David (Dave) Blass is a three time Emmy Nominated American production designer and art director. His work includes the following:
Production design and art direction for television series:
The Boys (2019 TV series)
Preacher
Pitch
Secrets and Lies
Quantico
Constantine
Justified
Longmire
Rectify
Cold Case
ER
Black Scorpion
The Biggest Loser
Beauty and the Geek
Trivial Pursuit: America Plays
Shear Genius
Solitary
Production design for films includes:
Asylum (Robert Patrick, Malcolm McDowell)
Overdrive (Steve Guttenberg, Robert Wagner)
"Stray Bullet" (Robert Carradine)
Writer/director credits:
Black Scorpion episodes "Love Burns" and "Bad Sport"
Sexual Matrix (originally titled Possessions and Obsessions)
Being Emmanuelle
Director for music videos:
Teutonic Terror [1] and Pandemic [2] , [3] & Producer Stampede (for the German heavy metal band Accept) [4]
Executive producer for television series:
True Lives (a reality TV series)
Co-Producer for Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award Show 2014 and 2015 ADG Excellence in Production Design Award
He was nominated for the 2012 and 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards as Production Designer for the Justified television series, and the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for the "Constantine" television series[1] [5], Nominated for the 2015 Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a One Hour Contemporary Television Series [6], and has twice been published with cover stories in Perspective Magazine. Oct/Nov 2009, [7], with an article on his pre-visualization of the final shot for the ER television series, [8] [2] and February/March 2012 featuring an article on his production design of the Justified series. For his work accurately portraying the State of Kentucky on the Television program Justified he was awarded the honor of "Kentucky Colonel in 2011 by Governor Steven Beshear.
He is a member of the Art Directors Guild and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.[citation needed]
Personal life
Blass grew up in Ashland, Massachusetts and graduated from the Ashland High School, where he wrote and directed his first film, A SADD Story, for "Students Against Drunk Driving" – which won a Reader's Digest contest.[3][4] He also played soccer and baseball while at Ashland High.[3][4] His film achievement in high school led to him receiving a scholarship to attend the Emerson College in Boston, where he majored in film production.[3][4] He then moved to California and began working in the film and television industry – initially working under Roger Corman.[3][4]