Contact:
stephaniebusing@gmail.com
www.stephaniebusing.com
www.underbellytheatre.com
www.chromarising.com
About:
I am a designer and artist based in Atlanta, GA, working virtually for a host of clients.
I work in 3 creative areas: video content creation, theatre design, and scenic art.
I am currently searching for full-time virtual work in motion graphics/video production for a mission-driven company. With my interdisciplinary work in theatre, film/tv, and for a fin-tech start-up, I continue to hone my ability to communicate strong ideas through narrative, to a variety of audiences.
Animation and motion graphics experience:
I have worked as a contractor and full-time employee for several companies editing video, creating motion graphics, and animating. Through over a decade of designing and building video projection content for theatrical performances, I have developed a variety of artistic styles that can be implemented across multiple industries. While working at fin-tech start-up Steady App as their in-house motion graphics designer, I worked closely with the Growth and Design departments on creating marketing campaign, how-to, and in-app videos, as well as ideating on creative projects with outside partners.
Clients/projects include: Nightlight Labs (Los Angeles), Freedom for Immigrants (Oakland, CA), Scout (Short film), Crystal Palace Casino (Macau), Indigenous Peoples Experience (Edmonton, Canada)
Theatre experience:
I have been designing scenery and video projection design for musicals, theatre, opera, dance, museums, and symphonies since 2014. This entails creating architectural mock-ups of sets and video projection equipment placement, designing and creating video projection content, communicating and working intimately with a team to implement a design, and programming video content to be qued during performances.
Clients include: ZACH Theatre (Austin, TX), Zorrozaurre Art Work In Progress (ZAWP) (Bilbao, Spain), Austin Symphony Orchestra, Broadway Sacramento, New School (NYC)
Scenic artistry experience:
I have been painting sets and murals since 2008. I've worked in the film industry in Texas and Georgia as a union scenic artist painting on studio sets, on location, and carving foam sculptures for television shows including HBO's The Leftovers, Nat Geo's The Long Road Home, and Warner Hollywood Studios' Dynasty. I've also worked as a scenic artist and designer for museums, primarily the Umlauf Sculpture Gardens and Museum in Austin, TX, and Malone Design and Fabrication in GA. I also started a mural design company in 2020 called Chroma Rising, specializing in mural design for homes and small businesses. www.chromarising.com
Artist's Statement:
I am a designer and maker of environments using skills in video projection design, scenic painting, and scenic design to challenge audience perception of physical environments. My deepest compulsion is to observe and then convey the dynamic landscape of the human experience and mind.
A picture speaks a thousand words. An immersive space speaks many thousands.
Theatre Biography:
Stephanie Busing is an environment and live performance designer currently based in Atlanta, GA. She graduated from the University of Texas with an MFA in Theatrical Design: Integrated Media in 2014 and now designs video projections and scenery for theatre, musicals, opera, dance, museums, and symphonies. Busing takes special interest in designing immersive works that challenge audience perception of physical space and convey the dynamic landscape of the human experience and mind.
Busing is a co-founding member of Underbelly, a theatre company that pulls from the American literary canon to create immersive stories in unusual spaces. She has designed video projections and scenery for three of Underbelly’s productions including Alice in Wonderland, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice novels performed at ZACH Theatre in Austin, Texas and the New Victory Theatre in NYC. Alice in Wonderland invited audience members of all ages to leave the introductory theatre space and travel through backstage hallways and to exterior settings including a rain garden, Humpty Dumpty’s wall in a parking lot, and to ZACH’s Topfer Theatre plaza where the Queen of Hearts orchestrated a giant croquet game with the audience.
Busing has also designed video projections and scenery for the premiere of Into the Wild in Dexter, Michigan, a musical based on the life and death of Christopher McCandless. Her work on Into the Wild was described by a2View as “breathtaking”, with video projections “beautifully interwoven with the story”. According to Encore Michigan, “such layering of images projected, and this level of production value has never been done in Michigan before”. Busing’s video projections incorporated over one hundred original photos and journal entries from archives of McCandless’s travels.
In 2017, while in residence at Zorrozaurre Art Work In Progress (ZAWP) in Bilbao, Spain, Busing collaborated with dancer and choreographer Chell Parkins to film and edit several short documentaries of Wanderlust Dance: VC, a project which staged site-specific dance performances at sites throughout northern Spain including Sopelana Beach, the city of San Sebastian, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Other notable designs include: World at War, video projections set to Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony, performed at Texas Performing Arts Center; video projections for Broadway Sacramento’s Singin’ in the Rain at the Wells Fargo Theatre; video projections and scenery for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at ZACH Theatre; exhibit design for UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum’s Studio in the Museum, a replication of sculptor Charles Umlauf's studio space.
