Biography
Schuyler Telleen is a Production Designer, Art Director, and Graphic Designer based in Portland, Oregon. A member of the Art Directors Guild Local 800 and SAG-AFTRA, he has spent two decades building worlds for some of television and film's most distinctive voices.
Schuyler's credits span prestige drama, cult comedy, and international production from seven seasons of Portlandia with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein to The Rehearsal with Nathan Fielder, Shrill with Aidy Bryant, and two seasons of XO, Kitty filmed on location in Seoul, South Korea.
A two-time Emmy Award winner, three-time Art Directors Guild Award recipient, and designer of two Peabody Award winning television programs, Schuyler brings an instinct for visual storytelling that works equally across comedy, drama, and commercial production.
His feature film credits include two upcoming features currently in post-production. He started as a crew dog on many culturally relevant feature films such as Superbad and Pineapple Express, as well as art direction and property design for period films such as You Can't Win, prop master work on Kinds of Kindness, and multiple award-recognized short format productions: Al's Beef won the Grand Prize and Best Thriller at Dragon Con 2008; Bronzed premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, received a Vimeo Staff Pick, and screened at festivals worldwide; and The Slows screened at the 2018 New York Film Festival. Schuyler also art directed Laggies for the late director Lynn Shelton in Seattle, Washington and has generated graphics for many others.
Schuyler often travels and sees many of his famous designs on t-shirts and products at airports, shops and hotels the world over.
Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Schuyler attended formal Stanislavski acting training in New York and improv professional tracks in Los Angeles before moving to Los Angeles to cut his teeth as personal assistant for music mogul Phil Spector and subsequently working on many films across the city. He and his partner Kaitlyn have traveled the world scuba diving and learning about new cultures. The two met in acting class in college and are now joined by their human teen child and K9 Maximum Tundra (as well as chickens, rats and cats) in Portland, Oregon.
He is represented theatrically by Maureen Toth at Eastern Talent Agency.