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1 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 9 K A Y L E E grew up in Lisle, Illinois, a small suburb outside of Chicago. After training in visual arts and urban studies at Brown University, Kay began designing short films and low-budget features before working on Alexandre Moor's Blue Caprice. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, two Gotham Awards and the Sundance Audience Award. Following this success, Kay went on to work with such innovative directors as Spike Lee (Da Sweet Blood of Jesus), Ben Younger (Bleed for This) and Karyn Kusama (Destroyer). Her most recent feature project is All Day and a Night, written and directed by Joe Robert Cole, the award- winning co-writer of Black Panther. Destroyer was recently released by Annapurna Pictures. In addition to her feature work, Kay has been the Production Designer on two Netflix television shows, Girlboss and On My Block, as well as the two-time Golden Globe-nominated series Insecure. D E S M A M U R P H Y is from Pasadena, CA, where she discovered her passion for film design at the early age of fifteen. She received her BA & BFA in architecture from Otis Parsons School of Design & Whittier College, then continued with her MFA from NYU—Tisch School in Theater and Film Design. She is an award-winning theater designer. Awards include: LA Ovations, LA Drama Critics Circle & Valley Theater League. While she was at NYU, she had the privilege of meeting Production Designer Bill Brzeski who gave her the opportunity to work on her first studio film, Stuart Little 2. She has been Bill's Supervising Art Director on Aquaman, The Fate of the Furious, War Dogs, Furious 7, Iron Man 3 and The Hangover Part II. She has worked on a vast variety of films over the past nineteen years that have given her the opportunity to work all over the world. She looks forward to the environments that are yet to be created. C O N T R I B U T O R S J O H N F O X was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and then the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). John has produced story ideas and images on thousands of productions from the biggest budgeted and most successful blockbusters (for example, Aquaman 2018), to films that achieved cult classic status (such as The Conjuring 2013). The films he has had the opportunity to have worked on brought in over six-billion dollars at the box office worldwide in the last six years alone. John loves collaborative genre filmmaking—he works with several longtime groups of friends who work hard and love what they do. He is happily married to his wife of ten years, with whom he has two sons that inspire him every day. C H A S E K L I B E R studied writing and directing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Straight out of school, he lucked into a job in the Art Department, and couldn't be more thankful for the fortuitous—and wholly unexpected—direction his early career has taken. Although his primary focus is now on writing, he considers his true education in both storytelling and filmmaking to have come from his experiences in the Art Department; whether as a PA (Homeland season one, Iron Man 3, Sleepy Hollow, Furious 7), an Art Department coordinator (Aquaman reshoots), or a digital asset manager (2019's Call of the Wild). He always considers it a privilege to get to be part of a design team—for whatever small things he can contribute—and is continuously inspired by the high levels of imagination, ingenuity and craft that he's been able to witness.