Nancy Anna Brown
Nancy Anna Brown (born 8 February 1968; age 57) is a Set Designer who worked on Star Trek Beyond under production designer Scott Chambliss since September 2014. [1]
Between 1992 and 1995, Brown studied interior design at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia. She then worked for several architecture and design firms including Kasian Kennedy Architects and Siematic before she founded Inner Designwerks Inc., a company offering Interior Design Services, Art Direction and Set Design. Brown is also an amateur photographer. [2]
One of her first film credits as art department production assistant was for Beautiful Joe (2000). She then worked as set designer on the television thriller Quarantine (2000), Along Came a Spider (2001, with Anton Yelchin and Billy Burke and music by Jerry Goldsmith), Cats & Dogs (2001), The Core (2003, with Glenn Morshower, Bruce Greenwood, Matt Winston, and Alfre Woodard), X2 (2003, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, and Bruce Davison, produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter, and written, directed and produced by Bryan Singer), A Wrinkle in Time (2003), Battlestar Galactica (2003), Fantastic Four (2005), The Fog (2005), The Pink Panther (2006), and Men in Trees (2006-2007) and Supernatural (2007).
As assistant art director, Brown worked on Paycheck (2003), The L Word (2004), Fierce People (2005, with Anton Yelchin), RV (2006, with Rob LaBelle and Brian Markinson), Are We Done Yet? (2007, with Tahj D. Mowry), and Wind Chill (2007).
Further credits as set designer include Passengers (2008), 2012 (2009), The A-Team (2010, with Maury Sterling, Alex Madison, Jimmy Ortega, and Dwight Schultz), Fairly Legal (2011), Red Riding Hood (2011), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, with Simon Pegg and produced by J.J. Abrams), The Grey (2011), The Cabin in the Woods (2012, with Chris Hemsworth), Big Time Movie (2012), Rogue (2013), and Elysium (2013, starring Matt Damon, with Faran Tahir and Julian Christopher). Her work on Elysium earned her an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Fantasy Film in 2014 which she shared with Trek alumni Don Macaulay and Syd Mead.
Brown later worked as assistant art director on The 100 and as set designer on Godzilla (2014), Tomorrowland (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino, and production design by Scott Chambliss), and Warcraft (2016, with Clancy Brown and set design by Peter Stratford).