Keyword: Rising Star Awards

Every year at USITT, Live Design/LDI presents the Rising Star Award, which it has funded in perpetuity, to a promising young professional designer. This year the Rising Star Award goes to lighting/digital media designer Maranda DeBusk, who works in regional theatres all across the country. In June, her lighting design for Roméo et Juliette at the Glow Lyric Theatre in Greenville, SC, will be a Featured Emerging Design in the USA Pavillion at the Prague Quadrennial 2019.

Live Design/LDI is pleased to present the 2019 Rising Star Award to freelance lighting and projection designer Maranda DeBusk. Established by Live Design/LDI in 2005, the annual award recognizes a young professional working in the disciplines of scenic, lighting, sound, or projection design. DeBusk will be honored at the USITT Conference & Stage Expo, which takes place in Louisville, KY, on March 20-23, 2019.