{"id":8897,"date":"2022-10-29T08:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/american-theatre-tdfs-design-focused-sharaff-awards-return-for-in-person-fete\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T08:17:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:17:46","slug":"american-theatre-tdfs-design-focused-sharaff-awards-return-for-in-person-fete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/american-theatre-tdfs-design-focused-sharaff-awards-return-for-in-person-fete\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN THEATRE | TDF\u2019s Design-Focused Sharaff Awards Return for In-Person F\u00eate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong>\u00a0The TDF Sharaff Awards are returning for his or her first in-person ceremony since 2019 with a celebration on Oct. 7 on the Edison Ballroom.\u00a0There the late costume designer Fred Voelpel might be honored with the TDF\/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in costume design, and scenic designer Eugene Lee will obtain the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Costume designer Dede Ayite might be awarded the TDF\/Kitty Leech Young Master Award, and visible artist Michael Curry will obtain the TDF\/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese wonderful awardees were originally chosen by the committee for the 2020 awards ceremony,\u201d stated Stephen Cabral, director of the TDF costume assortment, in a press release. \u201cSadly, the pandemic put that and last year\u2019s ceremony on hold, but we\u2019re thrilled to finally celebrate these incredible artists. We were very upset to lose Fred Voelpel this past June. I had been in contact with Fred and he was happy to have been chosen for the award and had been looking forward to attending. He will be sorely missed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This 12 months\u2019s award recipients had been chosen by a voting committee that included main members of the theatrical design group. The committee included Cabral,\u00a0Gregg Barnes,\u00a0Suzy Benzinger,\u00a0Dean Brown,\u00a0Traci DiGesu,\u00a0Linda Fisher,\u00a0Lana Fritz,\u00a0Jess Goldstein,\u00a0Rodney Gordon,\u00a0Allen Lee Hughes,\u00a0Holly Hynes,\u00a0Daniel Lawson,\u00a0Anna Louizos,\u00a0Katherine Marshall,\u00a0Mimi Maxmen,\u00a0David Murin,\u00a0Sally Ann Parsons,\u00a0Scott D. Pask,\u00a0Robert Perdziola,\u00a0Gregory Poplyk,\u00a0Carrie Robbins,\u00a0Alejo Vietti, Patrick Wiley,\u00a0and\u00a0David Zinn.<\/p>\n<p>This 12 months\u2019s ceremony will embody a 15-minute memorial tribute to costume designer Caroline F. Siedle, created by designer Suzy Benzinger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TDF (previously often called Theatre Development Fund)\u00a0was based in 1968 as a nonprofit service group with the mission of bringing the facility of the performing arts to everybody. 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