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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 1 3 She has been working as a Production Designer since 2014, most recently with Sam Esmail on Mr. Robot (for which she won an ADG Award for season two) and Homecoming. She is currently living in NYC with her husband, Production Designer Matt Munn, and is designing the final season of Mr. Robot. V A L D A R W I L T has enjoyed nearly thirty years in film and television. Navigating his way through the ranks of prop maker, Assistant Art Director, Art Director and finally, Production Designer. Valdar's career includes notable television projects such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and CSI: NY, along with feature films such as RoboCop 2, The Siege and The Perfect Storm. His most recent television credits as Production Designer along with American Horror Story are for Bones, which he designed for six seasons and the Fox show Ghosted. He is the recipient of an MTV Award for Best Art Direction for the iconic Fat Boy Slim video, Weapon of Choice. Coming up through the ranks of set construction gives him a unique ability to deliver a product with vision and regard for efficiency. Val is someone with a passion for his work and not afraid to get his hands dirty. He's the real deal "MacGyver," who can often be seen adding another layer of aging or dialing in one last design detail personally. Born in Reno, Nevada, Valdar currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, with his wife, television producer Shawn Wilt, and their daughter Haley. When not designing, he enjoys racing in his vintage Porsche 911 race car. P A T R I C E V E R M E T T E is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and international award- winning Canadian Production Designer. In 1991, following his studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Patrice started his career designing music videos and television commercials. His feature film career took off in 2005 after the release of the Canadian independent coming-of- age movie C.R.A.Z.Y.. The film received international critical acclaim and public attention. Patrice followed up with Jean-Marc Vallee's next film project, The Young Victoria, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination in 2010. Patrice's recent film credits include Hany Abu-Assad's The Mountain Between Us, Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, Prisoners, Sicario and Arrival, gaining his second Oscar nomination in 2017 for the latter. Vice marks the first collaboration between Adam McKay and Patrice. A N A S TA S I A W H I T E was born and grew up in the desert in Tucson, Arizona. She worked in the music business and concert promotion during her college years at Arizona State University where she graduated with a degree in business and entrepreneurship. After deciding she wanted to pursue a more creative route, she went on to their graduate school for architecture. After a few years of working in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design, she moved to New York City to join Mark Friedberg's team on Morning Glory and Mildred Pierce. Her path went from production assistant to art coordinator (Kill Your Darlings) to assistant (Moonrise Kingdom) to Art Director (Girls) and finally, on to Production Designer. C O N T R I B U T O R S