THE TOP 12 BEST NEW PLAYS OF 2009-10
Cousin Bette, by Jeffrey Hatcher
Doctor Cerberus, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
The Happy Ones, by Julie Marie Myatt
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway, by Henry Jaglom
The Night Is A Child, by Charles Randolph-Wright
The Psychic, by Sam Bobrick
Supernova, by Timothy McNeil
That Perfect Moment, by Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper
The Twentieth Century Way, by Tom Jacobson
Tree, by Julie Hébert
Yellow, by Del Shores
BEST NEW MUSICAL
40 Is The New 15—Larry Todd Johnson and Cindy O’Connor
MOST PROMISING NEW MUSICAL
The Bedroom Window—Daniel Mahler, Nanea Miyata, Brittany Morrison
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Stephanie A. Coltrin—Bark! The Musical, Oklahoma! (CLOSBC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Nick DeGruccio—1776, Guys And Dolls, Putting It Together, Rent (MTW), The Story Of My Life
Richard Israel—Big River, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (InterAct), High Spirits, Meet Me In St. Louis
Oanh Nguyen—Merrily We Roll Along, Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, The Who’s Tommy
Jon Lawrence Rivera—Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Oedipus El Rey, Road To Saigon
August Viverito—Amadeus, Copenhagen, How I Learned To Drive
ENSEMBLE CAST OF THE YEAR
Lisa Clifton, Joshua Wolf Coleman, Krista Conti, Cat Davis, Dawn Greenidge, Lauren Letherer, David LM McIntyre, Justin Okin, Darrett Sanders, Joel Scher
Eat The Runt
Eric B. Anthony, Jack Harding, Timothy Hearl, Marco Infante, Jeffrey A. Johns, Tony Melson, Daniel Rivera, Victor Tang
Naked Boys Singing
DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Bruce French in The Browning Version
COMEDIC ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Ben Rovner in Boys’ Life & A Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding
COMEDIC-DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Matthew Scott Montgomery in Yellow
Evie Louise Thompson in Yellow
COMEDY IMPROV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Edi Patterson in L.A. Noir UnScripted
MUSICAL THEATER STAR OF THE YEAR
Damon Kirsche in Little Shop Of Horrors (Cabrillo), Oklahoma! (CLOSBC), & Fade Out – Fade In
StageSceneLA BREAKTHROUGH STAR OF THE YEAR
Janet Krupin in Bark! The Musical, NeverWonderLand, Janet Krupin at Sterlings Upstairs At Vitello’s, Urinetown (USC)
DISCOVERIES OF THE YEAR
Callie Carson in Little Shop Of Horrors (Cabrillo) and Rent (MTW)
Ben Green in Bent and Edward II
Ian Michael Stuart in Tick, Tick…Boom! and The Wild Party (UCI)
SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Harry Groener in King Lear
Charles Pasternak in Hamlet (Porters of Hellsgate)
Steve Weingartner in The Tragedy Of King Richard III
MUSICAL COMEDY/IMPROV PERFORMERS OF THE YEAR
Matt Walker and Beth Kennedy in Frosty The Snow Manilow, CHiPs The Musical, A Wither’s Tale
DANCE ENSEMBLES OF THE YEAR
The dancers in All Shook Up, Peter Pan, Rent (MTW)
SPECIAL SCENIE FOR PERFORMANCE ART
Joey Arias in Arias With A Twist
CHOREOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Melissa Giattino—Backwards In High Heels (ICT), White Christmas (Cabrillo)
Dana Solimando—All Shook Up, Peter Pan/recreating Patti Colombo’s original choreography
MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Darryl Archibald—Backwards In High Heels (ICT), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Guys And Dolls, White Christmas (Cabrillo)
BREAKTHROUGH MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Michael Alfera—Janet Krupin at Sterlings Upstairs At Vitello’s, Starmites, Urinetown (USC)
COSTUME DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Christa Armendariz—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bark! The Musical, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma! (CLOSBC)
Shon LeBlanc—Amadeus, Broads! The Musical, La Ronde De Lunch, Life Could Be A Dream, Stage Door
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg—Celadine, Cousin Bette, Free Man Of Color, King Lear, Opus
LIGHTING DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Ken Booth—Much Ado About Nothing, Noises Off, Opus, The Playboy Of The Western World, The Tragedy Of King Richard III
Jeremy Pivnick—Above The Line, Art, As White As O, F*cking Men, Oedipus El Rey, Road To Saigon, A Rubicon Family Christmas, See What I Wanna See, That Perfect Moment, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes
Jean-Yves Tessier—All Shook Up, Altar Boyz, Meet Me In St. Louis, Peter Pan, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (MTW)
LIGHTING AND PROJECTION DESIGN OF THE YEAR (INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION)
KC Wilkerson—The Who’s Tommy
SET DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Tom Buderwitz—Cousin Bette, Crimes Of The Heart (SCR), F*cking Men, King Lear, Life Could Be A Dream, Putting It Together, The Story Of My Life
Stephen Gifford—Backwards In High Heels (ICT), Big River, Broads! The Musical, Celadine, The Clean House, How The Other Half Loves, London’s Scars, The Playboy Of The Western World, Sidhe, Songs For A New World, A Shayna Maidel
John Iacovelli—Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Cave Quest, Dinner With Friends, Hello, Dolly!, Peter Pan, Steel Magnolias
SET DESIGN OF THE YEAR (INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION)
Joel Daavid—Just 45 Minutes From Broadway
SOUND DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
David B. Marling—As White As O, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Madagascar, Sidhe
Cricket S. Myers—Better Angels, Celadine, Cousin Bette, Free Man Of Color, Grace And Glorie, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Sherlock’s Last Case, The Women Of Brewster Place, Topdog/Underdog
John Zalewski—Above The Line, Art, Cave Quest, King Lear, Lascivious Something
SOUND DESIGNER OF THE YEAR, MUSICALS
Julie Ferrin—1776, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D), All Shook Up, Altar Boyz, Hello, Dolly!, Peter Pan, Rent (MTW), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (MTW), The Marvelous Wonderettes
SOUND DESIGN OF THE YEAR (INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION)
Robert Oriol—Oedipus El Rey
Efrain Schunior—Orpheus Descending
