Friday, April 01, 2016
TDF Announces 2016 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards
Stage Directions: Susan Tsu was selected to receive the 2016 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design and Michael Yeargan will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Additionally, costume designer Suttirat Larlarb will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, and authors and designers Liz Covey and the late Rosemary Ingham will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award.
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I feel so blessed to go to a school with such talented and industry-renowned professors. While I do buy into the the myth that well-awarded people make the best professors, my experience here at Carnegie Mellon is enough to change that. Congratulations to Susan and Suttirat, whose hard work and carefully curated aesthetic certainly have served them well. After a half-hearted google search, I discovered a bit of backstory on this award, and a list of previous Lifetime achievement awardees, and while I can say with confidence that Susan will be quite comfortable in the elite circle of costume designers that have also received this award, terming the thing a "lifetime achievement" award is probably the wrong way to go about this. Who knows what wonders she will create in the next years, what untapped ideas she has yet to show the world? Susan's lifetime achievement is not yet done, so I do believe this award, while most definitely justified, is also a bit premature. Maybe calling it a "body of work" award,or "industry titan" award would be a bit more fitting.
Congrats to Susan and Suttirat and all of the other recipients! I’m glad that CMU is well represented and thankful that we have such accomplished professors who are willing to teach us. I think it’s great that there are so many opportunities for ‘behind-the-scenes’ artists and professionals to be recognized for a lifetime of work. It’s a shame you don’t hear more about this kinds of awards though, since we tend to hear quite a bit about lifetime achievements in directing, or different awards for acting. Eventually, I hope the directors, actors, and designers get equal recognition for the art that they make, including sound designers (looking at you Tony’s). But these awards are an amazing honor regardless of their public recognition, and I still can’t believe I get to work with such incredible, talented people. It really means a lot that our professors willingly balance their careers and teaching, simply because they want us to do well.
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