Nico Scabini is an Argentine Production Designer, Art Director, Set Designer, and Costume Designer, naturalized Mexican, he studied Stage Direction, Scenography, and Characterization at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova as a Set Designer and continued his studies in Set and Costume Design at the Instituto de Diseño Escénico Saulo Benavente. He completed his studies in Film Production, Photography and Cinematography, and Art Direction at the Argentine Film Industry Union. He has also worked in theater direction and opera stage direction, as well as in film and commercial production. In Argentina, he worked alongside renowned Set and Art Directors including Miguel Ángel Lumaldo, Marcelo Salvioli, Abel Faccello, Daniel Feijoo, Rafael Reyeros, and Emilio Basaldúa, among others. His credits as a Set and Costume Designer include the operas Die Fledermaus, Aurora, Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, The Beggar’s Opera, La Bohème, El Matrero, Lakmé, Samson and Delilah, The Daughter of the Regiment, Carmen, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Medium, Così fan tutte, and Madama Butterfly, among many others. His ballet credits include Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Petrushka, Giselle, and El amor brujo, among others. These productions were presented at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Avenida, Teatro Argentino de La Plata, Teatro Libertador in Córdoba, and the Metaponto Festival in Italy. His theater credits also include Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, Beckett’s Endgame, Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Seagull, Marco Antonio de la Parra’s Infidels, Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, among others. He worked as a Set and Costume Designer alongside directors including Eduardo Rodríguez Arguibel, Constantino Juri, Cristina Morini, Chete Cavagliatto, Beni Montresor, and Alejandro Cervera in both opera and theater. As a Production Designer and Art Director, he collaborated with directors including Jaime Chavarri, Belén Gayan, Víctor García, Félix Fernández de Castro, Juan Bautista Stagnaro, Beda D’Ocampo Feijoo, Gregorio Cramer, Carlos Sorín, Pablo Flenher, Augusto Giménez Zapiola, Eddie Flenher, and Fabián Bielinsky on commercial and feature film productions. His credits include Las cosas del querer II, Evita, Seven Years in Tibet, Casas de fuego, Invierno Mala Vida, and El mundo contra mí, among others. Since 2008, he has been based in Mexico, where he has had the opportunity to work as an Art Director for Production Designers including Brigitte Broch, Salvador Parra, Antonio Muñohierro, and Sandra Cabriada, among others. Since then, he has continued his work as an Art Director and Production Designer across commercials, feature films, and television series. His credits include Texas Rising, directed by Roland Joffé; Everybody Loves Somebody, directed by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta; Captive, directed by Jerry Jameson; El Elegido, directed by Jaime Chavarri, winner of the Ariel Award for Best Art Direction; Diablo Guardián, directed by Sebastián Silva, Hiromi Kamata, and Rodrigo Santos for Amazon Prime Video; Luis Miguel: The Series, directed by Humberto Hinojosa and Natalia Beristáin; Crime Diaries: Colosio for Netflix; Lucha de Gigantes, a feature film directed by Humberto Hinojosa; and Crime Diaries: The Search for Netflix. He has also designed events including concerts, fashion shows, digital mapping projects, and museum exhibitions. He has participated in the design and installation of exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Mexico. In Mexico, he was part of the team commissioned for the Bicentennial celebrations of Mexican Independence through the Comisión Organizadora de la Conmemoración del Bicentenario del inicio del movimiento de Independencia Nacional y del Centenario del inicio de la Revolución Mexicana, under the direction of Rafael Tovar y de Teresa and José Manuel Villalpando. As part of this project, he participated in the design and installation of the National Palace Gallery and its first two exhibitions: Mexico 200 Years: The Homeland Under Construction, curated by Professor Miguel Ángel Fernández, with research conducted by a team of historians led by Dr. Miguel Soto Estrada and coordinated by Juan Manuel Corrales Calvo; and Royal Palaces of Spain and Mexico. In 2017, he was commissioned to design and install Carne y Arena, the virtual reality installation created by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Among his most recent projects are Saria, a short film written, produced, and directed by Bryan Buckley, nominated for the 2020 Academy Awards; Coyote, an original Sony/Paramount production created by David Graziano, Michael Carnes, and Josh Gilbert, produced and directed by Michelle MacLaren; and Acapulco, a Lionsgate production for Apple TV+, which ran for four seasons. His most recent film projects include Jugaremos en el bosque, a horror feature and the directorial debut of Alejandra Cárdenas and Guillermo Granillo, and the short film La Cascada, written and directed by Pablo Delgado.