New 1/52 Project Selects Seven Early-Career Theater Designers For Grants

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EXCLUSIVE: The 1/52 Project, a new financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, has selected the first seven early-career designer recipients to benefit from $100,000 in grants.

Each of the inaugural recipients will receive grants up to $15,000, with applicants chosen based on talent, creativity, innovation, and potential for future excellence in the professional theatrical field.The 2022 recipients are Brittany Bland, projection designer; Everett Elton Bradman, sound designer; Stefania Bulbarella, projection designer; Jessica Alexandra Cancino, set designer; Frank Cazares, costume designer; Jordan McCree, sound designer; and Jingyi Johanna Pan, costume designer.“I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be able to make a living as a theatre designer, much less to have the opportunity to do it on Broadway,” said Boritt. “Part of that luck was being born a middle-class white boy.

The goal of The 1/52 Project is to give a little encouragement to a talented group of early career designers for whom doors may open less easily.”Boritt continued, “In supporting them, we hope to strengthen and diversify the profession.

I’m immensely grateful for the generosity of the Broadway community for funding the idea and the hard work of the 1/52 Grant Committee for the impossible task of choosing from a large group of very talented applicants.”The recipients will be honored at a reception on Wednesday, October 5 at 5:30 PM at the West Bank Café-Beechman Theatre in Manhattan, sponsored by Hudson Scenic Studio.