SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Adelina Anthony
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Culture Clash in Bordertown at the Actors' Gang; Escape From Happiness at the Open Fist Theatre; Ninth Wave, Black Artists Network Development at the Lillian Theatre; PLAYWRITING: Leslie Lee, Ninth Wave; John Benjamin Martin, Out in the Woods, the Zeitgeist Theatre Co. at the Whitmore/Lindley Theatre Center; DIRECTION: Martha Demson, Escape From Happiness; SCENIC DESIGN: Jeffrey Atherton, The First Good Day, Oxblood Theatre at Glaxa Studios; Edward Haynes Jr., Ninth Wave; Victoria Profitt, Straight as a Line at Playwrights' Arena; LIGHTING DESIGN: Keith Endo, The Master Builder at Pacific Resident Theatre; Robert Fromer, Straight as a Line; Geoff Korf, Broken Hearts: A B.H. Mystery, Cornerstone Theater Co. at Los Angeles Theatre Center; Kathi O'Donohue, Crashing Heaven at the Court Theatre; Jeff Rowlings, Culture Clash in Bordertown; COSTUME DESIGN: Christopher Acebo, Culture Clash in Bordertown; Lee Kartis, Crashing Heaven; Jennifer Rade, Golden Boy at the Zephyr Theatre; PERFORMANCE: Julianne Christie, Golden Boy; Roscoe Freeman, Ninth Wave; Lee Garlington, Crashing Heaven; Hep Jamieson, Escape From Happiness; Juanita Jennings, Ninth Wave; Richard Montoya, Culture Clash in Bordertown; Ric Salinas, Culture Clash in Bordertown; Rod Sell, Escape From Happiness; Herbert Siguenza, Culture Clash in Bordertown; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Culture Clash in Bordertown; the cast of Escape From Happiness; the cast of Ninth Wave; the cast of Old Sins, Long Shadows at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Charlene Baldridge
San Diego Critic
PRODUCTION: Death of a Salesman, San Diego Repertory Theatre; The Philanderer at South Coast Repertory; PLAYWRITING: Regina Taylor, Oo-Bla-Dee, La Jolla Playhouse; Charlayne Woodard, Pretty Fire, La Jolla Playhouse; Chay Yew, Wonderland, La Jolla Playhouse; MUSICAL SCORE: Dan Moses Schreier, Cymbeline, the Old Globe Theatre; DIRECTION: Scott Feldsher, True West, Sledgehammer Theatre; Neel Keller, Loot, La Jolla Playhouse; Jack O'Brien, The Hostage, Old Globe; CHOREOGRAPHY: Gina Angelique, The Illusion, San Diego Rep; SCENIC DESIGN: Ralph Funicello, The Hostage; David Kenneth Gallo, Thunder Knocking on the Door, Old Globe; Rachel Hauck, Wonderland; Mark Wendland, Sweet Bird of Youth, La Jolla Playhouse; LIGHTING DESIGN: Kevin Adams, Thunder Knocking on the Door; Geoff Korf, Wonderland; COSTUME DESIGN: Brandin Baržn, Sweet Bird of Youth; Dione H. Lebhar, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Old Globe; SOUND DESIGN: Jeff Ladman, Collected Stories, Old Globe; Michael Roth, The Illusion; PERFORMANCE: Ron Campbell, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Illusion, San Diego Rep; Larry Drake, The Hostage; Mike Genovese, Death of a Salesman and The Illusion; Bruce McKenzie, True West; Douglas Weston, The Philanderer; Charlayne Woodard, Pretty Fire; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Hostage; the cast of Oo-Bla-Dee; the cast of True West
Anne Louise Bannon
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Ain't Nothin' But the Blues at the Geffen Playhouse; Bee-Luther-Hatchee, Robey Theatre Company at the Tamarind Theatre; DIRECTION: Ben Guillory, Bee-Luther-Hatchee; PERFORMANCE: Phyllis Frelich, The House of Bernarda Alba, Deaf West at the Ventura Court Theatre; Richard Grove, Journeys Among the Dead at City Garage; Anne-Marie Johnson, Bee-Luther-Hatchee; Michele Lamar Richards, Bee-Luther-Hatchee; Paul Rubenstein, Journeys Among the Dead; Sal Viscuso, Glengarry Glen Ross at the Third Stage; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Day of Absence at Masquers' Cabaret; the cast of Under Milk Wood at A Noise Within
Paul Birchall
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: The New Bozena at the Hudson Mainstage; Twelfth Dog Night, the Troubadour Theater Company at the Miles Memorial Playhouse; Voluptuous Madness, Fabulous Monsters at Highways; PLAYWRITING: Anthony Clarvoe, Show and Tell, Circle X Theatre Company at Stages Theatre Center; David Constable, Michael Dahlen, and Kevin Isola, The New Bozena; Kirk Wood Bromley, Want's Unwished Work at Sacred Fools; DIRECTION: Mark Bringelson, The Clairvoyant at Playwrights' Arena; Bart DeLorenzo, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, the Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation; Luck Hari, Show and Tell; Robert A. Prior, Voluptuous Madness; MUSIC DIRECTION: Greg Kuehn, Sweetheart: A Musicale at the Coast Playhouse; SCENIC DESIGN: Jason Adams, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; M.E. Dunn, Want's Unwished Work; COSTUME DESIGN: M.E. Dunn, Want's Unwished Work; PERFORMANCE: Laurie Anderson, Songs and Stories From Moby Dick at Royce Hall; Bari Hochwald, King Levine, Theatre at the Improv; Beth Hogan, The Greeks at the Odyssey Theatre; Stuart W. Howard, Otherwise Engaged at Pacific Resident Theatre; Paris Jefferson, The Greeks; Brian Murray, Measure for Measure at the Ahmanson Theatre; Shannon O'Hurley, Show and Tell; Paul Sandberg, Show and Tell; Sammy Shore, King Levine; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Clairvoyant; the cast of The New Bozena; the cast of Poseidon Adventure: The Musical at the St. Genesius Theatre; the cast of Twelfth Dog Night; the cast of Voluptuous Madness
Claudia Grazioso
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Sex, Death, and Other Annoyances at the Open Fist Theatre; Solos in Harmony, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theatre; SCENIC DESIGN: Jason Adams, Tagteam Lovefest 2000 at the Actors' Gang; COSTUME DESIGN: Salvatore Salamone, Tagteam Lovefest 2000; PERFORMANCE: Yvette Cruise, Frida Kahlo at Unity Arts Center
Hoyt Hilsman
