How ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ Created Miss Robichaux’s Academy

Production Designer talks with EmmyWrap about how he and Ryan Murphy came up with last season’s distinctive look

BILLYBOBTHORNTON-EMMYWRAP-COVERThis story originally appeared in EmmyWrap: Movies/Miniseries

Whimsical and fun.

These are two words Ryan Murphy kept throwing around when talking about “American Horror Story: Coven.” Even before the third installment of the hit FX anthology debuted in the fall of 2013, the co-executive producer, creator and writer behind the spooky drama vowed that his latest incarnation would be more humorous than the first two AHS seasons, “Murder House” and “Asylum.”

For Mark Worthington, the production designer behind all three seasons of “AHS,” Murphy’s sanguine description became an incantation of sorts as he toured houses on location in New Orleans.

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