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"These are the type of artists I anticipate working with in the future, and I believe I'm now one step closer to fulfilling my goal of having a professional career doing something I love."
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 Winners
Congratulations Raúl Esparza!
Recipient of the 2009 NFAA Alumni Award.
Raúl Esparza was a 1988 YoungArts Winner in Theater and is the 2009 Alumni Award Recipient.
Currently starring as Charlie Fox in Broadway’s Speed the Plow, Raúl Esparza first drew attention by winning the Theatre World Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of
The Rocky Horror Show (2000). A year later he received a Drama Desk Award nomination and an Obie Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical for the off-Broadway production of
tick, tick... BOOM! Esparza also received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the musical
Taboo. His other Broadway credits include
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and
Company for which he received the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award and his second Tony Award nomination for his brilliantly acclaimed performance as Bobby, which was also filmed for PBS. Esparza received his third Tony Award nomination for his performance in the 2007 Broadway revival of
The Homecoming. TV appearances include
Spin City and a recurring role on
Pushing Daisies. Esparza’s film credits include Wes Craven’s
25/8 and Sidney Lumet’s
Find Me Guilty.
Cuban-American Esparza was born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami. He graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Esparza was a 1988 YoungArts Winner in Theater and continues to garner Tony nominations and many other honors.
The 2008 Alumni Award Winner: Rachel Moore,
1982 YoungArts Winner in Dance
A former member of ABT’s Corps de Ballet, Rachel S. Moore was named Executive Director of American Ballet Theatre in April 2004. Prior to her appointment, she served as Director of Boston Ballet’s Center for Dance Education (2001-04), North America’s largest professional ballet school. From 1998-2001, Moore served as Executive Director of Project STEP, a classical music school for students of color in Boston. Since 1994, she has held positions at leading dance and arts organizations including Managing Director of Ballet Theatre of Boston; Director and Coordinator of the Center for Community Development and the Arts at Americans for the Arts; and Development Officer for the National Cultural Alliance, both in Washington, DC.
Moore served as adjunct faculty in the dance department of Emerson College from 1998-2000 and taught non-profit finance in the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University (2000). She currently teaches in the Arts Administration program at Columbia University, where she recently was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia University’s Teacher’s College.
The 2007 Alumni Award Winner: Allegra Goodman
1985 NFAA YoungArts Winner in Writing
NFAA Trustee James Rasmussen and NFAA President Dr. William H. Banchs presenting the 2007 NFAA YoungArts Alumni Award to novelist Allegra Goodman (center); photograph by Alexander Gort, Sr.
Critically-acclaimed novelist and short story writer Allegra Goodman, 1985 NFAA ARTS Winner in Writing and Presidential Scholar in the Arts, received the 2007, annual NFAA Alumni Award. Goodman’s first novel – and third book –
Kaaterskill Falls, was a 1998 National Book Award finalist. On the day she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1989, her first book of short stories,
Total Immersion, was published. Her second collection of short stories,
The Family Markowitz, was completed while Goodman was pursuing her doctorate in English at Stanford University. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the book was the fiction winner in the First Annual Salon Book Awards. Goodman’s most recent novel,
Intuition, was published last spring.
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