Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Downstage front show gauze/skrim for Northern Ballet's 2017 national touring set. Painted solo. A Timelapse video for the painting of this piece can be found in Media.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Soft headers, soft portal legs, hard portal flats, hard portal extension topper flats, various ground row pieces, back cloth, the 'mole hill' scenic prop, various cartoon-scale woodgrain furniture and foliage plant-on pieces for Northern Ballet's 2015 touring children's ballet.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Gilding and layered FEVs upon the flown roof piece for Northern Ballet's national touring set.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Kimie Nakano
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Algae effect painted onto PVC backdrop, sidedrops, frontdropt/showcloth, and mirrored truck facia. Backdrop painting timelapse can be found in Media.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2014
Set Designer: David Shields
Set Building: Built and painted via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Sculpted organ flown pieces, woodgrain chancel screen, pew and truck toppers. All pieces painted (and sculpted) solo except pew truck.

On-stage photograph used with kind permission of UK Productions.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Steve Wilkins and Griz Pedley
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Feature 'photographic' style flown screen, Japanese print painted flown screen, and double-sided faux effects truck for Northern Ballet's midscale national tour. A 'making of' video of the photographic screen can be found in Media.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Kabouki Silk painted with dyes and vermiculite masking layers for Northern Ballet's full-scale national touring set. Painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Rotating sculpted, textured and painted trucks, furniture, painted soft portal legs x3 pairs, soft headers x3, and cyclorama backdrop for Northern Ballet's national children's touring ballet set.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Workshop detail of 'Bears' House' truck sides and sculpted tree trunk table of Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Jérôme Kaplan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Smokey backdrop, graduation portal flats x5 pairs, smokey sprayed gauze/scrim, and 'the cottage' graduated window hard flats (later repainted as a sharkstooth gauze-backed soft cloth version, 2015) for Northern Ballet's international touring set. Listed pieces painted solo.

Client: Cast in Doncaster
Year: 2014
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Build by Q-Division, painted at Northern Ballet's technical workshop
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Market Scene - flats (excl. washing line), cut-hole backdrop, sky graduation cloth - for Cast in Doncaster's pantomime production. Listed pieces painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Originally by Dave Gillan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Following irreparable set damage, complete set recreation. Access to original designs limited, creative license to adapt design permitted by client. Reeds focus, two sets of storybook style double-sided portal flats and corresponding reed components.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2013
Set Designer: David Shields
Set Building: via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (Lead Scenic)
Scenic Brief: Texture & poly-sculpted trucks and towers for Aberystwyth Arts Centre's summer season production.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Soft portal leg pairs (x3), headers (x3) and cyclorama backdrop for Northern Ballet's children's touring ballet.

Client: Stage One
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Pomegranate designed by Nicholas Mahon, Artistic Director Dimitris Papaioannou
Set Building: Stage One HQ and Azerbaijan stadium site
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi and Stage One team.
Scenic Brief: Pomegranate 'seeds' and 'pith' for the European Olympic's Baku 2015 opening ceremony. Pomegranate fabricated and painted both at HQ, and on site in Azerbaijan's Baku Olympic Stadium.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Jérôme Kaplan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Graduation portal flat pairs x5 for Northern Ballet's international touring set. Painted solo.

Client: Wild Creations
Year: 2019
Set Designer: Warner Brothers
Set Building: Wild Creations
Scenic Artists: Stephanie Etahadi (lead Scenic Artist, assisting on-site set dresser), Emily Britton & Annie Pugh (Assistant Scenics), Sam Wild (Creative Director)
Scenic Brief: Recreation of Warner Bro’s ‘Pennywise’s House’ from the 2017 & 2019 films for an Installed interactive experience at London’s Waterloo Vaults.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Mark Bailey
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Sculpted & Jesmonite-coated eagle, texured concrete backing flats, woodgrain desk, gilded chairs, open freight carriage truck, industrial barn doors, and various set pieces for Northern Ballet's midscale national touring set. Concrete flats assisted by Zoe Spowage.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2011
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Personal project painted during Scenic Art Postgraduate training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, specifically utilising techniques applicable to large-scale backdrops.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Hibiscus front show gauze/scrim for Northern Ballet's national touring set. A timelapse video for the painting of this cloth can be found in Media.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Backcloth as part of the giant foliage set for Northern Ballet's childrens ballet touring set.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Various 3D Illustration-style sculpted trees and associated scenic set items for the 'Bear's House' of the show. Fabricated for Northern Ballet's children's national touring set.

