled Stories (Public Theater); Public Obscenities (Soho Rep, NAATCO; Drama Desk nomination, Henry Hewes Design Award); Kate (Connelly Theater); Infinite Life (Atlantic Theater Company and National Theater UK). dots received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design in 2024.

Donor -This award was generously supported by Doris Duke Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.30.2025

Theater & Performance
Two performers on stage dressed in drag as women circa 1860s America with exaggerated, comical expressions. They act on a stage decorated with dark-green patterned wallpaper, an ornate fireplace with a portrait of George Washington hanging over it, two lit wall sconces on either side.

Scenic design for Oh, Mary! by dots. Play written by Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, featuring Cole Escola and Bianca Leigh. Lyceum Theater, New York.

Photo by Emilio Madrid.

Two men stand on a stage made up to look like a grand mansion room with a central staircase and balcony. It appears to be night and the room is disheveled, filled with boxes, baskets, bins, and other objects. They look up to the top of the staircase where a third man in pajamas shines a flashlight down at them.

Scenic design for Appropriate by dots. Play written by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Lila Neugebauer, featuring Sarah Paulson, Michael Esper, Elle Fanning, and Graham Campbell. Helen Hayes and Belasco theaters, New York.

Photo courtesy of the artists.

A wide shot of a narrow horizontally-oriented stage situated in the center of a theater surrounded by stadium style seating. Actors sit around the stage surrounding a suited actor standing on metal counters.

Scenic design for An Enemy of the People by dots. Play adapted from Henrik Ibsen by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, featuring Jeremy Strong and cast. The Circle in the Square Theater, New York.

Photo by Emilio Madrid.