It may have been hot outside, but NYU’s Department of Design for Stage and Film was undeterred. The Design Show’s annual opening reception took place this past Tuesday, May 6, to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class as well as the work of 1st and 2nd year students. The Design Show continues daily through Thursday, May 15, from 12pm-8pm and a special Meet the Designers event will take place this Saturday, May 10, from 2pm-5pm where all 20 graduating designers will be at the exhibit eager to talk about their work.

Live Design staff including Ellen Lampert-Greaux, Marian Sandberg, and David Johnson were in attendance and spotted the following VIPs (in no particular order):

NYU faculty members:
Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts
Faculty chair Susan Hilferty
Barbara Cokorinos, administrative director, NYU Department of Design for Stage & Film
Costume designer Martin Pakledinaz
Set designer Christine Jones
Set desgner Paul Steinberg
Scenic designer John Conklin
Lighting designer ML Geiger
Lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes
Lighting designer John McKernon
Campbell Baird, scenic painting professor at NYU and set designer
Curt Ostermann
Maggie Raywood
Robert Wierzel

Other VIPs:
Lighting designer Sarah Sidman
Lighting designer Steve Shelley
Lighting designer Bev Emmons, whose daughter is a first year costume designer
Lighting designer Michael Moody
Set designer Neil Patel
Lloyd Burlingame, former chairman of the graduate theatre design department at NYU
Robin Wagner
Tony Walton
Gabriel Berry

Tisch School of the Arts (where the Department of Design for Stage and Film is located) is at 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place), on the third floor. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call (212) 998-1950 or email tisch.design@nyu.edu.