Client: P&O Cruises
Year: 2011
Set Designer: John Spencer
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshops)
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Soft portal SL leg (2x - one large, one small) and various set pieces for P&O Cruises' on board productions. Cloths and relevent set pieces painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Sculpted & textured beams, stove, tiled stove surround and various 'Goldilocks house' scenic set components and furniture.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Kneelers, dining tables, 'gambling tables' and 'throne' for Northern Ballet's national touring set.

Stage photos used with kind permission of Northern Ballet. NB St Mark's Basilica trucks painted by Ali Allen.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Bear's House truck trees and stone fireplace sculpted & painted for Northern Ballet's children's national touring set.

Client: Cast in Doncaster
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Stenciled graduation & damask-effect 'forest' portal flats for Cast in Doncaster's pantomime production. Painted solo.

Client: P&O Cruises
Year: 2011
Set Designer: John Spencer
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshop)
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Various set components including giant fans and oak-effect steel tables, for P&O cruises' productions. Pieces painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Steve Wilkins and Griz Pedley
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Trompe L'Oeil effects double-sided flat-pack touring truck - to accompany painted screens - for Northern Ballet's midscale national touring set.

Photo used with kind permission of Dave Morgan @DanceTabs.

Client: Cast in Doncaster
Year: 2014
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Cloths painted at the Northern Ballet technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Sharkstooth gauze/skrim painted and glittered front drop for Cast in Doncaster's 2014 pantomime production. Painted solo.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Venue: The Tobacco Factory
Year: 2011
Set Designer: Diana Ennis
Set Building: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School scenic workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Textured and painted/glaze layered dance floor for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's In-Rep production of John Godber's Salt of the Earth.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Silk drapes (x2, mirrored), painted using dyes and vermiculite masking layers, for Northern Ballet's full-scale national touring set.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2015
Set Designer: John Elvery
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Reproduction cloth of John Elvery's design for Bristol Old Vic's 1996 pantomime production of Cinderella. Painted at two thirds its original size for intended showcasing venue, for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's 'Theatre in Bristol' exhibition on behalf of the Royal West of England Academy's Exhibition 2016.

A timelapse video for the painting of this cloth can be found in Media.

Client: Rammstein
Year: 2011
Set Designer: Roy Bennett
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshop), staging constructed by Brilliant Stages
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Various 'industrial' rust effects on the 'B Stage' and Walkway for Rammstein's 2012 European Tour. Painted with the Perry Scenic team on both sites.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Silk Kabouki Drop, painted for Northern Ballet's fullscale national tour. Painted solo.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2011
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Trompe L'Oeil personal project painted during Scenic Art Postgraduate training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2011, specifically aiming to practice techniques to be used for mural commissions.

Original design.

Client: Cast in Doncaster
Year: 2014
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Rock Fascias built at Q-Division, cloths painted at the Northern Ballet technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Painted & glittered backdrop, truck fascias/'rock walls' and 'coin heap' ground row flats, painted for Cast in Doncaster's pantomime production of Aladdin. Listed cloth and pieces painted solo.

Client: Corris Caverns
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Stephanie Etahadi
Set Building: Freelance via Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Sculpted, fibreglassed and textured dragon entrance, designed and created for Corris Cavern's tourist feature.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Venue: The Tobacco Factory
Year: 2011
Set Designer: Diana Ennis
Set Building: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's scenic workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Wet-blend and sprayed 'over-saturated postcard' panel flats and 'chalet pine' woodgrain fascia segments, for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's In-Rep production of John Godber's 'On the Piste'. Lead painting with associate trainees. 'Chalet pine' woodgrain painted solo.

Stage Photo by Mike Kleinsteuber.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Duncan Hayler
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Gold, FEVs and matt crackle painted effect upon fibreglass giant 'C', for Northern Ballet's fullscale national tour. Painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Duncan Hayler
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Gold, FEVs and matt crackle painted effect upon fibreglass giant 'C', and yellow flower field half-cloth for Northern Ballet's fullscale national tour. Both pieces painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Originally by Dave Gillan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Following irreparable set damage, complete set recreation. Access to original designs limited, creative license to adapt design permitted by client. Trompe L’oeil painted nest, with sculted top.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Jérôme Kaplan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: 'Heavenly Space' dottle graduation hard flats, dutch metal-gilded, for Northern Ballet's full-scale international touring set. Painted solo, gilded with Ali Allen.

Stage photo by Bill Cooper.

