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February 28, 2008
2008 Garland Awards
2008 Garland Awards: The Honorable Mentions
For Excellence in Southland Theatre
February 28, 2008
Welcome to the 2008 Garland Awards!
This year marks the 10th anniversary of those awards, the 10th year the critics of Back Stage West have voted on the best of Southland theatre.
Under our voting system, each Garland winner was named on at least three critics' Best of 2007 lists. Each critic was allowed to name up to five nominees for each category except performance -- up to 10 nominees for performance in a musical production and up to 10 in straight productions. The critics' lists, minus the
winners, appear below.
THE HONORABLE MENTIONS
JEFF FAVRE
PRODUCTION: Fat Pig, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater;
Love Loves a Pornographer, Circle X Theatre Company, [Inside] the Ford;
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare Festival/LA, Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels; Twelve Angry Men, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
PLAYWRITING: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Love & Other Social Issues, Kianga Entertainment/Pamela Warner, Assistance League Playhouse.
ADAPTATION: Angela Berliner, Titus the Clownicus, the Actors' Gang; Media Park; Josh Zeller, Gulliver's Travels, the Actors' Gang.
MUSICAL SCORE: Bob Gaudio (music) and Steve Orich (orchestrations), Jersey Boys, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
DIRECTION: Jo Bonney, Fat Pig; Ben Donenberg, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Dan Mojica, My One and Only, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse.
SCENIC DESIGN: Davis Campbell and Danny Cistone, The Elvis Test, Sadie Stratton, the Elephant Theatre; François-Pierre Couture, Gulliver's Travels; Joel Daavid, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Theatre/Theater; Allen Moyer, Twelve Angry Men.
LIGHTING DESIGN: François-Pierre Couture, Gulliver's Travels; Dan Jenkins and Sam Roberts, Assassins, Sight Unseen Theater Group, the Meta Theatre; Giampaolo Nalli and Danuta Zarzyka, En Un Sol Amarillo, Teatro de los Andes, Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre.
COSTUME DESIGN: Fontella Boone, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
MAKEUP DESIGN: Catt Brenton, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch.
SOUND DESIGN: Elton Lin, I Land, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater; John Nobori, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch; John Zalewski, The Adding Machine, Circus Theatricals, Hayworth Studio Theatre.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Keythe Farley, Gulliver's Travels; Kurt Fuller, Grand Delusion, Red Dog Squadron, Lost Studio Theatre; Thomas Kopache, The Adding Machine; Hoon Lee, Yellow Face, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Geoffrey Owens, A Midsummer Night's Dream;
Kathleen Rose Perkins, Love Loves a Pornographer.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Brandon Victor Dixon, Ray Charles Live!, Pasadena Playhouse.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: En Un Sol Amarillo.
HOYT HILSMAN
PRODUCTION: Avenue Q, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Bleed Rail, Theatre @ Boston Court; An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious Theatre Company, Carrie Hamilton Theatre/Pasadena Playhouse; The History Boys, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; The House of Yes, Tall Blonde Productions, the Complex.
PLAYWRITING: Alan Bennett, The History Boys; Ann Noble, And Neither Have I Wings to Fly, the Road Theatre Company; Wendy MacLeod, The House of Yes; Karen Kay Woods, The Dance of the Lemons, Patent Leather Productions, Two Roads Theatre.
ADAPTATION: Lance Davis, Tartuffe, Parson's Nose Family Theater, Under the Tent in South Pasadena.
DIRECTION: Katharine Brandt, The House of Yes; Scott Cummins, And Neither Have I Wings to Fly; Jessica Kubzansky, Bleed Rail; Frederíque Michel, The Bacchae, City Garage.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Ken Roberson, Avenue Q.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Andrew Graham, Avenue Q.
SCENIC DESIGN: Peter J. Davison, Porgy and Bess, LA Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Susan Gratch, Bleed Rail; Anna Louizos, Avenue Q; Desma Murphy, And Neither Have I Wings to Fly.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Howell Binkley, Avenue Q; Jeremy Pivnick, Bleed Rail.
COSTUME DESIGN: Robert Prior, Bleed Rail; Mirena Rada, Avenue Q.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Cyrus Alexander, Bleed Rail; Alexandra Billings, The House of Yes; Josh Clark, Bleed Rail; Dennis Flanagan, Bleed Rail; Lily Holleman, Bleed Rail; Bill Irwin, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Brianna Lee Johnson, The House of Yes; Dakin Matthews, The History Boys; Karen Kay Woods, The Dance of the Lemons.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Angela Ai, Avenue Q; Robert McClure, Avenue Q.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Avenue Q.
TRAVIS MICHAEL HOLDER
PRODUCTION: Beautiful Thing, Celebration Theatre; Bleed Rail, Theatre @ Boston Court; Bug, Lost Angels Theatre Company, Coast Playhouse; Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court; 13, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum.
