FOR FILM, TELEVISION, MUSIC VIDEO, & COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY & SAN FRANCISCO.

National Associate Member of the Television Academy

Associate Member of the Set decorators society of america

I'm a queer Chicano-Boricua who is passionate about telling the stories of LGBTQIA+ communities, racial justice issues, and facilitating dialogue for change. 

After studying Baroque Art & Architecture in Rome, Italy and completing my BFA in Production Design for Film & TV at Academy of Art University, I chased after a bicoastal career in film and television between my native San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. 

I began my career coordinating productions, events, and personal lives of artists in film, tv, and Broadway. Alternating between The Anna Deavere Smith Projects, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, The Juilliard School's Creativity Labs, NBCUniversal's Short Film Fest, and Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, I coordinated for artists such as Alan Cumming, Sienna Miller, Amanda Palmer, Lance Horne, Justin Vivian Bond, and more. I was also an audience coordinator for live television including The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, and Jay Z’s Tidal X Barclays concert.

Since 2012, I have worked in various roles within art departments, set decoration, and props to communicate stories visually from soup to nuts. Within film, music video, commercial, and editorial production, my projects have been featured at prestigious festivals and my television projects can be seen on most streaming services.

Family period inspiration photos with Set plans and photos from set decoration on feature films Angelfish, Birth/Rebirth, and judge no book.

As a set decorator, I find my inspirations through life experience and thorough research. Every texture, color, drape, and light as part of the story. No details are forgotten as an assistant set decorator and buyer. With a full rolodex of vendors in the Tri-State area and the Bay Area, I bring in the finest or most appropriate soft goods, furniture, and smalls for every budget. From street vendors and car chase scenes in Transformers, to hospitals and Bronx apartments in Birth/Rebirth and Angelfish, to police precincts in The Calling, to waspy and grand homes throughout multiple periods in The Watcher, to chic Gramercy apartments in Uncoupled, and back through time in New York City’s queer Ballroom scene in Pose. I use drafting and photoshop techniques to render options, ideas, and mock-ups in pre-production to maximize the budget and assure visual communication of the design.

From tv shows uncoupled, the watcher, and pose with set decorator michael nallan.

As a prop master and stylist, I have projects in television, film, music video, fashion, beauty, food & drink, social, and commercial work. I’ve collaborated with incredible directors including Brie Larson, Yara Shahidi, and Ekwa Msangi in Disney+’s Growing Up 10-episode series, recreating real moments on-screen. I’ve worked passionately and sustainably with dogs, cats, cars, makeup, jewelry, luxury items, tech, weapons, and have made it rain and snow on set. I’ve designed countless graphic props including newspapers, signage, bills, labels, stocks, and checks that’ll have your banker doing a double take.

When I’m not working on a film or television project, I’m working as an interior decoration consultant on projects from California to Arkansas to New York, or exploring nature with my Shetland Sheepdog, Guapo.