DWIGHT BELLISIMO

Dwight Bellisimo is a projection and media designer based in New York and a proud San Francisco native. He is completing his MFA in Projection Design at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama, following a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University, where his design for A Wrinkle in Time earned the award for Best Projection Design.

His work was recently seen off-Broadway in The Pass at La MaMa, directed by Max Hunter. Additional credits include projects with Yale Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Austin Opera, Lookingglass Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, and Bard SummerScape, where he served as Video Content Creator under designer Elaine J. McCarthy on The Egyptian Helen.

Projection design is, for Dwight, the crossroad where every other discipline converges: film, music, light, scenery, sound, photography all existing simultaneously in a single work. He builds and edits moving image, designs motion graphics, and collaborates closely with directors and teams across every department, always against an immovable opening-night deadline. He is fluent across the tools of the craft, from After Effects and the Adobe suite to real-time media systems like Watchout, Isadora, and TouchDesigner, and he directs his own multimedia work as readily as he designs for others. At the core of it all is a simple aim: to take complex material and shape it into a single clear story an audience can feel.