PLAYWRIGHTING: Eva Anderson, Wildboy '74, Calamity Theatre, Bootleg Theatre; Karoline Leach, Tryst, Black Dahlia Theatre; Tracy Letts, Bug.
ADAPTATION: Jeremy Aluma, Ubu the Shit!, the Ubists, Dorie Theatre at the Complex; Joel Fields and David Lee, Can-Can, Pasadena Playhouse; Marsha Norman, The Color Purple, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Allain Rochel, The Bacchae, Celebration Theatre.
MUSICAL SCORE: William Finn, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre, at the Wadsworth Theatre; Joshua Rosenblum, Bush Is Bad, NoHo Arts Center.
DIRECTION: Scott Cummins, Bug; Maria Gobetti, Kimberly Akimbo, Victory Theatre Center; Todd Graff, 13; Jessica Kubzansky, Bleed Rail; Michael Michetti, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Julie Arenal, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare Festival/LA; Donald Byrd, The Color Purple, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Patti Colombo, Can-Can; Sergio Trujillo, Jersey Boys, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
MUSIC DIRECTION: David O, Man of La Mancha, A Noise Within; Steve Orich, Can-Can.
SCENIC DESIGN: Christopher Acebo, Culture Clash's Zorro in Hell, Zorro's Legion LLC in association with the Ricardo Montalbán Foundation, Ricardo Montalbán Theatre; Kurt Boetcher, The Bacchae; Susan Gratch, Bleed Rail; Desma Murphy, Bitch, Indecent Exposure Theater Company, Bootleg Theater.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Leigh Allen, Bug; Ken Booth, Man of La Mancha; Christopher Kuhl, Moonlight, the Lost Studio; Jeremy Pivnick, Gilgamesh, Theatre @ Boston Court; Tim Swiss, The Bacchae.
COSTUME DESIGN: Alex Jaeger, Gilgamesh; Soojin Lee, Man of La Mancha; Robert Prior, Bleed Rail; Christina Wright, As You Like It, Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, Matrix Theatre.
SOUND DESIGN: Duncan Robert Edwards, 13; Lindsay Jones, Bug; Cricket S. Myers, The Bacchae.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Judy Jean Berns, Kimberly Akimbo; Judy Jean Berns; Out Late, TT Productions and Harry Prongue, Macha Theatre; Cathy Carlton, Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project, Ghost Road Company, Powerhouse Theatre; Tobias Forrest, Pyretown, Playwrights Arena, Studio/Stage; Nathan Frizzell, Beautiful Thing; Leo Marks, Defiance, Pasadena Playhouse; Nick Mennell, Bitch; Jeff Murray, No Man's Land, Theatre/Theater; Michael Tauzin, Beautiful Thing.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Angela Ai, Avenue Q, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; John Bobek, Mental the Musical, Edgemar Center for the Arts and the Mental Group in association with Judith Marinoff Cohn; Dan Callaway, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Michelle Duffy, Can-Can; Kevin Earley, Can-Can; David Engel, Can-Can; Deven May, Jersey Boys; Adam Simmons, Mental the Musical.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Bleed Rail; Bug; The Car Plays, Moving Arts, Steve Allen Theatre; Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; 13.
WENZEL JONES
PRODUCTION: Gilgamesh, Theatre @ Boston Court; Paheliyan: The Story of Alice, blue13 dance company, Ford Amphitheatre; The Bacchae, Celebration Theatre; The Mikado Project, Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, GTC Burbank.
PLAYWRIGHTING: T. Faye Griffin, Spook Night, H.I.S. Life Productions, the Lillian Theatre; Elin Hampton, Mommy! Mommy! The Musical!...Musical!, Multi-Task Productions, Hudson Backstage Theatre; Stephen Mitchell, Gilgamesh; Rachel Sheinkin, Sleeping Beauty Wakes.
ADAPTATION: Allain Rochel, The Bacchae; Stephen Sachs, Gilgamesh.
MUSICAL SCORE: Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, Sleeping Beauty Wakes; Gerald Sternbach, Mommy! Mommy! The Musical!...Musical!.
DIRECTION: CB Brown, The Drawer Boy, Open at the Top, NoHo Arts Center; Jeff Calhoun, Sleeping Beauty Wakes; Michael Matthews, The Bacchae; Stephen Sachs and Jessica Kubzansky, Gilgamesh.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Robert Cazimero and Rokafella, I Land, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater; Rodney To, The Mikado Project; Marvin L.B. Tunney, The Bacchae.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Christian Nesmith, Hair, the Met Theatre; Gerald Sternbach, Mommy! Mommy! The Musical!...Musical!.
SCENIC DESIGN: Robert Blackman, Speed-the-Plow, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater; Robert Broadfoot, The Hasty Heart, Pacific Resident Theatre; Victoria Profitt, "Master Harold"...and the Boys, the Colony Theatre; Craig Siebels, The Drawer Boy.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Joel Daavid, In Arabia We'd All be Kings, Elephant Theatre; Kathi O'Donohue, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, the Fountain Theatre.