PROJECTION DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Jason H. Thompson—The Night Is A Child, Baby It’s You!, Ordinary Days
PRODUCTION, DIRECTION, PERFORMANCE SCENIES FOR INTIMATE THEATERS (99 SEATS OR LESS)
BEST PRODUCTION, DRAMA
All My Sons (Ruskin Group Theatre)
Amadeus (The Production Company)
Copenhagen (The Production Company)
Lascivious Something (Circle X Theatre Company)
Madagascar (The Road Theatre Company)
Oedipus El Rey (Theatre @ Boston Court)
Orpheus Descending (Frantic Redhead Productions)
Sidhe (The Road Theatre Company)
The Browning Version (Pacific Resident Theatre)
The Twentieth Century Way (Theatre @ Boston Court)
Tree (Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA)
Wit (Actors Co-op)
BEST PRODUCTION, COMEDY-DRAMA
The Boys In The Band (Mighty Myt Productions)
Cousin Bette (The Antaeus Company)
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (The Rainbow Theatre Company)
Opus (Fountain Theatre)
Yellow (JD3atrical Productions)
BEST PRODUCTION, COMEDY
Becky’s New Car (Pacific Resident Theatre)
A Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding (Crown City Theatre)
F*cking Men (Celebration Theatre)
The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder (Theatre @ Boston Court)
La Ronde De Lunch (The Katselas Theatre Company)
That Perfect Moment (Little Victory Theatre)
BEST PRODUCTION, MUSICAL
Big River (Actors Co-op)
Louis And Keely Live At The Sahara (Geffen Playhouse)
Merrily We Roll Along (Chance Theater)
NeverWonderLand (Boom Kat Dance Theatre)
See What I Wanna See (The Blank Theatre Company)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The Production Company)
The Who’s Tommy (Chance Theater)
Violet (Cal State Fullerton)
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Jaz Davison—Little Shop Of Horrors
Taylor Hackford—Louis And Keely Live At The Sahara
Daniel Henning—See What I Wanna See
Derek Charles Livingston—Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Michael Matthews—The Women Of Brewster Place
Patrick Pearson—Violet
Michele Spears—40 Is The New 15
Dane Whitlock—Side By Side By Sondheim
BEST DIRECTION OF A DRAMA
Darin Anthony—Sidhe
Edward Edwards—All My Sons (Ruskin)
Brendon Fox—Madagascar
Marilyn Fox—The Browning Version
Jessica Kubzansky—Tree
Michael Michetti—The Twentieth Century Way
Lou Pepe—Orpheus Descending
Marianne Savell—Wit
Paul Willis—Lascivious Something
BEST DIRECTION OF A COMEDY-DRAMA
Jason Crain—The Boys In The Band
Jeanie Hackett—Cousin Bette
Gary Imhoff—Just 45 Minutes From Broadway
Simon Levy—Opus
Del Shores—Yellow
BEST DIRECTION OF A COMEDY
Terri Hanauer—La Ronde De Lunch
John Langs—The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder
Jeremy Lewit—Sherlock’s Last Case
Brian Lohmann—L.A. Noir UnScripted
Jonas Oppenheim—Hamlet Shut Up
Calvin Remsberg—F*cking Men
Michael Rothhaar—Becky’s New Car
Rick Sparks—That Perfect Moment
Dan Velez—Boys’ Life
BEST DIRECTION OF A SOLO PERFORMANCE
Michael Matthews—The SantaLand Diaries
BEST ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/DRAMA
Alana Dietze, Olivia Henry, Alina Phelan, Silas Weir Mitchell
Lascivious Something
Carlos Acuña, Leandro Cano, Daniel Chacón, Marlene Forte, Justin Huen, Winston J. Rocha, Michael Uribes
Oedipus El Rey
Rob Nagle, Ann Noble, Patrick Joseph Rieger, Jeanne Syquia
Sidhe
Chuma Gault, Sloan Robinson, Tessa Thompson, Jacqueline Wright
Tree
BEST ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY-DRAMA
Julie Davis, Tanna Frederick, David Garver, Jack Heller, Greg Mullavey, Diane Salinger, Harriet Schock
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway
Daniel Blinkoff, Jia Doughman, Gregory G. Giles, Christian Lebano, Cooper Thornton
Opus
BEST ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY
Paton Ashbrook, Libby Baker, Rachel Jackson, Jason Karasev, Tori Ayres Oman, David Rispoli, Mikhail Roberts, Ben Rovner
Boys’ Life
Chad Borden, Mike Ciriaco, Brian Dare, Gregory Franklin, Sean Galuszka, Johnny Kostrey, Jeff Olson, David Pevsner, Michael Rachlis, AJ Tannen
F*cking Men
Matt Austin, Clent Bowers, Joe Briggs, Fiona Gubelmann, Kathryn Harrold, Gina Hecht, Jay Huguley, Amanda Kruger, Daniel Montgomery, Kate Siegel, Michael Silver, Haley Strode, Brynn Thayer, Demetrius Keone Thomas, Robert Trebor
La Ronde De Lunch
BEST COMEDY IMPROV CAST
Tracy Burns, Stephen Kearin, Brian Michael Jones, Brian Lohmann, Dan O’Connor, Edi Patterson, Michele Spears
L.A. Noir UnScripted
BEST COMEDY MIME CAST
Kimberly Atkinson, Jay Bogdanowitsch, Tegan Ashton Cohan, Victor Isaac, Derek Mehn, Laura Napoli, Stephen Simon, Adina Valerio, Matt Valle, Colin Willkie
Hamlet Shut Up
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A DUO ENSEMBLE
Michael Lorre and Kevin Remington in The Mystery Of Irma Vep
Chad Borden and Robert J. Townsend in The Story Of My Life
Will Bradley and Robert Mammana in The Twentieth Century Way
BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE (MONOLOG)
Jocelyn A. Brown, Alex Bueno, Emily Clark, Lewis R. Crouse II, Chance Dean, Dimas Diaz, Casey Long, Sarah Moreau
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
David Dean Bottrell, Drew Droege, Ron Morehouse, Steve Hasley, Mike Rose, Trent Walker, Roy Cruz
Streep Tease
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST/MUSICAL
Doug Carpenter, Jason Graae, Lesli Margherita, Perry Ojeda, Suzan Solomon
See What I Wanna See
Jenny Ashman, Rick Cox, Harmony Goodman, Kurt Andrew Hansen, Rob Herring, Brian Maples, Weston I. Nathanson, Nancy Dobbs Owen, Donna Pieroni, R. Christofer Sands
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Chris Duir, Timothy S. Fitzsimmons, Amy Ganser, Averi Jenkins, Micaela Martinez, Chris Roque, Molly Stillens, Hannah Mae Sturges, Calvin Seabrooks, Ben Sergent, Neil J. Starkenberg
Violet
Mark Bartlett, Kevin Cordova, Wendi Ann Hammock, Paul Hovannes, Beach Vickers
The Who’s Tommy
Erica Ash, Cheridah Best, Julanne Chidi Hill, Christine Horn, Kelly M. Jenrette, Charlene Modeste, Lisa Tharps, Kim Yarbrough
The Women Of Brewster Place
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST/DANCE
Cory Bretsch, Nolan Chung, Chris Downey, Lizzie Fabie, Lili Fuller, Michael Garrido, Amanda Giuliano, Megan Harvey, Sarah Haworth, Rachel Hershee, Janet Krupin, Matthew Krumpe, Nathan Parsons, Joe Sofranko, Juliana Tyson
NeverWonderLand
BEST SUPPORTING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE/MUSICAL
