Rachel Brosnahan to Receive Second Annual Stonestreet Studios Granite Award
By: Caryn Robbins
Rachel Brosnahan will be presented with the second annual Stonestreet Granite Award, to be held on November 30th at TAJ in Chelsea. Last year, the inaugural Granite award went to Miles Teller. The Granite is awarded to an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, or hyphenate who has emerged from Stonestreet Studios' unique in-house conservatory and who has gone on to create provocative, meaningful, and relevant film and television projects. Brosnahan worked and trained within the walls of Stonestreet before moving on to a recurring role on THE BLACKLIST and then to acclaimed Netflix series House of Cards, where she played Rachel Posner for three seasons. Her Amazon show, in which she stars as the title character, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, begins streaming on November 29th and has been picked up for a second season ahead of its premiere.
"Rachel is an incredibly hard working and adventurous actress in all the right ways; she looks at each role as an opportunity to create layered depths. While she isn't afraid to explore something dark or difficult, she never leaves out the compassion or humanity in the characters she plays. She makes her work look seamless and delightful, a skill that comes from her sense of integrity, thoughtfulness, and elegance, both on set and off. We are incredibly proud of her as an example of the emerging Stonestreet talent that both Gary and I hope to continue to nurture and create content for," says director/producer Alyssa Rallo Bennett. Stonestreet Studios, founded in 1991 in New York City by creative team Alyssa Rallo Bennett and Gary O. Bennett, is an independent film studio and the exclusive screen acting & production conservatory partner of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Drama program. Stonestreet's mission is to create innovative content that often features their best emerging actors through a variety of projects across genres and formats. Work ethic, focus, creativity and the creation of a safe set that inspires risks, honesty and emotionally moving work are among the studio and conservatory's goals.