COSTUME DESIGN: Bob Mackie and Joe McFate, No Strings, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Lauren Tyler, Small Tragedy, Odyssey Theatre.
SOUND DESIGN: Ellen Juhlin and Kari Rae Seekins, Gilgamesh; David B. Marling, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Cricket S. Myers, The Bacchae.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Mo Collins, Bad Seed, Buzzworks Theatre Company, the Lounge Theatre; Megan Gallagher, The Constant Wife, Pasadena Playhouse; Greg Germann, Speed-the-Plow; Danielle K. Jones, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Theatre @ Boston Court; Karen Kondazian, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Lisa Pelikan, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Michael A. Shepperd, "Master Harold"...and the Boys; Thomas Silcott, "Master Harold"...and the Boys.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Erika Amato, Sleeping Beauty Wakes; Minglie Chen, Avenue Q; David Engel, Can-Can, Pasadena Playhouse; Jason Graae, The Merry Widow, LA Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Rebecca Johnson, Zanna, Don't!, West Coast Ensemble, Lyric Hyperion Theatre; Kory Keith, Paheliyan: The Story of Alice; Cindy Robinson, Chess, Flicker House Productions Inc. in association with Chess Pieces LLC and Purcell International Group, Ford Amphitheatre; Yvette Tucker, On Your Toes, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Valerie Vigoda, Sleeping Beauty Wakes; Ruth Williamson, No Strings.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: The Bacchae; Beautiful Thing, Celebration Theatre; The Drawer Boy; Mommy! Mommy! The Musical!...Musical!; Winter Wonderettes, David Elzer and Peter Schneider and Marvelous Dreams LLC, El Portal Forum Theatre.
IRIS MANN
PRODUCTION: Goblin Market, Syzygy Theatre Group, GTC Burbank; The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble; Twelve Angry Men, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
PLAYWRITING: Elizabeth Appell, Confessions of a Catholic Child, Virtual Theatre Project, Deaf West Theatre; Joanna McClelland Glass, Trying, the Colony Theatre; Frank Salisbury, Balancing Act, the Falcon Theatre; Soenke C. Weiss and Darin Dahms, Butterflies of Uganda, Greenway Arts Alliance, Greenway Court Theatre.
DIRECTION: Martin Bedoian, Goblin Market; Frank Condon, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial; Scott Ellis, Twelve Angry Men.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Philip White, Goblin Market.
SCENIC DESIGN: Danny Cistone, 'Nami, Range View Productions, Hayworth Theatre; Jason Z. Cohen, Goblin Market; Casey Hayes, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, Celebration Theatre; Victoria Profitt, Trying.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Dave Mickey, Goblin Market; Jared Sayeg, Trying; Jason H. Thompson, The Quality of Life, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Rod Britt, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial; Ayana Cahrr, Butterflies of Uganda; Francesca Casale, The Fastest Clock in the Universe; David Mauer, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial; George Murdock, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial; Yeardley Smith, Balancing Act.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Tami Tappan Damiano, Goblin Market; Jennifer Pennington, Goblin Market; Stephen Triffitt, The Rat Pack Live at the Sands, Broadway/L.A., Wilshire Theatre.
ERIC MARCHESE
PRODUCTION: Calling Aphrodite, International City Theatre; Frozen, the Chance Theater; Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium; The Pirates of Penzance, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center; Urinetown the Musical, Maverick Theater.
PLAYWRITING: Edward Bond, It's the End of the World as We Know It (The Balancing Act, Chair), Rude Guerrilla Theater Company; Richard Dresser, The Pursuit of Happiness, Laguna Playhouse; David Greig, San Diego, Rude Guerrilla Theater Company; Velina Hasu Houston, Calling Aphrodite.
ADAPTATION: Glendele Way-Agle, Much Ado About Nothing, Hunger Artists Theatre.
MUSICAL SCORE: Mike Hooker, Clownzilla: A Love Story, California Commedia Troupe, Rude Guerrilla Theater Company; Vincent Oliveri, Clownzilla: A Holiday Extravaganza, Rude Guerrilla Theater Company.
DIRECTION: T.J. Dawson, Bat Boy the Musical, Stages Theatre; Amanda DeMaio, Book of Days, Stages Theatre; Shashin Desai, Calling Aphrodite; Gary Gordon, Phantom, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium; Oanh Nguyen, Frozen.
CHOREOGRAPHY: T.J. Dawson, Bat Boy the Musical; Lindsay Martin, Urinetown the Musical; Karen Nowicki, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Jamie Torcellini, The Pirates of Penzance.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Lee Kreter, Phantom; Darren Levens, Urinetown the Musical; Bill Strongin, Sunday in the Park With George, the Chance Theater; Daniel Thomas, The Pirates of Penzance; Patrick Xenakis, Bat Boy the Musical.
