Where Is ‘Severance’ Filmed? A Look at the Show’s Unexpected Filming Locations ArticlePure

The Apple TV+ hit series Severance poses a lot of questions — including where its eerie, dystopian world is set.

The psychological thriller follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott) and his team (the Macrodata Refiners) at Lumon Industries, where certain employees undergo a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.

This experiment in work-life balance forces employees to exist in two different realities: their “innie” lives, confined to the blank, windowless walls and (many) hallways of Lumon, and their “outie” selves, navigating daily life in the seemingly ordinary town of Kier.

The show primarily takes place at Lumon Industries — which, in real life, is a mid-century office building in a New Jersey town. Severance‘s director of photography Jessica Lee Gagné was searching the internet for the right location to set Lumon when she came across the site, formerly known as Bell Labs. During a March 2025 conversation with The New York Times, she recalled thinking to herself, “Is this a real place?”

“There was a part of me that couldn’t believe how perfect it was. It was this mind-blowing moment,” she said, adding that the building’s opaque glass exterior felt like a metaphor for the show’s “innies” and “outies” as a “reflection of the characters.”

Though the characters spend much of their time at the office (so much for work-life balance!), they occasionally venture beyond Kier, exploring places like Salt’s Neck and Woe’s Hallow. But where do these places actually exist in the real world?

From Lumon Industries to Woe’s Hollow, here are the real-life filming locations of Severance.

Lumon Industries

Location: Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, N.J. and York Studios in Bronx, N.Y.

The exterior of Lumon Industries is set at what was once known as Bell Labs in Holmdel Township.

Before it became the fictional headquarters, the building was the setting of Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research arm of AT&T, until the telecommunications monopoly split in 1982, per The New York Times.

Now, according to the outlet, the building has been renamed and repurposed to Bell Works, and serves as a tourist attraction and unofficial town square, that includes an indoor promenade with shops and a food court.

As for the interior, it took a production studio to help bring the eerie, isolated floors to life. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the “innies” office days were filmed at York Studios in Bronx, N.Y. The set was also constantly changing, including the maze-like hallways — something that caused Scott to “lose [his] bearings quickly” in there.

“Depending on what we’re shooting, they’re sliding the hallways in one direction or the other and creating new patterns. So more often than not, I would get lost trying to get to the office set,” Scott told NPR in January 2025.

He added, “And many times we’d have to just stop and call out and wait for someone to come find me ’cause it all looks exactly the same, just like it does on the show. And you can just sort of lose your bearings quickly in there.”

The Perpetuity Wing

Location: Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y.

In season 1, the MDR team step off their severed floor to give Helly (Britt Lower) a tour of Lumon’s Perpetuity Wing — a vast museum filled with exhibits exploring Lumon Industries’ history and the enigmatic Eagan family.

As it turns out, the Perpetuity Wing was filmed at a real museum in Yonkers.

“We ended up finding this museum in the Bronx. And I remember seeing the exterior and Ben [Stiller, who directed most of the episodes] and I were like, ‘That could be underground,’ ” production designer Jeremy Hindle told Thrillist in February 2022. “It has this beautiful brutalist building attached to it, and then a pristine house.”

Among the displays is also a replica of Kier Eagan’s house, which was filmed at the 1877 Gilded Age Glenview House on display in the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. According to the museum’s Instagram, visitors can step into Eagan’s replica home during a guided tour.

Woe’s Hallow

Location: Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Ulster County, N.Y.

One of the most striking settings in Severance occurs in season 2, episode 4 when MDR leaves Lumon for an outdoor team-building retreat at Woe’s Hallow.

In a February 2025 interview with Variety, Hindle revealed that this episode was actually one of the most difficult to film. The scouting process alone took 20 days of hiking across various elevations in upstate New York to find the perfect locations, which wound up including Awosting Falls for the waterfall scene and Minnewaska State Park Preserve for the tent and trekking scenes.

“The goal was to find all these different locations that were visually really different so it looked like they’d walked a long way,” Hindle said. “When scouting, you’re going out for full days where you just hike and hike because a lot of these areas weren’t accessible by car. In certain areas, you had to hike for five miles to see it and realize, ‘We can’t [actually] get there.’ ”

Leaving the office also meant having to adapt to changing weather conditions, which proved challenging.

“We got the most mind-blowing amount of snow at the beginning of the shoot, and then it all got really hot and melted and we were shooting with zero snow,” he recalled to the outlet.

Irving’s (John Turturro) dream sequence — in which a Lumon office is replicated on top of a mountain — was filmed in a forest around Sam’s Point.

“Luckily, it just pounded snow. We shot it in an afternoon for real with this beautiful desk in the middle of this crazy field,” Hindle recalled. “It almost looks like it’s underwater — we were trying to create something that was really surreal.”

Salt’s Neck

Location: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

In season 2, episode 8, former MDR leader Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) returns to her hometown, which is revealed to be the location of one of the original Lumon factories. The town itself plays a big role in helping viewers learn more about Cobel’s past and her journey to Lumon.

Salt’s Neck is a fictional town in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador. According to CBC, scenes were shot between various towns, including Bonavista, Keels and Port Union.

Kier

Location: Beacon, Nyack and Kingston, N.Y.

The “outies” of Severance exist in the town of Kier, which was filmed across various parts of New York.

Baird Creek Manor, where Mark’s “outie” and Mrs. Selvig’s homes are located, is filmed at the Village Gate Townhouses in Nyack, N.Y., per Screen Rant. Elsewhere in Nyack, Mark’s date with Alexa in season 1 took place at the Hudson House.

According to the outlet, the exterior of Irving’s apartment is set at Waterfront at the Strand Apartments in Kingston, N.Y. The nearby Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge was used for the bridge scene in season 1.

The “outies” also occasionally step into downtown Kier, which is filmed across the city of Beacon, N.Y.

The Goat Room

Location: Marine Park Golf Course in Brooklyn, N.Y.

In season 2, Mark and Helly’s search for Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman) lands them in the Goat Wrangling Department, which was first introduced in season 1. They end up in the Mammalian Nurturability room — a vast indoor field with green hills and an abundance of goats — which was actually filmed at the Marine Park Golf Course in Brooklyn.

“We built the walls of the room around it on a big, wide piece of grass,” Hindle told Vulture in January 2025, noting that the elaborate set “honestly took months” to put together.

In postproduction, visual effects artists digitally removed a weather-protection tent and fine-tuned various elements of the set, including lighting, color and even the placement of the goats.

“We change their direction. We change their color. We paint them out,” Hindle said. “Half the goats are in different places by the time we’re done. But we need them there to interact with Gwendoline [Christie, who plays the head of the department]. You need them with the other actors.”

Mark’s sister Devon’s home

Location: Bier House in Usonia, N.Y.

Throughout the first two seasons, Mark’s “outie” spends time at his sister Devon’s (Jen Tullock) modern, mid-century home — which was filmed at Bier House in Usonia.

According to Utility Design, the home was designed by Japanese-American architect Kaneji Domoto, who studied under the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright.