Rui Rita

Personal Information
Rui Rita Broadway: Present Laughter, Dividing the Estate, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price, A Thousand Clowns. Off-Broadway: Orphan's Home Cycle (Signature Theatre); Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East, Ancestral Voices (Lincoln Center Theater); Dividing the Estate, The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages); Engaged (2005 Obie Award), All’s Well That Ends Well (Theatre for a New Audience); Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club);  Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts); Anthony and Cleopatra (NYSF/Public Theater).  Regional: Alley Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Center Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival.
 
Credits

Designer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 A Sherlock Carol New World Stages/ Stage III 11/28/2022 Lighting Designer
2 A Sherlock Carol New World Stages/ Stage III 11/22/2021 Lighting Designer
3 Paradise Blue Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre 05/14/2018 Lighting Designer
4 Skeleton Crew Linda Gross Theater 05/19/2016 Lighting Designer
5 Just Jim Dale Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 06/03/2014 Lighting Designer
6 The Happiest Song Plays Last Second Stage Theatre 03/03/2014 Lighting Designer
7 The Old Friends Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage 09/12/2013 Lighting Designer
8 The Mound Builders Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre 03/17/2013 Lighting Designer
9 Talley's Folly Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 03/05/2013 Lighting Designer
10 The Piano Lesson Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage 11/18/2012 Lighting Designer
11 The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 01/30/2011 Lighting Designer
12 The Orphans' Home Cycle Part III: The Story of a Family Peter Norton Space 01/26/2010 Lighting Designer
13 The Orphans' Home Cycle Part II: The Story of a Marriage Peter Norton Space 12/17/2009 Lighting Designer
14 The Orphans' Home Cycle Part I: The Story of a Childhood Peter Norton Space 11/19/2009 Lighting Designer
15 Nightingale New York City Center/ Stage I 11/03/2009 Lighting Designer
16 Dividing the Estate 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 09/27/2007 Lighting Designer
17 All's Well That Ends Well The Duke on 42nd Street 02/12/2006 Lighting Designer
18 Moonlight and Magnolias New York City Center/ Stage I 03/29/2005 Lighting Designer
19 The Day Emily Married 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 08/03/2004 Lighting Designer
20 Engaged Lucille Lortel Theatre 04/29/2004 Lighting Designer
21 Big Bill Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 02/22/2004 Lighting Designer
22 Endpapers Variety Arts Theatre 06/23/2002 Lighting Designer
23 The Carpetbagger's Children Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 03/07/2002 Lighting Designer
24 Crimes of the Heart Second Stage Theatre 04/16/2001 Lighting Designer
25 Dinner with Friends Variety Arts Theatre 11/04/1999 Lighting Designer
26 Ancestral Voices Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 10/18/1999 Lighting Designer
27 Far East Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 01/10/1999 Lighting Designer
28 Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know Triad Theater 10/30/1997 Set Designer
29 Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know Triad Theater 10/30/1997 Lighting Designer
30 Antony and Cleopatra Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 02/18/1997 Lighting Designer
31 Vita & Virginia Union Square Theatre 11/16/1994 Lighting Designer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Piano Lesson Lighting Designer
2 WON 2013 AUDELCO Award, Lighting Design The Piano Lesson Lighting Designer
3 NOMINATED 2013 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Piano Lesson Lighting Designer
4 NOMINATED 2013 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Talley's Folly Lighting Designer
5 NOMINATED 2010 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Orphans' Home Cycle Part I: The Story of a Childhood Lighting Designer
      The Orphans' Home Cycle Part II: The Story of a Marriage Lighting Designer
      The Orphans' Home Cycle Part III: The Story of a Family Lighting Designer
6 NOMINATED 2010 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Orphans' Home Cycle Part I: The Story of a Childhood Lighting Designer
      The Orphans' Home Cycle Part II: The Story of a Marriage Lighting Designer
      The Orphans' Home Cycle Part III: The Story of a Family Lighting Designer
7 WON 2010 Hewes Design Award, Notable Effects The Orphans' Home Cycle Part I: The Story of a Childhood Lighting Designer
      The Orphans' Home Cycle Part II: The Story of a Marriage Lighting Designer
      The Orphans' Home Cycle Part III: The Story of a Family Lighting Designer
8 WON 2005 Obie Award, Design Engaged Lighting Designer