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3 4 PRODUCTION DESIGNER Stuart Wurtzel was raised in Hillside, New Jersey, and studied Scenic Design at Carnegie Mellon University, earning an MFA degree. He began working as a theatrical stage designer, with four seasons as resident designer at the American Conservatory eatre in San Francisco and three seasons at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park. A er moving to New York, Stuart designed numerous Broadway productions, including Summer Brave, Unexpected Guests, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear, and Wally's Café. O -Broadway credits include Trumpets and Drums and Rosmersholm at the Roundabout eatre; Sally and Marsha at e Manhattan eatre Club, Gimme Shelter at BAM; Sorrows of Stephen (for which he won the Joseph Maharam Award for Stage Design), and Henry IV, Part I for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Stuart's rst feature lm design credit was Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street, on which he collaborated with his wife Patrizia von Brandenstein. His association with Silver continued with Bernice Bobs Her Hair for the American Short Stories series on PBS and the feature Between the Lines. He received an Academy Award® nomination for his work on Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters. He also designed Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo, as well as three lms by Peter H O N O R I N G STUART WURTZEL AD LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD