USITT has posted the winners from the 2009 World Stage Design competition which took place in Seoul, Korea, and proved to be quite a showcase of international design talent.

The winners include:

Outstanding Scenographer

Monica Raya (Mexico) for The Skin (set and costume), Rappaccini’s Daughter (set, costume and lighting), Twelfth Night (set and light), Autopsy to a Snowflake (set and costume), and AUTOPSIA (lighting)

Set Design

* Gold Award: Liu more…

The lighting design world lost one of its own yesterday with the untimely death of Chicago-based LD Michael Philippi. His obit in the Chicago Tribune, mentions that he “collapsed and died Tuesday afternoon on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago.”

As Gregg Hilmar noted on the Stagecraft Mailing List about Michael: “I lost a dear friend today… The theatre world is a little more…

LD Rick Fisher, chair of the UK Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) reports that Charles Spencer of the UK Telegraph attended a forum for critics and offered some nice support of lighting deisgners:

“During my time as a student, I worked as a notably inefficient stage manager on several shows at Oxford. The whole technical aspect of it scared me senseless, and I always steered well clear of the physics more…

LD Steve Shelley is excited (and relieved) that “A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Second Edition” is not only completed, but now in the warehouse and shipping. He has announced that Focal Press has extended an introductory 20% discount, or $9.99 off the cover price of $49.95, at http://www.focalpress.com/Book.aspx?id=6644, order the book, and when checking out, enter the following Promotional Code: YT007. This offer is good until the end of more…

Just a heads up that Vectorworks 2010 was released a few days ago. As always Nemetschek has added numerous improvements and tools and ways to do things. I’ll admit I stuck to my VW2008 and never really got that into VW2009 (which is on my harddrive eating up valuable space), but I think I’m going to make the jump and really get myself into using 2010. That more…