Blythe R.D. Quinlan

Recently Blythe has been working in film and TV as an Assistant Art Director. Projects include The Tempest, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Julie and Julia, Sex and the City: the Movie, College Road Trip, reshoots for The Bourne Ultimatum, Sweet Flame, The Accidental Husband, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, The Nanny Diaries, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Recent theatre work includes set designs for The Cure at Troy (Seattle Rep, dir. Tina Landau), Chuck Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre, NYC, dir. Tina Landau), Syncopation (Triad Stage, NC), and The Greeks: pt. 1 The Wars (Juilliard School of Drama), costumes for Cherry Orchard at Brian Mertes and Melissa Kievman's annual Chekhov retreat, set designs for Swansong (Summer Play Festival), Cosi Fan Tutte (Yale Opera at the Shubert Theatre, New Haven), Lobby Hero (Portland Stage Company, Maine), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (The Studio Theatre, Washington DC), Making Tracks (San Jose Rep), Pink (Summer Play Festival, NYC), King Lear (Yale Rep), Black Dahlia (Yale Rep, projections), Rough Magic (Yale School of Drama, set and projection design), Coriolanus (Yale School of Drama), and six seasons designing costumes at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Blythe has been associate designer to Ming Cho Lee on productions of Lorenzaccio (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Long Wharf Theater), Stuff Happens (Mark Taper Forum), and the 30th Anniversary Tour of Annie.

Blythe was born in New York City and grew up in Princeton, NJ, where her mother (originally from England) and father still live. Blythe received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in Set Design and English Literature ('99, with honors), and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, Set Design ('04). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Dan Cordle, and her kids, Cyrus and Ivy (see pictures below to experience the cuteness). Blythe is a hopelessly devoted Mets fan.