Two
UNCSA
Design and Production Students
Win
2013
USITT
Awards
Feb. 4, 2013
Two
students
from
the
School
of Design
and Production at
the
University
of North
Carolina
School
of the
Arts
are
among nine
winners
of 2013
USITT
Awards
for Young
Designers &
Technicians
in the
Performing
Arts,
the
United
States
Institute
for Theatre
Technology
announced
this
week.
Peyton
Taylor
Becker
is the
winner
of the
2013
USITT Stage
Management
Award
sponsored by
Clear-Com
Communications Systems,
and Lauren
Wilde is the
winner
of the
USITT
Makeup
Design Award
sponsored by
Kryolan Professional Makeup.
Both will
graduate
from
UNCSA
in May,
Becker
with her
Bachelor
of Fine Arts
degree
and Wilde
with her
Master
of Fine
Arts.
The YD&T
awards
will be
presented
in a special
ceremony
at
USITT’s
Annual Conference
The awards
are
held annually
by USITT,
the
national
association for performing arts design
and technology professionals.
Nine
awards
sponsored by
industry
leaders
honor young
designers
in the
areas
of
production, sound, lighting, costumes,
makeup,
stage
management,
set
design and
scenic technology.
Winners
are
nominated by
USITT members
and chosen
by a panel
of experts
in each
field.
Jamie
Call Blankinship,
professor
of stage
management
at
UNCSA,
nominated
Becker,
while
Michael Meyer,
director
of wig
and makeup
program
at
UNCSA,
nominated Wilde.
The students
submitted resumes,
letters
of
recommendation and
a portfolio
of
their work
to
a panel
of
adjudicators
in the
specific
area
of
the
award.
Becker,
a
Las Vegas
native,
submitted
schedules,
daily call
sheets,
prop
spreadsheets
The USITT
Stage
Management
Award
sponsored by
Clear-Com,
rewards
work
displaying
excellent
stage
management
skills.
Becker
will
receive
a $1,000
cash prize
in addition
to free registration
for USITT’s
Annual Conference.
Wilde,
of Peachtree
City,
Georgia,
submitted
sketches,
photos and
design descriptions for such
creations
as custom-made
18th-century
wigs – one
with a birdcage entwined
on
A
total
of
60
young
designers
were
nominated
for the
2013
YD&T awards.
The winners
will be
honored in a
special multi-media
event
on opening night
of USITT’s
53rd
Annual
Conference
&
Stage
Expo, with a
separate
reception
during
the
four-day
event
to
meet their
award’s
sponsors
and
adjudicators.
USITT, the
association
for backstage
professionals, serves
nearly
4,000
members
worldwide.
Its annual
Conference
offers
more
than
200
workshops,
meetings
and
networking
events
for
theatrical design professionals.
For
more
information,
visit
www.usitt.org.
As
America’s
first state-supported
arts
school,
the
University
of North
Carolina
School
of the
Arts
is a unique
stand-alone public university
of arts
conservatories.
With a high
school component, UNCSA
is a
degree-granting
institution
that
trains young
people
of talent in
music,
dance,
drama,
filmmaking,
and design and production.
For more
information, visit
www.uncsa.edu
Media questions
or
requests
for images
may
be
directed
to
Barbara
E.R.
Lucas,
barbara@
usitt.org,
or
800-938-7488,
ext.103.
Media contact for UNCSA is Lauren Whitaker, whitakerl@uncsa.edu, 336-734-2891.
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