9 Recipients of Beowulf Boritt’s The 1/52 Project Named for 2024
The third round of early-career designers will benefit from $150,000 in grants.
Beowulf Boritt
Molly Higgins
The 1/52 Project, the financial grant program founded by Tony-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, has selected its third round of early-career designers.
The nine recipients, who will benefit from $150,000 in grants, include lighting designers Emma Deane, Emmanuel Delgado, and Carolina Ortiz Herrera; costume designers Camilla Dely and Meg Powers; sound designer Dee Etti-Williams; projection designer Hannah Tran; and set designers Miguel Urbino and Teresa L. Williams.
The recipients, chosen based on talent, creativity, need,
innovation, and potential for future excellence, will each receive grants up to
$17,500 and will be celebrated September 30 at a reception at The Civilian Hotel Rosevale cocktail lounge.
“I am deeply grateful to the generosity of the theatre community for their continued support of this initiative,” said Boritt in a statement. “We received 115 individual donations anywhere from $25 to $10,000 mostly from designers, but also from other members of the theatre community, since you do not need to be a Broadway designer to donate. We raised well over $150,000 this year and close to $400,000 in our first three years in existence.”
Boritt continued, “I’m also bragging about our 2022 recipient, projection designer Stefania Bulbarella, who made her Broadway debut this year with Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and was nominated for a Tony for her work! And lighting designer Mextly Couzin, one of our 2023 recipients, who just made her Broadway debut with JOB.
Together we are really making a difference in these young designers’ lives.”
The 1/52 Project, launched in January 2022, is primarily funded by designers with shows running on Broadway who are encouraged to donate one week every year of their weekly royalties to this fund.
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