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The Burry Fredrik Foundation Announces Scenic Designer Omid Akbari as the Recipient of the 2024 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship

Omid Akbari

The Burry Fredrik Foundation has announced Scenic Designer Omid Akbari as the recipient of the 2024 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship and its $10,000 award. The Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship was established in 2017 to help launch the careers of graduates from David Geffen School of Drama’s Design program. Each year, the faculty selects one graduating scenic, costume, lighting, projection, or sound designer as the Burry Fredrik Design Fellow, who receives a cash award. Read More »The Burry Fredrik Foundation Announces Scenic Designer Omid Akbari as the Recipient of the 2024 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship

Student Designers Appraise Elation Lighting on Yale’s Carlotta Festival

A scene from ‘Furlough’s Paradise’ with a lighting design by Yichen Zhou. The Carlotta Festival, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, 2023. Photo © T. Charles Erickson.

In partnership with dry-hire rental house Main Light, Elation Professional provided Fuze MAX™ series moving head luminaires to David Geffen School of Drama at Yale for use on the school’s annual Carlotta Festival, which showcases plays written, directed, acted and designed by students. The Carlotta Festival features three fully produced new plays by graduating playwrights performed in rotating repertory. The plays presented in this year’s festival, which ran May 5–12 at the Iseman Theatre, included littleboy/littleman by Rudi Goblen (directed by Jacob Basri); Furlough’s Paradise by a.k. payne (directed by Leyla Levi); and Color Boy by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (directed by Jecamiah M. Ybañez). Read More »Student Designers Appraise Elation Lighting on Yale’s Carlotta Festival

Vari-Lite VL2600 Spot Luminaires Add Spiraling Drama to Yale’s ‘Next to Normal’

“The VL2600 really helped me to isolate and carve out different spaces on the stage, and the variable frost helped me give it all a really nice soft edge,” says LD David DeCarolis. Photo © David DeCarolis

Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama staged a performance of the American rock musical Next to Normal recently, with a lighting design by David DeCarolis using VL2600 Spot luminaires as part of the Vari-Lite University Outreach Program from Signify.

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Projection Designer Camilla Tassi Receives 2022 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship from The Burry Fredrik Foundation

Camilla Tassi

The Burry Fredrik Foundation has announced David Geffen School of Drama Projection Designer Camilla Tassi as the recipient of the 2022 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship and its $25,000 award. Tassi is currently pursuing an MFA in Projection Design with Wendall Harrington at the David Geffen School of Drama’s Design Department.Read More »Projection Designer Camilla Tassi Receives 2022 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship from The Burry Fredrik Foundation