My Name is Zahra Mansouri
Production & Costume Designer, Creative Director for Stage & Screen
Having trained at Central Saint Martins, Zahra has built up a body of work that spans genres across live arts and screen. She works closely with directors to create the visual dramaturg ensuring each project has a unique creative language that is faithful to the source material. With her diverse range of skills and collaborative approach, she is able to ensure the high quality of each production at every stage, from conception, creation to realisation.
Testimonials
Susanna- Leeds Grand Theatre, Opera North 2025
The Times
Richard Morrison
Olivia Fuch’s Staging is in modern dress but avoids such explicit references. Played out on and bellow Zahra Mansouri’s gantry set symbolically entwined with the suffocating branches of an old tree it instead amplifies this timeless storytelling in a much more interesting way.
Love Life – Leeds Grand Theatre, Opera North 2025
The Arts Desk
Robert Beal
There are vivid and flamboyant costumes- set and costume designed by Zahra Mansouri, and the recurring visual theme is one of lighting trusses arranged in ever more complicated concatenations to accompany the complications of married life
The Secret of the Black Spider- Leeds Grand Theatre, Opera North 2025
British Theatre Guid
Mark Love-Smith
Zahra Mansouri’s gorgeous set and costume designs play with wispy, web-like textures—at first subtly, with gauzy fabric sketching out a Carpathian backdrop, and then more powerfully as otherworldly forces move in.
Love Life – Leeds Grand Theatre, Opera North 2025
The Daily Telegraph
Nicholas Kenyon
This rip-roaring revival of the 1948 collaboration between Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner touches a nerve and reinvents the genre … they have commendably returned to launch this minimalist but highly effective staging by Matthew Eberhardt, economically designed by Zahra Mansouri.
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