With Emmy voting officially underway, IndieWire is ready to celebrate the talented below-the-line artists behind some of our favorite shows of the season. And for the second consecutive year, “IndieWire’s Craft Roundtables” will be airing on PBS SoCal.
The series features six conversations — highlighting the arts of cinematography, composing, production design, editing, costume design, and visual effects — with the artisans behind Emmy-contending shows, all moderated by IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill. All six episodes will air on Thursday, June 11 beginning at 7pm PT, with subsequent re-airings scheduled throughout the weekend. All episodes will also be able to stream on the PBS App. Complete scheduling information can be found here.
IndieWire’s cinematography roundtable features the likes of Jason McCormick (“Love Story”), Ashley Connor (“The Chair Company”), Greta Zozula (“The Testaments”), Tommy Maddox-Upshaw (“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy”), and John Brawley (“Shrinking”).
Our composers roundtable includes Breton Vivian (“The Madison”), John Paesano (“The Boroughs”). Jeff Russo (“Alien: Earth”), Amanda Jones (“Muderbot”), Kris Bowers & Michael Dean Parsons (“Spider-Noir”), and Mac Quayle (“Monster: The Ed Gein Story”).
The production designers roundtable highlights Merje Veske (“The Bear”), Matthew Flood Ferguson (“Monster: The Ed Gein Story”), Francois Audouy (“Euphoria”), Roger Fires (“Scrubs”), Susie Mancini (“The ‘Burbs”), Jen Chu (RuPaul’s Drag Race), and Claire Bennett (“Nobody Wants This”).
The editing panel features Shane Reid (“John Candy: I Like Me”), Christian Hoffman (“Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat”), Laura Zempel & Lauren Connelly (“Beef”), James Renfroe (“Shrinking”), Mark Strand (“The Pitt”), and Jon Philpot (“Hacks”).
Panelists on the costume design roundtable include Sarah Evelyn (“The Beauty”), Trayce Gigi Field (“Spider-Noir”), Rudy Mance (“Love Story”), Kathleen Felix-Hager (“Hacks” and “The Paper”), and Natasha Newman-Thomas (“Euphoria”).
The visual effects roundtable features Betsy Paterson (“Stranger Things”), Hnedel Maximore (“Spider-Noir”), Hoyt Yeatman (“Ted”), Tara DeMarco (“The Boroughs”), and Daryl Sawchuk (“IT: Welcome to Derry”).
More coverage of our 2026 Craft Roundtables can be found here.
