CV
Production Design
Davey and Jonesie’s Locker, Season 1: 2023
Raptus: 2022
Black Lives: Untold Stories: 2022
Art Direction
Faith Heist 2: 2022
Endlings Season 2: 2018 – 2019
Concept Art, Drafting, and 3D
Titans Season 3: 1St AR Concept Art, Drafting, Special Builds, 2020 - 2021
Beacon 23: 1st AR Concept Artist, 2021 - 2022
The Boys: Concept Artist, Digital 3D, 2020
Cowboy Beebop: 3D space-vehicle modelling, 2020
Locke and Key: Concept Art, Physical Art, 2019
Endlings Season 1: Concept Art, 3D modelling, 2018
Scenic Art
Frankenstein: IATSE Scenic Artist (sculpture dept) 2023
Wedding Season: Key Scenic, 2021
12 Past Midnight: 1st AR Fine Art Painter (Original Horror Paintings), 2021
Various Productions: IATSE Scenic Artist, 2011-2021
(including Suicide Squad, Total Recall, Crimson Peak, Pixels, Star Trek Discovery, Firestarter)
About
Background
Lisa started her career as a visual artist, then worked as a scenic artist, special effects and props fabricator, art director, and concept artist before bringing it all together with production design.
She was born in Toronto, raised in small town Ontario, and has lived most of her adult life in Toronto and Hamilton. She completed her BFA Honours in Studio Art at York University in 2001 and has been continually updating her 3D digital skills in recent years via Gnomon School of VFX Games and Animation Online, George Brown College, and peer-to-peer mentorship.
Lisa is represented by Zero Gravity Management. You can visit their site here:
https://www.zerogravitybtl.com/production-design/lisa-cowen
Strengths: Fabrication and Flexibility
A design team with expertise in fabrication - from painting and sculpting to 3D modeling and 3D printing - helps to keep more of the process in-house and puts more ideas (and budget) on screen.
Having experience with many of Toronto’s most high budget, high quality, high concept projects and also some of the most budget challenged but inspired projects, can help to allocate resources appropriately for each project.
Lisa and her team thrive on meaningful, unique, and quirky projects where this hands-on and flexible approach can add the most value.
Values: Respect and Collaboration
Workplace Culture is everything.
There is no substitute for a diverse network of highly skilled people who trust and respect each other, and love their jobs.
Whether vertically between executives and technicians, or laterally between departments, respect, friendliness and real collaboration are almost as important as the show’s color palette. This is a core value for Lisa, and integral to how she operates as an HOD.
A bit more…
When Lisa’s not at work, she’s playing Lego or watching Avatar with her son, tending her vegetable garden, planning her next meditation retreat, travelling, making art, and cooking. Basically, she keeps pretty busy.
You can see more creative work at these links:
Painting, sculpture, and craft:
Artstation profile for digital art:
Think outside the box,
Design inside the budget.