RUI RITA (Lighting Design)
Rui is fortunate to have created designs for the New York premieres of many of Horton Foote’s plays including Dividing the Estate (Primary Stages and LCT – Broadway), Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature – Hewes Award), The Carpetbagger’s Children (LCT), The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages) – all with director Michael Wilson. Other credits - Broadway: Present Laughter, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price, A Thousand Clowns; Off-Broadway premieres: Manhattan Theatre Club: Lynn Redgrave’s Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias; Lincoln Center Theater: A. R. Gurney’s Big Bill, Far East and Ancestral Voices; Union Square Theater;Vita and Virginia; TFANA: Engaged (Obie Award); Variety Arts: Dinner with Friends; Additional Off-Broadway: Signature: Mound Builders, Piano Lesson; Roundabout: Talley’s Folly, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; Second Stage: Crimes of the Heart; Public Theater: Antony & Cleopatra (directed by Vanessa Redgrave). Regional: Alley Theatre, Alliance, American Conservatory Theatre, Centerstage, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival.