2014 TDF Irene Sharaff Awards Announced

Scenic designer, writer, and professor Marjorie Bradley Kellogg and costume designer Deborah M. Dryden are among the 2014 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, May 2, at 6:30pm, at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Kellogg will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design, and Dryden was selected to receive the 2014 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design. Kellogg's award will be presented to her by director Kenny Leon, and Dryden's award will be presented to her by designer David Woolard.

Additionally, costume designer Linda Cho (currently represented on Broadway with The Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder) will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award (which will be presented by director Darko Tresnjak), and costume builder Marianne Krostyne will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award (the award will be presented to her by designer Zach Brown).

During the ceremony, as a special memorial tribute to opera, theatre, and film costume designer Sam Kirkpatrick, there will be a screening of an original 15-minute film on his life, created by designer Suzy Benzinger.

TDF/Irene Sharaff Award honorees are selected by the TDF Costume Collection's Advisory Committee and are presented through the Theatre Development Fund's Costume Collection.

Throughout her long and distinguished career, elegance and an attention to detail were the trademarks of costume designer Irene Sharaff. Sharaff was revered as a designer of enormous depth and intelligence, equally secure with both contemporary and period costumes. Her work exemplified the best of costume design, the foundation says. Such excellence is demonstrated by the winners of the 2014 TDF/Irene Sharaff awardees.

This year's TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards Ceremony is being generously underwritten by The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund.