Emmy award-winning Production Designer, Katha Seidman, has extensive experience designing sets, organizing the art department, and working within any budget, be it large or small. Capable of creating sets for simple tabletop shots Katha has also designed productions with full-scale artillery battles, blowing up forts and burning houses. Recently completed projects include John and Abigail Adams, The War that Made America, Percy Julian, and Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower, a three-hour Marquee Special for the History Channel. She also designed the set for the currently running PBS kids' series FETCH!
In 2007 Katha Seidman was honored with an Emmy Award for her Scenic Design of the drama-documentary John and Abigail Adams. She also received an Emmy nomination for Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower that year. In 2005, Katha was nominated for an Emmy Award for Witch Hunt.
Katha works closely with the director and the producer to assure that the dramatic settings contribute to the overall style of the film. Whatever the period, and whether she works as production designer, art director, set decorator, buyer or in props, she extensively researches the look and feel of the subject and the period. In the end, her goal is to create a space in which actors can fully embody the narrative and bring the script to life.