Merje Veski

Trap Door credits

Set Design
  • Nana (2024)
  • Bowie in Warsaw
  • Eva Peron
  • People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless
  • Quills
Prop Design
  • The Pragmatists

Resident Set Designer

Originally from Estonia, Merje lives in Chicago and is working as a designer and decorator for film, television and theater. Over 20 years ago she met Trap Door’s  artistic director, Beata Pilch and her team of actors on independent film project “Dead Letters” and it was a start for long relationship and rest is history. She has been working as Art Director on NBC “Chicago Fire” and Max “Station Eleven”.
Her movie credits include “Dig Two Graves”, “Sinister 2”, “Contagion” and “We Grown Now”. Merje designed for Catherine Sullivan, media and video performances, Tis A Pity She’s a Fluxus Whore (2003), Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land (2005 @ Whitney Museum) and The Chittendens (2005 TATE Modern, UK).

She has been Jeff nominated for best scenic design for Seanachai Theatre’s (now Irish theatre of Chicago) plays A Moon for the Misbegotten” 2012 and “White Road” 2015. Currently she has been designing FX series “The Bear”.

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