Scenic design also known as Stage design is the creation of theatrical scenery. Scenic designers have traditionally come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but nowadays, generally speaking, they are trained professionals, often with M.F.A. degrees in scenic design. The scenic designer is responsible for collaborating with the theatre director and other members of the production staff to create an environment for the production and then communicating the details of this environment to the technical director, charge artist and props master. Scenic designers are responsible for creating scale models of the scenery, renderings, paint elevations and scale drawings as part of their communication with other production staff. The first section of this article is about the abstract notion of scene in arts and scene as in a cultural space. ... A theatre director oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... The technical director is usually the senior technical person within a single business unit of a company. ... A charge artist leads and oversees the painting of stage scenery. ... A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented. ...

see also: Scenography | set construction Scenography is the practice of making theatre including, sets, costumes and texts from a theoretical and practical point of view. ... In drama, the set (or setting) is the location of a storys action. ...

Some famous scenic designers: Gordon Craig, Franco Zeffirelli, Adolphe Appia, Jean-Pierre Ponelle, Boris Aronson, Josef Sovoboa, Santo Loquasto, Ming Cho Lee, Barry Kay, Ralph Koltai, Jo Mielziner, Peter Brook. Edward Gordon Craig (16 January 1872-29 July 1966) was a British actor, producer, director and scenic designer. ... Gianfranco Corsi (born February 12, 1923), better known as Franco Zeffirelli, is an Italian film director. ... Barry Kay (born Melbourne 1932 - died London 1985) Barry Kay, trained at the Academie Julien in Paris, was a highly talented and internationally acclaimed stage and costume designer. ... Peter Stephen Paul Brook (born 1925) is a British theatrical producer and director. ...