Daniel Brodie

Daniel Brodie is a New York-based video and projection designer. He has worked in the industry for years, imbuing all of his work with passion and a truly discerning eye for making things beautiful. His credits as a designer and animation producer include Broadway, the West End, national tours, and international productions of Motown the Musical, The Wiz, Disney’s Aladdin, and Jekyll and Hyde. He has worked as the projection designer for Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella, a ballet in the round at Royal Albert Hall. He has also worked on Wheeldon’s production of A Winter’s Tale. He is a longstanding collaborator with MacArthur Fellow Basil Twist, notably on his Arias with a Twist, Rite of Spring (at Lincoln Center), and on the opera Titon et l’Aurore. Daniel Brodie is intensely passionate about the craft and art of projection design. To make Motown the Musical, Brodie listened to hundreds of albums from the Motown catalog. He looked at old ticket stubs, playbills, and show posters. He turned album covers into animations: taking Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life and transforming it into an almost living, breathing, moving piece of art. In his work on the ballet production of Cinderella, Brodie took an existing design from where the show originated, in Amsterdam, and remade it into something that met the demands of a round with sparse scenery, where projections become all the more important, a nod again to Brodie’s adaptability and meticulousness as a designer. He also works with musicians, having served as a designer for Mariah Carey and James Murphy, both for whom he has created large-scale projections. Brodie also does commercial work and has designed a major show on five Royal Caribbean ships. He has also lent his talents to event production, helming video design, and content creation for Netflix’s Stranger Things premiere party, and for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. He has served as a guest lecturer at Yale and New York University.