Jessie Flynn is an English Production designer and Art director living & working in New York City. Her studio specializes in visual storytelling — creating period, fantasy and contemporary worlds for immersive theater, dance, film, fashion, advertising and events.

 

She studied Fine Art Painting at The Glasgow School of Art and maintains a painterly approach in her design practice. Painting has an integral influence on the palette and tone of her work, she employs color to influence the mood of a space and help convey emotion and narrative. Jessie fell in love with production design as is it brings together her love of storytelling, composition, color, interior architecture, fabric & light and she loves to collaborate with other artists. 

 

Jessie’s approach to production design is characterized by her meticulous attention to detail and her ability to create immersive, internally cohesive worlds for each production, taking care to create distinctive aesthetics for each character by creating unique personality for the spaces they inhabit. Her dedication to control and precision in the creative process ensured that her productions form a unique, cohesive, visually striking theatrical world. She believes that each space has an important role in the story telling of the piece and every decision down to the colors, textiles and objects all have a role to play in telling that story. 

 

Jessie developed her deep understanding of the audience’s role as a participant through a decade of experience designing immersive shows and events at the world-renowned McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More, transforming its expansive set into different worlds for unique productions. She was a Designer and Art director on Life and Trust, the largest immersive theatre piece New York has seen. An American adaptation of Faust, Life And Trust's set spans 6 floors of the iconic Farmers Trust Building at 20 Exchange Place in Manhattan. She was also the Art Director of Masquerade, the immersive Phantom of the Opera currently open in Manhattan. She is currently co-designing Death of Rasputin a new immersive theatre piece coming to NYC very soon.

 

Jessie loves creating new worlds for production and can transform almost any location into almost any environment.

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