Emmy-Nominated Artisans of ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Abbott Elementary’ and More On Defying Tropes and Crafting the Unexpected This Season
09.08.2023 - 23:21
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Sophia Scorziello editor This season, television was pushed to its limits and into spaces that teetered genres and kept audiences guessing. From an improv show about a fake court trial to mockumentaries about public schools and vampires, a sci-fi drama about nuns, the 2023 Emmy nominations were a grab bag full of interesting television, and artisans helped take them even further.
Variety’s Creative Collaborators: The Nominees brunch, hosted by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay, brought together this year’s Emmy-nominated casting directors, designers, editors and other exciting creators to reflect on how they defied tropes and took fresh approaches to TV. Panel guests included Tom Campbell, EP of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”; Susie Farris, casting director on “Jury Duty”; Chris Gehrt, casting director on “Abbott Elementary”; Yana Gorskaya, editor for “What We Do in The Shadows”; Michael Harte, picture editor for “Still: A Michael J.
Fox Movie”; Charlene Lee, casting director on “Beef”; Arlene Martin, department head hairstylist for “P-Valley”; Brett Morgen, director, producer, editor and music editor on “Moonage Daydream”; Jamie Hartman, songwriter for “Ted Lasso”; Melissa McCoy, editor on “Ted Lasso”; Bryan Parker, supervising sound editor for “Mrs. Davis”; Judy Rhee, production designer on “Poker Face”; and Mitchell Travers, costume designer on “George & Tammy.” For Morgen, creating the spacey David Bowie tribute “Moonage Daydream,” forced him think outside of the norm, fusing a documentary with a musical drama, the only way to properly pay homage to the musician.
As a producer and music editor on the film, he used sound to push the envelope in documentaries. “The sound work really began in the writing phase by
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