Princess Grace Award Winners Announced

The Board of Trustees of the Princess Grace Foundation- USA and its Chairman, Hon. John F. Lehman, announced today winners of the 2009 Princess Grace Awards. The Awards for theater, dance and choreography, and film continue the legacy of Princess Grace (Kelly) of Monaco, who anonymously helped emerging artists pursue their goals during Her lifetime.

This year's winners represent 17 states around the country and six organizations that are new to partnering with the Foundation. 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 the annual black-tie Princess Grace Awards Gala, held in the presence of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, on October 21, 2009 at Cipriani 42nd Street.

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 at the start of
their careers. 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, and vibrant theater,
dance, choreography, film, playwriting and design. Since the Foundation's inception, more than 650
Awards have been given to recipients, totaling more than $7 million.

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 Award. It
includes a $25,000 unrestricted cash gift and a special Bronze Statue of Princess Grace created by
Dutch artist Kees Verkade.

This year's Statue Award winners are:

Brian Kulick
Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company
Original Award, 1988, Center Theatre Group

Gillian Murphy
Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre
Original Award, 1998, American Ballet Theatre

Brian Kulick is in his seventh season as Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company (CSC), where he
recently directed the world premiere of Anne Carson's adaptation of An Oresteia. Other CSC credits
include Hamlet, Richard II and Richard III with Michael Cumpsty; The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin;
The False Servant with Martha Plimpton and The Mysteries with Michael Stuhlbarg. He is also
currently on the faculty of Columbia University's School of the Arts Theatre Program, where he
teaches directing.'

Gillian Murphy joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in August 1996,
was promoted to Soloist in 1999, and Principal Dancer in 2002. Her repertoire with the Company
includes a wide array of work, from Juliet in Romeo and Juliet to Kitri in Don Quixote. She has
appeared as a guest artist in Japan, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Canada and throughout the United
States. Murphy is a charter member of Stiefel & Stars and directed a training program for young
dancers, Dreamcatchers, on Martha's Vineyard.

PRINCESS GRACE AWARDS
Each year, the Foundation presents the Princess Grace Awards to artists who show excellence and
promise in the areas of theater, dance, and film. Students are eligible for scholarships; emerging
artists working in companies qualify for apprenticeships and fellowships. A playwriting fellowship is
available for individual artists through a residency at New Dramatists in New York City. In addition
to these, the Foundation also gives honorable mention grants to applicants through Honoraria.
The 2009 Princess Grace Awards winners (listed below) represent 22 colleges, universities, and not-for-profit theater and dance companies throughout the United States. The Awards winners exemplify both classical and alternative artistic disciplines and, while still considered emerging talent, already show exceptional promise in their areas of expertise. The Foundation's support assists their theater and dance studies, helps pay their artistic fees at non-profit theater and dance companies and helps support their thesis film projects. The actual Princess Grace Award this year is a unique work of art created by designer Alex Soldier. In addition to the Awards, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA extends general operating monies to companies hosting an Awards winner.

This year's Princess Grace Awards winners are:

THEATER AND PLAYWRITNG
Ann Bartek
Theater Fellowship, Pierre Cardin Theater Award
The Milk Can Theatre Company
Craig Bazan
Theater Apprenticeship
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
Colin K. Bills
Theater Fellowship, Fabergé Theater Award
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
James Darrah
Theater Scholarship, Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Award
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Theater
Nicolette Robinson
Theater Scholarship, Gant Gaither Theater Award
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Theater
Lily Whitsitt
Theater Scholarship, Grace Le Vine Theater Award
California Institute of the Arts
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Playwriting Fellowship
New Dramatists Inc.

DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Isabella Boylston
Dance Fellowship
American Ballet Theatre
Jeffrey Cirio
Dance Fellowship
Boston Ballet
Jae Man Joo
Choreography Fellowship
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Andrea Miller
Choreography Fellowship
Ballet Hispanico of New York
Sarah Murphy
Dance Scholarship
The Juilliard School-Dance Division
Katie Scherman
Dance Scholarship
Dominican University/LINES Ballet
Corey Scott-Gilbert
Dance Fellowship, Chris Hellman Dance Award
Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
Joseph Walsh
Dance Fellowship
Houston Ballet
Kate Weare
Choreography Fellowship

PARADIGM
FILM
Lindsay Berkebile
Film Undergraduate Scholarship
Rochester Institute of Technology
Chinonye Chukwu
Film Graduate Scholarship
Temple University
Glen Fogel
Film Graduate Scholarship
Bard College
Rashaad Ernesto Green
Film Graduate Scholarship, Cary Grant Film Award
New York University
Ian Soroka
Film Undergraduate Scholarship, John H. Johnson Film Award
University of Colorado
John Thompson
Film Graduate Scholarship
University of Southern California

HONORARIA
Denise Quinones
Theater Honorarium
Repertorio Espanol
Meghan Raham
Theater Honorarium
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Tony Speciale
Theater Honorarium
Classic Stage Company
Chitra Kalyandurg
Dance Honorarium
Kuchipudi Kalanidhi
Carlos A. Menchaca
Dance Honorarium
National Institute of Flamenco
Kalim Armstrong
Film Honorarium
Hunter College, CUNY
Charlie Corriea
Film Honorarium
San Francisco State University
Gazelle Samizay
Film Honorarium
University of Arizona
Terrie Samundra
Film Honorarium
San Francisco State University
Anthony Weeks
Film Honorarium
Stanford University

SPECIAL PROJECT and WORKS IN PROGRESS AWARDS
Special Project Awards and Works in Progress Residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center
are grants available to past Princess Grace Awards winners and Honoraria recipients for uniquely
significant projects that advance their artistic development.

This year's Special Project Awards and
Works in Progress Residencies are:

SPECIAL PROJECT AWARDS
Thang Dao
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Elliot Montague
Scott Turner Schofield
Dawn Marie Stoppiello
Nejla Yatkin
Susan Youssef
WORKS IN PROGRESS RESIDENCIES
Eric Kupers
Pavel Zustiak

ABOUT THE PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is a not-for-profit, publicly-supported foundation, headquartered in New York City and founded more than 25 years ago by Prince Rainier III of Monaco in honor of his wife, Princess Grace [Kelly]. The Foundation's mission, that mirrors Princess Grace's in Her lifetime, is to support emerging artists in theater, dance and film through the awarding of scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships. Since the Foundation's inception, more than 650 Awards have been given to recipients, totaling more than $7 million. Some notable Princess Grace Awards recipients in Theater include: 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; Greg Mottola, director of Adventureland and Superbad; and Cary Joji Fukunaga, writer and director of Sin Nombre. Dance/Choreography Awards recipients include: American Ballet Theatre's Ethan Stiefel and Jacoby&Pronk's Drew Jacoby; as well as choreographers Robert Battle and Dominic Walsh.

For more information, please visit www.pgfusa.org.