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The Awards Ceremony for the 2009 NVTA One Act Festival took place Sunday evening, at the James Lee Recreation Center Theater in Falls Church, Virginia.

• Best Supporting Actor
  • Winner: Matthew Hartman (Ray), Zoon Vader Productions (ZVP) – Lone Star
  • Don Neal, Springfield Community Theatre (SCT) – Spoon River Anthology
  • Calvert Whitehurst, SCT – Spoon River Anthology
  • Brian Doyle (Adam), Fauquier Community Theatre (FCT) – Garden of Eden
• Best Supporting Actress
  • Winner: McCall Doyle (Eve), FCT – Garden of Eden
  • Maria Benzie, SCT – Spoon River Anthology
  • Mollie Wise, SCT – Spoon River Anthology
  • Meredith Ford (June), Castaways Repertory Theatre (CRT) – On Tidy Endings
  • Laonna Rauser (Suzanne), CRT – Til Death Do Us Part
  • McCall Doyle (Katarina), Prince William Little Theatre (PWLT) – The Duet
• Best Actor
  • Winner: Gary Cramer (Jimmy), Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) – Hero Worship
  • Ted Ballard (God), FCT – Garden of Eden
  • Manny Gillin (T.J.), Center for the Arts, Pied Piper Theatre (PPT) – Candid
  • Ted Ballard (Charlie), CRT – Til Death Do Us Part
  • Josh Redford (Jack), PWLT – The Duet
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Adrienne Showker (Marion), CRT – On Tidy Endings
  • Mona Kay Helper (Marie Harvey), FCT – Relative Strangers
  • Christine Lowry (Marie Barrett), FCT – Relative Strangers
  • Lori Muhlstein (Rita), CRT – Til Death Do Us Part
• Best Director
  • Winner: Deb Crawford, PWLT – The Duet
  • Adriana Hardy, SCT – Spoon River Anthology
  • Frank Pasqualino, ZVP – Lone Star (ZVP)
  • Lori Muhlstein, FCT – Garden of Eden
• Best Production Of An Original Play
  • Winner: Garden of Eden: The True Underdog Story of Peoplekind, by Greg Powell, FCT
  • Til Death Do Us Part, by Dan A. Benjamin, CRT
  • The Duet, by Brian Doyle, PWLT
• Best Overall Production
  • Winner: Garden of Eden: The True Underdog Story of Peoplekind, FCT
  • Spoon River Anthology, SCT
  • Lone Star, ZVP
  • The Duet, PWLT

Additionally, the judges (Leonard Highes, Don Martin, and Marge Tischer) awarded three discretionary awards for areas not covered by the seven standard awards:

• John Roberts, Guitarist, Spoon River Anthology, SCT
• The Tree of Life, used in Garden of Eden: The True Underdog Story of Peoplekind, FCT
• Costumes for Spoon River Anthology, SCT