On Thursday, December 4, 2008, The Princess Grace Foundation will host a dinner honoring Princess Grace Award winners Michael Wilson and Rui Rita their accomplishments in direction and lighting design in the Broadway production of Diving the Estate. Dinner will take place pre-performance at Angus McIndoe and the play will begin shortly thereafter at The Booth Theatre.

Director Michael Wilson is now in his 10^th season as artistic director of Hartford Stage and has overseen sixty-one new productions for the theatre. He has directed twenty-three new productions, including the premieres of Enchanted April; Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (off Broadway, Lincoln Center Theater) and Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets (Off-Broadway.) From 1990 to 2002, he was privileged to have as his stage manager the late Wendy Beaton, with whom he collaborated on over 17 productions in four American cities and in Venice.  Michael received the Princess Grace Theater Fellowship Award in 1992 and in 2001 was awarded the Princess Grace Statue Award.

Rui Rita, Lighting Designer of Dividing the Estate, has worked on Lincoln Center Theater productions Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East, and Ancestral Voices. Rui’s Broadway productions include Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price, and A Thousand Clowns. Rui received the Princess Grace 1999 Theater Fellowship Award.

All proceeds from the night’s performance and dinner will support the Princess Grace Foundation-USA’s mission to support emerging talent in theater, dance and film. 

 

Event:                   Dinner and Performance of Dividing the Estate honoring Princess Grace Award Winners Director Michael Wilson and Lighting Designer Rui Rita

 

Date:                     Thursday, Dec 4, 2008

 

Location:                   Dinner: Angus McIndoe, 258 w. 44^th St, btw 8^th Avenue & Bway

Performance: The Booth Theater, 222 W. 45^th St btw 7^th & 8^th, NYC
                                            

Time:                          5:30pm – Dinner

                                    8:00pm – Curtain

                                     

Performance:         A performance of Dividing The Estate

 

Beneficiary:           Princess Grace Foundation-USA

 

Tickets:                      $150 per person for Dinner and Performance

$100 per person for Performance only       

To purchase tickets, call The Princess Grace Foundation-USA at 212.317.1470

    

 

About Princess Grace Foundation-USA

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, a public charity formed after the death of Princess Grace in 1982, awards scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships to assist emerging theater, dance and film artists. Some past Award winners include Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants; Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; Gillian Murphy, principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre; and Eric Simonson, Academy Award winner.  For more information about PGF-USA, please visit  www.pgfusa.org