Photo by Maria Baranova
BIO
AFSOON PAJOUFAR is an Obie Award-wining stage designer based in NYC . Afsoon designs sets and environments for play, opera, and live performances. She comes from Tehran-Iran where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts-Painting, from Azad Art and Architecture University. Afsoon’s work has been presented in venues and festivals including MCC, Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Berkeley Rep, EMPAC, New Ohio Theatre, Bard Fisher Center, Harvard TDM, MIT, Bard Summerscape and Prototype Festival. Internationally, her work has taken her to Berlin, Alte Münze and Cologne, Schauspiel Köln. Her design for Cabaret was chosen for the 2019 American Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
Nominations: Lucille Lortel Award - Elliot Norton Award
MFA in Scene Design - Boston University
Member: United Scenic Artists Local USA 829