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LATEST NEWS Princess Grace Foundation-USA Announces 2008 Awards Winners for Theater, Dance & Film Rose Bond and Alec Hammond Receive Princess Grace Statue Awards
Last update: 10:17 a.m. EDT July 30, 2008
NEW YORK, July 30, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Board of Trustees of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA and its Chairman, Hon. John F. Lehman, announced today the recipients of 2008 Princess Grace Awards. The Awards for theater, dance/choreography and film continue the legacy of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, who anonymously helped emerging artists pursue their goals throughout Her lifetime.
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, a public charity, was formed after the death of Princess Grace in 1982. They award scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to assist artists with career development.
The Foundation cultivates a diverse group of nearly 500 artists to date who continue to advance the spectrum of performing arts with innovative, cutting-edge, vibrant theater, dance, film, playwriting and design. Among some notable Princess Grace Awards recipients in Theater are 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Direction of a Play, Anna D. Shapiro; Pulitzer and Tony Award winning playwright Tony Kushner and Academy Award winner Eric Simonson. Film recipients include Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants; Eric Darnell, director of Madagascar 1 and 2 and Antz and Greg Mottola, director of Superbad. Recipients of Princess Grace Dance Awards include ballet dancers Maria Kowroski and Ethan Stiefel, and choreographers Robert Battle and Dawn Stoppiello.
STATUE AWARDS
Past winners of the Awards who distinguish themselves in their artistic disciplines since receiving their initial Princess Grace Awards are eligible to win the coveted Princess Grace Statue. It includes a $25,000 unrestricted cash gift and a special MOST POPULAR Bronze Statue of Princess Grace created by Monegasque artist Kees Verkade. READ E-MAILED EDITOR'S PICK The 2008 Statue Awards winners are Rose Bond and Alexander (Alec) T.
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PRINCESS GRACE AWARDS PARTNER CENTER Take our free online Each year, the Foundation announces a select group of Princess Grace Awards seminars. Charles for distinction in the areas of theater, dance, and film. Students are eligible for Schwab scholarships; emerging artists working in companies qualify for apprenticeships Switch to Scottrade, and fellowships. A playwriting fellowship is available for individual artists through a get up to $100 back residency at New Dramatists in New York City. In addition to these, the Foundation also gives honorable mention grants to applicants through Honoraria. Trade with E*TRADE Securities
Special Project Awards are available to previous Princess Grace Awards winners and Honoraria recipients for uniquely significant projects that advance a previous
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winner's artistic development. Visit WSJ.com/ smallbusiness This year, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA Arts Advisory Board announced a partnership with the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) to provide further support for Trade like a pro for as little as $8 Princess Grace Awards winners. The aim of this alliance is to provide previous Awards winners the opportunity for creative experimentation without the pressure to produce a final, finished product. This aligns seamlessly with the mission of BAC, which serves as "an international center for artistic experimentation and collaboration, providing unique opportunities for the professional development of emerging and mid career artists from around the world and across disciplines."
In addition to the Awards, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA supports the nominating organizations' fund raising efforts by extending general operating monies to companies hosting a recipient.
The 2008 Princess Grace Awards winners (listed below) represent various colleges, universities, and not-for-profit theater and dance companies throughout the United States. This year's winners hail from 16 states and represent twelve organizations that are new to partnering with the Foundation. The Awards winners exemplify both classical and alternative artistic disciplines and, while still considered emerging talent, they are already distinguished in their areas of expertise. All of this year's Awards winners will travel to New York City as guests of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, where they will receive their Awards at a black-tie Gala, held in the presence of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco on October 15, 2008 at Cipriani 42nd Street.
To find out more about each 2008 Princess Grace Awards winner or to learn more about past recipients and the Foundation, please visit us at www.pgfusa.org.
