Application Open: The Willa Kim Costume Design Scholarship
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is now accepting applications for its 2026 round of the Willa Kim Costume Design Scholarship, offering emerging designers a significant opportunity to advance their craft by receiving financial support for tuition, supplies, travel, and registration expenses.
The scholarship will award two recipients up to US $7,500 each to be used during the scholarship period, from June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027.
Applicants must be enrolled and in good standing at a college, university, or professional training program as of June 1, 2026. Programs in related fields such as fashion design will be considered, provided the applicant can demonstrate a committed interest in working as a costume designer.
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: Friday, November 21, 2025 at 10:59 p.m. ET
- Information Session: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 4 p.m. ET (via Zoom) — RSVP required.
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About Willa Kim
Willa Kim was a costume designer for ballet,
theatre, opera, and television. Among many honors were
Tony Awards for Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies and Tommy Tune’s The Will
Rogers Follies, and Tony nominations for
Peter Allen’s Legs
Diamond, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song &
Dance, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,
and Joel Grey’s Goodtime
Charley. She won Drama Desk Awards for Jean
Genet’s The
Screens, Irene Fornes’ Promenade,
and Sam Shepard’s Operation
Sidewinder; Obie Awards for Robert Lowell’s
The
Old Glory and Lanie Robertson’s Woman Before
A Glass; and Emmy Awards for the PBS
broadcasts of Michael Smuin’s ballets The Tempest and A
Song For Dead Warriors.
Ms. Kim received lifetime achievement awards from the Fashion
Institute of Technology and the United States Institute for Theatre
Technology. The Theatre Development Fund honored her with the Irene Sharaff
Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2007 she was inducted into the Theatre
Hall of Fame.