Polly Jean Vernon (she/her) has been working in the film and television industry since 1998. As a props master she has made films with directors Atom Egoyan, Sarah Polley, and Brian DePalma; as a scenic carpenter she has built offices and caves and spaceships and apartments on all sizes of shows. She has worked as a construction coordinator and head carpenter building scenery for television, films, and commercials. She has traveled to Eastern Europe, Central America and South Africa as a production designer, and to northern Ontario as an art director. Most recently she worked as a carpenter on CTV’s Shelved, with a core construction department consisting of more women than men for the first time in her career. She is an advocate for transgender folks and women in the trades, by necessity; in 2021 she founded the Alliance of Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Tradespeople, to connect and support transgender people in the trades. She is also a musician and will be releasing her third full-length album next month on her own label, No Dogma Records.