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: A Christmas Carol, Bad Puppets at the Pink Flamingo Theatre; Everyone's Friend at the Whitefire Theatre; Monkey, Moving Arts at the Los Angeles Theatre Center; The Path of Love at the Fountain Theatre; PLAYWRITING: Matt Pelfrey, Monkey; ADAPTATION: Adam Einstein, A Christmas Carol; DIRECTION: Adam Einstein, A Christmas Carol; Ellen Geer, The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Monkey; Deborah Lawlor, The Path of Love; Vickery Turner, Everyone's Friend; PERFORMANCE: Susan Angelo, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Samuel Bliss Cooper, The Big Funk, Subtle Bliss Theatre Co.; Alan Blumenfeld, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Peter Fenady, Shadowlands at the Knightsbridge Theatre; Melora Marshall, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Cameron McHarg, Monkey; Gretchen Morgan, The Big Funk; Marcia Rodd, Everyone's Friend; Richard Ruyle, Monkey; Michael Shannon, Everyone's Friend
Wenzel Jones
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Heartbreak House at A Noise Within; Light Up the Sky at the Pasadena Playhouse; Manege Moli're at the Interact Theatre Co.; The Pirates of Penzance, Cabrillo Music Theatre at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza; The Servant of Two Masters at Bergamot Station; ADAPTATION: Steve Pickering and Charley Sherman, Burning Chrome at Sacred Fools; DIRECTION: Valerie Landsburg, The Boys of Mariel at the Hudson Gallery Theatre; Ken Sawyer, Angels of Lemnos at the Road Theatre; Joel Swetow, The Cherry Orchard at Interact; MUSIC DIRECTION: Nick de Gregorio, The Pirates of Penzance; CHOREOGRAPHY: Jane Paik, Medea, the Musical at the Hudson Mainstage; SCENIC DESIGN: James Schuette, Space at the Mark Taper Forum; LIGHTING DESIGN: Aaron Francis, Burning Chrome; Kathi O'Donohue, The Fantasticks, Actors' Co-op; SOUND DESIGN: Gregg Henry, Bitter Women at the Cast Theatre; PERFORMANCE: Annette Bening, Hedda Gabler at the Geffen Playhouse; Field Blauvelt, Love! Valour! Compassion! at the Attic Theatre; Mitchell Edmonds, Heartbreak House; Michael Learned, What the Butler Saw at A Noise Within; Ed Martin, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at Theatre 40; Lance Phillips, La Cage aux Folles, Saddleback Civic Light Opera; Kevin Quinn, Otherwise Engaged at Pacific Resident Theatre; R. Christofer Sands, Miss Desmond Behind Bars at the Court Theatre; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Bitter Women; the cast of Divor‡ons at Pacific Resident Theatre; the cast of Medea, the Musical
Rob Kendt
Editor in Chief
PRODUCTION: Tongue of a Bird, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; PLAYWRITING: Sarah Koskoff, Debt, Oxblood Theatre at Glaxa Studios; ADAPTATION: Linda Alper, Douglas Langworthy, and Penny Metropulos, The Three Musketeers, OSF; Douglas Langworthy, The Good Person of Szechuan, OSF; Jerry Turner, Rosmersholm, OSF; MUSICAL SCORE: Steve Goodie, The Memorandum at the Odyssey Theatre; Ian Krouse, Blood Wedding, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts at LATC; MUSIC DIRECTION: Larry Blank, Sweeney Todd, Reprise! at the Freud Playhouse; CHOREOGRAPHY: Ken Roht, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Co. at Los Angeles Theatre Center; FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: John Sipes, The Three Musketeers; SCENIC DESIGN: Michael Ganio, Seven Guitars, OSF; Michael Marlowe, The Memorandum; LIGHTING DESIGN: Kevin Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Henry Fonda Theatre; Derek Duarte, Tongue of a Bird; Peter Maradudin, Othello, OSF; Rand Ryan, A Fairy Tale at the Actors' Gang; Ann G. Wrightson, The Good Person of Szechuan; COSTUME DESIGN: Smaranda Branescu, The Good Person of Szechuan; Audrey Fisher, The Memorandum; Dori Quan, Broken Hearts: A B.H. Mystery, Cornerstone Theater Co.; Susan Tsu, Seven Guitars; SOUND DESIGN: Rachel Anderson and Angela Backman, Fall Off Night at the Open Fist Theatre; John J. Gibson, Tongue of a Bird; John Zalewski, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody; MAKEUP/WIG DESIGN: Mike Potter, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Jeffrey Sacino, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody; PERFORMANCE: Natalie Venetia Belcon, Play On! at the Pasadena Playhouse; Molly Bryant, Exit the King at the Actors' Gang; Yvette Cason, Play On!; Catherine Lynn Davis, Chicago, OSF; BW Gonzalez, The Good Person of Szechuan; Christopher Liam Moore, A.K.A., Cornerstone Theater Co.; Robynn Rodriguez, Othello; G. Valmont Thomas, Seven Guitars; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Debt
Kristina Mannion
Orange County Critic
PRODUCTION: Miss Saigon at Orange County Performing Arts Center; PLAYWRITING: Christopher Hart, Swifty, Grove Theater Center; MUSICAL SCORE: Violaine Corradi, Dralion, Cirque du Soleil; DIRECTION: caryn morse desai, Having Our Say, International City Theatre; Nicholas Hytner, Miss Saigon; SCENIC DESIGN: Neil Peter Jampolis, Of Mice and Men at South Coast Repertory; John Napier, Miss Saigon; Stephane Roy, Dralion; PERFORMANCE: Richard Doyle, Of Mice and Men at South Coast Rep; Amentha Dymally, Having Our Say; Joseph Anthony Foronda, Miss Saigon; Cindy Marchionda, A Chorus Line, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities; Audrey Morgan, Having Our Say; David Rousseve, Light Sensitive at the Theatre District; David Wohl, Swifty; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Miss Saigon
Scott Proudfit
Managing Editor
