Brandon Tonner-Connolly
Production Designer
About Brandon Tonner-Connolly
Brandon Tonner-Connolly is an Art Director’s Guild Award winning Production Designer based in NYC.
His credits include Taika Waititi/Sterlin Harjo’s Peabody Award winning, Emmy nominated Reservation Dogs, as well as features The Big Sick (Sundance), Brigsby Bear (Cannes), The Bad Batch (Venice), A24’s I Saw The TV Glow (Sundance, Berlin) and David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer. He most recently designed Sterlin Harjo/Ethan Hawke’s The Lowdown for FX (premiering fall of 2025) and Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma for Plan B/Mubi.
He also enjoys writing about the movies he’s obsessed with and how they relate to his own work, most recently in an article for Filmmaker Magazine about Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and the intimate experience of watching a movie after helping to create it. His Filmmaker article “The Seven Arts of Working In Film” has been read over 500,000 times since its publication and is part of the syllabus of Martin Scorsese’s Masterclass program.