SCENIC DESIGN: Peter Dean Beck, The Pirates of Penzance; Xuzheng He, Phantom; Kent McFann, Barnum, Saddleback Civic Light Opera, McKinney Theatre; Dwight Richard Odle, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Kiana St. Laurent, Side Show, TJK Productions, Westminster Community Theatre.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Brit Masterson, Bat Boy the Musical; Jeremy Pivnick, Calling Aphrodite; Tim Swiss, Barnum; Steven Young, The Pirates of Penzance.
COSTUME DESIGN: American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Phantom; Diane Lewis, Barnum; Sharell Martin, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Sharell Martin, Annie Lloyd, Kiana St. Laurent et al., Side Show; Richard St. Clair, The Pirates of Penzance.
MAKEUP DESIGN: Elise Brown, T.J. Dawson, and Annie Lloyd, Side Show; Anthony Gagliardi (wig and hair design), Five Course Love, International City Theatre; Diane Lewis, Barnum; Mary Trahey, Calling Aphrodite.
SOUND DESIGN: Christina Acero, Re: Woyzeck, Hunger Artists Theatre Company; Glen A. Dunzweiler, Calling Aphrodite; Casey Long, Frozen; Colin Trevor, Barnum; Ron Wyand, Tracers, Long Beach Playhouse.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Vivian Bang, Calling Aphrodite; Mark Coyan, The Crucible, Rude Guerrilla Theater Company; David Denman, The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare Orange County, Festival Amphitheatre; Kym Hoy, Calling Aphrodite; Katie Amanda Keane, The Taming of the Shrew; Jonathon Lamer, Frozen; Barry Lynch, Calling Aphrodite; Jennifer Ruckman, Frozen; Jessica Topliff, The Crucible; Karen Webster, Frozen.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Teressa Byrne, Phantom; Daniel Dawson, Bat Boy the Musical; T. Eric Hart, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Robert Patteri, Phantom; Jeanette Phillips-Dawson, Side Show; Kelli Provart, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Afton Quast, Side Show; Rex Smith, The Pirates of Penzance; Christopher Spencer, Urinetown the Musical; Victoria Strong, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Almost, Maine, Orange Curtain Theatre; Book of Days; Side Show; Sunday in the Park With George; Urinetown the Musical.
DANY MARGOLIES
PRODUCTION: Distracted, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Tug of War, Getty Villa, Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater; Tryst, Black Dahlia Theatre.
PLAYWRITING: Meryl Friedman, Tug of War; Velina Hasu Houston, Calling Aphrodite, International City Theatre; Karoline Leach, Tryst; Lisa Loomer, Distracted.
MUSICAL SCORE: Meryl Friedman, Tug of War; Michael John LaChiusa, Little Fish, the Blank Theatre Company, 2nd Stage; Gerald Sternbach, Mommy! Mommy! The Musical!...Musical!, Multi-Task Productions, Hudson Backstage Theatre.
DIRECTION: Sean Branney, Loyal Women, Theatre Banshee; Shashin Desai, Calling Aphrodite; Meryl Friedman, Tug of War; Jon Lawrence Rivera, Dogeaters, Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Donald Byrd, The Color Purple, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Brian Fretté, The Defenders, Zoo District, [Inside] the Ford; Peggy Hickey, The Merry Widow, LA Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Brian Danner (fight choreography), Henry IV, Part One, Theatre Banshee.
SCENIC DESIGN: Brian Fretté and Katrina Coulourides, The Defenders; Don Llewellyn, Calling Aphrodite; Elaine J. McCarthy (set and projections), Distracted; Keith E. Mitchell, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself), South Coast Repertory, Julianne Argyros Stage.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Russell H. Champa, Distracted; Paulie Jenkins, The Ice-Breaker, Laguna Playhouse; Rachel Myles, The Defenders; Rand Ryan, Shipwrecked!.
SOUND DESIGN: Glen A. Dunzweiler, Calling Aphrodite; Joel Spence, Tryst; John Zalewski, A New World War, Padua Playwrights, Stephanie Feury Studio Theater.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Steve Cell, Small Tragedy, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble; Tim Cummings, The Pursuit of Happiness, Laguna Playhouse; Ellen Geer, Blithe Spirit, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum;
Kathleen Rose Perkins, Love Loves a Pornographer, Circle X Theatre Company, [Inside] the Ford;
Chris Pine, Fat Pig, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater; Nick Salamone, Dogeaters; Gregory Itzin, Shipwrecked!.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Matthew Ashford, No Strings, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Jesse Tyler Ferguson, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre, at the Wadsworth Theatre; Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Jason Graae, The Merry Widow; Alice Ripley, Little Fish; Angela Simpson, Porgy and Bess, LA Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Jermaine Smith, Porgy and Bess.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Rounding Third, the Colony Theatre; Tryst; Fat Pig; Waiting for Godot, A Noise Within.
