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congratulations, it’s awards season!

and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design goes to…

You-Shin Chen for “Wolf Play”

📸 You-Shin Chen

& congrats on the

Lucille Lortel Award Nomination for Outstanding Scenic Design

dots for “You Will Get Sick”

dots is a design collective based in New York City specializing in designing environments for narratives, performances, and experiences. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. We offer expertise in multi-disciplinary projects ranging from theater design to opera and film. Recent Credits: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM), Public Obscenities (Soho Rep), Dark Disabled Stories (Bushwick Starr and the Public Theater), Thumbprint (Portland Opera), KATE (Connelly Theater), You Will Get Sick(Roundabout) www.designbydots.com

📸 Kimie Nishikawa

and now the Tony nominations

Tony Award Nomination

for Best Scenic Design of a Musical goes to Mimi Lien for “Sweeney Todd’s The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

📸 Mimi Lien

Tony Award Nomination

for Best Scenic Design of a Play goes to

Rachel Hauck for “Good Night, Oscar”

📸 Davy Mack

*cue the applause*

Prague Quadrennial is around the corner…

June 14th, 2023

“Transforming Artistic Practices: Disrupting the Hierarchy of Traditional Creative Teams”

Sibyl Wickersheimer & Shana Cooper lead exploratory workshop at PQ Studio

June 15th, 2023

“Women Set Designers” roundtable

with Maureen Weiss, Sibyl Wickersheimer, Lucia Škandíková, Eva Jiřikovská, Elahe Marjovi, moderated by Markéta Fantová

Scene Shift: US Set Designers in Conversation selected as non-competing publication to be promoted at PQ

don’t miss these shows

Abigail Deville

“Bronx Heavens”

The Bronx Museum in The Bronx, NY

Oct 12, 2022 - Jun 18, 2023

📸 Argenis Apolinario taken from @victoriouspurple Instagram of “Lunar Capsule”

“Her show takes the idea of going ‘uptown’ as a way of entering a divine realm, but one grounded in and nurtured by the goings-on of everyday life.”

- “Abigail DeVille: Bronx Museum of the Arts” ARTFORUM, Darla Migan

Afsoon Pajoufar

“Fuente Ovejuna”

Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, NY

April 30 - May 28, 2023

📸 Afsoon Pajoufar

“FUENTE OVEJUNA is about feminism, class, collective resistance, democracy, and human rights, but it was written long before the Declaration of Independence; French Revolution; the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote; and, of course, today’s #MeToo movement.”

- “Fuente Ovejuna” Theatre for a New Audience

Andromache Chalfant

“The Beautiful Lady”

Ellen Stewart Theatre / La Mama in New York, NY

May 5 - May 28, 2023

📸 Steven Pisano

“…makes the most of La MaMa’s deep stage and creates striking tableaus with little more than a few chairs and tables… The effect is powerfully stark and never overwhelms the humans at the heart of the story.”

- Critic’s Pick “‘The Beautiful Lady’ Review: A Cabaret for the New Order” The New York Times, Elisabeth Vincentelli

Hana Kim

“Summer, 1976”

On Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York, NY

Now - June 18, 2023

📸 Hana Kim

“In one narrated stretch, with Hana S. Kim’s projection design aiding our imaginations, Diana and Alice embark on a cross-country road trip…”

- Critic’s Pick “‘Summer, 1976’ Review: The Path to Freedom Starts With a Friendship” The New York Times, Laura Collins-Hughes

Regina García

“Damn Yankees”

Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL

April 12 - June 4, 2023

📸 Liz Lauren courtesy of @marriotttheatre Instagram

“On the tech side of the production, with very little in the way of set possible with this type of theater, Regina Garcia got it done.”

- “‘Damn Yankees’” Around the Town Chicago, Alan Bresloff

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