Steve Olson(II)
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Art Department
Steve Olson has a 30+ year career of award winning work in design for Television and Theater. Projects he has worked on have won multiple Emmy Awards, Tony Awards and Art Directors Guild Awards and nominations.
He has designed shows for CBS, ABC, NBC/Universal, Fox, Sony, Warner Bros, Netflix, and HBO Max.
As a Production Designer in television, Steve is responsible for the four-time Emmy-Award winning Production Design of the hit series "How I Met Your Mother", which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction in every one of the nine seasons the show was on the air. Additionally, other designs have garnered nine additional Emmy nominations, as well as twenty Art Directors Guild nominations for Excellence in Production design.
Steve was the Art Director on four Academy Award telecasts, each one nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction and each one winning the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design. He also served as Art Director on multiple telecasts of Emmy Awards and Tony Awards.
Prior to his work in television, Steve worked as a Scenic Designer and Associate Designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Opera, and Regional theater. Associate design gigs on Broadway include the Tony Award winning Guys and Dolls, Carousel, and Tony nominated Grand Hotel, and Will Rogers Follies, as well as the award winning play Six Degrees of Separation. He earned high critical praise for his Broadway design of "The Play's the Thing" and the Off-Broadway production of "Below The Belt" and his production of Randy Neuman's "Harps and Angels" directed by Jerry Zaks at the Mark Taper Forum. Internationally, he designed the Canadian production of "Death of a Salesman" (Royal Alexandra Theater, Toronto) and the Berlin production of "Gypsy" (Theater Des Westens).
Early in his career, Steve worked with avant garde theater director Robert Wilson on opera projects in Milan (Salome), Hamburg (Jazz Opera) and Berlin, (The Forest), as well as storyboarding the opera "Einstein on the Beach" for a planned feature film.
Steve received his MFA in Scenic Design from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He received a BS in Art from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended The Blake Schools.
Steve resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Nancy and two children, Lily and Cooper.
He has designed shows for CBS, ABC, NBC/Universal, Fox, Sony, Warner Bros, Netflix, and HBO Max.
As a Production Designer in television, Steve is responsible for the four-time Emmy-Award winning Production Design of the hit series "How I Met Your Mother", which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction in every one of the nine seasons the show was on the air. Additionally, other designs have garnered nine additional Emmy nominations, as well as twenty Art Directors Guild nominations for Excellence in Production design.
Steve was the Art Director on four Academy Award telecasts, each one nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction and each one winning the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design. He also served as Art Director on multiple telecasts of Emmy Awards and Tony Awards.
Prior to his work in television, Steve worked as a Scenic Designer and Associate Designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Opera, and Regional theater. Associate design gigs on Broadway include the Tony Award winning Guys and Dolls, Carousel, and Tony nominated Grand Hotel, and Will Rogers Follies, as well as the award winning play Six Degrees of Separation. He earned high critical praise for his Broadway design of "The Play's the Thing" and the Off-Broadway production of "Below The Belt" and his production of Randy Neuman's "Harps and Angels" directed by Jerry Zaks at the Mark Taper Forum. Internationally, he designed the Canadian production of "Death of a Salesman" (Royal Alexandra Theater, Toronto) and the Berlin production of "Gypsy" (Theater Des Westens).
Early in his career, Steve worked with avant garde theater director Robert Wilson on opera projects in Milan (Salome), Hamburg (Jazz Opera) and Berlin, (The Forest), as well as storyboarding the opera "Einstein on the Beach" for a planned feature film.
Steve received his MFA in Scenic Design from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He received a BS in Art from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended The Blake Schools.
Steve resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Nancy and two children, Lily and Cooper.