DINK O'NEAL
PRODUCTION: Five Course Love, International City Theatre; OthE.L.O., Troubadour Theater Company, the Falcon Theatre; Smokey Joe's Café, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium; Tender, the Syzygy Theatre Group, GTC Burbank.
PLAYWRITING: Palmer Davis, Suburban Showgirl, T.U. Studios; Leif E. Gantvoort, Mark on Society, Theatre East, the Lex Theatre; Joanna McClelland Glass, Trying, the Colony Theatre; Lee Kirk, Sad Happy Sucker, Saint Ed and Seven/Ten Split, Paul E. Richards Theatre; Abi Morgan, Tender.
DIRECTION: Martin Bedoian, Goblin Market, Syzygy Theatre Group, GTC Burbank; Caryn Desai, Five Course Love; Joe Jordan, Wintertime, Sacred Fools Theater; Matt Walker, OthE.L.O.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Mecca Vazie Andrews, Goblin Market; Frankie Anne, Cesar & Ruben, Ed Begley Jr. and Jarlath Dorney, NoHo Arts Center; Brian Paul Mendoza, Five Course Love; Paul Reid, Nunsense, Glendale Centre Theatre.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Lee Kreter, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium; Grant Rohr, Smokey Joe's Café; Ron Snyder, Cesar & Ruben; Janice Rodgers Wainwright, Five Course Love.
SCENIC DESIGN: Jason Z. Cohen, Goblin Market; Dan Mailley, Wintertime; Dwight Richard Odle, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Jeff Rack, The Skin Of Our Teeth, Actors Co-op, Crossley Theatres; Dan Wheeler, Five Course Love.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Dave Mickey, Goblin Market; Luke Moyer, Cesar & Ruben; Christina Munich, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Evan Shirk, Smokey Joe's Café; Nick Van Houten, Nunsense.
COSTUME DESIGN: Kim DeShazo, Five Course Love; JoAnna Jocelyn, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Ark Theatre Company; Sharell Martin, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Sharon McGunigle, Alice In One-Hit-Wonderland, Troubadour Theater Company, the Falcon Theatre; Yolanda Rowell, Smokey Joe's Café.
SOUND DESIGN: Tony Meola, Wicked, Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, the Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone, the Pantages Theatre; John Sabatello, Suburban Showgirl.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Bettina Adger, Sister Cities, Alliance Repertory Theatre, Third Stage; Kurt A. Boesen, Life During Wartime, Vox Humana, the Meta Theatre; Larry Cedar, Stage Struck, the Colony Theatre; Palmer Davis, Suburban Showgirl; Suzanne Fagan, Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Mary Garripoli, Dancing at Lughnasa, Theatre West; Nancy Lantis, The Gingerbread Lady, Sierra Madre Playhouse; Jennifer Pennington, Tender; Linda L. Rand, The Gingerbread Lady.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Danny Bolero, Cesar & Ruben; Gina D'Acciaro, Tales of Tinseltown, Actors Co-op, Crossley Theatres; Alison England, Hello, Dolly!, Glendale Centre Theatre; Kathi Gillmore, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Megan Hilty, Wicked; Norman Large, The Pirates of Penzance, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center; John Racca, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical; Stephen Reynolds, The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd, Downey Civic Light Opera; Jennifer Strattan, Nunsense.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Five Course Love; Goblin Market; Sad Happy Sucker.
BRAD SCHREIBER
PRODUCTION: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Fountain Theatre; Monsieur Chopin, Geffen Playhouse; One Fell Swoop, Elephant Theatre Company; Toyer, Sidewalk Studio Theatre.
PLAYWRITING: Robert J. Litz, One Fell Swoop; Alan Zweibel, Bunny Bunny, Hudson Theatre.
ADAPTATION: Gardner McKay, Toyer.
DIRECTION: Jolene Adams, F Buddy, Actors Art Theatre; Martin Bedoian, Toyer; Larry Biederman, Grand Delusion, Red Dog Squadron, Lost Studio Theatre.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Bo Crowell, Hair, Michael Butler, the Met Theatre.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Christian Nesmith, Hair, Michael Butler, the Met Theatre; Ron Snyder, Cesar & Ruben, NoHo Arts Center.
SCENIC DESIGN: Klara Zieglerova, Jersey Boys, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Howell Binkley, Jersey Boys.
COSTUME DESIGN: Shon Le Blanc, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.
MAKEUP DESIGN: Christa McCarthy, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious Theatre Company, Carrie Hamilton Theatre/Pasadena Playhouse.
