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John Shaffner and his partner Joe Stewart are among the most recognized production designers in television. Together they have received three Primetime Emmy® Awards for David Copperfield specials, one for The George Lopez Show; two Daytime Emmy® Awards for The Ellen DeGeneres Show; and one Los Angeles Area Emmy® Award. Their designs for the 2006 Primetime Emmy® Awards were recognized with the Art Directors Guild Award. They have been nominated a total of twenty-nine times for Primetime and Daytime Emmys, and have received numerous Art Directors Guild and Cable Ace nominations.
Shaffner and Stewart designed the series Two and a Half Men, Friends, The Drew Carey Show and Dharma and Greg, among many others. They have designed specials for numerous artists, from Perry Como and Andy Williams to Celine Dion and Willie Nelson. As well as having designed four Primetime Emmy® and four Daytime Emmy® Awards, they design the American Music Awards, the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, and the Miss Universe Shows.
Shaffner has been recognized as an Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Montana, where he earned a B.F.A., and is the recipient of the university’s School of Fine Arts Odyssey Award. He has also been recognized with the Alumni Merit Award from Carnegie Mellon University, where he received an M.F.A. He began his career in New York and regional theatre, designing for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
For the Television Academy, Shaffner has served as governor of the Art Directors and Set Decorators Peer Group (five years), Governors’ Appointee to the Executive Committee, and both Second Vice Chair and First Vice Chair before election to the position of Chairman and CEO.
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