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S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 2 4 | P E R S P E C T I V E 3 C O N T R I B U T O R S O A N A B O G D A N M I L L E R is an accomplished Art Director and Production Designer with over three decades of experience across a wide range of notable feature films and TV series. As an Art Director, Oana has contributed to high-profile films such as Twisters, Total Recall (2012), Four Christmases, and to TV series, including The Mandalorian, The Morning Show, D AV I D G R O P M A N Born in Los Angeles, California, Gropman followed his passion for art and theater as an undergraduate at San Francisco State University. Receiving an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1977, he moved to New York, designing theater, dance and opera, both regionally and internationally—including ten plays on Broadway between 1980 and 1987. In 1982, he designed filmmaker Robert Altman's Broadway C AT Y M A X E Y was born and raised in Central Virginia. She moved to New York in the early '80s and earned her MFA in Theatre and film design from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She worked under the auspices of Local 829 as Production Designer, G R E G B E R R Y A native of suburban Sacramento, Greg is a film Production Designer and a 28-year veteran in the craft of Art Direction and Production Design. Educated at University of Oregon's School of Architecture, he applied his graduate degree toward an apprenticeship position as a Jr. Set Designer on the television series, Star Trek: Voyager. directorial debut, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, then making his own debut as a Production Designer with a film version of the play. Directors he has had the pleasure of working with on a number of projects include Mr. Altman, Lasse Hallström, Robert Benton, James Ivory, John Wells and Ang Lee. Films include Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Of Mice and Men, The Cider House Rules, The Shipping News, Chocolat and Life of Pi. Also films based on the plays Marvin's Room, Doubt, August: Osage County, Fences and The Humans. Ripley, is his third collaboration with Steven Zaillian after Searching for Bobby Fischer and A Civil Action. Art Director, Scenic Artist and Set Designer for on and off—Broadway theatrical productions. Caty quickly transitioned into film and television, and after moving to Los Angeles with her ADG card, has worked solely in film and TV. Caty has been based in Hollywood for the last 25 years, and lives with her husband of two decades and their beautiful red golden retriever Judy. Mindhunter, Castle Rock, Hawaii Five-O, Silicon Valley, Ray Donovan and Criminal Minds. Her work as a Production Designer has been showcased in series like Justified, Dark Blue, The Ex List and Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, along with several short films and commercials. Oana has also been active in leadership roles, elected as Guild Treasurer for the Art Directors Guild from 2016 to 2021. She is currently serving a three-year term as the Art Directors Council Treasurer. In 2009, Oana founded PAINT:LAB, a public art studio in Santa Monica, providing a creative space for all ages. Since then, his career work includes 53 films with several critically acclaimed projects such as 3:10 to Yuma, J. Edgar and Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha, where he shared the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design with John Myhre. In 2019, after success with JC Chandor's Triple Frontier, Atlas Entertainment brought him in to early development on Uncharted, where he wrote the design framework and conceptualized the flying tall ship, third act sequence. Recently, he has completed Production Design work for directors JJ Perry, Craig Gillespie and Doug Liman.