Meet Your Mentor

Randall Wilkins is an award winning set designer, filmmaker, and writer with over 30 years in the entertainment industry. His credits span more than 80 film and television titles including Jurassic World, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Westworld, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Seabiscuit, Catch Me If You Can, and Gattaca.Wilkins' diverse career began with a plan to pursue architecture - one that was quickly interrupted by a newly discovered passion for photography. This burgeoning interest led to photography jobs at a newspaper and for a music magazine. Upon his return to university Randall switched majors from Architecture to Cinema and he double-minored in Photography and Theater. 

To pay for school (and his student films), his numerous job titles included: cabinet maker, freelance photographer, technician for an aircraft lighting manufacturer (where he helped develop a miniature self-illuminating green screen for the first Star Trek feature film), and work for a company that created special effects for Broadway shows (Cats, Agnes Of God).

 Ultimately, his senior thesis film was nominated for a Student Oscar© which earned him a spot in the Directing Fellows program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Hollywood.

After graduation, while working as a prop maker on the television series The Wonder Years, Wilkins was given the opportunity to become a set designer and his varied background in architecture, cinema, and theater suddenly made sense.