MFA in Design - Student Achievements
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STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION WINNERS
(Awards received by students in the costume design program since 1982.)
For the third year in a row, University of Tennessee theatre design graduate students have swept the top awards in the Southeastern Theatre Conference Design Competition. UT graduate students Catherine Girardi, Emily Strickland and Nathaniel Sinnott won first place in lighting, costume and set design. UT graduate student Brian Barker won third place in scene design.
Graduate Student, Felia Davenport is one of only two costume designers selected nationally to exhibit in the juried exhibition, Young Designers' Forum at the annual conference of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology in Phoenix.
UT Theatre Department graduate student, Allison McMillan's designs are being featured at the Prague Quadrennial in June, 2007, the premier international juried exhibition of theatre design.
Leah Barnes, First Place, ACTF Costume Crafts Competition, Cat Puppet, 2004; First Place, SETC Costume Crafts Competition, Cat Puppet, 2004; Second Place, ACTF David Weiss Award, The Hypochondriac, 2002
Stephen Brown, First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for A Midsummernight's Dream, 1993
Courtney Burt, Honorable Mention, SETC Design Competition for The Tempest, 2002; Honorable Mention, ACTF Barbizon Award, The Glass Menagerie, 2002; First place SETC Design Competition for Heartbreak House, 2001
Felia Davenport, First Place, SETC Costume Design Competition, Servant of Two Masters, 2005
Tim Dial, Zelma Weisfeld Award for Costume Design and Technology, USITT, 1998; Third Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Bela, 1998; First Place Winner SETC Graduate Design Competition for, A Servant of Two Masters, 1997
Chrissanthi Diamanti, First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Faust, 1992; Honorable Mention SETC Design Competition for Cyrano De Bergerac, 1990
Connie Furr, Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Mahagonny, 1986; First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for A Ghost Sonata, 1985; First Place Winner ACTF Design Competition for Peter Pan, 1985
Steven Graver, First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Macbeth, 1987; Third Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Mahagonny, 1986; Second Place Winner SETC Designer Competition for A Servant of Two Masters, 1985
Marilyn Jensen, Purchase Prize USITT Third Biennial Competition for Romeo Juliet, 1983
Kendra Johnson, Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Treemonisha, 1994; Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for As You Like It, 1993
Masha Kamyshkova, Third Place, SETC Design Competition for The Three Sisters, 2002; Second Place SETC Design Competition for Inherit the Wind, 2001; Second Place SETC Design Competition for The Grapes of Wrath, 2000
Tommy Macon, accepted in juried exhibition: "Young Designers Forum" at the USITT Conference, 1995; Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for A Month in the Country, 1995; Regional Winner ACTF Design Competition for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1994; First Place Winner SETC Design Competition, 1994
Margot McNerney, First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Mahagonny, 1990; Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Hunting Cockroaches, 1989
Kathy Meacham, Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Camille, 1983; First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for The Weavers, 1982
Traci Meek, Third Place Winner Undergraduate Design Competition for The Weavers, 1997.
Clinton Odell, Zelma Weisfeld Award for Costume Design and Technology, USITT 2005; Third Place, SETC Costume Design Competition, Metamophoses, 2005; First Place, SETC Design Competition for The Balcony, 2003
Melanie Starnes-Small, First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for The Seagull, 1998; Second Place Winner SETC Graduate Design Competition for King Lear, 1997
Allison Steadman, Second Place SETC Design Competition for Alice Through The Looking Glass, 1998
Scharice Steber, Second Place Regional ACTF Design Competition for The Imaginary Invalid, 1994.
Johann Stegmeir, selected for The Theater Communications Group annual "Most Promising Young Designer Fellowship" 1993. (For designers at least two years out of school and working.); Second Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Lulu, 1990; Third Place Winner SETC Design Competition for Cloud Nine, 1989; First Place Winner SETC Design Competition for A Man's A Man, 1988
Jessica Wegener, First Place, SETC Design Competition for Oklahoma!, 2002
