Biography
Craig Siebels works in a wide spectrum of media. In his early career as a designer of theatre and opera, Craig designed over 150 productions at venues including the Hollywood Bowl, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, and the 42nd Street Studios in NYC. As a production designer of film, Craig’s feature and short films have been at festivals around the country and the world, and yet somehow nobody has ever seen any of them.... His first foray into television, BURN NOTICE, met with greater success on the USA network. After art directing the premiere season of BURN NOTICE, Craig became a production designer on the series for seasons two and three. Craig spent the entirety of 2010 in Dallas, Texas designing and co-producing a show for FOX called THE GOOD GUYS, and is now headed back to BURN NOTICE to design season five of that show. Craig also spent much of the last couple years adapting Ernest Hemingway’s, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA for the stage, along with co-adapter and director Eric Ting. The first production, at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, was Craig’s debut as a produced playwright. As an architect, Craig designed the renovation of the Marilyn Monroe Theatre inside the Lee Strasberg Creative Center in West Hollywood, and he has worked as an architectural/theatrical consultant on new performance venues in Massachusetts and California. Craig has also worked professionally as a furniture designer, graphic designer, storyboard artist, and lighting designer.Once upon a time there was a giant. Not so much a strong, thick giant as a gangly, stringy giant, but a freakish giant nonetheless. The giant was born in giant mountains, to a family of giant engineers who built giant bridges, and also tiny, tiny computers. So the giant learned to build things, both massive and tiny, but what he really loved was stories. The giant read many, many stories, and when he'd read as many as he could stand, he started to make up his own! His own weren't always very good, it turned out... but the giant still decided to discover where the stories actually came from: all the stories he read and all the stories he'd seen, and all the stories he'd ever even heard of. So he traveled to the very edge of the world, to a tiny island full of monstrously tall buildings. Taller, even, than the giant himself. (Much taller, actually.) While he was on the tiny island, he made use of what the giants had first taught him - to build things as big as bridges and as tiny as computers - and he helped tell many stories. Until, one day, he realized that most people would never see all these stories he worked so hard on and loved so much. So the giant packed his giant clothes in giant luggage and traveled again; this time to the OTHER very edge of the world, with monstrously tall palm trees. Taller, even, than the giant himself. There, on that edge of the world, the giant learned to not only tell stories, but to set them down in stone (digital stone) for all the world to see. And, it is said, the giant - the gangly, stringy giant, remember, lives there happily and tells stories still. (Although there are no other giants there, so he is occasionally mistaken for a palm tree.)
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Craig B. Siebels
Production Designer
Member: Art Directors Guild, Local 800
Member: United Scenic Artists, Local 829
Member: Directors Guild of America
Recent Projects:
BURN NOTICE Season 5, Fox Television Studios (Producer / Production Designer)
Directors: Renny Harlin, Stephen Surjik, Matt Nix, Jonathan Frakes,
Colin Bucksey, Tawnia McKiernan
BURN NOTICE EPISODES 508, 516, Fox Television Studios (Director / Producer)
THE GOOD GUYS Season 1, Fox TV Studios (Production Designer / Co-Producer)
Directors: Stephen Surjik, Kevin Bray, John Kretchmer, Matt Shakman,
Jeremiah Chechik, Sandy Bookstaver
Producer: Mitch Engel
BURN NOTICE Seasons 2 & 3, Fox Television Studios (Production Designer)
Directors: Matt Nix, Dennie Gordon, Kevin Bray, John Kretchmer, Bronwen Hughes
Producer: Terry Miller
WITHOUT BORDERS, Feature (Production Designer)
Director/Producer: Nick Gaitatjis Producer: Sandra Staggs
BURN NOTICE Season 1, Fox Television Studios (Art Director)
Producer: Terry Miller
WITHIN, Feature, Bigfoot Studios (Production Designer)
