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Stephanie Petagno

Production design professor

Education

  • M.F.A., costume design, California Institute of the Arts
  • B.F.A., general sculptural studies, Maryland Institute College of Art

Credentials

  • Professor of production design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Co-instructor of costume design workshop, 2020, Community Arts Partnership at CalArts, Los Angeles
  • Guest designer and instructor, 2019, Chavez Ravine of LA Mission College, Sylmar, CA
  • Guest instructor, 2018, digital techniques, CalArts, Los Angeles
  • Instructor, 2014, intro to felting workshop, CalArts, Los Angeles
  • Instructor, 2013, intro to fabric dyeing with plant matter workshop, CalArts, Los Angeles
  • Instructor, 2017, special effects makeup and hair in film and media seminar, Garrison Forest School, Baltimore, MD

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Stage Raw Nomination, Costume Design, The Day Shall Declare It, Los Angeles, 2017
  • Stage Raw Winner, Production Design, The Day Shall Declare It, Los Angeles. 2017
  • The Encore! Producer's Award, Thirteen Spring, The Moving Art Collective, Los Angeles, 2016
  • The Duende Distinction Award, Metamorphosis, The Moving Art Collective, Los Angeles, 2016
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Craft Education Grant, 2014

Publications and presentations

Costume design for theater, dance, and opera

  • Chavez Ravine, directed by Robert Cucuzza, LA Mission College, Sylmar, CA, 2019
  • Cleo, Theo, and Wu, directed by Lisa Dring, Theatre of Note, Los Angeles, CA and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2018
  • Museum of America, immersive experience, 30 Seconds to Mars, directed by Geordie Stephens for HELO, lnterscope Records, Los Angeles, 2018
  • LORE, site specific immersive experience, directed by Justin Fix, Creep LA, Amazon Prime, The Reef, LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
  • MEAT, directed by Emma Zakes Green, Son of Semele, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
  • Hecuba, costume and scenic design, directed by Rachel Park, University of Maryland, The Stella Adler, Los Angeles, 2017
  • The Offending Gesture, directed by Edgar Landa, Son of Semele, Los Angeles, 2017
  • Strings Attached, directed by Madeline Leavitt, choreographed by Christopher Bordenave, Voices Carry, Inc., Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 2016
  • The Day Shall Declare It, directed by Annie Saunders, choreographed by Sophie Bartolussi, Wilderness, Los Angeles, 2016
  • Metamorphosis, directed by Fernando Belo, Moving Art Collective, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2016
  • The Fasting Girls, directed by Alexis Mcnab, Automata, Los Angeles, 2016
  • Circle Jerk, directed by Robert Cucuzza, REDCAT, Los Angeles, 2016
  • Assassins, directed by Dan Fishbach, Pico Playhouse, Los Angeles, 2016

Costume design for film and music video

  • ZONA, short, directed by Masami Kawai, Los Angeles, 2019
  • Murder on the Dancefloor, music video, directed by Patrick Kennelly, Maxi Wild, Los Angeles, 2017
  • The Last Shift, short, directed by Julia Lehrman and Roja Gashtili, Vanishing Angle, Los Angeles, 2016
  • Runaway, music video, directed by Stephen James Thomas, Los Angeles, 2015
  • Blackout, short, directed by Alana Waksman, Los Angeles, 2014
  • House of Sand, short, directed by Gabriela Garcia Medina and Erica Ortiz, Daisies Make Films, Los Angeles, 2013
  • Romeo and Juliet, short, directed by Kwesi Wade Johnson, Wade Made Media, Los Angeles, 2013
  • The Singer and the Poet, short, directed by Maria Markosov, New York, 2010
  • Women's Studies, feature, directed by Lonnie Martin, Baltimore, MD, Woodbridge, VA, 2008
  • The Slippers, short, directed by Richard Baker, Baltimore, 2006
  • Small Still Voice, short, directed and designed by Stephanie Petagno, Baltimore, 2004

Special effects, makeup, and hair

  • The Rake's Progress, directed by Tara Faircloth, The Barns at Wolftrap, Vienna, VA, 2012
  • Faust, directed by Trevore Ross, Opera New Jersey, Princeton, NJ, 2010
  • Don Giovanni, directed by John Hoomes, Opera New Jersey, Princeton, NJ, 2010
  • Don Pascuale, directed by Michael Scarola, Opera New Jersey, Princeton, NJ, 2010
  • Die Fledermaus, directed by Dona D. Vaughn, Manhattan School of Music, New York, 2009
  • Freshwater, directed by Anne Bogart, SITI Company, Women's Project, New York, NY, 2009
  • Fear of Clowns II, feature, directed by Kevin Kangas, Lion's Gate Films, Easton, MD, 2007
  • Ellen Cherry: Heart Like a Lion, album cover, Baltimore, 2006
  • Deadlands, feature, directed by Gary Ugaryk, Wet N Wild Radio Films, Baltimore, 2006
  • Costume curator, antique dolls and automata, Theriault's Auction House, Annapolis, MD, 2006