Dawn Brown Manser

Dawn Brown Manser (sometimes credited simply as Dawn Brown) is a Hollywood set designer who worked on . She also designed the sets for 1998's Star Trek World Tour under production designer Herman Zimmerman.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Brown graduated from the University of Kansas with a BFA degree in illustration/graphic design in 1991. Afterward, she moved to Los Angeles, California, and has since worked on over thirty film and television projects.
She started her career as an art department assistant on during its first season. She then coordinated the art department for (1995, starring s Scott Bakula).
Her early set design work included several episodes of (starring Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane) and at least one episode of . She later designed some of the permanent sets for the television series Timecop and Once and Again. She more recently worked on .
Brown was hired to create designs on for director Tim Burton, but this film was never produced. Nonetheless, she again worked with Burton on his films (2001) and Big Fish.
In addition, Brown designed sets for such films as (1998), (2000), (2001), Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Thirteen. She also worked on 2002's The Master of Disguise, starring s Brent Spiner, and (2005, written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and featuring s Ethan Phillips). 
Star Trek was Brown's fifth project working under Supervising Art Director Keith Cunningham after Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and Solaris, (2007, featuring Zach Grenier, John Carroll Lynch, and Matt Winston), and re-shoots for (2005, featuring Jennifer Morrison and costumes designed by Michael Kaplan). Brown and Cunningham first worked together as set designers on Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin.
In addition to set design, Brown writes and illustrates comic books, having created the acclaimed, award-winning Little Red Hot for Image Comics and the graphic novel Ravenous. She also worked on a number of issues for Vampirella.
After Star Trek, Brown designed sets for , the second film she worked on which starred Scott Bakula. In addition, she has provided concept art for (2009, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Stephen McHattie, and Matt Frewer) and (2009, starring Anton Yelchin). 
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