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6 P E R S P E C T I V E | M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 6 C O N T R I B U T O R S F R A N Ç O I S A U D O U Y is known for his vivid, story-driven worlds and inventive approaches to historical and contemporary settings. Audouy's most recent work is the third season of HBO's Euphoria. The season represents one of the most ambitious set-build undertakings in recent television, with 176 sets and locations. He also recently reunited with director James CINDY CHAO (bottom) and M I C H E L E Y U are a two-time Emmy-nominated, Los Angeles-based production design team with over fifteen years of experience in film and television. Their work focuses on exploring the different facets of identity, history, family and fantasy. Most recently, the duo worked on the Marvel series Wonder Man, which premiered earlier this year. Their additional credits include the Disney+ series American Born Chinese and HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show, for which they received consecutive Emmy nominations in 2022 and 2023 for Outstanding Production Design under showrunner Robin Thede. They were also nominated for the Art Directors Guild Awards for A Black Lady Sketch Show in both R U T H A M M O N is a prolific Production Designer known for creating period, fantasy and contemporary worlds. Growing up in New York, Ammon has always been a lover of the arts. She earned her bachelor's degrees in art and art history at Muhlenberg College and Oxford Polytechnic in Oxford, UK. Straight out of school, she established herself in New York's indie scene, working on acclaimed films and series such as Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, Drop Dead Gorgeous and the cult classic comedy series The State. Mangold on A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. The film, nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, extends a creative partnership that also includes Ford v Ferrari, The Wolverine and Logan. His work spans genres and scales—Ben Affleck's character-driven drama Air, Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the period fantasy films Dracula Untold and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. In television, he designed the expansive, alternate-timeline White House for Netflix's The Residence, which earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Production Design. He is currently in production on Tyrant, a limited series for Amazon/ MGM, directed by David Weil. years, as well as for Waffles + Mochi Season 1 on Netflix, produced by the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground. Cindy and Michele met during their college years at the University of California, San Diego. They began their professional partnership on a variety of indie feature projects that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW and Toronto International Film Festival, among others. They pride themselves on their hands- on and character-driven approach to production design. Together, they combine their individual experiences and efforts and build the overall look of their sets collaboratively. Cindy calls Pasadena home with her husband Dave, their son Elliot, and their dog Banjo, where days are filled with laughter and the occasional chaos that makes life all the more fun. Michele loves sharing all the strange and delicious things Los Angeles has to offer with her partner Jonathan and their twin puppies, Dot and Dilly. These projects lead her to get the job designing the pilot for the hit series Weeds, followed by many successful series, including Without a Trace, Criminal Minds and Heroes (three Emmy nominations and two ADG Award nominations). From there, Ammon began to design more complex stories with wide ranging periods, including I'm Dying Up Here, Manhattan, the true story of the 1940s top secret Manhattan Project and Amazon's first tentpole TV series, the international political thriller Jack Ryan, where Ammon simultaneously ran Art Departments in three countries. She went on to design The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and Station Eleven, both ADG Awards, the Sci-Fi fantasy series Solos, Apple's Pachinko (Emmy nomination), Nightwatching and The Boroughs. Currently, Ammon is designing season three of the award-winning Apple TV series Severance.