Rui Rita

Broadway Lighting Design: Velocity of Autumn starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella at the Booth theatre, Trip to Bountiful starring Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., Present Laughter starring Victor Garber at the American Airlines Theatre for Roundabout Theatre Company, Dividing the Estate starring Elizabeth Ashley at the Booth Theater for Lincoln Center Theater, Old Acquaintance starring Margaret Colin and Harriet Harris at the American Airlines Theatre for Roundabout Theatre Company, Enchanted April starring Molly Ringwald (2003 Outer Critics Circle nomination-Best Lighting Design), The Price starring Harris Yulin at the Royale Theatre and A Thousand Clowns starring Judd Hirsch for the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Off Broadway Lighting Design: Just Jim Dale (Roundabout); Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage); The World Premieres of Horton Foote’s Orphan’s Home Cycle Marathon (Hewes Design Award); Big Bill, The Carpetbagger's Children, Far East, and Ancestral Voices (Lincoln Center Theater); Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club); Engaged (Theatre for a New Audience, 2005 Obie Award); Endpapers and Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts); Crimes of the Heart (Second Stage); The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages); Antony and Cleopatra (New York Shakespeare Festival); Vita and Virginia.

Working throughout North America, Mr. Rita’s credits include work with the Alley Theatre in Houston, American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Center Stage in Baltimore, Arena, Shakespeare and Ford's Theatres in DC, Guthrie in Minneapolis, Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Huntington Theatre in Boston, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Ahmanson and Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Old Globe in San Diego, Oregon Shakespeare, Vancouver Opera in Canada, Hartford Stage in Connecticut and over forty productions with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where Mr. Rita has designed for many seasons.