Alex Bueno, Kyle Cooper, Andrew Eddins, Laura M. Hathaway, Liz Holt, Richard Comeau
Merrily We Roll Along
Brynne McManimie, Clarissa Barton, Brian Bitner, Miguel Cardenas, Kyle Cooper, Arroya Karian, Elena Murray, Melinda Porto, Kellie Spill, Seth Weiner, Joshua Youngs
The Who’s Tommy
BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE
Sam Lloyd in Fully Committed
Tim Piper in Just Imagine
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/DRAMA
Sam Anderson in Madagascar
Dominic Comperatore in All My Sons (Ruskin)
Bryan Fox in The Columbine Project
Gale Harold in Orpheus Descending
Rob Herring in The Diviners
Justin Huen in Oedipus El Rey
Jeremy Lelliott in Hamlet (The ProdCo)
Paul Linke in All My Sons (Ruskin)
David Ross Paterson in Copenhagen
Timothy McNeil in Supernova
James Roday in Extinction
Patrick Stafford in Amadeus
Peter Swander in Amadeus
Michael Weston in Extinction
Nicholas S. Williams in All My Sons (Raven)
David Youse in How I Learned To Drive
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/DRAMA
Meredith Bishop in London’s Scars
Imelda Corcoran in London’s Scars
Denise Crosby in Orpheus Descending
Taylor Gilbert in Madagascar
Nan McNamara in Wit
Bonnie McNeil in Supernova
Sally Smythe in The Browning Version
Joanna Strapp in How I Learned To Drive
Catherine Telford in All My Sons (Ruskin)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
David Cowgill in Yellow
Matt McConkey in The Boys In The Band
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY-DRAMA
Nike Doukas in Cousin Bette
Kristen McCullough in Yellow
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY
David Graham in Deathtrap
Stephen Van Dorn in Sherlock’s Last Case
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY
Joanna Daniels in Becky’s New Car
Melanie Lora in The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/MUSICAL
Jake Broder in Louis And Keely Live At The Sahara
Rick Franklin in The Producers
Kurt Andrew Hansen in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Shaun-Michael McNamara in The Producers
Matt Wolpe in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Donna Pieroni in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Laura Thatcher in The Wild Party
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/DRAMA
Eddie Castuera in Hamlet (The Porters Of Hellsgate)
Malachi Throne in The Value Of Names
Edward Tournier in Supernova
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/DRAMA
Deana Barone in Madagascar
Marlene Forte in Oedipus El Rey
Annika Marks in Behind The Gates
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Daniel Blinkoff in Opus
Eric Roth in The Boys In The Band
Chris Sams in The Boys In The Band
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY-DRAMA
Susan Leslie in Yellow
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY
Guerin Barry in That Perfect Moment
John Bigham in That Perfect Moment
Isaac Wade in In The Company Of Jane Doe
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY
Melanie Jones in Deathtrap
Brynn Thayer in La Ronde De Lunch
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/MUSICAL
Chris Roque in Violet
R. Christofer Sands in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Jillian Gomez in Oklahoma!
Christine Horn in The Women Of Brewster Place
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, DRAMA
Extinction (Red Dog Squadron)
King Lear (The Antaeus Company)
Parasite Drag (The Elephant Theatre Company)
Supernova (The Elephant Theatre Company)
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (Chance Theater)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, COMEDY-DRAMA
Black Coffee (Theatre 40)
The Drawer Boy (Theatre 40)
Shake (Theatre Of NOTE)
Spike Heels (Harbinger Theater Company)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, COMEDY
Above The Line (Indecent Exposure Theater Company)
Boom (Furious Theatre Company)
Eat The Runt (Theatre Of NOTE)
Sherlock’s Last Case (Actors Co-op)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, MUSICAL
40 Is The New 15 (The Academy For New Musical Theatre)
Chess In Concert (Musical Theatre Of Los Angeles)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (InterAct Theatre Company)
Nine (Hunger Artists)
Side By Side By Sondheim (Attic Theatre & Film Center)
[title of show] (Celebration Theatre)
The Women Of Brewster Place (Celebration Theatre)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Steve Edlund—Starmites
Casey Long—Little Women
Robert Marra—Chess In Concert
Susan Marx—Nine
Robert Schrock—Naked Boys Singing
Michael A. Shepperd—[title of show]
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A DRAMA
Lindsay Allbaugh—Supernova
Darin Anthony—London’s Scars
Thomas Bigley—Hamlet (The Porters Of Hellsgate)
Maria Cominis—Hamlet (The ProdCo)
Bart DeLorenzo—King Lear
David Fofi—Parasite Drag
Wayne Kasserman—Extinction
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A COMEDY-DRAMA
Bruce Gray—Black Coffee
Benjamin Haber Kamine—Seascape With Sharks And Dancer
Melanie MacQueen—The Drawer Boy
Kiff Scholl—Shake
Efrain Schunior—A Giant Ark In The Skyscape Of Directions
Donald Shenk—Secrets Of A Soccer Mom
Stan Zimmerman—Spike Heels
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A COMEDY
Dylan James Anderson—Matt & Ben
Tom Beyer—Eat The Runt
Mark Bringelson—Above The Line
Brian Lohmann and Dan O’Connor—Shakespeare UnScripted
Michael Lorre—The Mystery Of Irma Vep
William A. Reilly—A Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding
Damaso Rodriguez—Boom
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A SOLO PERFORMANCE
Melanie Jones—Fully Committed
Louis J. Cuck—Becoming Butch
Heather De Michele—Shaheed
Bob Guza—Lenny Bruce Is Back (And Boy Is He Pissed)
McKerrin Kelly—Blank
OUTSTANDING ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/DRAMA
Dan Alemshah, Danielle Doyen, David Robert May, Barry Saltzman, Patrick Stafford, David Stifel, Peter Swander
Amadeus
Mikie Beatty, William Stanford Davis, Erica Katzin, Rachael Page, Karlee Rigby, Alex Rogers, Deborah Vancelette
Elevator
Mim Drew, Robert Foster, Boyd Kestner, Agatha Nowicki
Parasite Drag
Brenda Banda, Casey Long, Maxwell Myers, Brandon Sean Pearson, Jennifer Ruckman, Karen Webster Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
