About the Fellowship
The Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship is dedicated to launching the careers of graduates from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale design departments through a collaboration between the Burry Fredrik Foundation, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and Connecticut’s professional producing theaters. Each year, one Burry Fredrik Design Fellow (BFDF) will be selected by the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale Design Faculty (with approval by the Dean) from among the graduating designers and will receive a $10,000 fellowship award.
Burry Fredrik Foundation Design Grants
In addition, the Burry Fredrik Foundation is committed to supporting the careers of graduates of the Design Program of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Starting with the 2023 graduating class, for a period of two years following their graduation (starting July 1 and ending June 30 two years hence), when a graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama Design Program is hired and accepts work as a designer at any of Connecticut’s professional producing theatres, for their first production at the theatre, the Burry Fredrik Foundation will award that theatre a grant in an amount equal to the customary and usual fee paid to the graduate for their design.
Burry Fredrik Design Fellows
2024: Omid Akbari, Scenic Designer
2023: Marcelo Martínez García, Scenic Designer
2022: Camilla Tassi, Projection Designer
2020: Evan Anderson, Lighting Designer
2019: Stephanie Osin Cohen, Scenic Designer
2018: Frederick Kennedy, Sound Designer
2017: Claire DeLiso, Scenic Designer
David Geffen School of Drama Design Program Class of 2024
Costume Design
Risa Ando
Theo Dubois
Kiyoshi Shaw
Yu-Jung Shen
Lighting Design
David DeCarolis
Yichen Zhou
Projection Design
John Horzen
Sam Skynner
Scenic Design
Omid Akbari
B Entsminger
Charles Meier
Suzu Sakai
Lia Tubiana
Kim Zhou
Sound Design
Joe Krempetz
Stan Mathabane
Mike Winch
David Geffen School of Drama Design Program Class of 2023
Costume Design
Aidan Griffiths
Kitty Cassetti
Kyle J. Artone
Travis Chinick
Lighting Design
Graham Zellers
邱嘉皓 Jiahao (Neil) Qiu
Projection Design
Hannah Tran
Henry Rodriguez
Scenic Design
Cat Raynor
Emmie Finckel
KIMKIM (Juhee Kim)
Marcelo Martínez García
Miguel Urbino
Sound Design
Evdoxia Ragkou