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M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 9 | P E R S P E C T I V E 9 Despite the grim material, it was a very happy experience. By the end of the shoot, Fiona was eight months' pregnant with her second child and credits the pregnancy with keeping her warm on the freezing set and relaxed despite the steep learning curve. A year later, Fiona was working in New Zealand with Jane Campion on the first season of Top of the Lake. Working with Jane was a daily master class, not only in film craft but also in the art of being a human. And so the ball began to roll. Macbeth brought Fiona to London in 2014 and she fell in love with her crew, the resources and the city, and in 2015, Fiona and family rolled the dice and moved to London. Once the container was loaded, the house sold and the ship had sailed, the news came that The Favourite had pushed by a year. That was a tense day. One year later, The Favourite was filmed in spring 2017. It was worth the wait. H E N R Y D U N N is a two-time Emmy Award winning designer for film and television. In addition to The Romanoffs (Amazon), he has designed The Central Park Five (Netflix), Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon), Happyish (Showtime), Flesh and Bone (STARZ) and the pilots for Bull (CBS) and Deception (ABC) and has been an Art Director on among others, Third Watch, Sopranos, Mad Men (pilot), The Knick and Ocean's 8. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and sometimes cannot believe he is paid to do this. Henry lives in Brooklyn with his brilliant wife and two children. C H R I S B R O W N is a native New Englander who landed on the West Coast in Seattle, pursing an MFA in theatre and opera design at the University of Washington. To complete the degree, that program required finding an internship, which turned out to be an Art PA job on a TV show filming on the Warner Bros. lot. Welcome to Los Angeles, welcome to "show business." In the twenty years since, he has worked as an Art Director and designed content for features, television, and now streaming media. Interesting stories, interesting characters and interesting people are the connective tissue for projects across many genres: period, fantasy, contemporary, drama, comedy and musical. Judging Amy, Twilight, Glee, Straight Outta Compton, Nocturnal Animals, Bright and Mad Men highlight the Art Direction side, while Production Design work includes seasons of Insecure, Halt and Catch Fire, Boss and most recently, The Romanoffs. He lives with his wife and two teens in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. F I O N A C R O M B I E is an Australian Production Designer living in London. Fiona trained in theatre design and worked in Australian theatre for a decade. After designing many great plays, including Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Hedda Gabler, she decided to throw it all up in the air and try her luck in film. TV commercials, short films and video clips became Fiona's film school. She learned on the job. In 2010, Justin Kurzel, an old friend and theatre collaborator, asked her to be the Production Designer on The Snowtown Murders, the first feature for them both. C O N T R I B U T O R S