RUI RITA has designed the Broadway productions of Velocity of Autumn; Trip to Bountiful; Present Laughter; Dividing the Estate; Old Acquaintance; Enchanted April among others. His Off-Broadway premieres include Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage) Just Jim Dale (Roundabout), Horton Foote’s Old Friends & The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hewes Award, Signature), Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club), Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East (Lincoln Center Theater), The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages), and Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Center). His Off Broadway revivals include The Piano Lesson (Signature), Talley’s Folly & The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout), and Engaged (Obie Award, Theatre for a New Audience). His recent regional credits include Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Center Theatre Group, Ford’s Theatre, Guthrie, Huntington Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre, Two River, Oregon Shakespeare, Old Globe, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
