Mark Worthington Mark Worthington is a Production Designer who is working on the latest " Star Trek " series , , which began filming in . Worthington earned his BA in Theatre from Reed College and his MFA in Set Design from Carnegie Mellon University . His first credit as art production assistant received Worthington for his work on the horror film " Due occhi diabolici " ( 1990 , with Adrienne Barbeau and James G . MacDonald ) . He then worked as assistant art director on the western " Posse " ( 1993 , with Tommy " Tiny " Lister , Jr . , Salli Richardson , Robert Hooks , Christopher Michael , and Bob Minor ) before he received his first credit as art director for his work on the western " Tombstone " ( 1993 ) . Beside working as set designer on the science fiction comedy " Freaked " ( 1993 ) and the thriller " Mad City " ( 1997 ) , his credits as art director include the romance " Mad Love " ( 1995 ) , the thriller " The Chamber " ( 1996 ) , the war drama " The Empty Mirror " ( 1996 ) , the drama " Wag the Dog " ( 1997 ) , the action thriller " U . S . Marshals " ( 1998 , directed by Stuart Baird ) , the comedy " Town & Country " ( 2001 ) , the drama " Hearts in Atlantis " ( 2001 ) , the comedy sequel " Austin Powers in Goldmember " ( 2001 ) , the drama " Moonlight Mile " ( 2002 ) , the comedy sequel " Legally Blonde 2 : Red , White & Blonde " ( 2003 ) , and the comedy " Win a Date with Tad Hamilton ! " ( 2004 ) . Since 2001 , Worthington has also been working as production designer on projects such as the family comedy " Christmas in the Clouds " ( 2001 ) , the television comedy " on the Edge " ( 2001 ) , the comedy " Straight - Jacket " ( 2004 ) , the television drama " The Catch " ( 2005 , written and produced by J . J . Abrams and starring and produced by Greg Grunberg ) , and the sport drama " Believe in Me " ( 2006 ) . Worthington previously worked with J . J . Abrams on the pilot episode of his series " Lost " in 2004 . The pilot was written , directed , and executive produced by Abrams , written and produced by Damon Lindelof , produced by Bryan Burk , starred Daniel Dae Kim , Terry O ' Quinn , Jonathan Dixon , and Greg Grunberg , and featured music by Michael Giacchino . For " Lost " , Worthington received his first Excellence in Production Design Award nomination from the Art Directors Guild in the category Single - Camera Television Series in 2005 . Between 2006 and 2010 , Worthington worked as production designer on all four seasons of the comedy series " Ugly Betty " . The series starred Tony Plana and Vanessa Williams and Worthington won an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild in the category Episode of a Single - Camera Television Series in 2007 . He received three more nominations for this series in the following three years as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the category Outstanding Art Direction for a Single - Camera Series in 2007 and 2008 . Worthington made his directorial debut with the fourth season episode " London Calling " in 2010 . Further credits as production designer include the short - lived comedy series " Love Bites " ( 2011 , starring Greg Grunberg ) , the pilot episodes of " Once Upon a Time " ( 2011 ) and " Political Animals " ( 2012 ) , and episodes of " Backstrom " ( 2015 ) and " Battle Creek " ( 2015 , directed and executive produced by Bryan Singer and art direction by Andrew E . W . Murdock ) . Between 2011 and 2015 , Worthington worked as production designer on the first five seasons of the horror anthology series " American Horror Story " on which he worked with Zachary Quinto and James Cromwell and art director Andrew E . W . Murdock . This work earned him three Excellence in Production Design Awards from the Art Directors Guild in the category Television Movie or Limited Series in 2013 , 2015 , and 2016 as well as nominations in 2012 and 2014 . Among the many people he shared these awards with are Lauren E . Polizzi , Andrew E . W . Murdock , and Kevin Houlihan . Worthington also won an OFTA Television Award from the Online Film & Television Association in the category Best Production Design in a Non - Series in 2013 and two nominations in 2012 and 2014 as well as four Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the category Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie in 2012 , 2013 , and 2014 . Among his more recent credits as production designer was also the first season of the horror / comedy series " Scream Queens " ( 2015 , stunt coordinated by Jay Caputo ) and the pilot episode of the crime / drama series " Citizen " ( 2016 ) .