THE 25th ANNIVERSARY PRINCESS GRACE AWARDS GALA The Princess Grace Foundation-USA had its 25th Anniversary Princess Grace Awards Gala on Thursday, October 25th, last week, the culmination of the exhibition Grace, Princess of Kelly.
Sarah Kathryn Lane, Bloomfield, NY
Dance Fellowship, American Ballet Theatre
Rashaun L. Mitchell, Stamford, CT
Dance Fellowship, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Darrell Grand Moultrie, Harlem, New York
Choreography Fellowship, Cincinnati Ballet; Cincinnati, OH
Christopher Vo, Dallas, TX
Dance Scholarship, The Juilliard School
Meredith Webster, Manitowoc, WI
Chris Hellman Dance Award
Dance Fellowship, LINES Ballet
Pavel Zuštiak, Kosice, Slovakia
Choreography Fellowship, Laboratory Company Dance
FILM
Maru Buendia-Senties, Mexico
Cary Grant Film Award
Graduate Film Scholarship, University of Texas- Austin
Thomas Javier Castillo, Tucson, AZ
John H. Johnson Film Award
Graduate Film Scholarship, Northwestern University
Gonzalo Escobar, Bogota, Colombia
Undergraduate Film Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Robert M. Jones, Boston, MA
Graduate Film Scholarship, American Film Institute
Elyse T. Montague, Rockland, ME
Graduate Film Scholarship, UCSD
Max Winston, Sonoma, CA
Undergraduate Film Scholarship, CalArts
STATUE AWARDS
Robert Battle, Artistic Director, Battleworks Dance Company
Michael John Garcés, Artistic Director, Cornerstone Theater Company
ABOUT THE 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.
ABOUT LUCASFILM
Lucasfilm is one of the world’s leading film and entertainment companies. Founded by George Lucas in 1971, it is a privately held, fully integrated entertainment company. In addition to motion picture and television production, the company’s global businesses include visual effects, sound, video games, licensing and online activity. Mr. Lucas has also taken a leadership role in applying his technical and storytelling expertise to the classroom, engaging students through interactive multimedia environments. He is chairman of the board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and also serves on the board of the Film Foundation and is a member of the USC School of Cinema-Television Advisory Board.
