Southeastern Theatre Conference Scholarships
Scholarship Sponsored by Southeastern Theatre Conference, Inc.
SETC provides scholarship support for students who are continuing their theatre education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Important eligibility and application notes
- Applicants must be current SETC members.
- You may need a Google account to upload required supporting documents.
- Scholarship payments are issued the first week of July.
Undergraduate scholarship
- Steve Bayless Undergraduate Scholarship — $2,000
- Awarded to a high school student who is entering a college or university within the SETC region to pursue a theatre major.
Graduate scholarships
- Leighton M. Ballew Directing Scholarship Award — $2,000
- For a student studying directing at a regionally accredited graduate school.
- Denise Halbach Performance Scholarship Award — $2,000
- For a student pursuing acting or musical theatre in a regionally accredited graduate program.
- Robert Porterfield Scholarship Award — $2,000
- For a student entering or enrolled in a regionally accredited graduate school to study theatre.
- Marian A. Smith Costume Scholarship Award — $1,000
- For a student pursuing a graduate degree in costume design and/or costume technology at a regionally accredited program.
- William E. Wilson Scholarship Award — $5,000
- For a secondary school educator working toward a theatre degree or a combined speech and theatre graduate degree at a regionally accredited institution.