PRODUCTION: Cinderella at the Ahmanson Theatre; A Fairy Tale at the Actors' Gang; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, the Berliner Ensemble at the Freud Playhouse; Ugly's First World at the Actors' Gang; DIRECTION: Heiner Muller/Martin Wuttke/ Stephen Suschke, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mark Wing-Davey, The Life of Galileo at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; SCENIC DESIGN: Jason Adams, Aliens in America at the Tiffany Theatre; Michael Marlowe, Lulu at Pacific Resident Theatre; Narelle Sissons, How I Learned To Drive at the Mark Taper Forum; Gary Smoot, Louis Slotin Sonata, Circle X Theatre Co. at the Hollywood Court Theatre; Douglas Stein, The Life of Galileo; LIGHTING DESIGN: Donald Holder, Hughie at the Taper; Patrick Welborn, Lulu; COSTUME DESIGN: Ann Closs-Farley and Jen Diebold, Ugly's First World; Audrey Eisner, Lulu and The Swan at Pacific Resident Theatre; SOUND DESIGN: Tracy Young, Daniel T. Parker, and Chris Wells, A Fairy Tale; uncredited, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; PERFORMANCE: Valerie Dillman, Lulu; David Dukes, Measure for Measure at the Ahmanson Theatre; Ron Eldard, bash at the Canon Theatre; Gary Kelley, Hush at the Actors' Gang; Brian Kerwin, How I Learned To Drive; Sarah Uriarte Berry, Violet at the Laguna Playhouse; Michael Winters, The Life of Galileo; Martin Wuttke, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Keone Young, Leilani's Hibiscus at East West Players; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Collected Stories at the Geffen Playhouse; the cast of Hughie; the cast of Marry Me a Little at the Celebration Theatre
Terri Roberts
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Floyd Collins at the Old Globe Theatre; PLAYWRITING: Randall Rapstine and Doug Budin, Common Knowledge at the Lillian Theatre; MUSICAL SCORE: Marie Cain, Shelly Markham, and Mark Winkler, Too Old for the Chorus at the Celebration Theatre; DIRECTION: Jules Aaron, Goblin Market, International City Theatre; Matthew Bourne, Cinderella at the Ahmanson Theatre; Todd Nielsen, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Colony Studio Theatre; CHOREOGRAPHY: Lars Bethke, Fame, Broadway/LA at the Pantages Theatre; Todd Nielsen, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Marvin Tunny, Ain't Misbehavin' at the South Bay Playhouse; MUSIC DIRECTION: David Andrews Rogers, Les Mis rables at the Ahmanson; Darryl Archibald, Ain't Misbehavin' at the South Bay Playhouse; Daryl Griffith, Cinderella; Ted Sperling and Rob Berman, Floyd Collins; SCENIC DESIGN: John Lee Beatty, The Dinner Party at the Mark Taper Forum; Bradley Kaye, Goblin Market; Dan Reeder, Orphans, International City Theatre; COSTUME DESIGN: Anthony Powell, Sunset Blvd. at the Pantages Theatre; Jeanne Reith, Summer and Smoke at the Fountain Theatre; LIGHTING DESIGN: Bryan Schulte, The Adding Machine at Sacred Fools; SOUND DESIGN: Andrew Bruce/Autograph, Les Mis rables; Jon Gottlieb, Cinderella; Dan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins; PERFORMANCE: Chad Borden, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Carolee Carmello, Bells Are Ringing, Reprise! at the Freud Theatre; Brian D'Arcy James, Titanic at the Ahmanson; David Engel, Passion, Musical Theatre Guild at the Pasadena Playhouse; Calista Flockhart, bash at the Canon Theatre; Sutton Foster, Les Mis rables; Dink O'Neal, The 1940s Radio Hour, International City Theatre; ENSEMBLE: The cast of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Richard Scaffidi
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: What the Butler Saw at A Noise Within; PLAYWRITING: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Enigma Variations at the Mark Taper Forum; DIRECTION: Tim Dang, Carry the Tiger to the Mountain at East West Players; Sabin Epstein, What the Butler Saw; Howard Shangraw, The Swan at Pacific Resident Theatre; SCENIC DESIGN: Ming Cho Lee, Enigma Variations; John David Paul, Reefer Madness! at the Hudson Backstage; PERFORMANCE: Nancy Bell, The Philanderer at South Coast Repertory; Mark Bramhall, What the Butler Saw; William Dennis Hunt, What the Butler Saw; Al Pacino, Hughie at the Taper; Mark Pinkosh, Road Movie at Tiffany Theatre; Peter Ratray, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at Theatre 40; Jamey Sheridan, Enigma Variations; Donald Sutherland, Enigma Variations
Brad Schreiber
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: bash at the Canon Theatre; Someone's Knocking at West Coast Ensemble; PLAYWRITING: Stephen Sachs, Mother's Day at the Fountain Theatre; DIRECTION: Bart DeLorenzo, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, the Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation; Richard Israel, Someone's Knocking; SCENIC DESIGN: Tom Giamario, Talk About Money at the Tiffany Theatre; Richard Hoover, No Orchids for Miss Blandish; COSTUME DESIGN: Audrey Fisher, No Orchids for Miss Blandish; SOUND DESIGN: Pat Lydon/ Pfeiffer Studios, Someone's Knocking; PERFORMANCE: Sherry Glaser, Oh, My Goddess at Highways; Veronica Hart, The Dyke and the Porn Star at Highways; Ames Ingham, No Orchids for Miss Blandish; Phil Johnson, Say Cheese at Actor's Art Theatre; Ian Ogilvy, Wet Weather Cover at the Tiffany; Jacqueline Schultz, Mother's Day; Jack Stehlin, The Job, Hudson Guild; ENSEMBLE: The cast of bash; the cast of Someone's Knocking; the cast of Stolen Time at the Cast Theatre
Madeleine Shaner
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Bill and Eddie at Playwrights' Arena; Dutchman at Theatre at the Improv; Louis Slotin Sonata, Circle X Theatre Co. at the Hollywood Court Theatre; Spike Heels at the Victory Theatre; Straight as a Line at Playwrights' Arena; PLAYWRITING: Ernie Mirich, God Eats Babys at the Complex; MUSICAL SCORE: Richard Allen, Poe: Out of His Mind at the 24th Street Theatre; O-Lan Jones, Much Ado About Nothing, L.A. Women's Shakespeare Co.; DIRECTION: Bjorn Johnson, Dutchman; Marshall W. Mason, Riga at (Inside) the Ford; Steve Muscarella, Spike Heels; Jon Lawrence Rivera, Bill and Eddie and Straight as a Line; SCENIC DESIGN: John Arnone, Collected Stories at Geffen Playhouse; Timothy Ford Hannon, Spike Heels; Burris Jackes, You Can't Take It With You, Actor's Co-Op; Elina Katsioula, Much Ado About Nothing; Gary Wissman, Visiting Mr. Green at the Pasadena Playhouse; SOUND DESIGN: Bob Blackburn, Straight as a Line; PERFORMANCE: Justin Doran, Charley's Aunt at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; Tim Farmer, The Fantasticks, Actor's Co-Op; Travis Michael Holder, Bent at the Stella Adler Theatre; Ernie Mirich, God Eats Babys; Heidi Mokrycki, Spike Heels; Louis Mustillo, Bartenders at Theater/Theatre; Carolyn Palmer, Graduation Day at the Hudson Mainstage; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Charley's Aunt; the cast of Chomolungma (The Mountain), Ziggurat Theatre; the cast of Much Ado About Nothing; the cast of Rebeck Revisited, Theatre Neo