Client: Corris Caverns
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Stephanie Etahadi
Set Building: Freelancers via Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Original design carved exit archway - rudimentary sculpting stage - for Corris Caverns' tourist attraction 'The Bard's Quest'.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2011
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Scenic 'Oak' sample board for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's Scenic Postgraduate training, in its woodgrain & marbling masterclass.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2020
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Oriental style backdrop

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Detail of Casanova's bedroom silk drapes, painted with dye layers using scattered, arranged and rearranged vermiculite as masking - for Northern Ballet's full-scale national touring set. Painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Duncan Hayler
Set Building: Painted at Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Painted market and flower field cloths for Northern Ballet's national touring set. Painted solo.

Stage photos by Bill Cooper and Emma Kauldhar.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2015
Set Designer: John Elvery
Set Building: Painted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School scenic workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Selected details of the 1996 Bristol Old Vic reproduction cloth, painted for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School on behalf of Royal West of England Academy's 2015 exhibition 'Theatre in Bristol'.

A timelapse video of the painting of this cloth can be found in Media.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Jérôme Kaplan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: 'Heavenly Space' dottle graduation hard flats, dutch metal-gilded, for Northern Ballet's full-scale international touring set. Painted solo, gilded with Ali Allen.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Painted and glittered sharkstooth front show gauze/skrim, for Cast in Doncaster's pantomime production of Cinderella.

Client: Corris Caverns
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Stephanie Etahadi
Set Building: Freelancers via Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Original design and sculpt for Corris Caverns' entrance into the tourist attraction 'King Arthur's Labyrinth.

Photo courtesy of the Visit Wales and Visit Snowdonia tourism websites.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Mark Bailey
Set Building: selected pieces built by Harrogate Scenic workshop. Built and painted at Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Woodgrain desk, textured woodgrain country table and wheelbarrow, textured stable doors and trompe l'oeil effect open cargo train carriage, and other scenic set furniture for Northern Ballet's midscale national tour. Pieces painted solo.

Stage Photos by Emma Kauldhar

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Duncan Hayler
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: 'Dirtied gesso' faux perspective kitchen scene location - backing flats and portal - for Northern Ballet's national touring set. Listed pieces painted solo.

Stage photo by Bill Cooper.

Client: John Bishop
Year: 2012
Set Designer: John Spencer
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshop)
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Signs (solo), 'tent', and teamwork upon netted roller coaster hanging cloth. For John Bishop's national standup comedy tour.

Set Design by John Spencer.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Sculpted and coated, textured and painted entrance truck for Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Stage photo by Brian Slater.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2013
Set Designer: David Shields
Set Building: via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (Lead Scenic)
Scenic Brief: Painted Mushnik sign detail for Abersytwth Arts Centre's 2013 Summer Season production.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Mid-stage painting progress on the soft portal legs of Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Set Design by Jane Cecchi.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Painted portal flats and their toppers (one pair of three portal flat/softs pairs), for Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Repainting of a sharkstooth gauze following irreparable flood damage to pieces of original set, for Northern Ballet's national re-tour; set first painted by Cathy Stewart, Ali Allen and Dave Gillan for the maiden 2009 full-scale national tour. Paint style to match in with original flown segmented flattage for location scene (also restored owing to flood damage), that is a consistent paint style throughout the set. Other gauzes and set pieces also repainted and refurbished.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2013
Set Designer: David Shields
Set Building: via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (Lead Scenic)
Scenic Brief: Sculpted, textured and painted moving/rotating trucks and static towers & bridge, and painted stage floor, for Aberystwyth Arts Centre's summer season production.

Client: Corris Caverns
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Stephanie Etahadi
Set Building: Freelancers via Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Original design Green Man sculpt - fibreglass, textured and painted for Corris Cavern's tourist attraction 'The Bard's Quest'.

Client: P&O Cruises
Year: 2011
Set Designer: John Spencer
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshop)
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Trompe l'oeil paint effects on chandelier and candelabra cut profiles, for P&O cruises' productions.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2012
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions.
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Various truck flats, flown signs, cartoon dress shop profiles, and location components (non-comprehensive overview) for Aberystwyth Arts Centre's summer season production.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2011
Set Designer: Jemima Robinson
Set Building: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's scenic workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Silk hung panels and various rostra surfaces and fascias during professional training for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's production. Painted with fellow Postgraduate trainees Rosie Murray and Fran Connor.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Spattered and FEV tinted Aluminium mirror panel flats with painted & gilded frames, for Northern Ballet's full-scale national touring set. Rococo panels fabricated and painted by Ali Allen. Aluminium framework Frames gilding and finishing assisted by Rory Davis.

