The Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award is awarded to an emerging scenic, costume, lighting, sound, or other designer in acknowledgment of excellence in artistry and collaboration. The award is named in honour of Associate Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre

The Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A major part of Chicago theatre, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization...

 and Dean of The Theatre School at DePaul University

DePaul University

DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...

 Michael Maggio. The award and an honorarium, inaugurated in 2000, following Michael Maggio's death, are presented annually.

The Michael Maggio award is one of the Michael Merritt Design Awards, inaugurated in 1994 following the death the previous year, at age of 47, of designer and teacher Michael Merritt. These awards are presented to theatrical designers committed to excellence and collaboration. The Michael Merritt Endowment also gives annual scholarships to budding design students at Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...

 (where Merritt taught), Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, and The Theatre School at DePaul University

Goodman School of Drama

The Goodman School of Drama is now renamed The Theatre School at DePaul University. Founded in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, a city with a rich theatrical heritage, the Goodman School became part of DePaul University in 1978 and was renamed The Theatre School at DePaul University in 1982...

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Award Recipients

• 2001 - Lindsay Jones - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award (the first)
• 2003 - Jaymi Lee Smith - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2004 - Elizabeth Powell Wislar - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2005 - Tom Burch - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2007 - Ana Kuzmanic - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2007 - Catherine Zuber
  Catherine Zuber
  - Broadway :Zuber's Broadway credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , Born Yesterday , Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, South Pacific , The Coast of Utopia , The Light in the Piazza , Edward Albee's Seascape , Awake and Sing! ,...
  
   - Merrit Awards for Excellence in Design and Collaboration
• 2008 - Kevin Depinet - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2008 - David Budries - Merrit Awards for Excellence in Design and Collaboration
• 2009 - Keith Parham - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2009 - Todd Rosenthal
  Todd Rosenthal
  Todd Rosenthal is an American scenic designer. He won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's August: Osage County....
  
  - Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration
• 2010 - Collette Pollard - Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award
• 2010 - Michael Philippi (posthumously) - Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration

Scholarship Recipients

• 2008 - The John Murbach Scholarship for Collaborative Design - Jessica Harpenau (lighting designer, Columbia College Chicago)
• 2008 - Chantal Calato (costume designer, Northwestern University)
• 2008 - Samantha Umstead (costume designer, The Theatre School of DePaul University)
• 2009 - Stephen H. Carmody (costume designer, Northwestern University)
• 2010 - The John Murbach Scholarship for Collaborative Design - Wade Holliday (lighting designer, Columbia College Chicago)
• 2010 - Jeremy Floyd (costume designer, Northwestern University)
• 2010 - Williams G. Wever (scenic designer, The Theatre School of DePaul University)