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Princess Grace Awards

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The Pricess Grace Foundation - USA's national program, Princess Grace Awards, is a prominent force cultivating a new generation of theater, dance and film artists. Today nearly 400 Princess Grace Award recipients are pursuing successful, fulfilling performing ares careers. 

Princess Grace of Monaco was deeply committed to the performing arts and believed the right training and encouragement of young talent to be essential for sustaining excellence in the arts. During her lifetime, She helped many young and aspiring artists realize their dreams of a performing arts career. Following Her passing in 1982, HSH Prince Rainier of Monaco and His Family established the Princess Grace Foundation-USA as a tribute to Princess Grace and as a way to carry out Her legacy. 

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA was inaugurated in a manner as elegant and as glamorous as was Princess Grace. Many of Her Highness' co-stars, acquaintances and fellow board members of 20th Century Fox agreed to assist the new organization in achieving its mission. People such as Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, John Johnson, William Rogers, Mary Wells Lawrence, Lynn Wyatt, and others were present at The White House reception, the scene of the first Awards Gala, in February 1984. Each year, the tradition continues to honor the Award winners at a Gala celebration of artistry. 

Since 2000, Gail Parenteau of Parenteau Guidance has been retained by the Princess Grace Foundation-USA to supplement the ongoing gala and Foundation society press efforts. Parenteau was brought on to highlight the many accomplishments of the recipients of Princess Grace Awards themselves. 

Parenteau was recommended to the Foundation by it’s late Trustee the esteemed actor Tony Randall who was familiar with her work with the theatrical non-profit establishment. Over the years, she has worked with national and local arts, education and philanthropy media as well as theater, dance and film media and entities to forge relationships and further introduce the Princess Grace Awards grants programs to the general public. 

Working closely with the Foundation’s Executive Director, Arts Advisory Board, Grants Manager and most importantly recipients of the Princess Grace Awards themselves, Parenteau Guidance has garnered praise and favorable notices for existing and new Princess Grace Awards programs. Parenteau Guidance assists the PGF-USA staff in supporting, highlighting and tracking the work of our current and past award recipients’ individual works and accomplishments as they grow artistically. In 2004, Ms. Parenteau nominated the Princess Grace Foundation-USA for the Broadway Theater Institute’s Award for Theater Arts Education, which it won. 

Parenteau Guidance continues to serve as a liaison and advocate for The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, it’s recipients, arts advisors, staff and Trustees with theater, dance and film journalists as well as with education and philanthropy media. She has included the Princess Grace Foundation-USA in her agency’s display advertisements in outlets such as the Village Voice Obie Awards annual program, Musical America, Dramatist’s Quarterly, etc.

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