Arielle Ness-Cohn

Arielle is an LA based Production Designer. She grew up in Chicago, Illinois, in a family that encouraged her to travel, see the world, learn about its people, and ask important questions. Arielle studied Theatre and Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, after which she moved to Tel Aviv, Israel where she worked for Gutman Assif Architects and in television production on multiple Israeli national series. She then transplanted to Los Angeles where she earned her MFA in Production Design at the American Film Institute.

Arielle has since designed for film, television, music video and commercial productions, notably the Emmy Nominated HBO series McMILLION$ (Sundance 2020), the AppleTV+ series THE BIG CONN (2022), and the feature film THE BLOODHOUND (2020). Arielle has also Art Directed on multiple feature length films and television series including Christopher Nolan’s TENET (2020), Disney's THE LION KING (2019), which was the first feature film ever shot entirely in virtual reality, and Star Wars OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022), where Arielle helmed the art direction in the state-of-the art Volume technology. Arielle was a 2016-2017 Art Director's Guild Production Apprentice and is currently a member of the Guild. 

Arielle is a designer striving to use the natural and man-made beauty of our world to share the personal, societal, and cultural stories of its people.

UTA | Amy Grgich | amy.grgich@unitedtalent.com | 310.273.5352

PERSONAL  | a.nesscohn@gmail.com | 847.922.2482

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