Edward Shapiro
Los Angeles Critic
PRODUCTION: Collected Stories at the Geffen Playhouse; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at Theatre 40; The Rocky Horror Show at the Tiffany Theatre; True West at South Coast Repertory; PLAYWRITING: Clinton Leupp, Miss Coco Peru's Universe at the Beverly Hills Playhouse; Sandra Tsing Loh, Aliens in America at the Tiffany Theatre; Neil Simon, The Dinner Party at the Mark Taper Forum; DIRECTION: Hope Alexander, True West; Mark Brokaw, How I Learned To Drive at the Taper; Tom Quaintance, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; MUSIC DIRECTION: Laurence O'Keefe, The Rocky Horror Show; Patrick Vaccariello, Cabaret at the Wilshire Theatre; SCENIC DESIGN: Robert Brill, Cabaret; Dwight Richard Odle, Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the Laguna Playhouse; LIGHTING DESIGN: Peggy Eisenhauer and Mike Baldassari, Cabaret; Richard Pilbrow, A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Ahmanson Theatre; SOUND DESIGN: G. Thomas Clark, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at the Orange County Performing Arts Center; COSTUME DESIGN: Jonathan Bixby, Merton of the Movies at the Geffen Playhouse; Dick Magnanti, Reefer Madness! at the Hudson Backstage; PERFORMANCE: Barry Del Sherman, Merton of the Movies; Cameron Dye, True West; Pamela Gordon, Eden at Theatre of NOTE; Anna Gunn, Measure for Measure at the Ahmanson; Linda Lavin, Collected Stories; Paul Perri, True West; Eddie Mui, Texas at the Secret Rose Theatre; Richard Thomas, Measure for Measure; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; the cast of Light Up the Sky at the Pasadena Playhouse; the cast of The Rocky Horror Show; the cast of When Pigs Fly at the Coronet Theatre
Les Spindle
Los Angeles Critic
PLAYWRITING: Charles Busch, Die! Mommy! Die! at the Coast Playhouse; Allison Gregory, Fall Off Night at the Open Fist Theatre; MUSICAL SCORE: Jef Bek, Scenes From an Execution, Zoo District at ArtShare; Dick Gallagher (music) and Mark Waldrop (lyrics), When Pigs Fly at the Coronet Theatre; Leo Savalas (music) and Mark Goff, Marc-Ian Sklar, Erin Quigley, Gregory Messer, David Bouzas, Michael Betts, and Savalas/Court (lyrics), Miss Desmond Behind Bars at the Court Theatre; DIRECTION: Elina DeSantos, Orphans, International City Theatre; CHOREOGRAPHY: Lee Martino, Cabaret at Performance Riverside, and Children of Eden at Fullerton Civic Light Opera; Sha Newman, The King and I at Fullerton CLO; Fred Talleksen, Miss Desmond Behind Bars; MUSIC DIRECTION: Peter Golub, Broadway at the Actors' Gang; Lee Kreter, Children of Eden; Leo Savalas, Miss Desmond Behind Bars; SCENIC DESIGN: Bradley Kaye, The Cherry Orchard at the Interact Theatre Co.; Steve Mitchell, Broadway; James Noone, Cowgirls at Fullerton CLO; Tal Sanders, Noises Off, Subterranean Theatre at the Secret Rose; LIGHTING DESIGN: Jason Grandpre, Reefer Madness! at the Hudson Backstage; J. Kent Inasy, The Cherry Orchard; Vivian Leone, Die! Mommy! Die!; Kris Sandheinrich, Broadway; COSTUME DESIGN: Dione H. Lebhar, Michael Bottari, and Ronald Case, Die! Mommy! Die!; SOUND DESIGN: Rick Fisher, Cinderella at the Ahmanson Theatre; Jeremy Grody, Die! Mommy! Die!; Andrew Kleiser, The New Bozena at the Hudson Backstage; Peter Stenshoel, Mother's Day and Summer and Smoke at the Fountain Theatre; PERFORMANCE: Charles Busch, Die! Mommy! Die!; Ben Daniels, 900 Oneonta at the Odyssey Theatre; Mil Nicholson, Being of Sound Mind, Blue Sphere Alliance at Lex Theatre, and Stage Mothers, Playwrights 6 at Celebration Theatre; Will Rothhaar, The Cryptogram at the Geffen Playhouse; Elaine Welton-Hill, Lettice and Lovage, Actors Co-Op; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Cherry Orchard; the cast of Streamers at the Hudson Backstage; the cast of Women of Manhattan, Subtle Bliss Theatre Company at the Zoo Theatre; SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE: Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Interact Theatre Company, International City Theatre, A Noise Within, Playwrights' Arena; UP AND COMERS: Non-Prophet Hatching Company, Playwrights 6, Subterranean Theatre Company, Subtle Bliss Theatre Company
Polly Warfield
Senior Critic
PRODUCTION: The Greeks at the Odyssey Theatre; PLAYWRITING: Philip Kan Gotanda, Yohen at East West Players; Dominic Hoffman, Uncle Jacques' Symphony at Stages Theatre Center; ADAPTATION: Deborah Lawlor, The Path of Love at the Fountain Theatre; MUSICAL SCORE: Gregg Coffin, The Cherry Orchard at the Interact Theatre Co.; Babu Parameswran, The Path of Love; DIRECTION: Shashin Desai, Lend Me a Tenor, International City Theatre; Michael Langham and Helen Burns, Uncle Vanya at the Geffen Playhouse; Ron Sossi, The Greeks; MUSIC DIRECTION: James May, West Side Story, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities; Babu Parameswran, The Path of Love; CHOREOGRAPHY: Sha Newman, West Side Story; Viji Prakash, The Path of Love; Ken Roht, Broadway at the Actors' Gang; SCENIC DESIGN: Neil Peter Jampolis, Uncle Vanya; James Leonard Joy, Play On! at the Pasadena Playhouse; Michael Marlowe, 900 Oneonta at the Odyssey Theatre; LIGHTING DESIGN: Ken Booth, Heartbreak House at A Noise Within; Michael Gilliam, Light Up the Sky at the Pasadena Playhouse; Paulie Jenkins, Orphans, International City Theatre; Kathi O'Donohue, The Path of Love; COSTUME DESIGN: Jeanne Reith, The Path of Love; Anna Wyckoff, Heartbreak House; SOUND DESIGN: Jon Gottlieb, Uncle Vanya; PERFORMANCE: Geoff Elliott, Heartbreak House; Michelle Farr, The Cherry Orchard; Fran‡ois Giroday, The Philanderer at South Coast Repertory; Nobu McCarthy, Yohen; John Michael Morgan, 900 Oneonta; Stephen Pelinksi, Uncle Vanya; Deborah Strang, Heartbreak House; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Greeks