OUTSTANDING ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY-DRAMA
Tim Astor, Tom Dugan, Nicholas Hosking, LizAnne Keigley, Shelby Kocee, Katharine McEwan, John McGuire, Don Moss, Lary Ohlson, Corey Rieger, David Hunt Stafford and Randy Vasquez
Black Coffee
Kris Frost, Daniel Leslie, Robert Mackenzie
The Drawer Boy
Robin Dunne, Vanessa Parise, Jeff Roop, Katie Walder
Spike Heels
OUTSTANDING ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY
Joanna Daniels, Suzanne Ford, Jon Eric Preston, Nick Rogers, Brad Greenquist, Christopher Shaw, Jules Willcox
Becky’s New Car
Gillian Doyle, John Getz, Travis Michael Holder, Melanie Lora, Henry Todd Ostendorf, Ryan Welsh, Time Winters
The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder
Michelle Coyle, Jennifer Lynn Davis, Tammy Taylor
Secrets Of A Soccer Mom
Guerin Barry, John Bigham, Bruce Katzman, Kelly Lester, Tait Ruppert
That Perfect Moment
OUTSTANDING COMEDY IMPROV CAST
Evelyn Celic, Bob Dean, Jenny Gattone, Jodi Harrison, Kevin Held, Barbera Ann Howard, Carol Jones Samantha Klein, John McKutcheon, Irwin Moskowitz, Jackie Nico, Sterling Price, William A. Reilly, Berna Roberts, Ben Rovner, Dane White, Ronald J. Zambar, Robson Vieira
A Big, Gay North Hollywood Wedding
Lisa Fredrickson, Stephen Kearin, Dan O’Connor, Edi Patterson, Paul Rogan, Michele Spears
Shakespeare UnScripted
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A DUO ENSEMBLE
Dan Bender and Johnny Soto in Matt & Ben
Matthew Hannon and Christine Weatherup in Seascape With Sharks And Dancer
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST/MUSICAL
John Allsopp, Patrick Foley, Karole Foreman, Tod Macofsky, Ed F. Martin, Dana Meller, Lindsey Mixon, Kevin Noonchester, Gretchen Weiss, Craig Woolson
40 Is The New 15
Ivonne Coll, Leslie Easterbrook, June Gable, Barbara Niles
Broads! The Musical
Nicci Claspell, Gil Darnell, Emily Dykes, Blake McIver Ewing, Gregory North, Peter Welkin
Chess In Concert
Anjali Bhimani, Laura Jane, Maia Madison, Derek Manson, Chase Matthews, Jason Paige, Ty Taylor
The Existents
Ali Axelrad, Eloise Coopersmith, Sherry Domerego, Melissa Dunham, Andrew Eddins, Jason James, Glenn Koppel, Erika C. Miller, Stephanie Philo, Sarah Pierce, Brandon Sanchez
Little Women
Rachel Buffett, Mirna Carbajal, Carol Celeste, Andrea Dennison-Laufer, Jenny Jones, Deborah Kennedy, Cynthia Lee, Lindsay Martin, Andrea Martyn, Janet McGregor, Tara Pitt, Kaitlyn Tice, Justin VanLigten, Veronique Merrill Warner
Nine
Jenny Ashman, Jennifer Blake, Joe Donohoe, Morgan Duke, Nick Sarando
Side By Side By Sondheim
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ENSEMBLE CAST/MUSICAL
Richard Brunner, Kelly Dodson, Aly Fainbarg, Kristen Heitman, Katrina Rennells, Jonas Sills, Blake Sterlling, Jeff Swanson, Josie Yount, Christopher Zenner
Chess In Concert
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Vincent James Arcuri in Becoming Butch
Nicholas Brendon in The SantaLand Diaries
Ronnie Marmo in Lenny Bruce Is Back (And Boy Is He Pissed)
Brian Stanton in Blank
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/DRAMA
Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree
Kevin Day in The Columbine Project
Joshua Hayden in Hamlet (Knightsbridge)
Stuart W. Howard in Skylight
Matthew Jaeger in Children Of A Lesser God
Robert Mackenzie in The Ice-Breaker
Skip Pipo in Copenhagen
Peter Mark Richman in The Value Of Names
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/DRAMA
Austin Highsmith in All My Sons (Ruskin)
CaroleAnne Johnson in All My Sons (Raven)
Erin Shaver in Skylight
Ashleigh Sumner in The Ice-Breaker
Lauren Dobbins Webb in All My Sons (Raven)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Ryan Bergmann in A Giant Arc In The Skyscape Of Directions
Luke McClure in Yellow
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY-DRAMA
Cheryl David in Sarah, Sarah
Coco Kleppinger in A Giant Arc In The Skyscape Of Directions
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY
West Liang in Cave Quest
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY
Elizabeth Ho in Grace Kim And The Spiders From Mars
Amanda Weier in Stage Door
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/MUSICAL
Travis Dixon in Oklahoma!
James Fowler in Big River
Gordon Goodman in Children Of The Night
Sean Hankinson in Big River
Jeffrey Landman in [title of show]
Justin Mortelliti in The Bedroom Window
Robert Patteri in Children Of The Night
Chip Phillips in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Peter Welkin in Chess In Concert
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Jean Altadel in Oklahoma!
Teri Bibb in Children Of The Night
Jennifer R. Blake in [title of show]
Leslie Duke in Little Shop Of Horrors (Knightsbridge)
Amy Ganser in Violet
Kelly Lohman in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Emily O’Brien in The Bedroom Window
Carey Peters in [title of show]
Vanessa Claire Smith in Louis And Keely Live At The Sahara
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/DRAMA
Arturo Aranda in The Gift Horse
Colin Bates in The Columbine Project
Rob Nagle in London’s Scars
Benjamin Scott Perry in Skylight
Robert Pine in King Lear
Justin Preston in The Browning Version
John Sloan in King Lear
Gregory Spradlin in Edward II
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/DRAMA
Amanda Detmer in Extinction
Stefanie E. Frame in Extinction
Claudia Mason in Orpheus Descending
Chase McKenna in The House Of Besarab
Stasha Surdyke in The Value Of Names
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Joe Egender in Shake
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY-DRAMA
Michelle Gardner In Shake
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY
Ariel Goldberg in Trog And Clay
Paul McGee in A Very Merry Happy Kosher Christmas
Quincy Miller in The Glass Mendacity
John Charles Meyer in Escanaba In The Moonlight
Hanson Tse in Grace Kim And The Spiders From Mars
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY
Julia Duffy in Boom
Jully Lee in Grace Kim And The Spiders From Mars
Kate Mines in As White As O
Regina Peluso in Bedroom Farce
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/MUSICAL
David Chorley in The Producers
Bruce Green in Big River
Christopher Higgins in The Bedroom Window
Michael Manuel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ryan Oboza in Oklahoma!