SOUND DESIGN: Cricket S. Myers, An Impending Rupture of the Belly.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Anne Gee Byrd, The Bay at Nice, Andak Stage Company, NewPlace Studio Theatre; Johanna Day, Distracted, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Michael Dempsey, Displays of Affection, Lakewood Productions, Avery Schreiber Theatre; Marypat Farrell, Displays of Affection; Hershey Felder, Monsieur Chopin; Amy Landecker, Bug, Lost Angels Theatre Company, Coast Playhouse; Shawn Lee, An Impending Rupture of the Belly; Troy Metcalf, An Impending Rupture of the Belly; Danielle Weeks, F Buddy; Natasha Wood, Natasha Wood: Rolling With Laughter, Park Ravine Productions, El Portal Theatre.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Danielle Barbosa, Cesar & Ruben; Danny Bolero, Cesar & Ruben; Mauricio Mendoza, Cesar & Ruben.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: The Glory of Living, Victory Theatre Center; Grand Delusion; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.
MELINDA SCHUPMANN
PRODUCTION: In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Elephant Theatre Company in association with VS. Theatre Company, the Elephant Theatre; Jersey Boys, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
PLAYWRITING: Rachel Sheinkin, Sleeping Beauty Wakes.
DIRECTION: Jeff Calhoun, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Center Theatre Group and Deaf West Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre; Nick DeGruccio, Zanna, Don't!, West Coast Ensemble, Lyric Hyperion Theatre.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Troy Magino, Altar Boyz, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Brian Baker, Winter Wonderettes, David Elzer and Peter Schneider and Marvelous Dreams LLC, El Portal Forum Theatre; John Glaudini, Altar Boyz, Musical Theatre West.
SCENIC DESIGN: Robert Broadfoot, The Hasty Heart, Pacific Resident Theatre; Thomas Buderwitz, Doubt: A Parable, South Coast Repertory; Joel Daavid, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings; Robert Jones, Heroes, Geffen Playhouse.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Lonnie Raphael Alcaraz, Doubt: A Parable; Joel Daavid, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings; Keith Endo, The Hasty Heart.
COSTUME DESIGN: Shon LeBlanc, On Your Toes, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Sherry Linnell, The Boarding House, Interact Theatre Company, McCadden Place Theatre; A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Zanna, Don't!; Jade Winters, Act a Lady, Sacred Fools Theater.
SOUND DESIGN: Acme Sound Partners, Avenue Q, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Tom Cavnar, Pig Farm, South Coast Repertory; Steve Canyon Kennedy, Jersey Boys; Cricket S. Myers, Winter Wonderettes.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Linda Gehringer, The Piano Teacher, South Coast Repertory; Michael Irish, Biloxi Blues, the Chance Theater; Gregory Itzin, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself), South Coast Repertory; Alex Kalognomos, Hello Out There, Luna Playhouse; Christine Lahti, Third, Geffen Playhouse.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Erich Bergen, Jersey Boys; Nick Blaemire, Altar Boyz, Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, Joe McGinnis, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy, Mark Shacket, at the Wadsworth Theatre; Misty Cotton, Winter Wonderettes; Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone, Geffen Playhouse; T. Eric Hart, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium; Bets Malone, Winter Wonderettes; Robert McClure, Avenue Q; Kelli Sawyer, Avenue Q; Yvette Tucker, On Your Toes.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Sleeping Beauty Wakes; The Hasty Heart; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre, at the Wadsworth Theatre; Zanna, Don't!.
MADELEINE SHANER
PRODUCTION: Loyal Women, Theatre Banshee; The Glory of Living, Victory Theatre Centre; The Misanthrope, Andak Theatre Company, New Place Studio Theatre; Tryst, the Black Dahlia.
PLAYWRITING: Carlos Murillo, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Theatre @ Boston Court; Max Riley, 1 to 10?, the Theatre District.
ADAPTATION: Martin Crimp, The Misanthrope; Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters, Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre.
DIRECTION: Sean Branney, Loyal Women; Michael Michetti, Dark Play or Stories for Boys; Carri Sullens, The Glory of Living.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Terry J. Barto, Ug, the Caveman Musical, Attic Theatre Company; Cate Caplin, As You Like It, L.A. Women's Shakespeare Company, the Matrix Theatre; Kay Cole, Dogeaters.
SCENIC DESIGN: John H. Binkley, Dogeaters; Arthur MacBride, Loyal Women; Victoria Profitt, Trying, the Colony Theatre.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Lap-Chi Chu, Dark Play or Stories for Boys; Jared Sayeg, Trying; Jason H. Thompson, The Quality of Life, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater; Steven Young, Dogeaters.
COSTUME DESIGN: Kim Deshazo, The Misanthrope; Dianne K. Graebner, Dogeaters; Shana Targosz, Ug, the Caveman Musical; Christina Wright, As You Like It
MAKEUP & HAIR DESIGN: Lonnie L. Henderson, Neva-eh, Big Time Studios LLC, Stella Adler Theatre; Mary Trahey, As You Like It.
