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8 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 1 9 Drew was raised in a theater family in Massachusetts, and has been building and painting sets since his childhood. He received a BFA in sculpture and painting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an MFA in stage design from the Yale School of Drama, where he studied with renowned stage designer Ming Cho Lee. Drew received numerous awards for stage designs in regional theaters throughout the US before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a film career. A L E C C O N T E S TA B I L E is a native Southern Californian and graduate of Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Television. After receiving Dodge College's Cecil Award for Production Design, Alec worked on the film The Amazing Spider-Man under the tutelage of J. Michael Riva. Soon after, he was offered a position on the AMC series Mad Men, working alongside Production Designer Dan Bishop for three seasons. While on the show, Alec learned invaluable lessons about the importance of accuracy in historical design and its increasingly greater role in storytelling. Since then, Alec has gained experience in a dynamic range of projects, including the Assistant Art Director on period pieces Battle of the Sexes and Feud: Bette and Joan. As a Production Designer, his work includes independent features, award-winning commercials, YouTube Premium series Rhett and Link's Buddy System, and a healthy mix of iconic music videos for artists, including Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Camila Cabello, Flying Lotus and The Weeknd. Alec lives with his wife Dagmarette in Silver Lake. K E I T H C U N N I N G H A M was an architectural studies and fine arts major at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana before he decided to switch gears and pursue his dream of making movies. Enrolling as a graduate Production Design Fellow at the American Film Institute, the wheels were set in motion. C O N T R I B U T O R S G R E G B E R R Y is a film Production Designer and a 20-year veteran in the craft of Art Direction and Production Design. Educated at University of Oregon's School of Architecture, he applied his graduate degree toward an apprenticeship position as a Junior Set Designer on the television series Star Trek: Voyager. Since then, his career work includes thirty-two films with several critically acclaimed projects such as 3:10 to Yuma, J. Edgar and Kathryn Bigelow's fact-based 1967 drama Detroit. In 2005, he shared the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for Memoirs of a Geisha under the direction of two-time, Academy Award-winning Production Designer John Myhre. Recently, he has completed Production Design work for directors Joe Russo, Brian Kirk and J.C. Chandor. D R E W B O U G H T O N is a two-time Emmy nominee who has strengthened an array of projects through his impressive storyworlds. Drew has built myriad worlds in film, television and on stage, working in genres ranging from fantasy to drama. He is most acclaimed for his work on Amazon's series The Man in the High Castle, which required him to develop a dystopian 1960s America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan after the Axis Powers won the war. Additionally, he served as the Production Designer on Netflix's Hemlock Grove, along with Universal's The Man with the Iron Fists, starring Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and RZA, who also directed the film and co-wrote the script with Eli Roth. Before transitioning into Production Design, Drew was an Art Director on films, including Lionsgate's The Expendables, starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, Universal's The Skeleton Key, starring Kate Hudson, and DreamWorks' House of Sand and Fog, starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley. Some of his Art Direction is also seen in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which grossed over $1 billion worldwide. Additionally, Drew worked with legendary director Tony Scott as an Art Director on the films Domino, Deja Vu and Unstoppable. C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 1 1