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“Caity Birmingham is largely responsible for the look and feel of my show. She has the best combination of creativity and practicality of anyone I’ve ever worked with and is very funny too.”
“Production designer Caity Birmingham deserves special praise for furnishing the family house in a way that allows every wall picture, every weathered trinket and bit of furniture to unobtrusively but eloquently limn out the history of its inhabitants.”
Apartment Therapy Home Tour
Caity Birmingham is a production designer for movies and TV and a prop stylist for commercials and photo shoots. And if you’d guess her home is a stage for stunning decor and art, you’d be right. “I was working on a movie upstate and searching for a place in Brooklyn on the weekends, and not having much luck. Then I found this open house on Craigslist, and I fell in love with it,” explains Caity. “It’s in a bit of strange spot in between neighborhoods, and definitely not a beautiful brownstone on a tree-lined street, but it has a lot of original details, super-high ceilings, wood floors, and great light. That the location is unassuming makes it more of a hidden gem.” Below, Caity shares just a few of her secrets to decorating a home affordably, quickly, and beautifully.
SparkChamber INterview
Striking a good balance between following a path and blazing your own trail pops to mind as #sparkchamber welcomes production designer Caity Birmingham. Caity grew up in the Midwest and attended film school in Chicago — “I went to school for directing but discovered I much prefer directing inanimate objects to directing actors. I enjoy working in the art department because it still allows me to participate in character development, backstory, tone, mood and setting in a very hands-on way.”
“Thanksgiving Play”
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Now, “The Thanksgiving Play” has made it to Broadway, where it is in previews and is set to open on April 20 at the Helen Hayes Theater. This production, directed by Rachel Chavkin, includes a multimedia element not seen in the Off Broadway version: a series of filmed scenes, featuring children who act out cutesy Thanksgiving pageantry — think feathers and pilgrim attire — while also giving voice to some of the casual brutality with which white American culture has long portrayed Native Americans.
“The Adults”
Screen DAILY REVIEW
The small-town dysfunctional family drama has been a staple of American cinema since the word ‘indie’ was first uttered, and it’s hard to see how even the most inventive creator could find any new spins on it. But perfect casting and one really strong tweak helps enormously and, while Dustin Guy Defa doesn’t entirely break new ground with downbeat comedy-drama The Adults, he sets an engagingly off-kilter tone with a poignant work that occupies a dramatic space somewhere between Kenneth Lonergan and Whit Stillman – or that might be described as mumblecore Chekhov with a side order of Looney Tunes cartoon vocals.
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“This is a specific post but if you are looking for a production designer, Caity Birmingham is largely responsible for the look and feel of my show. She has the best combination of creativity and practicality of anyone I’ve ever worked with and is very funny too- though it’s yet to be on camera, she has put large collections of hockey pucks and pine cones in my home.”
Interview AT Pushing Pixels
Continuing the ongoing series of interviews with creative artists working on various aspects of movie and TV productions, today I’m honored to welcome Caity Birmingham. Over the last few years she held the roles of production designer, art director and set decorator on multiple feature film and TV productions, mixing it with working on sketch comedy for web and television. In this interview she talks about what drew her away from directing into the world of the art department, the frantic world of web comedy productions, and her work as the art director on the film “White Bird in a Blizzard.”