SOUND DESIGN:
Jill Armenante, Love Loves a Pornographer, Circle X Theatre Company, [Inside] the Ford;
Declan Doherty, Loyal Women; Karl Lundeberg, The Quality of Life; Leah Corn Raher, The God Committee, Actors Co-op, Crossley Theatre.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Alice Ensor, 1 to 10?; Michael Goldstrom, Modern Orthodox, Theatre 40, Reuben Cordova Theatre; Rebecca Mozo, Trying; Jim O'Heir, 1 to 10?; Gabriel Olds, Tryst; Deborah Puette, Tryst; Samantha Sloyan, The Misanthrope.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: As You Like It; Dogeaters; Silent Heroes, VetStage, Gardner Stages; Polaroid Stories, the Actor's Playpen; Tonight at 8:30, Antaeus Company, Deaf West Theatre.
LES SPINDLE
PRODUCTION: Can-Can, Pasadena Playhouse; Canned Peaches in Syrup, Furious Theatre Company, Carrie Hamilton Theatre/Pasadena Playhouse; In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Elephant Theatre Company in association with VS. Theatre Company, Elephant Theatre; Zanna, Don't!, West Coast Ensemble, Lyric Hyperion Theatre.
PLAYWRITING: Stephen Adly Guirgis, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings; Alex Jones, Canned Peaches in Syrup; Lisa Loomer, Distracted, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum.
ADAPTATION: Joel Fields and David Lee, Can-Can; Eric Whitacre, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court.
MUSICAL SCORE: Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris, Zanna, Don't!; Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker, Altar Boyz, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center; Michael John LaChiusa, Little Fish, the Blank Theatre Company, 2nd Stage Theatre.
DIRECTION: Nick DeGruccio, Zanna, Don't!; David Lee, Can-Can; Dámaso Rodriguez, Canned Peaches in Syrup.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Patti Colombo, Can-Can.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Brian Baker, Winter Wonderettes, David Elzer and Peter Schneider and Marvelous Dreams LLC, El Portal Forum Theatre; John Glaudini, Altar Boyz; Todd Helm, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium; Steve Orich, Can-Can.
SCENIC DESIGN: Tom Buderwitz, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Roy Christopher, Can-Can; Riccardo Hernandez, Ray Charles Live!, Pasadena Playhouse; Melissa Teoh, Canned Peaches in Syrup.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Leigh Allen, Bug, Lost Angels Theatre Company, Coast Playhouse; Michael Gilliam, Can-Can; Michael Gilliam, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Dan Jenkins, Canned Peaches in Syrup.
COSTUME DESIGN: Audrey Eisner, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theatre; Randy Gardell, Can-Can; Maggie Morgan, Sleeping Beauty Wakes; Paul Tazewell, Ray Charles Live!.
MAKEUP DESIGN: Kathy Macgowan, Romeo and Juliet, A Noise Within.
SOUND DESIGN: Francois Bergeron, Can-Can; Carl Casella and Domonic Sack, Ray Charles Live!.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Steve Coombs, Romeo and Juliet; Steven Fales, Confessions of a Mormon Boy, MB Productions and Steven Cohen Productions, Coast Playhouse; Hoon Lee, Yellow Face, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Matt Letscher, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theatre; Tzi Ma, Yellow Face; Peter Scanavino, Yellow Face; M. Emmet Walsh, Third, Geffen Playhouse; Rita Wilson, Distracted; Scott Wolf, Fat Pig, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: John Bisom, The Full Monty, Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center; Danny Calvert, Zanna, Don't!; Mary Jo Catlett, The Full Monty; Misty Cotton, Annie Get Your Gun, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center; Jeffry Denman, On Your Toes, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Michelle Duffy, Can-Can; Kevin Earley, Can-Can; Chad Kimball, Little Fish; Jeffrey Landman, The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd, Downey Civic Light Opera, Downey Theatre; Stephen Reynolds, The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Bug; Out Late, TT Productions and Harry Prongue in association with Macha Theatre/Films, the Macha Theatre; Winter Wonderettes.
NEAL WEAVER
PRODUCTION: Avenue Q, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Black Watch, National Theatre of Scotland, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Theatre @ Boston Court; The History Boys, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, LA Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
PLAYWRITING: Stephen Adly Guirgis, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Elephant Theatre; Carlos Murillo, Dark Play or Stories for Boys; Robert J. Litz, One Fell Swoop, Elephant Theatre; Craig Lucas, Small Tragedy, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
ADAPTATION: Romulus Linney, A Lesson Before Dying, Actors Group Theatre; Stephen Sachs, Miss Julie, Fountain Theatre.
MUSICAL SCORE: Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris, Zanna, Don't!, West Coast Ensemble, Lyric Hyperion Theatre; Ken Rich, The Common Air, Elephant Stageworks, Lillian Theatre.
DIRECTION: Christopher Game, One Fell Swoop; Michael Michetti, Dark Play or Stories for Boys; Stuart Rogers, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Theatre Tribe.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Bubba Carr, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court; Christine Lakin and Paul Nygro, Zanna, Don't!; Ken Roberson, Avenue Q.
MUSIC DIRECTION: James Conlon, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; Andrew Graham, Avenue Q.