Stephen Reynolds in Big River
Jesse James Rice in The Bedroom Window
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Laura M. Hathaway in Merrily We Roll Along
Susan Hull in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
PRODUCTION, DIRECTION, PERFORMANCE SCENIES FOR LARGER THEATERS (100 SEATS OR MORE)
BEST PRODUCTION, DRAMA
Awake And Sing (A Noise Within)
Equivocation (Geffen Playhouse)
The Tragedy Of King Richard III (A Noise Within)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Hermosa Beach Playhouse)
BEST PRODUCTION, COMEDY-DRAMA
Doctor Cerberus (South Coast Repertory)
Grace And Glorie (The Colony Theatre Company)
Six Degrees Of Separation (Kentwood Players)
Trying (The Rubicon Theatre Company)
BEST PRODUCTION, COMEDY
Crimes Of The Heart (South Coast Repertory)
Much Ado About Nothing (A Noise Within)
Noises Off (A Noise Within)
BEST PRODUCTION, MUSICAL
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D Theatricals)
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (McCoy Rigby Entertainment)
All Shook Up (3-D Theatricals)
Bark! The Musical (Civic Light Opera Of South Bay Cities)
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (McCoy Rigby Entertainment)
Camelot (Pasadena Playhouse)
Daddy Long Legs (Rubicon Theatre Company)
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Reprise Theatre Company)
Guys And Dolls (Cabrillo Music Theatre)
Oklahoma! (Civic Light Opera Of South Bay Cities)
Peter Pan (3-D Theatricals)
Rent (Musical Theatre West)
BEST PRODUCTION, MUSICAL REVUE
Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (The Colony Theatre Company)
Putting It Together (South Coast Repertory)
Songs For A New World (International City Theatre)
BEST DIRECTION OF A DRAMA
Geoff Elliott—The Tragedy Of King Richard III
David Esbjornson—Equivocation
Andrew J. Traister—Awake And Sing
BEST DIRECTION OF A COMEDY-DRAMA
Bart DeLorenzo—Doctor Cerberus
Don Schlossman—Six Degrees Of Separation
Jenny Sullivan—Trying
Cameron Watson—Grace And Glorie
BEST DIRECTION OF A COMEDY
Geoff Elliott—Noises Off
Michael W. Murray—Much Ado About Nothing
Todd Nielsen—No Sex Please, We’re British & How The Other Half Loves
Warner Shook—Crimes Of The Heart (SCR)
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
John Caird—Daddy Long Legs
T.J. Dawson—All Shook Up
DJ Gray—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D)
David Lee—Camelot & A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Reprise)
Jeff Maynard—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (McCoy Rigby)
Valerie Rachelle—Urinetown
Dana Solimando—Peter Pan
Lewis Wilkenfeld—Fade Out – Fade In
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL REVUE
Jules Aaron—Songs For A New World
BEST ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/DRAMA
Patrick J. Adams, Troian Bellisario, Harry Groener, Brian Henderson, Joe Spano, Connor Trinneer
Equivocation
Alan Blumenfeld, Molly Leland, David Lengel, Daniel Reichert, Adam Silver, Deborah Strang, Joel Swetow, Alan Wasserman
Awake And Sing
BEST ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY-DRAMA
Nike Doukas, Geoffrey Lower, Raphael Sbarge, Greg Watanabe
The Happy Ones
BEST ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY
Emily Eiden, Brendan Ford, Leonard Kelly-Young, Jeff Marlow
Moonlight And Magnolias
Shaun Anthony, Apollo Dukakis, Geoff Elliott, Jill Hill, Lenne Klingaman, Emily Kosloski, Stephen Rockwell, Mikael Salazar, Deborah Strang
Noises Off
Emma Fassler, Christa Jackson, Michael Learned, Rosina Reynolds, Cathy Rigby, Amy Sloan
Steel Magnolias
Tessa Auberjonois, Nathan Baesel, Jennifer Lyon, Kasey Mahaffy, Kate Rylie, Blair Sams
Crimes Of The Heart (SCR)
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A DUO ENSEMBLE
Beth Grant and Melinda Page Hamilton in Grace And Glorie
Jason Evans and Lisa Livesay in The Last Five Years
Constance Hauman and Brent Schindele in Souvenir
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST/MUSICAL
Melvin Abston, Jason Graae, Laura Griffith, Lana McKissack, Shanon Mari Mills, Brett Ryback, Cassie Silva, Daniel Tatar, Tom Zohar
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (McCoy Rigby)
Jacob Haren, Shawn Perucca, Nathan Norrington, Louis Pardo, Mark Shunock
Altar Boyz
Matt Bower, Christopher Carothers, Robin De Lano, Heather Lee, Jeff Payton, Anna Aimee White
Backwards In High Heels (ICT)
Dane Biren, Jessica Gisin, Janet Krupin, Shanna Marie Palmer, Harrison White, Justin Michael Wilcox
Bark! The Musical
Beth Malone, Bets Malone, Darcie Roberts, Lowe Taylor
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Misty Cotton, Susannah Hall, Julie Dixon Jackson, Bets Malone
Winter Wonderettes
Melvin Abston, Lexy Baeza, Sheila Karls, Juan Guillen, Lisa Livesay, Kavin Panmeechao, Louis Pardo, Nick Santa Maria, Annie Woo
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST/MUSICAL REVUE
Eileen Barnett, Zachary Ford, Gregory Franklin, Jennifer Shelton
Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris
Dan Callaway, Harry Groener, Matt McGrath, Mary Gordon Murray, Niki Scalera
Putting It Together
Troy Allan Burgess, Jason Edwards, Christa Jackson, Kelli Provart
Ring Of Fire
Joan Almedilla, Jennifer Paz, Jenni Selma
Road To Saigon
Joan Almedilla, Dina Bennett, Teri Bibb, Trey Ellett, Anthony Manough, Brian Sutherland
A Rubicon Family Christmas
Parnia Ayari, Anthony Manough, Brent Schindele, Jennifer Shelton
Songs For A New World
BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE
Hershey Felder in Hershey Felder As George Gershwin Alone
Anna Khaja in Shaheed
BEST SUPPORTING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE/MUSICAL
Will Bradley, Seth Daly, Zachary Ford, Richard R. Segall, Andrew Ross Wynn
Camelot
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/DRAMA
Matthew Brenher in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Michael A. Newcomer in Crime And Punishment
Jack Stehlin in Titus Redux
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/DRAMA
Suzanne Dean in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Willie Mack Daniels in Six Degrees Of Separation
Brett Ryback in Doctor Cerberus
Kevin Stidham in The Hasty Heart
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY-DRAMA
Joanna Churgin in Six Degrees Of Separation
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY
JD Cullum in Much Ado About Nothing
Jason M. Hammond in No Sex Please, We’re British
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY
Eileen Galindo in The Clean House
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/MUSICAL
Brandon Albright in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
Joseph Culliton in My Fair Lady
Garrett Deagon in The Wild Party
P.J. Griffith in Rent (MTW)
Robert Adelman Hancock in Daddy Long Legs
Danny Michaels in The Will Rogers Follies
Randy Rogel in White Christmas (Cabrillo)
Nick Santa Maria in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Norris)
Shannon Stoeke in Camelot
Harrison White in Seussical
Lee Wilkof in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Reprise)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Charlotte Carpenter in My Fair Lady
Beth Malone in Fade Out – Fade In
Megan McGinnis in Daddy Long Legs
Shanna Marie Palmer in Peter Pan
Cassie Silva in White Christmas (Cabrillo)
Shannon Warne in Camelot
Ruth Williamson in Hello, Dolly!
