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2 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 9 J O H N P A I N O is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts, and began his career in the theater, working with the groundbreaking theater companies La Mama and Theater for the New City. John made the transition to film, designing The Station Agent, and going on to work with Tom McCarthy on The Visitor and Win Win. In 2011 and 2012, John began his collaboration with director Jean-Marc Vallée on the The Dallas Buyers Club. John has continued to work on all of Jean- Marc's shows, including the multi-Oscar-nominated Wild, the multi-Emmy-winning Big Little Lies and most recently, the acclaimed Sharp Objects. John was also the Production Designer for the Emmy award-winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which garnered an Emmy nomination for him for Best Art Direction in a Variety or Music Program. John's additional television work includes seasons two and three on the critically recognized The Leftovers for creators Damon Lindeloff and Tom Perrotta. S T E V E S A K L A D will tell anyone who'll listen that he's always been a musical theater guy at heart. Yale Drama School grad, a decade drafting for great Broadway designers like David Mitchell and Tony Walton, and then the siren song of a more constant income lured him to working as an Art Director on feature films, and in 1994 to Hollywood, where he lives today in the hills of Silverlake with husband Paul Hartman and their white pussycat Atticus Finch. The Front Runner marks his fifth collaboration with Jason Reitman, a partnership that went from rocky Thank You for Not Smoking to blissful Juno to thoroughly satisfying Up in the Air. He's recently had forays designing network TV—Empire, Star and the upcoming Grand Hotel, but if pressed, will still tell you the project he's proudest of remains resurrecting the Muppet Theater for that great movie musical, The Muppets. C O N T R I B U T O R S J A M E S M E R I F I E L D graduated from Birmingham University with a BA (Hons) in drama and theatre arts. James studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, gaining a post-graduate degree in theatre design. With a career starting in theatre, early works include operas for Ken Russell at the English National Opera and Bonn Opera House. This collaboration proved a springboard for James's move into television and film beginning with his design of Ken Russell's Lady Chatterley for the BBC. James has worked on such shows as Breath, Final Portrait, Mortdecai, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Final Portrait. He received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie for Little Dorrit. J O H N M Y H R E is a celebrated American Production Designer who has garnered five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for his work. In recent decades, he has been known for his long and close creative collaboration with the director Rob Marshall, on the films Chicago (2002) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)—both of which earned him Oscars—as well as the musicals Nine (2009), Dreamgirls (2006) and the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns, starring Emily Blunt in the title role. Other films titles include The Great Wall (2016), shot mostly in the People's Republic of China, Elizabeth (1998), Ali (2001) and X-Men (2000). In addition to his film Production Design work, Myhre has designed several stage and exhibition projects, including the 84th Academy Awards ceremony is 2011, and a major exhibit for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Model as Muse.