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Lilith Smee

Lillis Meeh is a New York–based special effects designer and technician, longtime special effects supervisor for Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and blood designer for Black Swan.

Sep 7, 2026

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How does that work?
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Yeah, it can work a couple different ways.
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It sort of depends on the way that the production itself is sort of envisioned bringing me on.
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So if they want a designer, if they're like, we need a designer, or then often it starts with a conversation with the director.
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And, you know, those conversations with directors for designers, I think, initially are always very much about feeling each other out and seeing if we're going to play nicely together.
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And... getting an idea of like what's realistic because many, I mean, the thing is that like almost anything is realistic as long as the budget is there.
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But if the budget isn't there, then it's like, what can we do for the budget or the space? There are a lot of spaces that have limitations like Black Swan really wanted to do some water effects and ART was like, we can't do water effects here.

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