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M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 4 | P E R S P E C T I V E 9 C O N T R I B U T O R S R I C H A R D B R I D G L A N D was born in Chicago, but grew up in London. He originally trained in theater design, and worked for several years in theater, designing plays, opera and dance. After transitioning into film as an Art Director, his first credit as Production Designer was Irving Welsh's The Acid House, followed by Gangster No. 1, both directed by Paul McGuigan. He went on to design Resident H O WA R D C U M M I N G S A California native but raised mostly in Virginia, Cummings received a MFA in Set Design at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. During his early career in NY, he was mentored by playwright Horton Foote for whom he did both film and stage design. After years of loving living in New York, Howard made the move to LA to broaden his connections. Cummings has been fortunate enough to learn from and collaborate with a variable "Who's Who" of esteemed directors. His affiliations include such directors as Francis Coppola, Bryan Singer, John Schlesinger, Bruce Beresford, Danny DeVito, Renny Harlin and Chris Columbus. L A U R A F O X is a highly prolific and critically lauded Production Designer with experience across film, television, commercials and music videos. Fox was nominated for an Emmy and an ADG Award for her work on the first season of HBO's breakout hit The White Lotus, directed by Mike White. Fox most recently completed Kobi Libii's directorial debut, The American Society of Magical Negroes, for Focus Features which premiered at Sundance. She also recently worked with Evil and Alien vs. Predator with Paul Anderson. He has worked with Guy Ritchie on RocknRolla, and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows; with Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier on Serena; with Jaume Collet-Serra on Unknown, and The Commuter; and Shane Black on The Nice Guys. He has designed numerous commercials and music videos, and was nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for the music video Suit & Tie, by Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z, directed by David Fincher. In 2021, he was asked to design the Netflix live-action adaptation of One Piece, the longest-running, and biggest-selling manga, and Richard's first work in serial television. Howard's had a long-standing relationship with Steven Soderbergh for whom he worked exclusively for about 10 years designing on five films and several television projects. With Soderbergh, Cummings received an Emmy Award, an ADG Award, and a BAFTA nomination for the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, and two Emmy Awards for seasons one and two of The Knick. After that, Cummings was fortunate to be asked by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy to take on designing season two of Westworld. This marked the beginning of what developed into a now 8-year collaboration with them. Westworld season two and three garnered Emmy nominations. Johnathan Nolan has a continuing interest in emerging digital technologies. For the filming of the Westworld series, he experimented with using LED screens and full digital backings. Fallout was the opportunity to employ Volume technology as a tool to give scale to the series. For Cummings, it was an exciting learning opportunity and the beginning of a new adventure in Production Design. director Nzingha Stewart on her FX pilot Me/We, having previously teamed up with Stewart on the series From Scratch for Netflix and Hello Sunshine. Other film credits include Michael Showalter's The Eyes of Tammy Faye, starring Jessica Chastain and the hit romantic comedy- drama (500) Days of Summer. Additional television credits include Steve Conrad's modern noir drama Perpetual Grace, Ltd, starring Ben Kingsley and Jacki Weaver, and the pilot for The CW's hit show, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Fox has also been nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction, Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, The Killers' Mr. Brightside, Aerosmith's Jaded and Britney Spears' Circus, directed by Francis Lawrence. K N U T L O E W E majored in architecture at univeristy and completed the undergraduate program. At the time he lived in Stuttgart and ballet (John Cranko, Marcia Haydée) theatre and opera (Dennis Russel Davis) were very big. Several Philip Glass operas premiered in Stuttgart and the stages and stage designs were avant-garde and the talk of the town. Knut soon thought the art academy was more interesting than his architecture lectures. After working on an art-house graduation film, he decided to become a filmmaker. None of the academies and film schools in Germany offered anything design related, so, he enrolled in the Royal College of Art in London and graduated with a master of art degree in design for film and TV. He has been designing movies and TV shows ever since, and loves it.