KIMIE NISHIKAWA is a Japanese scenic designer based in NYC.
Since October of 2020, Kimie now works as a design collective called dots with Andrew Moerdyk and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde.

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Born in Osaka, Japan, she spent her childhood going back and forth between the United States and Japan. Her time with the theater company Kanrannsha at Sophia University built the foundation for her later work as a scenic designer. She wrote, produced, directed, designed and acted in numerous new plays with the company. She returned to the United States in 2012 to pursue an MFA at NYU Design for Stage and Film.

Credits include:

as dots
Broadway productions of Oh, Mary! ; Romeo + Juliet, An Enemy of the People (Tony Award Nomination for Best Scenic Design of a Play); Appropriate (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design); The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window; and The Big Gay Jamboree ; Recent awards include a 2024 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design, 2023 and 2024 Henry Hewes Design Award.

as Kimie Nishikawa
Gnit (Theater For a New Audience), The Headlands (LCT3 at Lincoln Center), Wakey Wakey (A.C.T. Theater) , Dr.Rides American Beach House (Ars Nova), Ain’t No Mo (The Public Theater), The Light (MCC Theater), Pride and Prejudice (Kansas City Rep), The Corpse Washer (Actors Theater of Louisville)

She is also a member of the 1/52 project steering committee. The 1/52 project provides financial support to encourage early career designers from historically excluded groups with the aim of diversifying and strengthening the theater design community.

M.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Design for Stage and Film
Member: United Scenic Artists Local 829

Visiting Arts Professor, Head of Scenic Design,
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Design for Stage and Film Graduate Program

西川公絵（二シカワキミエ）大阪府生まれ。父親の転勤で２歳から１１歳まで米国で過ごす。上智大学在学中に演劇サークル劇団橄欖舎（カンランシャ）に所属し舞台美術を見よう見まねで始める。卒業後フリーランスで活動しながら美術会社ナラデザインに所属。舞台が恋しくなり美術家、伊藤雅子氏に師事。2012年に渡米。ニューヨーク大学ティッシュ・スクール・オブ・ザ・アーツ舞台デザインに進学し美術学修士号を2015年に取得。以来、ニューヨークで美術家として活動。