Wynn Thomas (Production Designer) Born and raised in Philadelphia, Wynn Thomas (production designer) graduated from Boston University and began his career in production design at New York’s Public Theatre under the aegis of the late Joseph Papp. He then served as resident designer for the Negro Ensemble Company for two years before moving into film. Thomas apprenticed with Oscar® -winning production designer Patricia Von Brandenstein and soon became an assistant art director on such films as The Cotton Club, The Money Pit and Brighton Beach Memoirs. He received credit as art director on the Orion feature film Best Secret and the PBS American Playhouse production Medal of Honor Rag, before being chosen by Spike Lee as production designer for Lee’s groundbreaking first feature, She’s Gotta Have It. Thomas served as production designer on seven more Spike Lee films: School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn and He Got Game. Other directors for whom Thomas has designed films include, Tim Burton (Mars Attacks), Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog), Harold Ramis (Analyze This), Beeban Kidron (To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar), Robert De Niro (A Bronx Tale) and Edward Norton (Keeping the Faith), and Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind). He also designed the NBC miniseries "Witness to the Mob" directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan.