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J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 1 8 | P E R S P E C T I V E 9 C O N T R I B U T O R S S T E P H E N L I N E W E A V E R grew up in upstate NY and studied art as an undergraduate at Elmira College and did his graduate work in fine art at SUNY Albany. After graduation, he moved to the East Village in NYC to pursue his fine art interests. "As a natural progression from kinetic sculpture and performance art, I became interested in filmmaking and was lucky enough to have some opportunities come my way." Lineweaver quickly became part of the go-to crew for that era of the NYC lower budget movies, working as an Art Director for directors John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme and Emile Ardolino. He moved to LA to design The Tracey Ullman Show, as well as consult on The Simpsons. A 30-year member of the ADG, his credits also include Role Models, Blades of Glory, The Spy Next Door, Jerry Maguire, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Tommy Boy and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold. Stephen is currently working on the second season of The Orville, his latest collaboration with Seth MacFarlane, having previously collaborated with him on Ted, Ted 2 and A Million Ways to Die in the West. G E O F F R E Y M A N D E L grew up in Greenwich Village in a family of writers and editors, including LIFE magazine editors and novelists Paul and Sheila Mandel. After graduating from Tufts and Stanford and kicking around the publishing world in New York and Boston, Mandel took a career detour to NYU's graduate film program, where he wrote and directed the Student Academy Award-nominated short Kill the Director. His first industry job was as an Art Department Assistant on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and since 1995, he has been working as a Graphic Designer for films and TV shows, including Space: Above & Beyond, JAG, NCIS, Star Trek: Voyager, Spider-Man 2, Serenity, Blades of Glory, Dirt, X-Men: First Class, Gangster Squad, Parks and Recreation, Mad Men, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Muppets, Black Mass, La La Land and Downsizing. In his spare time, Mandel designs and illustrates props, blueprints and star maps for various science fiction franchises, including the Serenity blueprints, and maps of the Star Trek, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica universes. He lives in beautiful downtown Burbank. M A X I N E S H E P A R D calls herself a "near- native" of California —born in New York City, but raised in Los Angeles. From an early age, Maxine loved art, drawing and classic movies. Her interest in Graphic Design led her to Stanford University and a BA in design. After graduation, she combined her passion for film and art into the pursuit of a career in Production Design for film. Over the years, she has been privileged to design feature films, television series, pilots and commercials. Her current concentration has been in television, where she has worked with many notable producers, including John Wells, Jerry Bruckheimer and Kenya Barris. Most recently, she completed the fourth season of the series Black-ish, the first season of ABC Freeform's Grown-ish and a pilot for NBC. D A W N S N Y D E R was born in Rome, Italy, and grew up in various countries, including The Netherlands and Saudi Arabia. She finally arrived in California in her latter years of high school. She continued on to San Luis Obispo where she studied architecture and received a BA in Graphic Design. Her first entertainment industry job was as a tour guide at Universal Studios. A few connections later, and she was working on the Roger Spottiswoode film The Best of Times, as the Art Department Production Assistant. Dawn first learned the craft of Set Design and worked on films, including Field of Dreams, Back to the Future II and Van Helsing. Currently, Dawn is a Production Designer for television. Her credits include Arrested Development, Psych and Netflix's new series, Best. Worst.Weekend.Ever.