Director: Hanelle Culpepper Producer: Jerry Jacobs
Additional Production Design: (selected)
The Grand Design (short) Prod. Steven Klein Dir. Eric Stoltz
No. 6 Prod. Steven Klein Dir. Robin Larsen
Gettin’ It Prod. Will Hess Dir. Nick Gaitatjis
X-Kids to the Rescue (short) Tiny Pink Pig Productions Dir. Matt Nix
The Act (short) FOX Searchlab Dir. Pi Ware & Susan Kraker
Mementoke (short) Filmmakers Alliance Dir. Matt Nix
The Land and Its People (short) Filmmakers Alliance Dir. Matt Nix
Additional Art Direction:
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer Dir. Georgina Riedel
Scenic Design (theatre): (selected from many)
The Old Man and the Sea Long Wharf Theatre Dir. Eric Ting
The Secrets of the Trade Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Matt Shakman
Mr. Marmalade Kitchen Dog Theater Dir. Aaron Ginsburg
Tryst (Garland Award) Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Robin Larsen
Feed (world premiere) North Hollywood Arts Center Dir. James Mellon
Huck and Holden (Garland Award) Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Claudia Weill
Lizard (world premiere) North Hollywood Arts Center Dir. James Mellon
Splitting Infinity Clurman Theatre, NYC Dir. Matt Shakman
Underneath the Lintel Long Wharf Theatre Dir. Eric Ting
Farewell Miss Cotton (premiere) Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Larry Biederman
Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Concert Hollywood Bowl Dir. Paul Lazarus
Placement (world premiere) Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Matt Shakman
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (premiere) Open at the Top Productions Dir. James Mellon
Dorian: The Musical Open at the Top Productions Dir. James Mellon
Faust (Gounod’s opera) Opera Santa Barbara Dir. James Marvel
An Infinite Ache (Garland Award) Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Robin Larsen
Paradise Lost: Opera Electronica Prod. Eric Whitacre Dir. David Norona
Theatre District Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Matt Shakman
Lizzie Borden Stoneham Theatre, Boston MA Dir. Bill Castellino
Nocturne Black Dahlia Theatre Dir. Matt Shakman
La Voix Humaine ValMac Prod./Alliance Francais Dir. James Marvel
The Odd Couple Stoneham Theatre, Boston, MA Dir. Maynard Sloate
The Game of Love and Chance Madison Repertory Theatre Dir. Richard Corley
Heaven Kitchen Dog Theatre Dir. Tina Parker
Dirty Blonde Playhouse on the Square, Memphis Dir. Michael Duggan
Blithe Spirit Madison Repertory Theatre Dir. Diane Robinson
Evita Playhouse on the Square, Memphis Dir. Scott Ferguson
Faust (Gounod’s opera) Augusta Opera Dir. James Marvel
Sylvia Stoneham Theatre, Boston MA Dir. Michael Walker
Iphigeneia at Aulis The Pearl Theatre Company, NYC Dir. Shepard Sobel
U.S. Drag (world premiere) Clubbed Thumb, NYC Dir. Pam MacKinnon
A Bicycle Country The Group at Strasberg Dir. Richard Hochberg
A Streetcar Named Desire Ohio Northern University Dir. Catriona MacPhie
Inherit the Wind Clarence Brown Theatre Company Dir. Jay Dysart
Gemini (world premiere) 78th Street Theatre Lab, NY Dir. David Kennedy
Molly's Delicious The Group at Strasberg Dir. Dan Fields
Arcadia Clarence Brown Theatre Company Dir. David Kennedy
Je t'embrasse Elvis (world premiere) OFF Festival, Avignon, France Dir. Eric Ting
Waiting for Godot Renaissance Theatre Co. Dir. Joan Schirle
The Glass Menagerie American Stage Company, NJ Dir. Richard Corley
A View from the Bridge Horsechart Theatre, Denver Dir. Philip A. Russell
The Illusion (Garland Award) San Diego Repertory Theatre Dir. Todd Salovey
Rum and Vodka Hidden Theatre, Minneapolis Dir. Jay Dysart
Pretty Fire La Jolla Playhouse Dir. Michael Greif
True West Sledgehammer Theatre Dir. Scott Feldsher
Big Love (premiere) UCSD Dir. Les Waters
Peter Pan Capital Playhouse, Olympia WA Dir. Jeff Kingsbury
Tommy Capital Playhouse, Olympia WA Dir. Jeff Kingsbury
Disturbed by the Wind (premiere) Hidden Theatre, Minneapolis Dir. Jay Dysart
Blue Window Hidden Theatre, Minneapolis Dir. Jay Dysart
Architecture:
'08 Theatre consultant on Hanover Theatre restoration, Worcester, MA.
'00 Architect on Marilyn Monroe Theatre renovation, Lee Strasberg Creative Center, West Hollywood, CA.
Education:
MFA in design, University of California, San Diego.
BFA in theatre, Southern Methodist University.