2022 Set Building Workshop

This workshop will provide trainees with:

• Hands-on training experience in film/TV set building techniques and concepts

• Confidence so that graduates feel prepared to work within the art department on an actual set

• Techniques for collaborating and working with an art director, and other key departments

• An understanding of departmental roles and operations

• Knowledge of what set building entails

Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be referable for assistant positions on upcoming film and television productions.

ELSA RINDE – ART DIRECTOR

Elsa is a Scenic and Production Designer based in Brooklyn. She holds an M.F.A in scenic design from the Yale School of Drama, where she was a recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design. She also holds a B.A. in theater from Barnard College. She is a local 829 member, and currently works as an Assistant Art Director. Recent TV credits include Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (HBO) and Extrapolations (Apple TV). Production design credits include the short films: An Occurrence at Arverne, Roost, Vuka, Dodge is Dead and ¡Topes!. Art directing credits include Hangdog, Columbarium, Jack and Jill and Candace. She previously worked as an art department assistant and clearance coordinator on multiple television shows including The Deuce (HBO), The Sinner (NBCU), Gotham (WB), and Elementary (CBS).

ANNIE SIMEONE MORALES – PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Annie Simeone is a New York based Production Designer working in the Film and TV industry since 2007. Her background in ceramics, sculpture, classical painting, art history and science bring a multidisciplinary approach and distinctive eye to her set designs. Her design work can be seen in the 2019 SXSW premiered comedic-thriller, VILLAINS for BRON Studios, the feature adaptation of the period musical, HELLO AGAIN as well as the psychological drama, BRAID, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, and she most recently designed the UNTITLED RAY ROMANO PROJECT.  She also recently served as the Art Director on Ryan Murphy’s feature film THE BOYS IN THE BAND, as well as the Netflix series DASH & LILY.

JEFFREY FRANCIS – BEST BOY

 Jeffrey Francis is a Poughkeepsie resident and participant in previous Stockade Works trainings including their Bootcamp, Camera Workshop and Grip/Electric Workshop. Francis has since worked as a construction grip for features filmed here in the Hudson Valley.

BILL CHESSER – KEY FOREMAN, CARPENTER

Bill Chesser has been a resident of the Hudson Valley for most of his life. He graduated from Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts and has been building scenery since 1998. He began his career as a scenic artist at Scenic Technologies in New Windsor, NY where he specialized in sculpting and became a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 311. He also worked for other local scenery fabricators; Beyond Imagination and Czinkota Studios. He transitioned into the field of carpentry and custom home construction in 2004, working for Handcrafted Builders in Rhinebeck, NY. In 2005, he met his  future wife and followed her to New Mexico where he fell into the film industry and transferred his union membership to the I.A.T.S.E. Local 480 Motion Picture Studio Mechanics Union. From 2005 to 2011 he built sets as a carpenter and sculptor for movies and television shows including Breaking Bad, Marvel Studio’s The Avengers, Thor, 3:10 to Yuma, No Country For Old Men, Terminator Salvation, The Book of Eli, and Cowboys and Aliens. In 2011 Bill moved back to Upstate NY and worked in local scenery shops again. He became a project manager at Bernhard Link Theatrical for four years, a company that specializes in lighting and building scenery for New York City’s Fashion Week, and corporate events for clients including Tiffany and Co. and Macy’s. In 2018, Bill went back into the film industry as a carpenter for I.A.T.S.E. Local 52 Motion Picture Studio Mechanics Union. With them, he has worked on John Wick 3, Joker, The Gilded Age, and most recently Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. Bill was initiated into Local 52 on April 9th, 2022.

MARCELE A. MITSCHERLICH – SCENIC ARTIST CHARGE

Marcele A.Mitscherlich is a professional Scenic artist, Designer, and Multimedia Artist who has been working in theater and film in NYC for over 25 years. She is a proud member of United Scenic Artist Local 829 New York City and earned her BFA in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts NYC. Her Broadway credits include Book of Mormon, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Les Miserable, Pippin, King Kong and Finding Neverland. She worked on Television Shows such as Sesame Street, Sound of Music Live and Peter Pan Live. In addition, she has helped create the Christmas windows for Saks with Avenue and Macy’s. Marcele collaborated with New Paltz’s Denizen Theater several times, in 2020 she designed and built an installation for True Love Will Always Find You in the End, which was featured in the New York Times, and designed and painted the well received production of 2021’s Apples in Winter. Her most recent Episodic Television work includes Apple TV’s Severance and the Hudson Valleys newest HBO production of Pretty Little Liars ‘Original Sin’. Marcele lives in New Paltz with her three children. “It’s my pleasure to collaborate with the Stockade Works professional crew to help educate our community”.

DEANA LEBLANC – SCENIC ARTIST ASSISTANT

Deana Rose LeBlanc was born in Kingston, NY. She graduated from Bard College in 2015 with a B.S. in Film Production. While at Bard, Deana began volunteering every year at the Woodstock Film Festival where she met Laurent Rejto and became connected with the Hudson Valley Film Commission. Getting to know the crew and talent in this community led to opportunities to work locally on numerous films. She worked as a Set P.A, Office PA, Set Dresser, Locations Scout, Carpenter, Production Designer, actor and casting scout, before finding a home in the Scenic Department. Credits include The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Shirley, Skin, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin ( Season 1).