About

Stage Designer & Multidisciplinary Artist

I am a stage designer and multidisciplinary artist based in Tehran, working at the intersection of scenography, visual research, and digital media. I treat space not as a backdrop for performance, but as a living presence—one that thinks, resists, listens, and shapes how meaning unfolds. Space is not neutral. It sets rhythm, bends perception, and carries memory.

My practice is grounded in spatial storytelling: the construction of visual narratives through material, movement, light, and absence. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Stage Design from the University of Tehran, where my work emerged from research-driven inquiry rather than fixed solutions. Design, for me, is not an outcome but a process of thinking—an ongoing negotiation between concept and form.

I work through experimentation: sketching, model-making, collage, video, and visual systems that function as questions rather than answers. Each medium becomes a tool for probing space—testing how ideas behave when translated into matter, image, or motion.

My work explores the shifting relationship between space, performance, and perception, with a focus on expanding scenography beyond the physical stage. Through projection, moving image, and generative or interactive visuals, I construct hybrid environments where physical architecture and mediated imagery continuously transform one another. By weaving analog and digital processes, I imagine scenography as an evolving field—layered, unstable, and in motion—where performance exists across thresholds rather than within boundaries.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Stage Design
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
GPA: 3.45 / 4

Bachelor’s Thesis: Performance Design for the Play Hamlet (Set Design and Model Making)
Awarded Highest Distinction in the department.

Key Skills & Media

  • Stage & Performance Design

  • Scenographic Research and Concept Development

  • Moodboarding and Visual Analysis

  • Sketching and Physical Model Making

  • Digital Collage and Video

  • Generative Visuals and TouchDesigner

Selected Experience

  • Set Designer | 2024

    Mansha Platform, Tehran, Iran | A Seat Through Time Video Project

  • Teaching Assistant | 2023 - 2024

    University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | Professor Sanaz Tayefeh

  • Head of R&D Department | 2021 - 2022

    Shamis Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Contact

Zahradooost@gmail.com
+98 912 088 3142

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