2011 Student Design Competition

Open to Undergraduate and Graduate students in the following areas of design:
• Costume Design
• Lighting Design
• Scenic Design
• Crafts & Technology

Programming for the design and technical areas of theatre starts Wednesday at 4 PM and continues through until 3 PM Saturday. In addition to approximately 50 workshops, there are special events.

Design Tech Mixer - 8 PM Wednesday
Design Competition Display - Th, Fr, Sat
Distinguished Designers Presentation - 7 PM Thursday
Design Critiques - Friday
Design Award Ceremony - 8:30 PM Friday
• Scenic – Sculptural Arts Coating, Inc., sponsor
• Lighting – ETC, sponsor
• Costume – Sponsored in Honor of Irene Smart Rains
• Tech/crafts - Betsey Baun, Ginger Willis, sponsor
• Ready to Work Competition – SETC & Children's Theatre of Charlotte
 

2011 Ready for Work Design Award
The Children’s Theatre of Charlotte will be awarding one designer participating in the Graduate Design Competition the opportunity to design one show for the upcoming 2011-2012 season.  The recipient of the Ready for Work award will work with the theatre’s amazing production team to bring their design to life.  Whoever is chosen will be paid a design fee, work with a knowledgeable staff in a professional theatre, receive a design credit in the program, and professional photos of your design for your portfolio.

SETC offers the winner $1300 to offset any incurred expenses for the duration of their work with the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. For more information on Children's Theatre of Charlotte click here.

2011 Distinguished Guest Designers
Three acclaimed designers critique graduate and undergraduate entries in Scenic, Costume, Lighting
Design, Crafts & Technology. They are:

Jim Hutchison is a Lighting Designer, Consultant, Educator and Editor of JimonLight.com.  Hutchison edits an international website on light; consults with companies and theatres on lighting; creates works of light through a design firm, Alive Lighting; creates large-scale works of light art through another firm, LumenAria; and is head of entertainment lighting design at Oklahoma City University. 

Judy Juracek is a scenic artist in New York City. She has designed scenery and costumes for regional opera, theater, and ballet, and for theater in New York City.  As a scenic artist, she has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, on scenery for Broadway productions, commercials, television, and feature films. Most recently, she has worked on the films Men In Black 3, The Smurf Movie, Salt, Date Night, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, It’s Complicated, Doubt, Taking Woodstock, and The Departed.

 Fred Lloyd has worked on 40 films and television shows; most recently as costume supervisor on The Walking Dead for AMC (with Costume Designer Peggy Stamper, his wife).  Fred has designed costumes for plays as divergent as The Wedding Singer and Romeo and Juliet.  Fred is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Brenau University – teaching costume design and technology and is the Resident Costume Designer for the Gainsville Theatre Alliance.

2011 Student Design Competition General Information
• Scenic, Lighting, and Costume Design Competitions have two divisions, undergraduate and graduate, for a total of 6 design competitions. You may enter only one design in each area of design in your division. You may, however, enter one design in each of the four categories. An entry fee applies to each entry.

• The Crafts and Technology Competition includes both undergrad and graduate students and shall include but not be limited to properties, costume crafts and technology and special effects.In Crafts and Technology you may enter two areas, or you may have several pieces judged together i.e. 3 hats or a series of daggers.There are three awards in this category.

Cash awards are given for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Places.

Select and complete the Design Competition application:

NOTE: Your school must be an Institutional Member of SETC for you to compete in any of the design competitions. "Institutional Member" is defined as having paid Institutional Dues of $70 to SETC by the registration deadline (usually in the month of January directly preceding convention).
Contact claire@setc.org to verify school status.

Questions regarding registration: SETC Central Office setc@setc.org
Questions regarding design or competition rules and regulations:
••••Chair, Design and Technology - Jennifer Matthews, jmatthew@sewanee.edu
••••Vice-Chair, Design and Technology - Michael Barnett, lighting@olemiss.edu