SCENIC DESIGN: Joel Daavid, The Piano Lesson, StageWalkers, 444 Productions, the Hayworth Theatre; Kis Knekt, Travesties, Open Fist Theatre Company; Travis Gale Lewis, Miss Julie; Anna Louizos, Avenue Q.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Barbara Kallir, Small Tragedy.
COSTUME DESIGN: Ann Hould-Ward, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; Mirena Rada, Avenue Q; A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Travesties
MAKEUP DESIGN: Catt Brenton, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, Rogue Artists Ensemble.
SOUND DESIGN: Acme Sound Partners, Avenue Q; Tim Labor, Travesties; Ken Rich, The Common Air.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Stewart W. Calhoun, Dark Play or Stories for Boys; Steve Cell, Small Tragedy; Charlotte Cornwell, The History Boys; Malik B. El-Amin, A Lesson Before Dying; Adam Haas Hunter, Dark Plays or Stories for Boys; Karen Kondazian, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Fountain Theatre; Dakin Matthews, The History Boys; David Melville, Richard II, Independent Shakespeare Company, Barnsdall Art Park; Michael Rodgers, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Steven Schub, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Alexandra Billings, Twist, Avery Schreiber Theatre; Danny Calvert, Zanna, Don't!; Jeffry Denman, On Your Toes, Reprise! Broadway's Best, UCLA Freud Playhouse; Tyler Mann, 13, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Audra McDonald, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Avenue Q;
Love Loves a Pornographer;
Miss Julie.
JENNIE WEBB
PRODUCTION: Big Death & Little Death, the Other Side of the Hill Productions Inc. and the Road Theatre; En Un Sol Amarillo, Teatro de los Andes, FITLA, Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre; OthE.L.O., Troubadour Theater Company, Falcon Theatre; The Glory of Living, Victory Theatre Center.
PLAYWRITING: Linda Carson, Suffragette Koans, Hildegard, Victory Theatre Center; Michael Elyanow, The Idiot Box, Open Fist Theatre Company; Neil LaBute, Fat Pig, Geffen Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
MUSICAL SCORE: Chad Habig, The Defenders, Zoo District, [Inside] the Ford; Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Center Theatre Group and Deaf West Players, Kirk Douglas Theatre.
DIRECTION: Larry Biederman, Big Death & Little Death; César Brie, En Un Sol Amarillo; Jeremy B. Cohen, The Idiot Box; Carri Sullens, The Glory of Living.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Brian Fretté, The Defenders; Bubba Carr, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theatre @ Boston Court.
MUSIC DIRECTION: Eric Heinly, A Charlie James Brown Christmas, Troubadour Theater Company, Falcon Theatre; Eric Heinly, OthE.L.O.
SCENIC DESIGN: Tom Buderwitz, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Brian Fretté and Katrina Coulourides, The Defenders; Dan Jenkins, Tender, Syzygy Theatre Group, GTC Burbank.
LIGHTING DESIGN: Mike Durst, Tryst, Black Dahlia Theatre; Luke Moyer, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Theatre Tribe; Jeremy Pivnick, Bitch, Indecent Exposure Theater Company, Bootleg Theater; Chris Wojcieszyn, Headless, Ensemble Studio Theatre -- LA, Electric Lodge.
COSTUME DESIGN: Brian Fretté, The Defenders; Alex Jaeger, Gilgamesh, Theatre @ Boston Court; Jade Winters, Act a Lady, Sacred Fools.
MAKEUP DESIGN: Christa McCarthy, Canned Peaches in Syrup, Furious Theatre Company, Carrie Hamilton Theatre/Pasadena Playhouse; Joel Scher, Act a Lady.
SOUND DESIGN: Martin Carrillo, Headless; Lindsay Jones, The Idiot Box; David B. Marling, Big Death & Little Death.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY: Hugo Armstrong, Bleed Rail; Jordan Baker, Defiance, Pasadena Playhouse; Anne Gee Byrd, The Bay at Nice, Andak Stage Company, NewPlace Studio Theatre; Nick Cernoch, Canned Peaches in Syrup; Paul Denniston, Feed, Open at the Top, NoHo Arts Center; Louis Jacobs, Anything, Elephant Theatre Company, Lillian Theatre; Melissa Peterman, The Bad Seed, Buzzworks Theater, the Lounge Theatre; R. Christofer Sands, The Lady in Question, Luna Playhouse; Rachel Style, The Glory of Living; Neil Vipond, Seduced, Circus Theatricals Studio Theatre, the Hayworth.
PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Dan Callaway, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Megan Goodchild, Charlotte: Life? or Theater? A Three-Color Opera, the Met Theatre; Erin Matthews, OthE.L.O., Troubadour Theater Company; Rodolfo Nieto, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Kevin Odekirk, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Hila Plitmann, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; Matt Walker, OthE.L.O.; Marie M. Wallace, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings.
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: Big Death & Little Death; Sleeping Beauty Wakes.
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