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6 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 0 C O N T R I B U T O R S C U R T B E E C H ' S film career started after getting his FA in theatre design at CLA. is Art Direction credits include Star Trek, Greenberg, est Picture nominees The Social Network, The Help and Lincoln, winner of the Academy Award for Art Direction. Since returning to New York City, Curt has been the Production Designer on BlacKkKlansman and both seasons of She's Gotta Have It for Netflix. e has also worked on season one of both Wayward Pines for Fox and Good Behavior for TNT, on the film Carrie Pilby, on November Criminals, and on The Dangerous Book for Boys for Amazon Studios. Hunters marks Curt's first foray into the s and 's, and he hopes to go there again soon. D A V E B L A S S grew up in Ashland, assachusetts, and received his degree from Emerson College in oston. pon arriving in Los Angeles, he followed in the footsteps of many who had come before, working at Roger Corman's shop in enice, learning how to design on a dime and create a multitude of sets in every style and form. After some twenty films, he made his first foray into television Production Design on the sci-fi superhero series Black Scorpion. Since then he has worked in a wide assortment of genres. e has been nominated three times for Primetime Emmy Awards, twice for Justified and once for Constantine, and three times for the Art Directors Guild Awards, for Justified, Preacher and The Boys. M I C H A E L B R I C K E R is currently designing the first season of the Netflix international thriller Hit & Run. In addition to establishing season one of egan Abbott's Dare Me, ichael recently won both an Emmy and ADG Award for his Production Design of Russian Doll. eyond film, ichael is the founder of People For rban Progress, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that advances good design and civic sustainability through material reuse and repurposing. Through PP, ichael's work has been featured in Dwell, The Huffington Post, CityLab and the Exhibit Columbus Architecture and Design Symposium. M A R T I N C H I L D S has been Production Designer on every season of the Golden Globe-winning Netflix series The Crown, winning an Emmy for season one. e won an Academy Award for his work on Shakespeare in Love, directed by ohn adden having first worked together on Mrs Brown and more recently, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. is other credits include Quills with director Philip aufman, the ughes rothers' From Hell, Nigel Cole's hit ritish comedy Calendar Girls, . Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, ark erman's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, adonna's W/E, and ill Condon's Mr. Holmes. In all, he has received two Academy Award nominations, six AFTA nominations, two Emmy nominations and four ADG Award nominations. C O R E Y K A P L A N was born in ueens, New York. She proudly admits to being a child of the T generation. er introduction to the Art Department was working on non-union music videos with adonna, Counting Crows, and -film making with Roger Corman and Fred Olen Ray. These experiences taught her what it takes to pull a show together creatively. One of her strong passions has been a constant devotion to photography. To pay for that nonprofit art habit she taught Production Design with Gene Allen at CLA for five years while she utilized her Production Designer skills on The X-Files. Following that she designed a series for ichael ann called Robbery Homicide. She worked for seven seasons with Shonda Rhimes on her successful T series Scandal, also working on Grey's Anatomy and Station 19. Presently, Corey is working on one of the first Apple T shows Truth Be Told and now Stumptown. She is pleased that the use of technology has helped her to create beautiful works of art and call it Television.