ADG Perspective

July-August 2023

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4 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 3 C O N T R I B U T O R S As Production Designer, Tamara recently completed the upcoming feature Priscilla with director Sofia Copolla. Prior to that project, she designed all eight episodes of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. She received various accolades for her work on Nightmare Alley, including Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, as well as an Art Directors Guild win for Best Production Design for a Period Feature Film. Tamara completed the second season of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Short Trek in 2019. She has brought her vision to many television series, including Incorporated, produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and The Strain, produced by Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cruse. Other television credits include Anne Rice's Feast for All Saints (2001), Sounder (2003), Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime (2003, DGA and Emmy ® Award winners), Happy Town (2010), Breakout Kings (2011), as well as the first three seasons of the popular NBC series Suits, (2011-2013). S A R A H G R E E N W O O D was born in England and graduated with a BA honours in theatre design from Wimbledon School of Art/UAL. She began her career designing for the stage before she went on to work at the BBC where she contributed to the successful series Later with Jools Holland and The Late Show, as well as many other productions. Here, she won a Royal Television Society Award and received a BAFTA TV nomination for her Production Design work on the BBC award-winning drama series The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Sarah Greenwood is a six-time Academy Award- nominated Production Designer, earning her most recent acknowledgement for her work on Joe Wright's Darkest Hour and Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast, both nominated in the same year. Sarah received her previous Oscar nominations for Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Atonement (for which she won a BAFTA) and Anna Karenina, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and won an Art Directors Guild Award, The European Film Award, The Evening Standard Award and The Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award. Sarah has had the pleasure of working with Joe Wright on many other well-known films and TV miniseries, several of which have received recognition. She has also worked closely for many years with set decorator Katie Spencer, who she counts as an integral creative collaborator and longtime friend. Sarah has just finished work on Barbie with Greta Gerwig and Back to Black about Amy Winehouse. T I M B U R G A R D is a California native with a multi-faceted career in the comic book, animation, and film industries where he works as an Illustrator and storyboard artist. Highlights include comic book work for DC and others (Starman and Flare), animation (The Simpsons and G.I. Joe), and films ranging from Terminator 2, Stargate, Thor, Jurassic World and The Woman King. Television work includes the Disney + /Marvel shows Hawkeye and Secret Invasion. D AV E B L A S S grew up in Ashland, Massachusetts, and received his degree from Emerson College in Boston. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, he followed in the footsteps of many who had come before him, working at Roger Corman's shop in Venice where he learned 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. He 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. TA M A R A D E V E R E L L has over 30 years' experience in film and television. Her early career began in Montreal where she worked in the Art Department for noted Canadian designer, Francois Seguin. As an Art Director, she had the privilege of working with award-winning Production Designer Carol Spier on a variety of feature films, including David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) and eXistenZ (1999), as well as Guillermo del Toro's Mimic (1997). Deverell also worked with Academy Award ® -winning designer John Myhre as an Art Director on X-Men (2000).

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