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designer or Art Director reading this knows, the role of construction coordinator is a most essential spoke in the creative wheel…and I have been incredibly fortunate to have these two as partners and friends. Adding to the fabulous creative forces is the Art Department of seven seasons, headed for the first season by Art Director Marika Stephens and then Cam Birnie, Assistant Art Director Lee Wilson-Silas, Set Designer Shelley Wallace, Graphic Designers, started off by Colie Matsudaira Buck, Sara Escamilla, Blair Strong, Sarah Stimpson and for the past few years by Jessica Quattrini and Art Department coordinator Atticus Blatt and a slew of wonderful PAs. Adding to that, the otherworldly contributions of the set decoration crew headed by Sandy Struth, property department led by Leonard Hancock, spectacular painters and plasterers and Scenic Artists headed by Richard Ewan and Scott Shordon and Todd Larsen, an incredible SFX team led by Chris Nelson, and on and on… A few years in, we actually had the opportunity to take the show on the road. Once to Puerto Rico, standing in for the jungles and small cities in Mexico, and another time to the country of Serbia to shoot in the city of Belgrade standing in for various Eastern European cities, as well as Paris. Both were amazing experiences that really brought so much production value to a show that already had plenty. Buoyed by both successes, we decided it was time to double-down on those adventures. While still actually unsure if a sixth season was happening and awaiting our fate, Spencer received a pitch from the Royal Jordanian Film Commission F G H I J