Alfred Cooney Production Designer

With a design approach built on a bedrock of craft learned as a student of architecture, art history and interior design, Alfred Cooney has been a dedicated designer since growing up in metro Philadelphia. The scope of his work includes feature films, commercials, theatre scenic design, exhibition design, retail interiors and residential projects.

Cooney holds a Master of Architecture degree from Savannah College of Art & Design and while still in Georgia, the US Olympic Committee commissioned him to create a large-scale, public art installation for the 1996 Sailing Competition. Following his early experience as an interior designer for Giorgio Armani Le Collezione in New York, he was the Director of Animation at RenderScope, a CG animation studio in Orlando, Florida. Cooney has appeared on HGTV’s Design Basics, Working with Designers and been the resident scenic designer for the Academy Repertory Theatre Company of New Jersey.

Cooney established himself as a film production designer in the New York indie film world where he is known as a hands-on designer and creative collaborator. Now working from Los Angeles, his portfolio remains remarkable for its diversity of genres and filmmaking styles, it also shows a designer who is capable of working in a variety of periods and locations.

Whatever the project, Cooney’s eye for telling detail unfailingly draws you deep into the worlds he creates for the silver screen, the stage and the real world.

Serena Zanello Interior Designer

Serena Zanello was born in Ivrea, Italy and earned her bachelor degree in Architecture at “Facoltà di Architettura, Politecnico di Torino” in Dec 2003. After her studies in Italy and France ( Ecole d’architecture de Saint’ Etienne ) she started her professional career in 2003 becoming a member of the Turin Architects Order and working with Pininfarina Extra, one of the most renowned international design firms.

Serena worked on Pininfarina’ s first hotel design ever; a 35-room urban lifestyle hotel in downtown San Diego. This is a project that she followed from design inception to completion and was named in the“100 Sexiest Hotels in the world 2007” with its Sway Lounge and the Merk Restaurant.

We think she is a pretty kick-ass designer with true Italian street-cred.

Fabio Mascio Costruttore Eccellente

Our resident builder extraordinaire… Fabio began work in one of LA’s finest scenic backdrop shops and eventually set out to dominate the world on his own. If you need it built - this costruttore eccellente dall’Italia will get it built.

Robert Grater Technical Guru

If it plugs in, blinks, or buzzes… this guy is on it. From light bulbs to HD cameras, Mr. Grater knows his shizzle. He’s a former “corporate AV guy” turned production genius with customer service skills shaped by his years at premier hotel properties like Hilton and Marriott.  His technical expertise was earned from years of working in the NYC live production market where he has directed and produced events at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and the Hammerstein Ballroom for corporate clients and entertainment bigs like Google, You Tube and The Tony Awards.  With a proven track record, a really cool kid and a wife that can cook like nobody’s business, PK is proud to have the talents of Robert in our corner.

Bernadette Cooney Production Manager

This girl gets things done. Period. A long resume of huge corporate clients like GlaxoSmithKline and Bloomberg Media gives her the street cred to keep your projects on-time and under-budget.

Hop Studios Interweb Fowl

This duck is our web guy. He created this “interweb tube presence” and we are pretty happy with it.

He specializes in Web sites. You know: Designing Web sites, developing ExpressionEngine content management systems, building blogs and social media tools, handling custom programming needs for small publishers, encouraging community journalism, setting up new domains, consulting on Web marketing strategies, ... things like that.

Talk to Travis [Not the duck]. www.HopStudios.com