Friday, April 08, 2011
So Hyun Chung Wins 2011 USITT Scene Design Award sponsored by Rose Brand
Stage Directions: "So Hyun Chung, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, received the USITT Scene Design Award sponsored by Rose Brand, during the 2011 USITT Awards for Young Designers & Technicians in the Performing Arts process. Roger Claman of Rose Brand presented the award as part of the 51st Annual Conference. Her work was nominated by Anne Mundell of the Carnegie Mellon University faculty.
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Congrats to So Hyun on the award, and congrats to all the CMU people nominated for USITT awards this year (there were a bunch). I think the number of people nominated from our program this year speaks to the quality of education in the School of Drama, as well as the tremendous opportunities to take full responsibility for projects. It's great for the program for the industry to see all of these awards going to CMU students.
I am so proud that we have so many students nominated and that So Hyun won. I was lucky enough to be here for "Dead Man's cell phone" and it was absolutely so cool. Especially how the team was able to figure out to boil the 4x4 sheets of masonite to create the giant post-its. It was a very insprired design. I also thought that So Hyun's design of "He who gets slapped" was really beautiful as well. Overall though I am glad taht our students have such a high output and quality of work and I hope to be able to help to keep that going.
I think it's great that one of our own won this award, but I would have liked a video that discussed the design more; in this video, So Hyun discussed the overarching concept and its execution, but I would be interested to know what led to the analogue v. digital concept rather than how they used masonite to meet that concept, because the former must have been quite notable in order for her to have won (and I wasn't here for that show last year).
Very proud to see this and very proud to see this on a weekend where there has been a few (too many) mass emails praising CMU alum actors. Attention like that kind of makes you a bit bitter. But I can understand the praise for actors: they are quite literally the face of the theater. But it doesn't undermine my belief that we're the best at what we do and we don't suck. So Hyun and other tech/design students who had great showing at USITT prove that.
Thats so exciting. I agree with Matt. Its nice to see an article about the technical side of cmu. Its great that there were a bunch of cmu people nominated for awards at USITT. I also agree that the video should have gone more in depth on the process and how the design got to its final stages.
I'll echo Daniel's sentiments. Presumably the design ideas were pretty interesting in order to win the rose brand award. Having not had a chance to learn anything else about this production, I'm more interested in that jump than in boiling masonite. The transition from digital to analogue was done in a clever way, and I'd have loved to learn more about it. But of course I'm all for CMU students winning awards. Validating our education and getting our name out there more is great. Nice work!
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