Sarah Lock

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

During Winter Semester 2005, Sarah Lock received an Oscarson Discovery Grant which allowed her to intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival during the following summer. Following her internship, Lock wrote to the Oscarsons, expressing her appreciation.

I want to thank you … for your generosity in helping to fund my internship opportunity that I took part in this Spring/Summer. I was excited to be able to work at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah. I was able to work as a first hand during May and June. My duties included assisting the designer and draper during fittings and rehearsals, cutting fabric to make costumes and supervising the stitchers. This experience gave me the opportunity to improve my skills in working with fabrics and working as a team to accomplish the goals of costuming a show. I also had the opportunity to enter a makeup competition which also in an emphasis of my degree at BYU. The competition was in Pasadena, California… This gave me the opportunity to develop new skills as I attended workshops and participated in the competition,. I also learned about new products and met with professional sin the field of makeup…Through working at the Shakespearean Festival, I made some work contacts and as a result was recently offered a job working at a costume house in New York City.

Lock was also granted an Oscarson Discovery Grant during Winter 2003. This grant made it possible for her to appear as a panelist at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in New York City. As a panelist, Lock presented costumes from the play Archipelago.

Lock graduated in Theatre and Media Arts. Following graduation, Lock returned to her homeland of England.