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M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 1 | P E R S P E C T I V E 2 9 N E W S A D G L I F E T I M E A C H I E V E M E N T AWA R D S T A R T W R T E L A D G L I F E T I M E A C H I E V E M E N T AWA R D S T A R T W R T E L Art Direction Craft Winner: Stuart Wurtzel A. STUART WURTZEL. B. SKETCH OF THE LOFT SET FROM HANNAH AND HER SISTERS. C. THE VISITATION SCENE FROM HBO'S PRODUCTION OF ANGELS IN AMERICA. Raised in Hillside, New Jersey, Stuart Wurtzel 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 Theatre in San Francisco and three seasons at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park. After moving to New York, Wurtzel designed numerous Broadway productions, including Summer Brave, Unexpected Guests, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear and Wally's Café. Off -Broadway credits include Trumpets and Drums and Rosmersholm at the Roundabout Theatre; Sally and Marsha at The Manhattan Theatre 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 Wurtzel 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 fi lms by Peter Yates: Suspect, The House on Carroll Street and An Innocent Man. He has designed several projects for HBO, the fi rst being Mike Nichols' production of Wit, starring Emma Thompson. He continued the Nichols/HBO collaboration with Angels in America, for which he won both an Emmy Award and an Art Directors Guild Award in 2004. His HBO venture continued with Empire Falls, directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Paul Newman and Ed Harris. He was nominated for an Emmy Award and won an Art Directors Guild Award for that project. Recently, also for HBO, he designed the fi rst two seasons of Divorce. A B C