[SML] Properties Grant Winners

[Patrick Drone]

 The Society of Properties Artisan Managers is pleased to announce the First Recipients of the Jen Trieloff Grant and the Edie Whitsett Grant. 



Jen Trieloff Grant - Winner - Jeffery Bazemore
 Edie Whitsett Grant - Winner - Lucy Briggs

2015 S*P*A*M Grant Winner Bios

 Jeffery Bazemore recently finished the second year of his MFA in Properties at Ohio University where he’s been studying with Tom Fiocchi, Properties Technologist. While at Ohio Jeffery acted as the Graduate Assistant Properties Master on 2 shows, including As You Like It, and as Graduate Assistant Properties Artisan on 7 shows, including The 39 Steps, Cloud 9 and Metamorphosis. Prior to his time there, Jeffery accrued a wide range of properties experience after graduating in 2012 with his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Berea College, including working in a Properties Assistantship with S*P*A*M members Jim Clark, Properties Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Tim Hogan, Properties Director at Pacific Conservatory Theatre as a Properties Artisan. This summer he will be returning to PCPA to study with Tim Hogan once again, this time in a properties internship, after which he will be heading back to Ohio University to finish up his graduate degree.

 

Lucy Briggs recently graduated the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre Design & Production – Set Design, where she studied with S*P*A*M member Patrick Drone, the Theatrical Properties Manager and Sarah Tanner, the Associate Theatrical Properties Manger. During her time at U of M she was a paid Properties Artisan on 20 shows over two years, and was able to learn and refine skills working with metal, soft goods, finish carpentry, set decoration and faux finishing. She spent the summers of 2012 and2013 as a carpentry intern and then a carpenter for Williamstown Theatre Festival and then she took her carpenter skills to the Spoleto Festival for the 2014 season where she worked as a Carpenter Apprentice. Lucy can currently be found at the Guthrie Theater as the Properties Intern working with S*P*A*M members Patricia Olive, Sarah Gullickson and Seán McArdle. From there she will move to Louisville to be the Properties Journeyman at Actors Theatre with S*P*A*M members Mark Walston and Joe Cunningham.

 

Congratulations to S*P*A*M’s first grant recipients!

Individuals wanting more information about these grants or about the Society of Properties Artisan Managers should check out our website at http://propmasters.org <http://propmasters.org/> or our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Society-of-Properties-Artisan-Managers/125223974188505 <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Society-of-Properties-Artisan-Managers/125223974188505>

Thank You,
Patrick A Drone
Theatrical Properties Director/Lector (Properties)
University of Michigan/University Productions
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