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The Loudon Sainthill Memorial Scholarship Trust offers a travelling scholarship of up to $12,000 to emerging Australian theatre designers. It is not currently offered every year.
The Loudon Sainthill Memorial Travelling Scholarship is administered on behalf of the Trustees by NIDA.
Applicants should be emerging professionals working in theatre design. Applicants must have designed for at least three productions for a professional company.
ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP
Loudon Sainthill was one of the most imaginative designers in the theatre of his time.
He was born in Tasmania in 1919. After serving in the Royal Australian Nacy during World War II, he left Australia to pursue a career in England as a theatre designer.
Between 1951 and 1958 Loudon Sainthill designed more than 40 productions for the Old Vic, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, the Royal Court, Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells as well as West End productions for Tennents and Harold Fielding.
When he died in London in 1969 at the age of fifty, his reputation was international and derived from more than fifty productions of theatre, opera, ballet, revue, pantomimes and musicals.
In 1970, Harry Tatlock Miller established in London the Loudon Sainthill Memorial Scholarship Trust in memory of Loudon Sainthill. The Trust endows a travelling scholarship for a young Australian theatre designer.
In 1987, Harry Tatlock Miller asked NIDA to administer the Loudon Sainthill Memorial Scholarship in Australia.
Previous Loudon Sainthill Travelling Scholarship winners include Stephen Curtis, Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie and Dale Ferguson.
TIMING FOR APPLICATIONS
The Loudon Sainthill Fellowhship is not awarded every year. It is not known if a fellowship will be awarded in 2007.
APPLICATION FORMS
An application form must be completed by each applicant. Each application must be accompanied by a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae; a detailed proposal of the planned use of the Scholarship; and an indication of when the Scholarship will be taken up.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE
The Selection Committee will meet to consider applications and to make a shortlist, taking into consideration the opinions of referees where appropriate. Each shortlisted applicant will be asked to submit a portfolio of work in support of their application. (Design work is not to be submitted with the application.)
Applicants may be asked to attend an interview at the discretion of the Selection Committee.
Inquiries can be sent to:
Loudon Sainthill Scholarship
NIDA
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052
Tel (02) 9697 7600
Fax (02) 9662 7415
E-mail contact form
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