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Design Projects

Donald Muhammad Trump

2016

A short film about a bizarre backstage crisis at a 2016 Republican Presidential rally.

Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing)

Holli Dempsey (Black Mirror)

John P Arnold (The Angels' Share)

Costume Designer : Zepur Agopyan

Director: Darragh Mortell

Asim Chaudhry as Donald Trump

John P Arnold as the Campaign Manager, and Holli Dempsey as the Campaign Assistant

Trump supporters, Crowd

Asim Chaudhry as Donald Trump

1/7

Sospan's Kiosk

Matt Addis as Louie Knight, & Phyl Harries as Sospan

Matt Addis as Louie Knight, & Sonia Beck as Mrs. Llantrisant

Adrian Metcalfe as Cadwaladr and David Prince

Sospan's Kiosk

Matt Addis as Louie Knight, & Phyl Harries as Sospan

1/14

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

2016

Based in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth which is run by the all powerful Druids. Detective Louie Knight, The best/ only private detective in town is engaged by the exotic singer Myfanwy Montez to find what has become of her cousin, Evans the Boot. As he and his ever enthusiastic, self appointed assistant Calamity dig deeper they are drawn into a conspiracy of biblical proportions. It will take more than a double ripple from Sospan , the evasive philosipher come ice-cream seller to figure this one out

Costume Designer and Maker: Zepur Agopyan

Assisted by: Angharad Gamble and Carys Griff

Set Designer: Simon Scullion.

Director: Abigail Anderson

Contendō Performance

Volcano Theatre, Swansea

Contendō Performance

Volcano Theatre, Swansea

Final Design

Pencil, and water colour on paper

Contendō Performance

Volcano Theatre, Swansea

1/6

Concept Designer and Maker: Zepur Agopyan

Choreography and Performance: Gundija Zandersona

Lighting Design: Ben Stimpson

Contendō

2016

Award Winner, Costume Design, World Stage Design 2017 (WSD) Taipei

Selected for Exhibition, World Stage Design 2017

Awarded a bursary from the Society of British Theatre Designers towards WSD

An experimental collaborative performance exploring the boundaries of perceptive and somatic restriction, and the struggle to overcome them.

Commonly, costume serves to enhance and compliment the narrative and movement of a performance. In this instance the process was reversed. The costume restricts the movement and vision to force physical restrictions and create an uncomfortable insular world, where you would normally be allowing freedom. Thus informing how the narrative is told. The struggle to create movement, and allow form and expression under the tightening restrictions of an enveloping outside force.

Contendō

2016

Running time: 9:25

Concept Designer and Maker: Zepur Agopyan

Choreography and Performance: Gundija Zandersona

Lighting Design: Ben Stimpson

Filming and Sound: Vendrell Video

Costume fittings

One costume option for Matteo Calico Toile, 1st fitting with Natalie Final fitting with Matteo and Natalie

1/9

National Dance Company Wales

'Alternative Routes' Collaboration

'They Seek To Find The Happiness They Seem'

2013

Choreographer: Lee Johnston

Lighting Designer: Joe Fletcher

Dancers: Matteo Marfoglia, Natalie Corne

Costume Designer: Zepur Agopyan

Cutter: Zepur Agopyan

Maker: Zepur Agopyan, April Dalton

Running time: 13:37

Choreographer, Lee Johnston, and lighting designer, Joe Fletcher, have recomposed existing forms of choreography, lighting and costume design to create this duet which explores dislocation and separation within a relationship. Elements from classic love stories, famous dance partnerships, and traditional theatre lighting are all present within the work but have been reconfigured and updated into a contemporary interpretation. The source material was specifically chosen from popular culture, material that we all carry unknowingly, so that an interplay between memory and the present add to the experience of the observer and serves to emphasise the theme of dislocation.

From Joe Fletcher

Introduction

Dress rehearsal

Working on the Crinoline

Stitching the top of the crinoline in the Blue Room at NDCW, assisted by Phoebe Tonkin, and Cassidy Calkins

Introduction

Dress rehearsal

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National Dance Company Wales

'Alternative Routes' Collaboration

'Encore'

2013

Choreographer: Chris Scott

Lighting Designer: Karolina Spyrou

Dancers: Camille Giraudeau, Josef Perou

Set &Costume Designer: Zepur Agopyan

Construction: Zepur Agopyan, Angharad Matthews, Phoebe Tonkin

Costume: Zepur Agopyan, Angharad Matthews

Opening 'The Beggar’s Opera'

Behind the Curtain

Close, Sort of....

Opening 'The Beggar’s Opera'

1/14

A Chorus of Disapproval

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

2013

'Platform Production', with a Cast of 2nd year RWCMD Actors and Extras

Written by: Alan Aykbourn, 1984

Director: Marilyn Le Conte

Musical Director: David George Harrington

Set Designer: Zepur Agopyan

Costume Designer: Pheobe Tonkin

Lighting Designer: Benedict Goddard

Construction: RWCMD Workshop

Set & Scenic Art: Zepur Agopyan, Phoebe Tonkin, RWCMD Workshop

Distressing, & Painting the Gallows

Constructed at RWCMD workshop

Research and Inspiration Images

Fixing Dafydd’s Coffee Table

Distressing, & Painting the Gallows

Constructed at RWCMD workshop

1/10

A Chorus of Disapproval

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

2013

Design inspiration and research images, White card model, and process images

Conceptual Design Projects

1/13

‘Love for Three Oranges’ Conceptual Opera Project, 2013

Sergei Prokofiev 1919

Model Box

The Prince

The King of Clubs

Key Costume Inspirations

The Prince

1/12

‘Love for Three Oranges’ Conceptual Opera Project, 2013

Sergei Prokofiev 1919

Costume Sketches

Wall rendering Possibilities

1/12

‘The Seagull’ Conceptual Project, 2012

Anton Chekov 1895

Model Box

Synopsis:

Set in the Russian Countryside at the end of the 19th century, it follows a cast of characters dissatisfied with their lives. Some desire success, some artistic genius, and the others search for love. No one, however, ever seems to attain happiness.