Two musicals received five awards, Camelot by 2nd Star Productions and Ragtime by Kensington Arts Theatre. Two plays received four awards, The Pillowman by Silver Spring Stage and Red by the Elden Street Players. Kensington Arts Theatre received the most awards, a total of seven for their productions of Ragtime and Next to Normal. Colonial Players was the only theater company to receive awards for three separate productions, 1776, Shipwrecked and Trying.

• 2nd Star Productions
• Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
• The Alliance Theatre
• The Arlington Players
• Capital City Players of DC
• Bowie Community Theatre
• Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Chevy Chase Players
• Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Damascus Theatre Company
• Dominion Stage
• Elden Street Players
• Fauquier Community Theatre
• Greenbelt Arts Center
• Hard Bargain Players
• Kensington Arts Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Little Theatre of Alexandria
• McLean Community Players
• Montgomery Playhouse
• Port City Playhouse
• Port Tobacco Players
• Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Prince William Little Theatre
• Providence Players of Fairfax
• Reston Community Players
• Rockville Little Theatre
• Rockville Musical Theatre
• St. Mark’s Players
• Silver Spring Stage
• Tantallon Community Players
• Vienna Theatre Company

Winners for outstanding technical achievements.

Outstanding Set Design in a Musical (TIE)

• Jared Davis, Avenue Q, Dominion Stage
• Jane B. Wingard, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Design in a Play

• John Downing and Bill Glikbarg, Twentieth Century, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical

• Hector Lorenzini, Avenue Q, Dominion Stage

Outstanding Set Construction in a Play

• Richard Gilpin and Zachary Ball, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical

• Jane B. Wingard, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Painting in a Play

• Mary Speed and Brian Garrison, Red, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical

• Jane B. Wingard and Gail Bagaria, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play

• Paul Hennesy and Mike Mattheisen, Is He Dead?, Providence Players of Fairfax

Outstanding Properties in a Musical

• Joanne D. Wilson, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Properties in a Play

• Susan d. Garvey, Red, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical

• Tommy Scott, Fiddler on the Roof, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play

• Ken and Patti Crowley, 33 Variations, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

• Kevin DeMine, Avenue Q, Dominion Stage

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

• Sean Doyle, Shiloh Rules, Port City Playhouse

Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical

• Linda Swann, Camelot, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Costume Design in a Play

• Mary Wakefield, The Tempest, Rockville Little Theatre

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical

• Shemika Berry, The Wiz, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play

• Sally Cusenza, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage

Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical

• Beverly Hill van Joolen, 1776, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play

• Rachel Royall, Life with Father, Aldersgate Churtch Community Theatre

Outstanding Special Effects

• Joshua McKerrow, Kat McKerrow, Maya Wilcox, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Laurel Mill Playhouse

Winners for outstanding performances by an actor or actress.

Outstanding cameo in a musical

• Lydia Kivrak as ‘Grandma Tzeitel’, Fiddler on the Roof, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding cameo in a play

• Jeffrey Gangwisch as ‘James’, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Laurel Mill Playhouse

Outstanding featured actress in a musical

• Eben K. Logan as ‘Sarah’, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding featured actor in a musical

• Ryan Burke as ‘Dan’, Next to Normal, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding featured actress in a play

• Christina Enoch Kemmerer as ‘Player #1’, Shipwrecked, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding featured actor in a play (TIE)

• Chris Daileader as ‘Michal’, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage
• Robert Tucker as ‘Player #2’, Shipwrecked, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actress in a musical

• Emily Zickler as ‘Diana’, Next to Normal, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding lead actor in a musical

• Sayne-Kharyi Lewis as ‘Colehouse Walker’, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding lead actress in a play (TIE)

• Karen Grim as ‘Sarah Schorr’, Trying, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Mary-Anne Sullivan as ‘Dr. Katherine Brandt’, 33 Variations, Reston Community Players

Outstanding lead actor in a play

• Chad W. Fornwalt as ‘Katurian’, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage

Winners for outstanding achievement in overall production.

Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

• William T. Fleming, The Pillowman, Silver Spring Stage

Outstanding Choreography

• Darnell Morris and Eben K. Logan, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Music Direction

• Mayumi B. Griffie, Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Evan Hoffmann, Caroline or Change, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Gloria DuGan, Red, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Musical

• Ragtime, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Play

• Red, Elden Street Players

Wins sorted by theatre and show.