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/DRAMA
Patrick J. Adams in Equivocation
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/DRAMA
Lenne Klingaman in The Tragedy Of King Richard III
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Jamison Jones in Doctor Cerberus
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY-DRAMA
Candy Buckley in Doctor Cerberus
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY
Mark Bramhall in Much Ado About Nothing
Richard Horvitz in The Psychic
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY
Tessa Auberjonois in Crimes Of The Heart (SCR)
Christa Jackson in Steel Magnolias
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/MUSICAL
Doug Carpenter in Camelot
Barry Pearl in Guys And Dolls
Morgan Reynolds in All Shook Up
Karl Warden in Oklahoma!
Sam Zeller in Oklahoma!
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Lital Abrahams in The Wild Party
Aliya Stuart in Rent (El Camino)
Alet Taylor in Guys And Dolls
Ruth Williamson in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Reprise)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, DRAMA
Dinner With Friends (McCoy Rigby Entertainment)
The Night Is A Child (Pasadena Playhouse)
A Shayna Maidel (International City Theatre)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, COMEDY-DRAMA
The Happy Ones (South Coast Repertory)
The Hasty Heart (Glendale Centre Theatre)
In A Garden (South Coast Repertory)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, COMEDY
The Clean House (International City Theatre)
Moonlight And Magnolias (Laguna Playhouse, McCoy Rigby Entertainment))
Steel Magnolias (McCoy Rigby Entertainment)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, MUSICAL
1776 (Musical Theatre West)
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Norris Center For The Performing Arts)
Altar Boyz (3-D Theatricals)
Backwards In High Heels (International City Theatre)
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Civic Light Opera Of South Bay Cities)
Little Shop Of Horrors (Cabrillo Music Theatre)
The Marvelous Wonderettes (Musical Theatre West)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Musical Theatre West)
Urinetown (Morgan-Wixson Theatre)
The Wild Party (University of California at Irvine)
The Will Rogers Follies (Glendale Centre Theatre)
Winter Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, MUSICAL REVUE
Road To Saigon (East West Players)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A DRAMA
Shashin Desai—A Shayna Maidel
Sheldon Epps—The Night Is A Child
John Farmanesh-Bocca—Titus Redux
Brian Kite—Dinner With Friends
Michael Leoni—Elevator
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A COMEDY-DRAMA
Martin Benson—The Happy Ones
Amick Byram—The Hasty Heart
David Warren—In A Garden
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A COMEDY
Andrew Barnicle—Moonlight And Magnolias
caryn desai—The Clean House
Brian Kite—Steel Magnolias
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Orlando Alexander—The Will Rogers Follies
Roger Bean—Life Could Be A Dream, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes
Dennis Beasley—The Wild Party
Glenn Casale—Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
caryn desai—Backwards In High Heels (ICT)
James W. Gruessing, Jr.—A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Norris)
Ron Kellum—Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Troy Magino—Altar Boyz
Ethan McSweeny—Ordinary Days
Marsha Moode—My Fair Lady
Todd Nielsen—White Christmas (Cabrillo)
Lewis Wilkenfeld—Little Shop Of Horrors
OUTSTANDING ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/DRAMA
David Dean Bottrell, McKerrin Kelly, James Read
Better Angels
Cate Cohen, Patrick Fabian, Melanie Lora, Kevin Weisman
Dinner With Friends
Frank Ashmore, Kareem Ferguson, Kathleen Mary Carthy
Free Man Of Color
OUTSTANDING ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY-DRAMA
Haile D’Alan, Joe DeSoto, Lindsey Garrett, Matt Little, Ian Littleworth, Skip Pipo, Paul Reese, Kevin Stidham, John Teague
The Hasty Heart
Nick Alspaugh, Dylan H. Bailey, Lorenzo Bastien, Joanna Churgin, Jack Coppock, Willie Mack Daniels, Drew Fitzsimmons, Marco Garcia, Andy Grosso, Kevin T. King, Ryan Knight, Ginny Kunz, Ken MacFarlane, Mark Mayes, Michael-Anthony Nozzi, Tara Jean O’Brien, Meredith M. Sweeney
Six Degrees Of Separation
OUTSTANDING ACTING IN AN ENSEMBLE CAST/COMEDY
Jodi Fleisher, James May, Gregory North, DeeDee Rescher, Adam J. Smith, Erin Anne Williams
How The Other Half Loves
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A DUO ENSEMBLE
Beau Bridges and Emily Bridges in Acting: The First Six Lessons
Winslow Corbett and Robin Gannell in Trying
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST/MUSICAL
Nancy Anderson, David Burnham, Deborah S. Craig and Nick Gabriel
Ordinary Days
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/DRAMA
Kareem Ferguson in Free Man Of Color
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/DRAMA
Liza De Weerd in A Shayna Maidel
Kimberly Patterson in Wait Until Dark
Jobeth Williams in The Night Is A Child
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Mark Harelik in In A Garden
Matt Letscher in In A Garden
Leo Marks in The Language Archive
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/COMEDY
Michael A. Newcomer in The Playboy Of The Western World
James B. Sikking in Exit Strategy
Brian Stanton in No Sex Please, We’re British
Ryun Yu in Art
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/COMEDY
Denise Carole in The Little Dog Laughed
Kathy Bell Denton in The Clean House
Torri Higgenson in Much Ado About Nothing
Rebecca Morris in No Sex Please, We’re British
Caryn West in The Clean House
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR/MUSICAL
Jake Broder in A Vegas Holiday! Songs From “Live At The Sahara”
David Engel in White Christmas (Cabrillo)
Steven Glaudini in 1776
Jeff Griggs in Guys And Dolls
Beau Hirshfield in Rent (MTW)
Jim Holdridge in Little Shop Of Horrors
David Laffey in Urinetown
Joe Mandragona in All Shook Up
Gregory North in Peter Pan
Robert Standley in Carousel
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Sarah Elizabeth Combs in Oklahoma!
Michelle Duffy in High Spirits
Meeghan Holaway in Baby It’s You!
Jennifer Mathews in White Christmas (Cabrillo) & (FCLO)
Cassandra Murphy in All Shook Up
Vanessa Claire Smith in A Vegas Holiday! Songs From “Live At The Sahara”
Jill Van Velzer in Carousel
Anna Aimee White in Backwards In High Heels (ICT)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/DRAMA
Dane Biren in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Michael Mullen in Wait Until Dark
Tyler Pierce in The Night Is A Child
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/DRAMA
Monette Magrath in The Night Is A Child
Meredith Rensa in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Sybyl Walker in The Night Is A Child
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY-DRAMA
Ian Littleworth in The Hasty Heart
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/COMEDY
Cyrus Alexander in The Psychic
Brian Hostenske in The Playboy Of The Western World
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/COMEDY
Bridget Flanery in The Psychic
Katie Pelensky in See How They Run
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR/MUSICAL
George Champion in My Fair Lady
Jim Holdridge in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tony Melson in Rent (El Camino)
Jeffrey Polk in Fade Out – Fade In
Larry Raben in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Reprise)
Mel Robert in Rent (MTW)
Jai Rodriguez in Rent (MTW)
Justin Waggle in Urinetown
Steve Vinovich in 1776
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Michelle Duffy in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Lauren Ashley Durant in Rent (El Camino)
Alison England in Lucky Stiff
AnnaLisa Erickson in Urinetown
Leigh Golden in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Grace Kaufman in Meet Me In St. Louis
Kelli Provart in All Shook Up
Annie V. Ramsey in Oklahoma!
