Guests at the Annual Lighting Designer’s Christmas Luncheon, held at the Royal National Theatre in December, were able to meet three more future leading lights in the profession, as White Light once again presented its Lighting Design Bursaries during the event. Now in its third year, the competition was opened up this year to allow entries from anyone studying lighting design in the UK, rather than just from students at Rose Bruford College as in previous years. As before, students had to produce a proposal detailing how they would light a scene from a play, a piece of music, an item of architecture or a live event - all within a theoretical budget! - as well as a live ‘pitch’ for that proposal. Despite the newly-expanded field of entries, the overall winner of the competition was once again a student at Rose Bruford: Kristina Hjelm, with a production entitled The Peep Show. Kristina was presented with a certificate, a cheque for £500, and will also receive full sponsorship to attend Showlight in Edinburgh later in the year. Two further prizes of certificates and cheques for £500 were presented: to Kelly Hendry of LAMDA, for her production of Waiting for Godot set in Westminster Underground Station, and to Peter Jackson, also of LAMDA, for his production of Not About Heroes.