Official stage photo by Caroline Holden.

Client: Corris Caverns
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Stephanie Etahadi
Set Building: Freelancers via Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Corner Detail of Aluminium Frame Rendered permenant outdoor mural installation (singular larger corner mural of a total 8) to create story tableaux setting scenes for welsh mythology audio within a garden maze. Created for Corris Cavern's tourist attraction 'The Bard's Quest'. Since installations required set dressing with plants verging and intermingling with the fabricated tableaux, finished scene photography of the integrated tableaux is yet to be obtained.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2014
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Painted tri-sided truck fascias and and portal flats for the forest scene of Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2012
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Built and painted via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions.
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Har-de-Har shop flown scene & giant wood grain table, watercolour cartoon washing, moon and bandstand trompe l'oeil giant spray can toppers, for Aberystwyth Arts Centre's summer season production.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Steve Wilkins and Griz Pedley
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: 'Japanese print' style feature flown panel flat, for Northern Ballet's mid-scale national touring set.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2012
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions.
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Giant woodgrain painted brushed effects created with layered glazes, used on portal edges (x3 pairs), rotating truck backs, tables, and cartoon townscape profile backing flats and other set pieces, for Aberystwyth Arts Centre's summer season production.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Jane Cecchi
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Watercolour effect fern flat for Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Stage Photo by Brian Slater.

Client: Imperial Ice Stars
Year: 2011
Set Designer: Eamon D'Arcy
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshop)
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Trompe L'Oeil gumball christmas cake archway, flown window flats and 'the big blue giftbox' for the Imperial Ice Stars' Nutcracker on Ice world tour. Set painted with the Perry Scenic team.

Client: Wild Creations
Year: 2019
Set Designer: Warner Brothers
Set Building: Wild Creations
Scenic Artists: Stephanie Etahadi (lead Scenic Artist, assisting on-site set dresser), Emily Britton & Annie Pugh (Assistant Scenics), Sam Wild (Creative Director)
Scenic Brief: Recreation of Warner Bro’s ‘Pennywise’s House’ from the 2017 & 2019 films for an installed interactive experience at London’s Waterloo Vaults.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Silk Kabouki Drop and gilded flown cornice 'roof', painted for Northern Ballet's fullscale national tour. Listed pieces painted solo.

Client: Drayton Manor Theme Park
Year: 2012
Mural Designer: Martin Vernon
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Thomas The Tank Engine themed brick wall luxury bedroom murals (x4 rooms & x2 foyer walls), for Drayton Manor's Thomas & Friends hotel rooms - added to match existing themed rooms. Curved wall character pictorial murals painted by Martin Vernon.

Finished bedroom photo courtesy of mojomums.co.uk. Foyer mural photo by Fiona Morley-Smith.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Christopher Oram
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Ruched and mirrored silks in situ with Roof detail, for Northern Ballet's full-scale national touring set. Listed items painted solo.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2017
Set Designer: Originally by Dave Gillan
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Following irreparable damage to original set designed and painted by Dave Gillan, complete set recreation. Access to original designs limited, creative license to adapt design permitted by client. Backdrop, and two sets of storybook style double-sided portal flats for the foliage ‘summer’ scene.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2014
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Painted 'shoemaker's workshop' and 'the market' scenes applied to tri-sided rotating trucks, accompying tree portal flats for Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set.

Stage performance photo by Brian Slater.

Client: Cast in Doncaster
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Kitchen comedy backdrop, flown fireplace & shelving and fridge for Cast in Doncaster's pantomime production. Listed pieces painted solo.

Stage photos by Alex & Janet Durasow.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2010
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Caravaggio's 'St John the Baptist', used as the subject material to imitate for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's postgraduate training Old Masters project, always utilising painting techniques applicable to larger scale theatre backdrops.

Client: Pete Medlicott, for Royal Caribbean Cruises
Year: 2019
Set Designer: Pete Medlicott
Scenic Artists: Stephanie Etahadi (lead Scenic Artist), Ruby Savage (deputy Scenic Artist), Zoe Parson (assisting Scenic Artist).
Scenic Brief: Texturing and painting of the main dining hall chandelier/sculpture for Royal Caribbean’s 2019 addition to arsenal, ‘Spectrum’.

Client: Leeds City Varieties
Year: 2012
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Listed cloths painted via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of Leeds City Varieties
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Cartoon drapes soft portal pairs (x2), forced perspective cartoon ceiling soft header, and a orange sky graduation cloth for Leeds City Varieties rock 'n' roll pantomime production. Listed pieces painted solo; other set pieces painted by Ali Allen.

