Nangle does casting work for big names — Matthew Barney, Kiki Smith, Richard Serra, and the like — but the one he seems most jazzed about is H.R. Giger, the Swiss Surrealist best known for designing both sets and the eponymous creature for the 1980 movie Alien. “I had no idea how much of an artist he is,” says Nangle. “Apparently Dalí was his first teacher. Can you imagine?”