The 2010 winner will work one-on-one with Broadway, International and Regional Costume Designer Jennifer Caprio. She will mentor you as you assist her on one of two projects this summer.

SETC offers a cash award of $1500 to assist you with your expenses. Depending on Jen's schedule and the winner's, the projects could include working on show that's transferring to Broadway (Jen cautions: "you know how these things go though-it may fall through...") or on a huge new re-imagining of the musical of Superman at the Dallas Theater Center in June.

2010 Winner:
Kyra Beanland
Kyra is a second year international graduate student in costume design.  After growing up in Scarborough, England, Kyra gained her undergraduate degree from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, U.K. During her time there she gained some TV credits, working as a costume assistant on the BBC drama, Waking The Dead, as well as some pilot TV shows.

Kyra then came to the States, where she designed costumes as part of Monomoy Theatre's summer season, comprising of: See How They Run, Steel Magnolias, A Midsummer Night's Dream and You Can't Take It With You. Kyra's previous work the University of Tennessee has included her costume designs for Speech and Debate, performed in the Clarence Brown's Lab Theatre; Little Shop of Horrors, staged in the Carousel in Fall 2009 and Flyin' West, in the Clarence Brown's Lab Theatre in Spring 2009.

Samples of Kyra's Work: