From Bennington magazine, spring/summer 2006: Giannitti was awarded a second Fulbright Senior Specialist grant. Having used his first award to teach in Romania in fall 2008, Giannitti will use this grant to teach lighting design at the New Zealand Drama School in Wellington, New Zealand, for six weeks this summer. Giannitti, who holds an MFA degree from the Yale School of Drama, designs lighting for theater and dance performances nationwide including venues on Broadway, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, and the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, where he recently was named the resident lighting designer.