Warda Abbasi

Model Maker & Set Designer | Resident Designer @leedsplayhouse & @tuttifruttiprod with @jerwoodarts | | [email protected]

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“I taught myself set design using YouTube videos” – set designer Warda Abbasi (@ws_abbasi) tells The Stage about @tuttifruttiprod’s latest project, I Wanna Be Yours, running at Bramall Rock Void @LeedsPlayhouse https://t.co/ztfKtC4pYs

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🔨From set design to stage. Take a look at how the model box created for #IWannaBeYours has been transformed into the full-size set display.
Well done to @ws_abbasi and our technical team for creating this aesthetically beautiful scenery 🤩
#LeedsPlayhouse

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‘Just you and me’
‘Me and you you and me’

First look 👀 at Ella (@EvaScott91) and Haseeb (@SMunawaz995) in #IWannaBeYours 🧡 with these new gorgeous production pictures.

@ziaahmedx

📅 Until 14 May, and across Leeds from 17-28 May
🎟️ https://t.co/zE0gRFFbFQ
📸 @RoblingPix

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Out incredible Resident Designer @ws_abbasi has taken over @soyoleeds Instagram account today… giving us an exclusive insight behind the scenes of #IWannaBeYours opening this weekend.

Head on over and check it out!

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Have you ever wondered how our sets are created?🪛🔨

Warda Abbasi (@ws_abbasi), set & costume designer for #IWannaBeYours, gives us an exclusive insight into the process of imagining the set, design inspirations for the show & the development of bringing this to life on stage.

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👀 This is a rehearsal room we want to be in!

Look at the company of I WANNA BE YOURS creating the world of ‘Ella & Haseeb.’

Written by @ziaahmedx, directed by @SameenaHX1 and starring @EvaScott91 & @SMunawaz995.

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📅29 Apr – 14 May
🎟️https://t.co/XxwZDZyFmJ

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Our Wardrobe, Workshop & Technical teams have worked closely with Director @amycleach, Designer @hayleygrindle, Lighting Designer Chris Davey, Sound Designer @nicolatchang, Assistant Designer @ws_abbasi & Associate Director @BenjaminEWilson to create a feast for all the senses.

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

So incredibly excited!!!

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Coming soon...
#IWannaBeYours by slam poet #ZiaAhmed, is a tender, funny & vibrant play exploring the intricacies of building a relationship across contemporary cultural divides. Directed by @SameenaHX1 & designed by @ws_abbasi, the show will run in Bramall Rock Void this Spring.

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

Really looking forward to working on this!!✨❄️

[Tutti Frutti Productions @tuttifruttiprod]

We have a new show touring autumn 2022- Jack Frost and the Search for Winter! 🙌😊 Written by @JosephACoelho, illustration by @creative_dy, Set & Costume by @ws_abbasi, and more of the creative team will be announced soon!

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🙌👑 This morning we performed The Princess and The Pea for an audience for the very first time at @LeedsPlayhouse! Well done everyone!

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

This has been so much fun to work on! Catherine Chapman and everyone at @tuttifruttiprod are absolutely amazing!! 👸🏽💚

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A huge shout out to our Resident Designer @ws_abbasi who’s been working as Assistant Designer with @tuttifruttiprod on The Princess and The Pea, which will be filling our Bramall Rock Void studio space with fun, songs and, erm, peas tomorrow.
Wonderful work, Warda!

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

@DesignerKTScott Aw thank you so much!! It was an absolute pleasure, happy to help anytime! Can’t wait to see the end result, it’s already so amazing!! x

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

@dermot_daly @SameenaHX1 Thanks so much Dermot 😊

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

@MosaMpetha Congratulations!!! 🥳🙌🏽

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There's a dragon in the library!

Time for a fun-filled story from @tuttifruttiprod about a little boy with a BIG imagination, Nimesh the adventurer will surely make even the dullest journey a dazzling adventure.

https://t.co/TWUUGoS3oe

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https://t.co/t6M6luinvg (1hr 19mins in)

https://t.co/JUcFHn2uMx

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

It’s only been two weeks and already this role has been such an amazing experience! So grateful opportunities like this role exist!! ✨

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

@AmandaHuxtable @LeedsPlayhouse It was lovely seeing you today!! 😊❤️

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

@MichaelBridgma1 😂 Friday’s were definitely the best!!

[Warda Abbasi @ws_abbasi]

@amycleach @LeedsPlayhouse @tuttifruttiprod @JerwoodArts Thank you Amy!!! 😊