Stephan Olson
Production Designer & Art Director
Projects
PRODUCTION DESIGN
How I Met Your Mother ran for nine seasons on CBS. The show won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series each season for the first four consecutive seasons, and was nominated in eight of nine seasons of the show. Additionally, it was nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design in all nine seasons.
HIMYM produced 208 episodes with an estimated 1500 individual sets designed and built.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Superior Donuts, starring Judd Hirsch and Jermaine Fowler, is based on the 2009 Broadway Play by Tracey Letts. It follows the lives of people who work in and frequent a donut shop in Uptown Chicago. It ran for two seasons on CBS and was nominated for an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild in 2018
PRODUCTION DESIGN
This LIVE special aired on Dec. 7, 2021 and starred Kevin Hart, Daman Wayans and Jennifer Aniston, among many others. It featured recreations of classic episodes of The Facts Of Life and Diff'rent Strokes. It was nominated for a 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Production Design and won the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Variety Special.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Cool Kids is a comedy about a rowdy, rag-tag group of friends living in a retirement community who are willing to break every rule to have fun, because, at their age, what do they really have to lose?The Cool Kids aired on FOX in the 2018-2019 season and was nominated for the Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
9JKL, starring Mark Feuerstein, deals with the time in his life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents' apartment, 9J, and his brother and sister-in-law's apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family. 9JKL was nominated for an ADG Award for Excellence in Production Design in 2018.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
A look at the life of two best friends, a meek politically correct Caucasian ethics professor and an easy-going African American, and their families. TRUTH be TOLD aired on NBC in 2015, and was nominated for an Excellence in Production Design Award by the Art directors Guild.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Fam is comedy about a woman, Clem, whose perfect life with her fiancé, Nick, is radically altered when her 16-year-old, out-of-control half-sister, Shannon, unexpectedly comes to live with them. Fam aired on CBS in 2019 and starred Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell and Odessa A'zion,
TITUS is a dysfunctional comedy dealing with a disturbed young man, Christopher Titus, his father, his wife, and his dysfunctional friends. TITUS broke traditional sitcom boundaries in 1999 when it was created, and continued to break all norms and set new standards during its run on FOX. A frontrunner in the hybrid approach, TITUS combined single-camera, steadi-cam, and multi-cam shooting formats. Co-Starring Stacy Keach as Ken Titus and Cynthia Watros as Erin Titus, the show filmed 54 insane episodes in two-and-one-half seasons.
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Stephan Olson
Treehouse Studio, Inc. Los Angeles, CA
Email: stephanolson@mac.com | Tel: 323-547-6908