The Alcone Company Makeup-Design Award

The purpose of the Alcone Company Makeup-Design Award is to provide student designers with feedback from professionals working in the field; to give outstanding student designers national recognition; and to provide the opportunity for student designers to exhibit their work at the Kennedy Center . Designs will be appraised on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques.

Students who have designed the makeup for a KCACTF associate or participating entry are eligible for the Alcone Company Makeup-Design Award . Entering schools will, at the time of registration with the Kennedy Center and Regional Chair, inform the Regional Chair of any student makeup designers and will request a KCACTF respondent. Please be sure to provide contact information, including email, for all student designers.

Student designers will be notified of their selection for the regional design exhibition, as a regional Alcone nominee, according to the procedures of their region: at the time of the initial KCACTF response; by the Regional Chair; or at the announcement of the productions chosen for the regional festival.

At the regional festival guest designers will respond to the projects of regional Alcone nominees who are present; they will select one winner (national Alcone finalist) from the regional makeup design entries.

Designs of the national Alcone finalists will be on display during the KCACTF national festival in Washington , D.C. , and will be returned to the designers immediately following it. A national winner will be selected from the national Alcone finalists by the designated design respondent/s during the national festival.

General Information on the Alcone Design Award:

Student designers may be selected to attend their regional festival as regional Alcone nominees regardless of whether the production itself is selected for the regional festival. Regional Alcone nominees must attend their regional festival, and display their designs, in order to be eligible for nomination to the National Alcone Award.

The designer is responsible for developing a suitable method of shipping their design to and from the regional festival, including providing the appropriate mailing and insurance charges.

Should they become a national Alcone finalist, the designer is also responsible for shipping their design to and from the national festival, including providing the appropriate mailing and insurance charges.

A guest designer, or designers, will respond to the work of all regional Alcone nominees who are present at their regional festival, in a public forum. One regional Alcone winner (national Alcone finalist) will be selected. The selection of the national Alcone finalists shall include the guest design respondent/s; the selection process may include other guest respondents as determined by the regional design & technology chair.

The national Alcone finalist will be announced at the regional festival. The national Alcone finalist will be invited to exhibit their design display, and attend, the national festival in Washington , D.C in April.

KCACTF will provide national Alcone finalists with travel, shared hotel accommodations and per diem for the period of national festival (normally Tuesday through Saturday). Attendance at the national festival is not mandatory; however, the National Alcone Company Makeup-Design Award is determined by a student's work and participation in workshops and master classes while at the national festival. Faculty mentors are not able to observe workshops or master classes held during the national festival week. Please see the “What Next?” page for further information on the national festival.

National Alcone finalists are welcome to bring their portfolio to the national festival at the Kennedy Center . National design respondents may be available, time permitting, to examine portfolios.

Please see Suggested Format for All Design Exhibits and What Next? documents for further information

Regulations and Procedures for the Alcone Award:

1. Only students who have designed an associate or participating KCACTF entry are eligible for the Alcone Company Makeup-Design Award. Entering schools will, at the time of registration with the Kennedy Center and Regional Chair, inform the Regional Chair of any student makeup designers and will request a KCACTF respondent.
2. Only bona fide students are eligible for this award. A bona fide student is: a) an undergraduate student who is registered for a minimum of six semester hours or nine quarter hours at the time of production; b) a graduate student who is enrolled for three semester or four quarter hours at the time of production; c) a continuing part-time student who is enrolled in a regular degree program at the time of production.
3. After the initial KCACTF response, the KCACTF respondent will inform the nominee and the regional chair of a student makeup-design nominee from the production they have viewed. After such nomination, and appropriate notification from the regional design & technology chair, the student designer will send their design materials to the host of the regional festival. The designer is responsible for developing a suitable method of shipping; return postage and packaging must be included for the work to be returned via mail.
4. The timely delivery of such materials will be determined by the host of the regional festival. Alternatively, some regions may require that students bring their materials in person to the design exhibit space at a specifically scheduled time.
5. The complete design presentation, when mounted and displayed on a vertical surface should be approximately 16 to 24 square feet. When size limitations require xerographic reduction of materials presented in scale, such out-of-scale reduction should be noted. Please see Suggested Format for All Design Exhibits . Each region shall determine its own specific requirements as to space and presentation at their regional festival. Please check with individual regions for specifications and restrictions.
6. Should a regional Alcone nominee move on to the national festival in Washington , D.C. as a national Alcone finalist, an approximate space of 24 sq. feet, including a table surface, is normally provided to each regional winner.
7. Designers are encouraged to include all of the following materials in their design display at the regional festival. Please note that an inability to provide all requested materials should not discourage or prevent students from participating in the Alcone makeup-design competition. The design materials requested are:
   • At least one representative production photograph, in color, labeled as to scene/locale; it should illustrate the entire setting and its relationship to the stage and theatre space.
   • Visual materials which serve to show research, preliminary sketches, photographic images, and any other sources of inspiration that demonstrate the designers' process and evolution. (Please see Suggested Format for All Design Exhibits for more details.)
   • A one- paragraph statement of the design approach to the production; included separately from other materials.
   • At least one representative rendering (or makeup worksheet) for each character, delineating colors for each area – base, cheeks, eye shadow, lips, hair.
   • Visual materials that explain techniques used.
   • Color photographs of the executed makeup; these should include at least one headshot and one full-body shot to show coordination between the costume and makeup.
   • Any visual materials (such as swatches) that show costume colors and textures.
   • All design materials must be labeled with: the play title and playwright; act and scene; and the student designer's name. Wherever possible the name of the designer's college or university should not be visible on the front of any materials. The designer's return address should be on the back of each item of the entry.
   • Note: KCACTF cannot assume liability for damage or loss incurred to designers' work during shipping to the regional or national festival.