Company

For Company at UCI, the design grew out of observation. A solo trip to New York the spring before the production became the seed: white or cream walls, trim layered in decades of paint, and buildings that felt strangely uninhabited because life seemed to happen outside, in motion, in the city itself.

That sensibility shaped the architecture. Two coupled buildings framed stage right, linked structures echoing partnership, while a lone red-brick building stood apart at stage left, reflecting Bobby's solitude. Fire escapes, stoops, and ladders climbed throughout the composition, offering both physical and metaphorical mobility.

Backlit windows in purples, pinks, and blues hint at private lives just out of reach, while the shifting skyline moves with mood and music.

By treating New York as an exterior landscape of longing, the design gives Bobby's isolation and the show's emotional drift a clear visual shape.