Starlette Staging
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Artistic Approach
As a professional artist I bring the full depth of my creative prowess to the table. The biggest strength I bring to a team, is marrying lofty ideas to a grounded reality that is achievable given the parameters of the contract. The middle path between the two, is seen not as an obstacle, but as a driver to a final product everyone up and down the line can be proud of and stand behind.
Resume
Art by Association
Production Designer
"True Crime: Los Angeles"
"True Crime: New York"
Alfred Street Industries
(Netflix 2024)
As the “Head of Department” on my second project produced by Dick Wolf my responsibilities included disseminating information, and extrapolating our physical and material needs to complete the project. In consideration of our budgetary limitations, I hired a team of professionals to assist me in executing the clients vision.. A construction team and I built 14 sets with a rotating schedule of builds and strikes happening on a daily basis. Working in tandem with a Prop Master, we created a cohesive “look” that thematically fit the project, and differentiated between New York and Los Angeles seasons.
Set Decorator
"Who Do You Believe"
Bright Road Productions
(ABC 2022)
Single Handedly designed and decorated the interview sets on a show centered around witness testimony. The creative vision was to create diametrically opposed sets, contrasting in space and tone, to convey the stark difference between subjects point of view. In order to create seamless splitscreens, I extensively measured sets so that dimensions of the room and elements balanced one another across sets that were filmed on different days, in different locations. The designs then lended themselves to what we dubbed “shadow recreation”, where by remaking the sets with our recreation team, we were able to have actors play out scenes with the interview subject seemingly in the room with them.
Art Director
"Phrogging: Living Amongst Us"
Bright Road Productions
(Lifetime 2022)
"Phrogging" was a highly stylized project that required collaboration between the Art and Camera departments to tell the story of people living in the nooks and crannies of people's lives. In order to effectively convey the strange places people would inhabit, we often built "camera fakes" using forced perspective and the element of scale.
"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."