Robert Whitehead Award

2007-2008 agenda Like Love by Barry Jay Kaplan and Lewis Flinn, Girl'sRoom
by Joni Fritz,with Kathie Lee Gifford directed by Lynne Taylor Corbett, A
Kiss From Alexander, by Stephan deGhelder and Brad Simmons directed by Tony
Stevens. 

BROADWAY: the Pulitzer and multi-"Tony" Award winning Angels in America by
Tony Kushner, Directed by George C. Wolfe Sally Marr...and her Escorts
starring Joan Rivers ("Tony" Nomination), Director Lonny Price, The Rise and
Fall of Little Voice (winner of London's Evening Standard Award), Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright Frank Gilroy's Any Given Day starring Sada
Thompson, Directed by Paul Benedict; the "Tony" Award nominated The High
Rollers starring Vivian Reed, and Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a
Staircase.

OFF-BROADWAY: Fanny Hill starring Nancy Anderson and Tony Yazbeck, the 1994
Outer Critics Circle Award-winning Annie Warbucks and the 1989 Outer Critics
Circle Award-winner Other People's Money and its national tour starring Tony
LoBianco. Grace & Glorie starring Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz, Burning
Blue (London's Olivier Award winner) starring Chad Lowe, Party and the
revival of The Boys in the Band co-starring Christopher Sieber. 
Mr. Grimaldi was Associate to the Producers on A. R. Gurney's Broadway
production, Sweet Sue, starring Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave; and has
been associated with producer Emanuel Azenberg on Neil Simon's London Suite
starring Carole Shelley and Jeffery Jones as well as the Pulitzer Prize and
Tony Award winning play, Lost in Yonkers which starred Kevin Spacey and
Irene Worth and with The Producer's Circle on Chita, A Dancer's Life. In
addition; the Off-Broadway productions of David Mamet's The Cryptogram
starring Felicity Huffman and Ed Begley, Jr., John Epperson's Lypsinka! A
Day in the Life and Oblivion Postponed by Ron Nyswaner directed by Nicholas
Martin and starring John Glover and Mary Beth Hurt.  As well as producing
the workshop productions  A Kiss From Alexander by Stephan DeGhelder and
Brad Simmons,of Elegy by Ron Hirsen, About Face, suggested by Shakespeare's
Much Ado, by David Arthur and Jeffery Lodin and was Co-Producer on the
Concept CD Album of the musical, "Z", The Legend of Zorro featuring Deborah
Gibson, Roberto Blades and Ruben Gomez.

LONDON'S WEST END: The Boys in the Band and John Lahr's The Diary of a
Somebody, about the Legendary Joe Orton. Mr. Grimaldi also has had a
successful career as a director and/or choreographer both On and
Off-Broadway, London's West End, Night Club and for Television; including
entertainment specials for HBO, ABC and NBC including musical staging for
the original company of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! Upon graduating, on
scholarship, from the Goodman School/ De Paul University in Chicago, as a
performer, Mr. Grimaldi began his career working for such Theater legends as
Michael Bennett, Jack Cole, Gower Champion and Jose Ferrer. He was Director
of Development and Special Events for Candid Productions, Inc., a television
production company, for 15 years and is the recipient of the 1994 Robert
Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing, The Carbonell
Award and Chicago Theatre's JEFF Award for Choreograpy and two Gold medals
from The International Film and Television for direction and Choreography.
Mr. Grimaldi has also served on the board of The Acting Company founded by
John Houseman