Kennedy Center: KCACTF Summer Intensives

KCACTF Summer Intensives

A Master Class in
The Collaborative Process: Costume Design
with Constance Hoffman
At the Kennedy Center, from July 5-17, 2004.
Application information for directors

Twelve costume designers will work at the Kennedy Center with recent Tony Award Nominee Constance Hoffman.

Participants will work in collaboration with six resident directors and the participants of the Scenic Intensive led by Ming Cho Lee, and will be offered special sessions with the distinguished lighting designer Beverly Emmons.

This rigorous master class will focus on the costume design process by exploring project work selected from Shakespeare, the Greeks or Opera. Special attention will be paid to the collaborative relationship with directors and other members of the design team. The full process- from discussion to research to sketches to full-color renderings- will be practically explored in the Kennedy Center Design Studios.

Projects 2004- to be determined
Projects 2003- KING LEAR, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Strauss' ELECTRA
Projects 2002- IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, Strauss' SALOME, THE TEMPEST, THE WINTER'S TALE

Class times:
9:30am-6pm Daily
Day off- Sunday, July 11th

Participation:
12 designers, made up of faculty and students, will be accepted.

Tuition:
$900 for the master class
$850 for faculty or students from KCACTF participating institutions
$800 for faculty and students whose home institutions are offering scholarship or professional development support, at any level, for this opportunity
$30 materials fee

Tickets are available, at additional charge, for the Kennedy Center TENNESSEE WILLIAMS EXPLORED production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE featuring Sally Field as Amanda, designed by John Lee Beatty, Jane Greenwood and Howell Binkley, directed by Garry Hynes.

Housing:
Available at a rate of $40 per night- or $560 for the entire master class period- shared lodging- in the George Washington University Residence Halls, within easy walking distance to the Kennedy Center.

To Apply:
-A letter stating and detailing your interest in participating in the master class
-A resume detailing your design and related experience
-Up-to six color Xeroxes or digital photos from your portfolio offering a strong representative view of your body of work.

Send to:
KCACTF Costume Design
The Kennedy Center
Box 10808
Arlington, Virginia 22210

Or to:
ghenry@kennedy-center.org

by: Friday, April 2nd. Participants will be notified by April 30th.
(Early submission and acceptance notification may be possible if applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development funding deadlines. Please inquire at the e-mail address above)

The Teacher:
CONSTANCE HOFFMAN : Designs include The Shakespeare Theatre A Midsummer Night's Dream ; The Alley Theatre Hamlet , The Beauty Queen of Leenane . Broadway: The Green Bird with Julie Taymor (Tony nomination and Outer Critics Circle Award); Titus Andronicus , Macbeth , Richard II , Richard III , Measure for Measure and Henry IV -Parts 1, 2 and 3 at Theatre For a New Audience; Henry VI , Parts 1, 2 and 3 at The Public Theatre; Tiny Alice at The Second Stage; Peter Pan , The Investigation , An Ideal Husband , A Midsummer Night's Dream , and Day of Absence at The Center Stage (Baltimore); Richard III , Tiny Alice and Seascape at The Hartford Stage; and Six Degrees of Separation at The Guthrie. She has designed for numerous opera companies, including Glimmerglass/New York City Opera, Bavarian State Opera (Munich), Oper Frankfurt, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The New Israeli Opera, The Minnesota Opera and The Portland Opera. She holds an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and was awarded the Theatre Development Fund Irene Sharaf Young Master Award in 2001.

The Collaborator:
Ming Cho Lee is one of the foremost set designers in America today. Dance: Martha Graham, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Eliot Feld Ballet, Jose Limon, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. From 1962 through 1973, he was the principal designer for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Opera:Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera. Theatre: Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway.

Internationally, Mr. Lee has designed productions for Covent Garden, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Colon, Royal Danish Ballet, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taipei), the Hong Kong Cultural Center, and Buhnen Graz (Austria). His numerous Awards and distinctions include a Tony Award, Helen Hayes Award, New York Drama Desk and New York and Los Angeles Outer Circle Critics Awards and Ovation Award (Los Angeles), three honorary doctorates, awards for long-term achievement from 6 major theatre and opera organizations, the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture from New York City, and induction to the Theatre Hall of Fame. His work was shown recently in a retrospective at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and at the National Museum of History in Taipei, Taiwan. As an architectural consultant, Mr. Lee designed theatres for Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and the State University of New York at Purchase. He holds the Donald Oenslager chair in Design and is co-chair of the design department at the Yale School of Drama.

Questions?
Contact:
Gregg Henry
ghenry@kennedy-center.org