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 Xinglin (China), Tangwan
* Silver Award: Judit Csanadi (Hungary), Peer Gynt, The Ambitious and The Flighty; and Dorita Hannah (New Zealand), Aarero Stone and Her Topia
* Honorable Mention: Tsang Man-Tung (Hong Kong, China), No End and Ubu Roi
Costume Design
* Gold Award: Dorita Hannah (New Zealand), Aarero Stone and Her Topia; and Heng-Cheng Lin (Taiwan), Lysistrata and Endgame
* Silver Award: Edyta Rzewuska (Mexico), Nezahualcóyotl; and Hye-sook Chang (Korea), The Dance of the Four Flying Gods in the Sky
Lighting Design
* Gold Award: Beto Bruel (Brazil), Not About Love
* Silver Award: Lee-Zen Michael Chien (Taiwan), Like Shadows
* Honorable Mention: Vinny Jones (Netherlands), tobetonotbe and de Monant
Sound Design
The Awards Jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision so it decided to divide the prize money among all contributors in the category.
* Jude Edgard C Balsamo (Phillipines), Amihan
* Curtis Craig (USA), Pentecost
* Igor Drevalev (Russia), The Black Monk
* Gregg R Fisher (UK), Sarajevo Story
* Elisheba Itoop (USA), Bent
* Jethro Joaquin (Phillipines), Hamlet
* Karen Lauke (UK), The Odyssey
* Richard Malone (USA), Female Transport
* Matthew Suttor (USA), The Trial of the Cannibal Dog Opera
* Richard K Thomas (USA), Henry V
* Bradlee Ward (USA), The Methuselah Tree
* Claire Windsor (UK), Palace of the End
* Chien Feng Wu (Taiwan), Love Letters
Congratulations to all the winners!