George Weinberg-Harter
San Diego Critic
PRODUCTION: The Hostage, the Old Globe Theatre; Joyful Noise at the Lamb's Players Theatre; PLAYWRITING: Tim Slover, Joyful Noise; DIRECTION: Hope Alexander, Play Strindberg at South Coast Repertory; Michael Greif, Sweet Bird of Youth, La Jolla Playhouse; Robert Smyth, Joyful Noise; MUSIC DIRECTION: Bill Doyle, The Hostage; Zane Mark, Thunder Knocking at the Door, Old Globe; SCENIC DESIGN: Marty Burnett, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Moonlight Amphitheatre; Michael Devine, The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden at South Coast Rep; David Ledsinger, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Old Globe; John Napier, Jane Eyre, La Jolla Playhouse; LIGHTING DESIGN: Nathan Pierson, Till We Have Faces at the Lamb's Players Theatre; David Thayer, Joyful Noise; COSTUME DESIGN: Brandin Baržn, The Illusion, San Diego Repertory Theatre; Andreanne Neofito, Jane Eyre; Jeanne Reith, Till We Have Faces; SOUND DESIGN: Gina Angelique, The Illusion; PERFORMANCE: Ron Campbell, The Thousandth Night at North Coast Repertory Theatre; Ron Choularton, Gangster No. One, Sledgehammer Theatre at the Fritz Theater; Hal Landon Jr., Play Strindberg; Dakin Matthews, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Old Globe; Pamela Payton-Wright, Sweet Bird of Youth; Mary Lou Rosato, The Hostage; Tom Stephenson, Joyful Noise; Barbara Tarbuck, Death of a Salesman, San Diego Rep; Ayla Yakut, Arcadia at North Coast Rep; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Collected Stories, Old Globe; the cast of The Illusion
Laura Weinert
Staff Writer
DIRECTION: Brian Cuprill, The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Complex; Jon Kellam, Nosferatu, Zoo District at ArtShare; Brian Pope, The Firebugs at the Eclectic Company; SCENIC DESIGN: Jeff Rack, The Firebugs; SOUND DESIGN: Jef Bek and Eric Snodgrass, Nosferatu; PERFORMANCE: Steve Andrews, The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars at the Hollywood Court Theatre; Ursula Burton, The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars; Joe Fria, Nosferatu; Greg Ginther, Durang/Durang at the Hollywood Court Theatre; Marco Greco, Behind the Counter With Mussolini at the Tamarind Theatre; Kristina Hayes, The Marriage of Bette and Boo; James Macdonald, Nosferatu; Kara Pacino, Durang/Durang; Robert Torti, Reefer Madness! at the Hudson Backstage; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Firebugs; the cast of The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Kerry Reid
San Francisco Bay Area Critic
PRODUCTION: The Magic Fire at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Metamorphoses at Berkeley Rep; Peter and Wendy, Mabou Mines at Berkeley Rep; Swimming in the Shallows, Shotgun Players; PLAYWRITING: Frank Wortham, House of Lucky, Impact Theatre at the Marsh; ADAPTATION: Word for Word (company members), Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro; DIRECTION: Patrick Dooley, Man and Superman, Shotgun Players; Kent Nicholson, Swimming in the Shallows; Jack O'Brien, The Magic Fire; Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses; MUSIC DIRECTION: Paul Dresher, Ravenshead at Berkeley Rep; SCENIC DESIGN: Ralph Funicello, The Magic Fire; LIGHTING DESIGN: Christopher Akerlind, The Life of Galileo at Berkeley Rep; T.J. Gerckens, Metamorphoses; York Kennedy, The Magic Fire; COSTUME DESIGN: Beaver Bauer, The Tempest, California Shakespeare Festival, and Tartuffe, American Conservatory Theater; Anna Oliver, The Magic Fire; SOUND DESIGN: Jeff Ladman, The Magic Fire; PERFORMANCE: Emily Ackerman, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, Phoenix II Theatre; Lura Dolas, The Glass Menagerie, Aurora Theatre Company; Lorri Holt, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties at the Magic Theatre; Karen Kandel, Peter and Wendy; Angela Paton, The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Berkeley Rep; Richard Reinholdt, The Fever, Last Planet Theatre; Paul Sulzman, The Glass Menagerie; Shona Tucker, Tartuffe; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Glace Bay Miners' Museum; the cast of Metamorphoses; the cast of Tartuffe; the cast of Swimming in the Shallows; OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Shotgun Players
Judy Richter
Northern California Critic
PRODUCTION: The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Pericles, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Rosmersholm, OSF; Seven Guitars, OSF; PLAYWRITING: Neena Beber, A Common Vision at the Magic Theatre; Philip Kan Gotanda, Sisters Matsumoto at San Jos Repertory Theatre; Sharmon J. Hilfinger, A History of Things That Never Happened, Bootstrap Foundation; ADAPTATION: Le Clanche Du Rand, Transcendental Wild Oats, Aurora Theatre Company; MUSICAL SCORE: Todd Barton, Rosmersholm, Pericles, and The Three Musketeers, OSF; Liu Qi-Chao, The Joy Luck Club, TheatreWorks; DIRECTION: David Gordon, The First Picture Show, American Conservatory Theater; Robert Kelley, Amadeus and Violet, TheatreWorks, and The Tempest, California Shakespeare Festival; Richard Seyd, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; CHOREOGRAPHY: Kay Cole, A Chorus Line, American Musical Theatre of San Jos ; MUSIC DIRECTION: William Liberatore, South Pacific, AMTSJ; SCENIC DESIGN: William Bloodgood, Three Musketeers and Othello, OSF; Ralph Funicello, Pericles; J.B. Wilson, The Joy Luck Club, Theatreworks, and The Matchmaker at San Jos Rep; LIGHTING DESIGN: Robert Jared, Rosmersholm; Steven