PRINCESS GRACE STATUE AWARD
Alec Hammond Original Award, 1995, Faberge Award for Scenic Design, Yale School of Drama
Rose Bond Original Award, 1989, Graduate Film Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
THEATER AND PLAYWRITNG
Arin Arbus, Los Angeles, CA Grace LeVine Theater Award Directing Fellowship, Theatre for a New Audience
Jaime Castaneda, San Antonio, TX Gant Gaither Theater Award Directing Apprenticeship, American Theater Company
Ben Gunderson, Morrhead, MN Robert and Gloria Houseman Theater Award Acting Scholarship, North Carolina School of the Arts
Patrick Kennelly, Evanston, IL Pierre Cardin Theater Award Directing Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
Arnulfo Maldonado, Eagle Pass, TX Faberge Theater Award Costume Design Fellowship, Diverse City Theater
Kaneza Schaal, Freestone, CA Acting Apprenticeship, The Wooster Group, Inc.
Kara Lee Corthron, Cumberland, MD Playwriting Fellowship, New Dramatists
Maureen C. Huskey, Denver, CO Directing Honoraria, California Institute of the Arts
Thomas Pasculli, Newton, NJ Acting Honoraria, Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashley Sparks, Stuarts Draft, VA
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Directing Honoraria, ArtSpot Productions
Damon E. Williams, Havertown, PA Acting Honoraria, Temple University
DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Thang Dao, Montclair, CA Choreography Fellowship, Ballet Austin
Blaine Hoven, Mobile, AL Chris Hellman Dance Award Ballet Fellowship, American Ballet Theatre
Jermel Johnson, Baltimore, MD Ballet Fellowship, Pennsylvania Ballet
Alexander Peters, State College, PA Ballet Scholarship, School of American Ballet
Lucien Postlewaite, Santa Cruz, CA Ballet Fellowship, Pacific Northwest Ballet
Spenser Theberge, Vancouver, WA Ballet Scholarship, The Juilliard School-Dance Division
Dominic Walsh, Elgin, IL Choreography Fellowship, Sarasota Ballet of Florida
Nelja Y. Yatkin, Berlin, Germany Choreography Fellowship, Cleo Parker Robertson Dance Theater
Elisa Clark, St. Louis, MO Modern Dance Honoraria, Mark Morris Dance Group
Leah Morrison, Bethesda, MD Modern Dance Honoraria, Trisha Brown Dance Company
FILM
Caitlin Craggs, Lake Stevens, WA Animation Undergraduate Film Scholarship, University of Southern California
Derrick A. Jones, Youngstown, OH Documentary Graduate Film Scholarship, Ohio University
Nikyatu S. Jusu, Atlanta, GA Narrative Graduate Film Scholarship, New York University
Deirtra Thompson, Baltimore, MD John H. Johnson Film Award Experimental Graduate Film Scholarship, Bard College
Josh Weissbach, Austin, TX Cary Grant Film Award Documentary Undergraduate Film Scholarship, Hampshire College
Iman K. Zawahry, Panama City, FL Narrative Graduate Film Scholarship, Florida State University
Kimberly Bautista, Pasadena, CA Documentary Film Honoraria, UC Santa Cruz
Henry C. Fernandez, E. Los Angeles, CA Narrative Film Honoraria, California State University, Northridge, Radio, TV & Film
Jordan C. Greenhalgh, Albany, NY Experimental Animation Film Honoraria, Rochester Institute of Technology
David Horowitz, Chicago, IL
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Animation Film Honoraria, University of Southern California
Erica Lisette Murphy, Rogue Valley, OR Animation Film Honoraria, School of The Museum of Fine Arts
SPECIAL PROJECT AWARDS
Rosemary Newcott, Theater
Chi Wang Yang, Theater
Eric Kupers, Dance
Drew Jacoby, Dance
Ilya Chaiken, Film
Miwa Materyek, Film
Julie Wyman, Film
WORKS IN PROGRESS AWARDS
Nancy Bannon, Dance
Shelia Callaghan, Playwriting
Maureen Towey, Theater
Media Contact: Gail Parenteau, Parenteau Guidance 212-532-3934/ [email protected]
Communications Manager: Christine Kite, Princess Grace Foundation-USA 212-317-1470/ [email protected]
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