Kara Rooney in The Wild Party
Sabrina Sloan in Rent (MTW)
Nicole Tillman in Rent (MTW)
Diane Vincent in Oklahoma!
SCENIES FOR CHOREOGRAPHY, MUSICAL DIRECTION, DESIGN
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Orlando Alexander—The Will Rogers Follies
Allison Bibicoff—The Who’s Tommy
Roger Castellano—Guys And Dolls
Sydney Blair Friedman—Urinetown (USC)
Lili Fuller et al, NeverWonderLand
DJ Gray—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D) & (McCoy-Rigby)
Keenon Hooks—Urinetown (Morgan-Wixson)
Ameenah Kaplan—A Wither’s Tale, The Women Of Brewster Place
Troy Magino—Altar Boyz
Lee Martino—Meet Me In St. Louis
Janet Miller—The Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes
Karen Nowicki—Oklahoma! (CLOSBC)
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
Jake Broder and Paul Litteral—A Vegas Holiday! Songs From “Live At The Sahara”, Louis And Keely Live At The Sahara
Daniel Gary Busby—Bark! The Musical, Seussical, The Wild Party (UCI)
Dennis Castellano—Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Ordinary Days, Putting It Together
Brent Crayon—Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Songs For A New World
John Glaudini—Altar Boyz, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (MTW)
Eric Heinly—A Wither’s Tale, CHiPs The Musical
Lee Kreter—Brigadoon, White Christmas (FCLO)
David O—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (McCoy Rigby), See What I Wanna See
Michael Paternostro—Rent (MTW), The Story Of My Life
Matthew Smedal—1776, Little Shop Of Horrors (Cabrillo)
Gerald Sternbach—A Rubicon Family Christmas, Hello, Dolly!, Naked Boys Singing
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Soo Jin Lee—Noises Off, Much Ado About Nothing, The Playboy Of The Western World
Sharell Martin—That Perfect Moment, Peter Pan, Hello, Dolly!
Michael Mullen—Why Torture Is Wrong And The People Who Love Them, Women Behind Bars
Kimberly Overton—Sherlock’s Last Case, The Philadelphia Story
Angela Wood & The Costume Shoppe—A Christmas Carol, Kiss Me Kate, The Will Rogers Follies
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Leigh Allen—Children Of A Lesser God, Cousin Bette, The Blue Room
Lap-Chi Chu—In A Garden, King Lear, The Night Is A Child
Joel Daavid—Just 45 Minutes From Broadway, Parasite Drag, Supernova
Jared A. Sayeg—Backwards In High Heels (ICT), Guys And Dolls, Hello, Dolly!, Never Land, Songs For A New World
August Viverito—Amadeus, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The ProdCo), Copenhagen
Christie Wright—Boom, London’s Scars, Men Of Tortuga, Sidhe
Steven Young—1776, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Putting It Together, Rent (MTW), The Story Of My Life
Ric Zimmerman—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, How I Learned To Drive, The Diviners, Wait Until Dark
BEST SCENIC DESIGN
Christopher Beyries—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bark! The Musical, Wait Until Dark, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
John H. Binkley—Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Oedipus El Rey, Road To Saigon
Kurt Boetcher—Boom, Extinction, Haram Iran, Much Ado About Nothing
Joel Daavid—Louis And Keely Live At The Sahara, Skylight, Supernova
Jeff McLaughlin—Grace And Glorie, La Ronde De Lunch, The Psychic
Keith Mitchell—Doctor Cerberus, Exit Strategy, Junie B. Jones And A Little Monkey Business
Jeff G. Rack—Black Coffee, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Drawer Boy, The Ice-Breaker
August Viverito—How I Learned To Drive, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The ProdCo), The Diviners, Copenhagen
BEST PROJECTION DESIGN
Adam Flemming—As White As O
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Peter Bayne—Opus, Parasite Drag, The Seagull
Steven Cahill—Doctor Cerberus, The Language Archive
Drew Dalzell—Putting It Together, The Story Of My Life, Wirehead
Bruno Louchouarn—The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder, The Night Is A Child, Tree
Doug Newell—Boom, Men Of Tortuga
BEST SOUND DESIGN (MUSICALS)
Jonathan Burke—A Rubicon Family Christmas, Daddy Long Legs, Guys And Dolls, Little Shop Of Horrors (Cabrillo), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, White Christmas (Cabrillo)
BEST PUPPET DESIGN
Basil Twist—Arias With A Twist
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Rob Barron—White Christmas (FCLO)
Heather Castillo—Seussical
Kay Cole—Broads! The Musical
Megan Dahlberg—The Wild Party (UCI)
Nadine Ellis/Ameenah Kaplan—Frosty The Snow Manilow
Hector Guerrero—A Chorus Line
Julie Hall—Big River
Johnny Dean Harvey and Chad Everett Allen—Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mark Knowles—Kiss Me Kate
Alisan Porter—Rent (MTW)
Tracy Powell—Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Interact)
Julia Rodriguez-Elliott—Much Ado About Nothing
Kami Seymour—Hello, Dolly!
Gitana Van Buskirk—My Fair Lady
Karl Warden—Bark! The Musical
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTION
Richard Berent—Side By Side By Sondheim
Laura Bergquist—Daddy Long Legs
Christy Crowl—Camelot
Dean Erick—The Last Five Years
Allen Everman—All Shook Up
Greg Haake—Chess In Concert
Johanna Kent—Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (InterAct)
Nolan Livesey—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D)
Greg Piper—Just Imagine
Alby Potts—Oklahoma! (CLOSBC)
Diane King Van—Violet
Chris Wabich—The Existents
Mike Walker—Rent (El Camino)
Mike Wilkins—The Who’s Tommy
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Jane Anderson—Orpheus Descending
David C. Carnevale—Zanna, Don’t!
Meagan Evans—Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Interact)
Lili Fuller—Starmites
Erika C. Miller—The Who’s Tommy
Dana Peterson—See What I Wanna See
Priscilla Watson—A Giant Arc In The Seascape Of Directions
Lizz Wolf—Baby It’s You!
