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6 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 3 C O N T R I B U T O R S Stoppard, Neil Simon and Richard Rodgers, while continuing to design her own work off-Broadway. Her first television job came from an offer to work on Saturday Night Live, quite the eye-opener after being a theater rat for years. Her shift into film came as the Assistant Art Director on The World According to Garp, working for Henry Bumstead and George Roy Hill. She designed films for producer Dino De Laurentiis, as well as overseeing design and construction of the original New York Chinatown backlot for his studio in Wilmington, NC. In the time since, she has designed both film and television, including My Cousin Vinny, Tales of the City, Emmy-nominated And the Band Played On, Lie to Me, Drop Dead Diva pilot, and many others. Moving with her family to New Orleans for seven seasons of NCIS: New Orleans made that city a second home. More recently, she headed to Pittsburgh where she designed the series A League of Their Own, recreating American life in the '40s. She returned to New Orleans after that to design the dystopian future of Twisted Metal, a series based on the video game. She is currently working in Atlanta on a new series for Peacock. E R I C R O S E N B E R G This spring, Eric Rosenberg is celebrating 30 years as an Art Directors Guild graphic artist and designer, the first to join as such back in 1993 with Local 816, Scenic Title & Graphic Artists. During this time, he has contributed graphics and digital imaging projects to more than 100 movie and series productions, including the recent feature film releases Babylon and 80 for Brady, the upcoming Hulu film Boston Strangler, the Peacock series Mrs. Davis, and HBO series The Sympathizer. Other notable projects include HBO's The Plot Against America series, Marvel's Daredevil, Season 3, Twin Peaks: The Return, and feature films King Richard, Dreamgirls, Almost Famous, Fight Club, The Truman Show, Jerry Maguire, The Birdcage, Forrest Gump and The Hudsucker Proxy. Eric is an ADG Board member representing the STG crafts, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughters. In addition, he also works on projects in the New York region as a member of USA 829. B E N P R O C T E R is a veteran creative designer who has been fortunate to work with some of the biggest creative minds, brands and franchises in entertainment. Currently, he is the hard-surface Production Designer for James Cameron's Avatar franchise, responsible for every element of the human world in Avatar: The Way of Water and three more planned film sequels. In this in-depth world-building role, Ben has overseen the design and construction of countless sets and vehicles, both practically and digitally through the virtual production and visual effects processes. He also works closely with Avatar franchise teams and partners, ensuring conceptual and design integrity across games, theme parks, publishing, television, corporate partnerships and more. Born in New York City, Ben moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue his Hollywood dreams. Starting with VFX and cinematic previsualization on the Matrix sequels and Pirates of the Caribbean, he quickly made the jump into Art Departments, contributing key concept design and Art Direction for Transformers (as robot designer and Art Director), Prometheus (working with Ridley Scott), Tron: Legacy (as VFX Art Director), the first Avatar (as Concept Art Director) and more. Ben made the leap into film Production Design in 2012 with Ender's Game, which he co-designed with friend Sean Haworth. Ben lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son and altogether too many dogs. V I C T O R I A PA U L is a television and film Production Designer who has worked throughout the U.S. and in Europe. After graduating art school as a sculpture major, she worked designing and building contemporary interiors in Philadelphia's colonial era homes. From there she went on to work as a prop builder at the New York Public Theater, during Joe Papp's heyday. That experience introduced her to the art of theater design, which led her to the NYU Theater program. After graduating, she worked as an assistant designer on Broadway, on plays written by Tom