Stage photo by Tony O'Connell.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2011
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: NY Skyline final personal project, aiming to practice and play with colour washes whilst utilising techniques applicable to larger scale theatre backdrops.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2011
Set Designer: Sarah Warren
Set Building: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's scenic workshop
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (Lead Scenic)
Scenic Brief: Textured 'dilapidated' wall flats, stained wood plank rostra top, and rusted platform, for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's Redgrave Theatre production. Painted with fellow postgraduate trainees Rosie Murray and Fran Connor.

Client: RT Scenic on behalf of Trans Creative
Yea: 2017
Designer: Katherine Heath
Set Building: Panal painted at Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Art Deco inlay effect woodgrain cabinet panel.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2016
Set Designer: Duncan Hayler
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Heavy refurbishment and rebuild & paint of scenic set elements of Northern Ballet's 2011 full-scale national touring set prior to overseas shipping rental to the Western Australian Ballet, originally painted by Dave Gillan and Jan Breider. Complete rebuild required of the 'Heart-Shaped Box'.

Stage photos by Bill Cooper, from original 2011 photo shoot.

Client: John Bishop
Year: 2012
Set Designer: John Spencer
Set Building: Perry Scenic (Oldbury Workshop)
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Netted roller coaster cut cloth and helter skelter, painted for John Bishop's national stand-up tour. Fabricated and painted with the Perry Scenic team.

Stage photo courtesy of Sonalyst.co.uk.

Client: Cwmni Mega
Year: 2012
Set Designer: Paul Morgan
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (solo)
Scenic Brief: Sculpted, coated and gilded Roman eagle and trompe l'oeil columns for Cwmni Mega's children's play touring set.

Client: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Year: 2014
Set Designer: David Shields
Set Building: via Aberystwyth Arts Centre on behalf of UK Productions
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Woodgrain painted pew, chancel screen and tri-sided truck toppers for Aberystwyth Arts Centre's summer season production.

On-stage photograph used with kind permission of UK Productions.

Client: Cast in Doncaster
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Softs painted at Northern Ballet's technical workshops, construction pieces by Q-Division
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Cartoon glittered thorn cut-out drop, thorn cut profile portal plant-ons, truck cut-out plant-ons, and cross-hatch forest backdrop, for Cast in Doncaster's pantomime production. Listed items painted solo.

Stage photo by Alex & Janet Durasow.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2013
Set Designer: Ali Allen
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Cartoon 'scribble' backdrop and 'straw', 'sticks' and 'bricks' portal leg pairs and headers, for Northern Ballet's children's ballet national touring set. Listed pieces painted solo.

Stage photo by Brian Slater.

Client: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Year: 2010
Set Designer: Mick Bearwish
Set Building: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's scenic workshop
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Pen & Ink cartoon style 'Hard-Up Hall' backdrop, painted for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's Redgrave Theatre pantomime production. Painted with fellow postgraduate trainees Rosie Murray and Fran Connor.

Client: Northern Ballet
Year: 2015
Set Designer: Simon Daw
Set Building: Northern Ballet's technical workshops
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi
Scenic Brief: Pristine 'plastic gloss' grey and black tile rotating truck fascias (grey and black side per truck x4), gloss teal/grey office furniture, gloss black truck plynth, rusty bed and fireplace, 'Winston's Bedroom' fascia, INGSOC poster montage facsias, and 'Elite' gold & marble furniture - for Northern Ballet's full-scale national touring set.

Stage photos by Emma Kauldhar.

Client: Glyndebourne
Year: 2012
Set Designer: Caroline Ginet
Set Building: Cardiff Theatrical Services
Scenic Artist: Stephanie Etahadi (team)
Scenic Brief: Lino flooring, cacti, upstage rendered wall passage entrance/exit for Glyndebourne's production. Painted with the CTS team.

Client: Harrogate Theatre
Year: 2018
Set Designer: Morgan Brind
Set Building: Harrogate Theatre Scenic Workshop
Scenic Artists: Stephanie Etahadi - house flats, door & roof. Jo Paylor - grass truck base. Rory Davies - drawing out.
Scenic Brief: Watercolour effects from design

Client: Harrogate Theatre Scenic Services for Rock of Ages Tour
Year: 2018
Set Designer: Morgan Large
Set Building: Harrogate Theatre Scenic Services
Scenic Artists: Stephanie Etahadi and Rory Davies (lead)
Scenic Brief: Textured (routed) painted paving, and projected & painted logo center point.