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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 0 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 3 C O N T R I B U T O R S C R A I G L A T H R O P grew up in Southern California and began his career designing sets and lighting for theatre before moving over to the Art Department. Like many in the Art Department, he started as a Set Designer and Art Director in television and then film. Early projects included television shows such as In Living Color and Seinfeld and as an Assistant Art Director on Copycat under Production Designer Jim Clay. He eventually moved to New York, where he met a beautiful Canadian...and is now a dual US/Canadian citizen living in Toronto. The Lighthouse is the second production Craig has designed for director Robert Eggers, having earlier designed The Witch back in 2015. Craig is currently working in Belfast on their third collaboration. M A R K R I C K E R grew up in North Carolina and Colorado wanting to work in movies before he even knew what that meant. His first scenic design was for a community theater production of Ain't Misbehavin'. He was lucky to get a foot in the door on films made in North Carolina in the late '80s, and discovered the Art Department on his first movie, Bull Durham. While working as a set dresser on The Last of the Mohicans, Ricker decided to pursue further training and was admitted to NYU—Tisch School of the Arts. He's been a New Yorker ever since. Ricker has received three nominations by the Art Directors Guild for Excellence in Production Design —for Julie & Julia, The Help and Trumbo. He's received Primetime Emmy nominations for Barry Levinson's You Don't Know Jack and Ben Stiller's acclaimed series Escape at Dannemora. Bombshell is Ricker's third collaboration with Jay Roach. He has designed 28 films, among them Snatched, Get on Up, The Judge, the Sundance hit The Way Way Back and John Sayles' Sunshine State. Most recently, Ricker designed Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—based on the play by August Wilson—bookending, at least at this moment—Ain't Misbehavin'. B O B S H A W is a two-time Emmy Award- winning Production Designer of film and television. His designs for film include The Irishman and The Wolf of Wall Street, Too Big to Fail and the upcoming Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. As Production Designer of HBO's The Sopranos, he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards. He received the Emmy for the pilot episode of AMC's Mad Men and HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Other television credits include Showtime's Nurse Jackie, Pan Am and the pilot episode of HBO's Vinyl. He studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and was initially a theatrical Set Designer. His extensive work with New York's Public Theater resulted in designing the Broadway revival of The Pirates of Penzance, starring Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline, the original Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and numerous productions for Shakespeare in the Park.