B. Mannshardt, Psychopathia Sexualis and Pride's Crossing, TheatreWorks; Peter Maradudin, The Threepenny Opera and Tartuffe, ACT, and Desire Under the Elms at San Jos Rep; Chris Parry, Pericles; COSTUME DESIGN: Fumiko Bielefeldt, The Joy Luck Club and Pride's Crossing; Deborah M. Dryden, Three Musketeers and Pericles; Ardith Ann Gray, Psychopathia Sexualis; Melissa Wortman, My Fair Lady, Lamplighters; Shigeru Yaji, The Matchmaker; SOUND DESIGN: Don Dally, Defying Gravity, San Jos Stage Co.; Don Seaver, Transcendental Wild Oats and The Glass Menagerie, Aurora Theatre Co.; Matthew Spiro, Collected Stories at Berkeley Rep and The First 100 Years at ACT; PERFORMANCE: Rebecca Dines, Psychopathia Sexualis and As Bees in Honey Drown, TheatreWorks; Linda Hoy, Over the Tavern at San Jos Rep, and Spring Storm, Marin Theatre Company; Dee Maaske, Tongue of a Bird, OSF; Robin Goodrin Nordli, Rosmersholm; Amy Resnick, A Common Vision and Pride's Crossing; Maureen Sillman, Pride's Crossing; Joe Vincent, South Pacific and Annie, AMTSJ; Derrick Lee Weeden, Seven Guitars; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The First Picture Show; the cast of Violet, TheatreWorks
Matthew Surrence
San Francisco Bay Area Critic
PRODUCTION: Long Day's Journey Into Night at American Conservatory Theater; Wrong Mountain at ACT; PLAYWRITING: David Hirson, Wrong Mountain; ADAPTATION: Charles Randolph-Wright, Tartuffe at ACT; DIRECTION: Arturo Catricala, The Lisbon Traviata at New Conservatory Theatre Center; Richard Jones, Wrong Mountain; Laird Williamson, Long Day's Journey Into Night; MUSIC DIRECTION: Brandon Adams, Let's Face It, 42nd Street Moon; David Dobrusky, Fiorello!, 42nd Street Moon; CHOREOGRAPHY: Jayne Zaban, Let's Face It; SCENIC DESIGN: Giles Cadle, Wrong Mountain; LIGHTING DESIGN: Kevin Cain, Eyes for Consuela at the Magic Theatre; COSTUME DESIGN: Christopher Acebo, Eyes for Consuela; Giles Cadle, Wrong Mountain; Deborah M. Dryden, Long Day's Journey Into Night; SOUND DESIGN: Garth Hemphill, Long Day's Journey Into Night; PERFORMANCE: Jessa Brie Berkner, Mere Mortals, Marin Theatre Company; Daniel Davis, Wrong Mountain; Greg Hoffman, The Lisbon Traviata; June A. Lomena, Venus, Thick Description; Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, Collected Stories at Berkeley Rep; Ron Rifkin, Wrong Mountain; John Schumacher, The Lisbon Traviata; Jennifer Tighe, Collected Stories; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Long Day's Journey Into Night; the cast of Wrong Mountain
Barry Wisdom
Northern California Critic
PRODUCTION: Indian Ink, American Conservatory Theater; The Most Happy Fella, Sacramento Music Circus; Over the Tavern, San Jos Repertory Theatre; ADAPTATION: Joe DiPietro, Men, B Street Theatre; MUSICAL SCORE: Joe DiPietro (lyrics) and Jimmy Roberts (music), Men; DIRECTION: Glenn Casale, The Most Happy Fella; John McCluggage, Over the Tavern; Carey Perloff, Indian Ink; CHOREOGRAPHY: Mark Esposito, The Most Happy Fella; Larry Fuller, Evita at the Orpheum Theatre; Richard Stafford, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Orpheum Theatre; MUSIC DIRECTION: Helen Gregory, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; John Visser, The Most Happy Fella; SCENIC DESIGN: Dennis Jones, Crucifer of Blood, Sierra Repertory Theatre; LIGHTING DESIGN: Beverly Emmons, Jekyll & Hyde at the Orpheum Theatre; PERFORMANCE: Greg Alexander, Resident Alien, The Motor Trade, and The Cricket on the Hearth at B Street Theatre; Timothy Busfield, Boom Town and The Motor Trade at B Street Theatre; Norbert Leo Butz, Cabaret at the Curran Theatre; Aviva Jane Carlin, Jodie's Body, Sacramento Theatre Company; Karen Culliver, The Most Happy Fella; Joely Fisher, Cabaret; Dana Friedman, The Cricket on the Hearth; Leah Hocking, The Most Happy Fella and The Secret Garden, Sacramento Music Circus; Charles Karel, The Most Happy Fella; ENSEMBLE: The cast of Cabaret; the cast of Indian Ink; the cast of The Most Happy Fella; the cast of Over the Tavern; the cast of The Threepenny Opera, ACT
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST
David-Edward Hughes
Seattle Area Critic
PRODUCTION: The Faggot Museum at the Theatre Off Jackson; For Lorne at the Annex Theatre; The Game of Love and Chance at the Seattle Repertory Theatre; The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Driftwood Players; The Secret Garden at the 5th Avenue Musical Theatre; Stonewall Jackson's House at A Contemporary Theatre; PLAYWRITING: Ed Hawkins, For Lorne; MUSICAL SCORE: David Austin, A Christmas Carol at Puget Sound Musical Theatre; Richard Gray, Once Again in Oz at Seattle Children's Theatre; DIRECTION: Bryce Britton, Into the Woods at Eastside Musical Theatre; James Haskins, The Faggot Museum; Ed Hawkins, For Lorne; Victor Pappas, Skylight at the Intiman Theatre; Warner Shook, The Royal Family and The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Intiman; Jeff Steitzer, Stonewall Jackson's House; Steve Tomkins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Village Theatre; Stephen Wadsworth, The Game of Love and Chance; MUSIC DIRECTION: Kim Douglass, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; SCENIC DESIGN: Bill Forrester, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Thomas Lynch, The Game of Love and Chance, and The Royal Family and Dear Liar at Intiman; LIGHTING DESIGN: Peter West, Side Man at ACT; COSTUME DESIGN: Martin Pakledinaz, The Game of Love and Chance; PERFORMANCE: Hope Alexander, Stonewall Jackson's House; Laurence Ballard, Dear Liar, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and The Royal Family; Ian Bell, The Psychic Life of Savages at the Empty Space; Patti Cohenour, The Secret Garden at the 5th Ave. and Oh,Coward! at Seattle Rep; Frank Corrado, The Royal Family; Anthony Curry, I'm Not Rappaport, Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center; Barbara Dirickson, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and