Tamara Deverell

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Tamara Deverell is a production designer that has worked on the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and the live action episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks. She won 2019 Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Production Design – Dramatic Series for her work on Star Trek: Discovery on the episode "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2".

Deverell was interviewed as part of the DIS Season 1 DVD & Blu-ray special feature "Designing Discovery", and the "Making Discovery" feature with the Star Trek: Discovery Official Companion.

T. Deverell and her mirror counterpart were named after her.

Career

Deverell attended Capilano University in Vancouver, completed a four-year program at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and began working in the art departments of films in Montreal at the start of the 1990s, predominantly on a plethora of television productions. In 2016 she became commissioned by the Star Trek franchise for Discovery.

After her work on Short Treks she decided to leave the franchise in 2020 in order to work on Guillermo del Toro's 2021 thriller Nightmare Alley (2021). Deverell has over the span of her career been recognized for her motion picture work with no less than twenty-seven industry award nominations to date, of which she converted twenty into wins (meaning she achieved a staggering 75% win ratio), including the single DGC Award for Discovery – having added three more wins afterwards. Her work on Nightmare Alley was in particular appreciated, earning her ten industry award nominations, winning five of them.

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