ZEPUR
AGOPYAN
Zepur Agopyan
Education:
Zepur Agopyan
Designer and Maker
of Set and Costume
Education:
2013
2006-2009
2008
2005
2002 - 2004
1995 - 2001
2001
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, M.A. Theatre Design
TAFE, N.S.W.: Diploma of Theatre Costume
Awarded the ‘Mary Ellen Roberts Memorial Trust Fund’
Gary Friedman Productions, Sydney: Short Course- Puppetry for Film and Television
TAFE, N.S.W.: Certificate IV, Clothing Production
Sydney University; Sydney College of the Arts: Bachelor of Visual Arts
1st year in Sculpture; 2nd and 3rd year in Object Art and Design; Major in Glass
Higher School Certificate (HSC): Davidson High School, Sydney
TAFE, N.S.W.: Certificate IV, Fine Arts, 2D Imaging and Animation for Artists
Notable Accomplishments:
Awarded the ‘Mary Ellen Roberts Memorial Trust Fund
Award Winner, Costume Design for 'Contendō', World Stage Design 2017 (WSD) Taipei
Selected exhibitor for World Stage Design 2017, (WSD) Taipei
Awarded a bursary from the Society of British Theatre Designers towards WSD
2009
2017
2016
Employment and Experience:
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
July 2016 - Oct 2016
June 2016 - Sept 2016
Jan 2016 - March 2016
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Nov 2013
Nov 2013- 2014
Oct, Nov 2013
Oct 2013
July 2013
July 2013
Feb 2011 - Aug 2012
Aug- Oct 2011
April 2010 - Jan 2011
2008
2007
2006- 2012
Costume Designer
'Donald Muhammad Trump', short film by dir. Darragh Mortell.
Costume Maker
'Dr Who', BBC Wales, Roath Lock, Cardiff Wales U.K.
Costume maker
'Will', Series1, a Ninth Floor U.K. Production Ltd. Dragon Studios Wales, U.K.
Costume Designer
'Aberystwyth Mon Amour', for Lighthouse Theatre Company, Touring show. Dir. Abigail Anderson
Performance Designer
'Contendō', self funded and directed, In collaboration with Gundija Zandersonna, coreographer/ dancer, Volcano Theatre Swansea, U.K.
'World Stage Design' Taipei, 2017 (WSD 2017) Exhibition selection in emerging designer catagory
Lead Drapes Person / Leatherworker (HOD)
'The Bastard Executioner', pilot, a Fox 21 Television Studios, imagine Television, and FX Production. Pinewood Studio, Cardiff, and Dragon Studio,Wales, U.K.
Drapes Person
'Da Vinci's Demons', Season 3, a Starz T.V. series, Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Assistant and Model Maker
For Designer Rhys Jarman, ‘The Nutcracker’ By Hattie Naylor and Paul Dodgson, The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.
Model Maker
For Michael Taylor, Figures, model making, and ‘Around the world in 80 Days’ Figures
Teachers Assistant
Model Making, Royal welsh College of Music and Drama, assisting senior lecturer, Christine Marfleet. 1st year Model making projects and skills.
Model Maker
For Carys Beard
Set Designer
‘A Chorus of Disapproval’, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, dir. Marilyn Le Conte
Costume designer
‘Alternative Routes’ 'They Seek to Find the Happiness They Seem', and 'Encore', National Dance Company Wales. In collaboration with choreographers Lee Johnston and Christopher Scott, lighting designer Joe Fletcher.
Tailoring, Opera Australia
‘La Boheme’, ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘La Traviata’ (Opera on Sydney Harbour), Julie Taymor’s ‘The Magic Flute’, ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, ‘Don Giovanni’, Don Pasquale’, ‘South Pacific’, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies’, Madama Butterfly’, ‘Lakme’
Tailoring, ‘The Great Gatsby’
Tailoring Assistant, 'The Great Gatsby', dir. Baz Luhrman, Bazmark Film
Costumier (Ladieswear)
Sydney Theatre Company ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’, ‘Orestia’,’ In the Next Room’, ‘A Comedy of Errors’, ‘Our Town’, ‘The Wharf Review’
Puppet Maker
Corporate Creatures; Gary Friedman Productions
Costumier, 'Australia'
Assistant, ‘Australia’ dir. Baz Luhrman, Bazmark Film
Aboriginal Art Buyer
Photographer, and Vendor for Six Sixes Pty Ltd Trading as ‘Viewspace’ online gallery
2005-2009 Work Experience:
- Bill Hargate Costumes; Hollywood California
general workroom
- Opera Centre, Sydney Australia
general workroom
- Designer Jenny Tate: Madama Butterfly
costume alterations, sourcing, breakdowns
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir; ‘The Fairy Queen’
dressing, wardrobe
- Mathew Eager (Fashion House) work experience leading to casual employment,
sample cutting, marker making, production assistant work
- Glen Street Theatre, Sydney
backstage wardrobe duties
- Carla Zampatti (Fashion House), Sydney
dispatch, clerical duties, cutting
Special Skills:
- Model, and figure making
- Technical drawing
- Flat patternmaking, draping and sewing of ladies’ period undergarments and dresses, modern clothing, and dancewear
- Fabric embellishment, eg: dying, embroidery, beading, printing, painting
- Theatrical millinery
- Making “Muppet” puppets
- Leather carving, moulding and working
- Costume props and accessories, designing and making eg: armour, belts, jewellery
- Making foam latex prosthetics
- Modelling in clay, plasticine, wax, ‘Kleen Clay’
- Carving in foam, wax, glass
- Sculpture in varying materials, including glass
- Casting and moulding in plastic, silicone, plaster, resin, fiberglass
- Rendering and drawing using paint, Photoshop, pastels, pencil, chalk, ink
I have a full clean driving licence, and car
I hold dual citizenship with the EU, and Australia. I do NOT require a work visa.
I have experience teaching art classes to children of all ages, and have been a teacher’s assistant in University classes.
References:
On Request