On the evening of Monday, October 22, 2012, Their Serene Highnesses Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco attended the 2012 Princess Grace Awards Gala held at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
Per a press release via the Princess Grace Foundation-USA regarding the awards:
“The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, a public charity, was formed after the death of Princess Grace in 1982. They present scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to assist artists at the start of their careers.
The Foundation has cultivated a diverse group of nearly 600 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 750 Awards have been given to recipients, totaling nearly $10 million.
The 2012 Princess Grace Awards winners represent 24 colleges, universities, and not-for-profit theater and dance companies throughout the United States. The Awards winners exemplify both classical and experimental 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. In addition to the Awards, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA extends general operating monies to companies hosting an Awards winner.
2012 marks the launch of the Princess Grace JustFilms Awards with the generous support of the Ford Foundation. These Awards assist social justice documentary filmmakers whose projects focus on South and Southeast Asian communities.”
The recipients of the 2012 Princess Grace Awards are:
THEATER AND PLAYWRITING
Tom Dugdale
Michael Haverty
Joel Jimenez
Jared Mezzocchi
Vincent Richards
M. Meriwether Snipes
Matthew P. Olmos
DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Jamal R. Callender
Albert Gordon
Franco Nieto
Raymond S. Pinto
Beckanne Sisk
Norbert De La Cruz
Michelle Dorrance
Bridget L. Moore
FILM
Kathleen Bracke
Javier Barboza
Erick Msumanje
Nijla Mu’min
Stephanie Spray
Esy Casey
Amitabh R. Joshi
Chao Thao
HONORARIA
Henry Wishcamper
Christina Kolozsvary
Talibah Newman
Mark Tumas
Jason DaSilva
SPECIAL PROJECT AWARDS
Gisela Cardenas
Clove Galilee
Lance Gries
Miwa Matreyek
Andrea Miller
Rey Pamatma
Iva Radivojevic
Princess Grace Statue Award Winners
Patrick Page
Darron L West
The Royal Correspondent 