Shigeru Yagi—Doctor Cerberus
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Brian Sidney Bembridge—The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder, Tree
Darrel J. Clark—Bark! The Musical, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma! (CLOSBC)
Matthew Brian Denman—[title of show], Seascape With Shark And Dancer, Women Behind Bars
Chris Kittrell—How The Other Half Loves, The Clean House
Ellen Monocroussos—Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Boys In The Band
Luke Moyer—Celadine, Grace And Glorie, Just Imagine
Christina L. Munich, Bent, Edward II, Zanna, Don’t!
Craig Pierce—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (3-D) & (McCoy-Rigby), Dinner With Friends
Dan Reed—Stage Door, The Drawer Boy, The Existents
Tim Swiss—Haram Iran, The Santaland Diaries
James P. Taylor—Awake And Sing, Crime And Punishment
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN
Brian Sidney Bembridge—The Good Book Of Pedantry And Wonder, Tree
Danny Cistone—A Very Merry Happy Kosher Christmas, Lenny Bruce Is Back (And Boy Is He Pissed), Parasite Drag
Adam Flemming—That Perfect Moment, The Blue Room
David Mauer—Orpheus Descending, The Philadelphia Story
Christopher Scott Murillo—Merrily We Roll Along, The Who’s Tommy
Victoria Profitt—Above The Line, Better Angels
Marika Stephens—A Giant Arc In The Skyscape Of Directions, In The Company Of Jane Doe
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN
Christopher Ash—Doctor Cerberus
LiamCarlsonDesign.com—The Existents
Sam Saldivar—Shaheed
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Peter Carlstedt—Stage Door, The Existents
Kevin Goold—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wait Until Dark
Patrick Hotchkiss—Noises Off, The Tragedy Of King Richard III
Benjamin H. Kamine—Children Of A Lesser God, Much Ado About Nothing
Chris Kittrell—A Shayna Maidel, The Clean House
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (MUSICALS)
John Feinstein—Bark! THE Musical, Joseph And The Amazing, Oklahoma! (CLOSBC), Seussical
OUTSTANDING PUPPET DESIGN
Jessica Dalva—Starmites
SCENIES FOR TOURING PRODUCTIONS
(All productions reviewed at the Orange County Performing Arts Center)
BEST TOURING PRODUCTION
Dreamgirls
In The Heights
The Lion King
BEST DIRECTION OF A TOURING PRODUCTION
Thomas Kail—In The Heights
Robert Longbottom—Dreamgirls
Julie Taymore—The Lion King
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A TOURING PRODUCTION
Greg London in Hairspray
Elizabeth Stanley in Xanadu
BEST FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A TOURING PRODUCTION
Moya Angela in Dreamgirls
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY OF A TOURING PRODUCTION
Danny James Austin/recreating Jerry Mitchell’s original choreography—Hairspray
Andy Blankenbuehler—In The Heights
Garth Fagan—The Lion King
Bill T. Jones—Spring Awakening
OUTSTANDING TOURING PRODUCTION
Spring Awakening
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A TOURING PRODUCTION
Michael Mayer—Spring Awakening
OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A TOURING PRODUCTION
Danielle Arci in Hairspray
Joseph Morales in In The Heights
Max Von Essen in Xanadu
OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A TOURING PRODUCTION
Chester Gregory in Dreamgirls
Chaz Lamar Shepherd in Dreamgirls
SCENIES FOR SAN DIEGO AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES
BEST PRODUCTION
Boeing-Boeing (The Old Globe)
Lost In Yonkers (The Old Globe)
Sammy (The Old Globe)
Whisper House (The Old Globe)
West Side Story (PCPA Theaterfest)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Songs For A New World (PCPA Theaterfest)
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY OR MUSICAL
Peter Askin—Whisper House
Keith Glover—Sammy
Michael Jenkinson—West Side Story
Sean Murray & James Vasquez—Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mark Schneider—Boeing-Boeing
Scott Schwartz—Lost In Yonkers
Erik Stein—Songs For A New World
SAN DIEGO PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Judy Kaye in Lost In Yonkers
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST
Rob Breckenridge, Stephanie Fieger, Caralyn Kozlowski, Nancy Robinette, Liv Rooth, Joseph Urla
Boeing-Boeing
Jacob Caltrider, Sarah Errington, Robert Barry Fleming, Melinda Gilb, Phil Johnson, Brandon Joel Maier, Cashae Monya, Omri Schein, Nicole Werner
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Melvin Abstson, Karin Hendricks, Jerry Lee, Melinda Parrett
Songs For A New World
DANCE ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR
The dancers in West Side Story.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR
Obba Batatundé in Sammy
James Knight in Alive And Well
Jeff Skowron in How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Sean Murray in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Joseph Urla in Boeing-Boeing
Peter Van Norden in Hairspray
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS
Susan Denaker in Glorious!
Deborah Gilmour Smyth in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Mindy Lym in West Side Story
Jennifer Regan in Lost In Yonkers
Rachael Vanwormer in Speech & Debate
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR
Phil Johnson In The New Century
Tom Zohar In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS
Sarah Girard in West Side Story
Caralyn Kozlowski in Boeing-Boeing
Jacque Wilke in The New Century
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Michael Jenkinson—Curtains, Songs For A New World, West Side Story
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
Jason Hart—Whisper House
Callum Morris—West Side Story
Charlie Reuter—Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Steven Withers—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, I Love You Because
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (North Coast Repertory)
Curtains (PCPA Theaterfest)
I Love You Because (North Coast Repertory)
The Last Romance (The Old Globe)
Robin And The 7 Hoods (The Old Globe)
[title of show] (Diversionary Theatre)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY OR MUSICAL
Roger Delaurier—Curtains
Jeremy Dobrish—Alive And Well
Casey Nicholaw—Robin And The 7 Hoods
Richard Seer—The Last Romance
Rick Simas—The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, I Love You Because
James Vasquez—[title of show]
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR
Zachary Ford in West Side Story
Nick Gabriel in I Love You Because
Tony Houck in [title of show]
Paul Michael in The Last Romance
Andrew Philpot in Curtains
Michael Zlotnik in Bent
Tom Zohar in [title of show]
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS
Kelly McAndrew In Alive And Well
Heather Paton in [title of show]
Marion Ross In The Last Romance
Bethany Slomka in Hairspray
Karson St. John in [title of show]
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR
Geno Carr in I Love You Because
Angelo D’Agostino in Moscow
Steven Lone in Bent
Jason Maddy in I Love You Because
Charlie Reuter in Bent
Erik Stein in Curtains
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS
Patricia Conolly in The Last Romance
Dana Hooley in The New Century
Kristen Mengelkoch in I Love You Because
OUTSTANDING ALTERNATIVE ROCK PERFORMANCE
David Poe and Holly Brook in Whisper House
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Casey Nicholaw—Robin And The 7 Hoods
Keith Young—Sammy
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTION
Patrick Marion—Moscow
Tim Mcknight—[title of show]
Tamara Paige—Hairspray
Jordan Richardson—Songs For A New World
John Samorian—How The Grinch Stole Christmas