The Royal Family; Dan Donohue, The Game of Love and Chance; Lisa Estridge-Gray, Boogie Oogie Fever at Cabaret de Paris; Nick Garrison, Deflowered in the Attic at Re-bar; William Hall Jr., I'm Not Rappaport; Frances Leah King, No Way To Treat a Lady at the Village Theatre; Lori Larsen, The Psychic Life of Savages; Leslie Law, No Way To Treat a Lady; Tracey Leigh, Stonewall Jackson's House; Timothy McCuen Piggee, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum; Kim Miyori, Sisters Matsumoto and Golden Child at Seattle Rep; Judy Ann Moulton, Once Upon a Mattress at Arts West; Marianne Owen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Seattle Rep and Side Man; David Pichette, Communicating Doors at ACT and Oh Coward!; Natacha Roi, The Game of Love and Chance; Blair Sams, The Last Night of Ballyhoo; Cynthia Lauren Tewes, Side Man; Amy Thone, The Belle of Amherst at the Bathhouse Theatre; Michael Whistler, The Faggot Museum; ENSEMBLE: The cast of For Lorne; the cast of The Game of Love and Chance; the cast of Golden Child; the cast of Grand Hotel at the 5th Ave.; the cast of The Royal Family; the cast of Side Man; FOND FAREWELLS: The Bathhouse Theatre, Warner Shook
Jeremy Kemp
Portland Critic
PRODUCTION: Three Days of Rain at Artists Repertory Theatre; ADAPTATION: Jerry Mouawad, Blood Wedding Blood Wedding at Imago Theatre; DIRECTION: Allen Nause, Three Days of Rain; CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerry Mouawad, Blood Wedding Blood Wedding; SCENIC: Jerry Mouawad, House Taken Over at Imago Theatre; LIGHTING DESIGN: Dawn Chiang, The Old Settler at Portland Center Stage; Jeff Forbes, Blood Wedding Blood Wedding; COSTUME DESIGN: Polley Bowen, Present Laughter, Artists Repertory Theatre; Jerry Mouawad, Frogs, Lizards, Orbs, and Slinkys at Imago Theatre; Marguerite Scott, Mary Tudor, CoHo Productions; SOUND DESIGN: Martin John Gallager, Three Days of Rain; Katie Grieser, House Taken Over; PERFORMANCE: Andreas Alcala, Deporting the Divas at Miracle Theatre; Alex Dudgeon, Shear Madness, Cloud 9 Productions; Tamu Gray, The Old Settler
John Longenbaugh
Seattle Correspondent
PRODUCTION: The Crucible at A Contemporary Theatre; Expressions of the Spirit: Tales From the Brothers Grimm, UMO Ensemble at the Empty Space; The Snow Queen, Theater Simple; Teatro Zinzanni, One Reel Productions; PLAYWRITING: Maria Glanz, Pu'uohona (Place of Refuge), Open Circle Theater; John Moe, Montana Moose, Theater Schmeater; Ethan Sandler, Punch Drunk, Unexpected Productions; Theater Simple (company members), Strindberg in Paris; ADAPTATION: Llysa Holland and the company, The Snow Queen; Tricia Sexton and Paul Budraitis, Bartleby, Annex Theater; UMO Ensemble and Eddie Levi Lee, Expressions of the Spirit; MUSICAL SCORE: Kevin Joyce, Expressions of the Spirit; DIRECTION: Gordon Edelstein, The Crucible; Karen Lund, Ah, Wilderness!, Taproot Theater Company; Scott Nolte, Terra Nova, Taproot Theater Company; Richard E.T. White, The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Seattle Repertory Theatre; CHOREOGRAPHY: Bengie Santos, West Side Story, Northwest Asian American Theater; MUSIC DIRECTION: Edd Key, Sanders Family Christmas, Taproot Theater; Mark Rabe, Goblin Market at ACT; SCENIC DESIGN: Robert A. Dahlstrom, Skylight at the Intiman Theatre; Etta Lilienthal, Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Theater Schmeater, and The Snow Queen; Jennifer Lupton, The Boxcar Children, Seattle Children's Theater; LIGHTING DESIGN: Regan Haines, Expressions of the Spirit; Jason Meininger, The Snow Queen; Rick Paulsen, The Boxcar Children; COSTUME DESIGN: Regan Haines and Martha Enson, Expressions of the Spirit; Sarah Harlett, Happy? at the Compound; Martin Pakledinaz, The Crucible; SOUND DESIGN: Jeff Kunis, Trestle at Pope Lick Creek and The Snow Queen; PERFORMANCE: Jeff Berryman, Terra Nova; Gina Nagy, Skylight; Dale Orlandersmith, The Gimmick at ACT; John Proccacino, Side Man at ACT and The Game of Love and Chance, Seattle Rep; Lauren Weedman, If Ornaments Had Lips, On the Boards; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The Crucible; the cast of Everything in the Garden at a Theater Under the Influence; the cast of Expressions of the Spirit; the cast of The Snow Queen; the cast of Terra Nova
CENTRAL COAST
John Dean
Central Coast Writer
PRODUCTION: Master Class, Ensemble Theater Co.; Private Lives, Ensemble Theater Co.; DIRECTION: Brad Carrol, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts; Robert Grande-Weiss, Master Class; SCENIC DESIGN: Henry Loughman, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Gary Wissman, Private Lives; SOUND DESIGN: Ali Rodriguez-Carlson, Master Class; PERFORMANCE: Jessica Chastain, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Karin Delapena, Private Lives; Tony Panighetti, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Elizabeth Stuart, Master Class, PCPA; ENSEMBLE: The cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream; the cast of Private Lives
D.L. King
Central Coast Critic
PRODUCTION: A Chorus Line, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Santa Barbara CLO; ADAPTATION: Miller James, The Square Egg of Gratchit, Ensemble Theatre Co.; Paul Welterlen, The New Treasure Island, Ensemble Theatre Co.; MUSICAL SCORE: Kevin Robison, Skylight, Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts; DIRECTION: Patricia Troxel, Skylight; Sam Viverito, A Chorus Line; CHOREOGRAPHY: Jim Giancarlo, Grease!, PCPA; Peggy Hickey, The King and I, Santa Barbara CLO; Carolyn Shouse, Cinderella; Sam Viverito, A Chorus Line; Randy Wojcik, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; MUSIC DIRECTION: Jeremy Mann, Cinderella, PCPA; Kevin Robison, Master Class, PCPA; Elise Unruh, A Chorus Line and The King and I; SCENIC DESIGN: Jay Michael Jagim, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Gary Wissman, The Cripple of Inishmaan