The Art Directors Guild
Dina Lipton (President) is a Motion Picture and Television Production Designer based in Los Angeles. Throughout her 38-year career, she has designed a variety of projects from serious period dramas to dark comedies, along with family friendly television comedy. Her feature credits include the critically acclaimed Mr. Holland’s Opus, Ice Cube’s Next Friday, Kevin Smith’s Mallrats, and Albert Brooke’s The Muse. Television credits include Hulu’s comedy This Fool, Not Dead Yet for ABC TV and the groundbreaking family comedy The Real O’Neals. Dina was nominated for her work on the drama Jack and Bobby for Excellence in Production Design for a Single Camera Television Series from the Art Directors Guild. As a member of the Television Academy, she serves on the Peer Group Executive Committee, and serves on the Production Design Branch Executive Committee of the Motion Picture Academy. Currently, Dina is the President of The Art Directors Guild Local 800.
Shelley A. Wallace has been making television and film projects come to life as an art director and set designer in the entertainment industry for the past 28 years. She has been an integral part of designing numerous television shows such as Moesha, The Agency, Leverage, The Office and the current CBS dramas, SEAL Team & Black Mafia Family on STARZ. Her film credits include Tuskegee Airmen, Mr. Deeds, Akeelah and The Bee and King Kong, Skull Island.
In 1996, Ms. Wallace became the first African-American women set designer for I.A.T.S.E., Local 847 (the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Motion Picture Technicians & Allied Crafts). In 1998, she became an art director as a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 800, (the Art Directors Guild). In 2017, Ms. Wallace received her first ADG Award nomination for set design as part of the design team for the television HBO comedy series, Veep.
Throughout her career, Ms. Wallace has instructed production design courses for the Art Institute of Los Angeles, designed for non-profit and theatre projects and has taken part in various career panels for national groups such as Design Minds, Inc., the President’s Council of Cornell Women, Cornell In Hollywood & The Pan-African Film Festival. She is currently a member of the Art Directors Guild (ADG) board of directors, ADG & IATSE national Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committees.
Samuel Tung is a storyboard artist for film, animation, and video games whose recent projects include Twisters, Sunny, X-Men '97, and Metroid Prime 4. He is a proud member of the Art Directors Guild, Animation Guild, and Concept Art Association where he is working to protect artists from theft and job displacement in the face of generative AI. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and studied English at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
Sarah M. Gonzalez is a Los Angeles based graphic designer for Film and Television with more than 17 years of experience. Her work can be seen in music videos for top artists like Megan Thee Stallion, A$AP Rocky, and Flo Milli, and in the shows American Born Chinese, Drunk History, and Netflix’s Waffles and Mochi, starring 2 puppets and Michelle Obama. As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Sarah dreamt of becoming a paleontologist after seeing the movie Jurassic Park, but quickly realized that was too hard and decided to become a graphic designer instead. After earning a degree in Advertising from Michigan State University, she moved to Los Angeles and began her entertainment career working in various art department roles. She eventually found her way into film graphic design and was finally eligible to join the Art Directors Guild in 2017.
Sarah specializes in creating scripted graphic elements which can include things like vintage newspapers, storefronts, packaging, t-shirt designs, posters, and vehicle graphics to name a few. In her spare time, Sarah still enjoys a good dinosaur movie, studying restaurant menus, and taking photos of her tuxedo cat Zola. Other credits include: Dave on FX, all 4 seasons of the Emmy-nominated A Black Lady Sketch Show, Double Dare, Kindred, and an upcoming Marvel series she can’t talk about yet.
With over 30 years of experience in design for film, television and theater, Mark Worthington started his career in film while still a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama working with production designer Cletus Anderson on George Romero and Dario Argento’s film Two Evil Eyes, an adaptation of two Edgar Allan Poe short stories. This early experience in the horror genre was foundational to Worthington’s later work on the acclaimed FX series American Horror Story for which he designed the first five seasons.
Worthington’s designs for television also include the pilot of Lost, four seasons of Ugly Betty, and the pilot for Once Upon a Time; Political Animals for TNT, the pilot for Star Trek: Discovery - the return of the franchise to its original home on television; the pilot for The Umbrella Academy for Netflix, Rob McElhenney’s Mythic Quest for Apple, the pilot for Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Watchmen for HBO, the first season of the Paramount+ series Why Women Kill, and the Marvel streaming series WandaVision directed by Matt Shakman, a long-time collaborator.
Work in feature film as an art director include the classic western Tombstone, Posse, The Chamber, Wag the Dog, Hearts in Atlantis, Austin Powers 3, and Legally Blonde 2. Worthington recently designed the film Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and Lisa Frankenstein for Focus Features. A recipient of 13 nominations for the Art Director’s Guild award for outstanding production design, Worthington and his teams have won the award six times. He has been nominated for nine Emmys, winning for the design of the streaming series WandaVision.
Worthington helped establish the MFA program in Production Design at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and continues to teach the advanced production design course as well as the master’s thesis class. A member of the Art Directors Guild for over thirty years, Worthington was the Art Directors Craft Council Chair for five years and currently holds a seat on the ADG Board of Directors. Worthington holds a BA in Theatre from Reed College and an MFA in Scene Design from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.