Rui Rita

Rui Rita

Lighting Designer, Sense and Sensibility

In one season at OSF: Pericles. 

Other theatres: Broadway: The Velocity of Autumn, The Trip to Bountiful, Present Laughter, Dividing the Estate, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, among others. Off-Broadway: premieres: Just Jim Dale (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage Theatre); Horton Foote’s The Old Friends and The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company); Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club); Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East (Lincoln Center Theater); The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages); Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Center); revivals: The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre Company); Talley’s Folly, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout Theatre Company); Engaged (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Center Theatre Group, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival. 

Awards: L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award (Fly), Hewes Award (The Old Friends and The Orphans’ Home Cycle), Obie Award (Engaged).