and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Ensemble Theatre Co.; LIGHTING DESIGN: Charles Thomas Garey, Terra Nova, Center Theatre Group at Santa Barbara City College; David Neville, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Michael A. Peterson, Skylight; Robert Young, Arcadia, PCPA; COSTUME DESIGN: Mary Gibson, Terra Nova; Barbara Lackner, Master Class, Ensemble Theater Co.; Judith A. Ryerson, Arcadia; SOUND DESIGN: Eric D. Cronwall, Skylight; John Feinstein and Phillip Ranucci, The King and I; Andrea Jones, Arcadia; PERFORMANCE: Kitty Balay, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, PCPA; Leslie Brott, The Lion in Winter, PCPA; Polly Firestone Walker, Arcadia; Pope Freeman, Camping With Henry and Tom, DS Productions at Center Stage Theater; Joowon Roh, The King and I; Rudolph Willrich, The Cripple of Inishmaan; ENSEMBLE: The cast of A Chorus Line; the cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
OTHER REGIONS
Holly Hildebrand
Houston Critic
PRODUCTION: Grand Hotel, Theatre Under The Stars; Kindertransport at Stages Repertory Theatre; Travesties at the Alley Theatre; DIRECTION: Deborah Kinghorn, Kindertransport; Bruce Lumpkin, Grand Hotel; CHOREOGRAPHY: Richard Stafford, Grand Hotel; SCENIC DESIGN: Hugh Landwehr, A View From the Bridge at the Alley Theatre; Kirk Markley, The Dying Gaul at Stages Rep; LIGHTING DESIGN: Kevin Rigdon, Lemonade at the Alley; COSTUME DESIGN: Santo Loquasto, Grand Hotel; PERFORMANCE: Joanne Bonasso, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at Stages Rep; Connie Cooper, Kindertransport; David Hess, Grand Hotel; James Huston, The Moon Is Blue at Stages Rep; John Tyson, Travesties
Peter Szatmary
Houston Correspondent
PRODUCTION: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at Stages Repertory Theatre; Little Shop of Horrors at the Alley Theatre; Oh, Kay! at Main Street Theater; DIRECTION: Gregory Boyd, Little Shop of Horrors; Rebecca Greene Udden, Indian Ink at Main Street Theater; Laura Josepher, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; CHOREOGRAPHY: Marguerite Derricks, Little Shop of Horrors; Sharon Halley, Guys and Dolls, Theatre Under The Stars; Jamie Rocco, Jesus Christ Superstar, TUTS; MUSIC DIRECTION: Galen Butler, Little Shop of Horrors; Kim Hupp, Oh, Kay!; Steven Jones, Blood Brothers and Tell Me on a Sunday, Theater LaB, and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; SCENIC DESIGN: Richard Hoover, Lemonade at the Alley; Boris Kaplun, Indian Ink; Dennis McNabb, Full Gallop at Stages Rep; LIGHTING DESIGN: Pat Collins, Hedda Gabler at the Alley; David Gipson, The Dying Gaul at Stages Rep; Susan Diane Koontz, Indian Ink; Justin Townsend, Nixon's Nixon at Stages Rep; COSTUME DESIGN: Jeanne Button, Travesties at the Alley; Jane Greenwood, The Scarlet Pimpernel, TUTS; William Ivey Long, Guys and Dolls; Sarajane Milligan, Northanger Abbey at Main Street Theater; Liz Tee, Eat the Enemy, Theater LaB; SOUND DESIGN: Philip T. Cassidy, The American Dream and The Zoo Story at the Alley; Kirk Markley, Nixon's Nixon; Malcolm Nicholls, Lemonade; Joe Pino, Travesties; Stefan Stout, Full Gallop; PERFORMANCE: James Belcher, Nixon's Nixon; Curtis Billings, The Zoo Story; Kelli Cousins, Northanger Abbey; Sally Edmundson, Full Gallop; Phil Fisher, The American Dream; Bettye Fitzpatrick, The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Alley; Bonnie Gallup, The American Dream; Elizabeth Heflin, Misalliance; Jef Johnson, Oh, Kay!; Peter Kybart, The Dying Gaul; Gwendolyn McLarty, Indian Ink; Stephen Mendillo, Lemonade; Paul Menzel, Nixon's Nixon; Jimmy F. Phillips, My Night with Reg, the Little Room Downstairs Theater; Lisa Richard, Lemonade; Lisa Marie Singerman, The Moon Is Blue at Stages Rep; ENSEMBLE: The cast of The American Dream and The Zoo Story; the cast of The Beauty Queen of Leenane; the cast of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; the cast Northanger Abbey; the cast of Oh, Kay!
Dianne Zuckerman
Denver Critic
PRODUCTION: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Denver Center Theatre Company; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Denver Center Theatre Co.; How I Learned To Drive, Curious Theatre Company and Acoma Center; Side Show, PHAMALy (Physically Handicapped Amateur Musical Actors League); Suddenly Last Summer, Germinal Stage Denver; PLAYWRITING: Nagle Jackson, The Elevation of Thieves, Denver Center Theatre Co.; Luis Santeiro, Barrio Babies, Denver Center Theatre Co.; ADAPTATION: Elizabeth Huddle, The Rivals, Denver Center Theatre Co.; MUSICAL SCORE: Fernando Rivas (music) and Luis Santeiro (lyrics), Barrio Babies; Peter Schickele (music) and Louisa Rose (lyrics), The Rivals; DIRECTION: Ed Baierlein, Suddenly Last Summer; Don Bill, Side Show; Anthony Powell, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Chip Walton, How I Learned To Drive; Laird Williamson, Gross Indecency; MUSICAL DIRECTION: Douglas Coates, Barrio Babies; Mitch Samu, Side Show; SCENIC DESIGN: Bill Curley, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Matthew E. Morgan, Full Gallop, Curious Theatre Company and Acoma Center; Andrew V. Yelusich, Gross Indecency; LIGHTING DESIGN: Pavel Dobrusky, The Tempest, Denver Center Theatre Co.; Charles MacLeod, Master Class, Denver Center Theatre Co.; COSTUME DESIGN: Sallie Diamond, Suddenly Last Summer; Robert Morgan, The Rivals; SOUND DESIGN: Gary Grundei, The Tempest; PERFORMANCE: Paul Borrillo, How I Learned To Drive; Kathleen M. Brady, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Jamie Horton, Gross Indecency; John Hutton, Gross Indecency; Robin Moseley, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Deborah Persoff, Full Gallop; Gordana Rashovich, Master Class; Erica Sarzin-Borrillo, Suddenly Last Summer; Bruce Turk, The Tempest; Robert Westenberg, Kingdom, Denver Center Theatre Co.; ENSEMBLE: The casts of Barrio Babies and A Hotel on Marvin Gardens, Denver Center Theatre Co.
