Stephanie Bahniuk is a Ukrainian-Canadian designer for theatre, dance, opera, film and tv. She is originally from Edmonton, Canada and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Stephanie is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama where she earned the Jay Keene and Jean Griffin Keene Prize in Costume Design. She is a member of Local 829 and an Artistic Associate of Pyretic Productions. Stephanie recently worked as the Costume Department Coordinator for And Just Like That, Season 2. She currently holds an O-1 Visa for Artists with Extraordinary Ability.
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“It puts on its party clothes on the beautiful wood keyhole stage (designer: Stephanie Bahniuk) that we get to surround on three sides — at close range since there are only 220 seats.”
“Stephanie Bahniuk’s set design is a beautiful conjuring of memory in itself. Banks of movable, slatted wooden walls, through which light glows, open up and close. Across eight translucent windows, a projection scape (video design by Nicholas Mayne) of human faces and signs of human activity that flickers and disappears.”
“Stephanie Bahniuk’s design, dramatically meaningful, conceives of the family house as a skeletal framework with flimsy translucent walls, perpetually unfinished: like so many things about living together, an imperfect, adjustable compromise between the individual and the collective.”
https://12thnight.ca/2021/10/15/in-the-house-of-mismatched-dreams-michael-mysterious-a-review/
“And in Stephanie Bahniuk’s striking design, it’s entirely blue, with one tiny window. It seems to have landed from outer space — along with seven multi-angled screens. Are they the theatrical fourth wall made to be broken? Do Miles and Rachel actually live inside the internet?”
“If this sounds confusing, everything is crystal clear in the production, with especially splendid costume design by Stephanie Bahniuk, which stays as authentic as possible to the original clothing of the Lenape people.”
https://zanderopper.com/2020/02/02/manahatta-at-yale-repertory-theatre-byzander-opper/
“Costumes, by Stephanie Bahniuk, brilliantly transition with ease between times and places and cultures.”
http://www.newhavenreview.com/blog/index.php/2020/2/the-recourse-ofhistory
“And the eerie glow, flashes, and shadows of Bahniuk’s stunning lighting design conjure a shattering world of terrors.”
https://12thnight.ca/2022/05/27/the-one-way-time-portal-into-war-alina-a-review/
“Lundeen, with the support of production designer Stephanie Bahniuk, creates an entirely believable world out of sandbags, rope and a single chair in Studio Theatre’s black box space.”
"The characters step out of the frame from time to time — in squares of light wittily designed by Stephanie Bahniuk to be a counterpoint to the white canvas— to make their case directly to us, in a play of power struggles and shifting alliances."
https://12thnight.ca/2017/05/01/art-is-the-price-right-a-review-of-the-shadow-season-finale/
"Stephanie Bahniuk, who should be getting snapped up by theatre companies across town, designs a frankly fake bucolic space with astroturf, the classic Chekhov birch trees as playing areas, and an abstract wall of domestic cubbyholes."
https://12thnight.ca/2017/03/13/heres-a-chekhovian-regret-for-you-stupid-fucking-bird-is-gone/
"THE LIGHTING AND SOUND DESIGN, CREATED BY STEPHANIE BAHNIUK AND AARON MARCI, INTENSIFIES THE PIECE THROUGH AMAZING CREATIVITY, THE LIGHTING CHANGES IN COLOUR AND SHAPE HELP IMPLY AND AMPLIFY THE MOOD AND THE SCENE. THE SOUND SCORE AND INTENSE BREATHS ADD SHOCKING DYNAMICS, MAKING MY MOOD TWIST AND TURN."
http://springboardperformance.com/blog/moonatmidnight
"Theatre designer Stephanie Bahniuk won't shy away from bold looks."
"Under Horak’s direction, the search happens in a translucent world, designed and lighted by Stephanie Bahniuk, across which projections of urban life (designed by Matt Schuurman) flicker and float. It’s a beautifully minimalist production in its visuals; images insinuate themselves and disappear, just the way the characters do, on the stage of the newly reconstructed Varscona. "
"In The Search for Signs …, with ingenious set design by Stephanie Bahniuk, imagery by Matt Schuurman and brisk direction from Dave Horak, Wolfe strides on stage in a simple shift and leggings and begins to processes all her experience to create a unique world peopled with well-drawn characters."
http://www.gigcity.ca/2016/06/24/review-stephanie-wolfe-takes-on-lily-tomlin/