2nd Star Productions

• Camelot
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Linda Swann
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Joanne D. Wilson
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Jane B. Wingard and Gail Bagaria
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Jane B. Wingard
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Jane B. Wingard

Aldersgate Church Community Theatre

• Life with Father
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Rachel Royall

Colonial Players

• 1776
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Beverly Hill van Joolen
• Shipwrecked
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Robert Tucker as “Player #2”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Christina Enoch Kremmerer as “Player #1”
• Trying
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Karen Grim as “Sarah Schorr”

Dominion Stage

• Avenue Q
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Hector Lorenzini
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Jared Davis
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kevin DeMine

Elden Street Players

• Caroline or Change
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Evan Hoffmann
• Red
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Gloria DuGan
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Susan d. Garvey
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Mary Speed

Kensington Arts Theatre

• Next to Normal
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Ryan Burke as “Dan”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Emily Zickler as “Diana”
• Ragtime
  • Outstanding Choreography, Darnell Morris & Eben K. Logan
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Eben K. Logan as “Sarah”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Sayne-Kharyi Lewis as “Colehouse Walker”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Mayumi B. Griffie
  • Outstanding Musical

Laurel Mill Playhouse

• The Lieutenant of Inishmore
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Jeffrey Gangwisch as “James”
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Joshua McKerrow et al

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

• 33 Variations
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
• Twentieth Century
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, John Downing & Bill Glikbarg

Port City Playhouse

• Shiloh Rules
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Sean Doyle

Port Tobacco Players

• Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Richard Gilpin & Zachary Ball
• Fiddler on the Roof
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Lydia Kivrak as “Grandma Tzeitel”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Tommy Scott

Providence Players

• Is He Dead?
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Paul Hennesy & Mike Mattheisen

Reston Community Players

• 33 Variations
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Mary-Anne Sullivan as “Dr. Katherine Brandt”

Rockville Little Theatre

• The Tempest
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Mary Wakefield

Silver Spring Stage

• The Pillowman
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Chris Daileader as “Michal”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Chad W. Fornwalt as “Katurian”
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Sally Cusenza
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, William T. Fleming

Tantallon Community Theatre

• The Wiz
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Shemika Berry

Performing a big musical with a big cast like Big River in a small space is no small task. Greenbelt Arts Center’s production succeeds in a big way. It starts with Jen Retterer’s set design. Covering the theater’s walls are printouts of the text of pages and illustrations from “Huckleberry Finn,” drawing audience members into the world of Mark Twain’s novel before they ever reach their seats. Surrounding a painted backdrop showing a bucolic rural scene are Lydia Wallis’ striking black and white line drawings of trees and reeds, in front of which is a low platform that serves as Huck’s raft, among other purposes. Save for a modest number of set dressing pieces, that’s all that is needed to provide a sense of place and a functional environment for the action.

Retterer, it should be noted, is a triple threat in the production. Besides her work on the set and a brief appearance in Act II as a foolish young girl, she is an excellent, thoroughly believable Tom Sawyer, being a loyal pal to Huck, complicating everyone’s life with goofily complicated schemes, and ultimately showing great courage. Retterer sings strongly as well, particularly in Tom’s “Hand for the Hog,” and later projects a very different vocal quality in the foolish girl’s “Arkansas.”

The central character, of course, is Huck, played in an engaging aw shucks way by Mike Cullhane. Huck is a long, demanding role — he is offstage only for a brief scene in Act II — and Cullhane’s energy never flags. He transitions seamlessly from his narrations of the story into interactions with the other characters and back again, and he clearly shows Huck’s moral growth as he comes to recognize his responsibility for Jim and others in his world. Cullhane does not have a pure Broadway-style voice, but he sells his songs effectively. “I, Huckleberry Me” and his duets with Jim, the escaped slave who is Huck’s companion on the raft (“River in the Rain,” “Muddy Water,” and “Worlds Apart”) are notable, and Cullhane’s sound is very consistent with the character. His diction on spoken lines is a bit murky at times, however, and he resorts to tugging on his overall straps a little too frequently.

The dominant voice and presence on stage belong to Kevin Sockwell as Jim. Sockwell uses his strong, penetrating, expressive high baritone instrument to great effect, not only in his duets with Huck but also in the powerfully moving second act solo, “Free at Last.” Sockwell’s Jim at times has a knowing, ironic take on things and people around him. Jim’s loneliness, sadness, fear, and yearning for freedom also register vividly. In any case, this is a slave who one cannot imagine ever having been subservient.

There are several memorable small and large performances among the large supporting cast. Dan McMillan’s drunken rendition of “Guv’Ment” pegs Pap Finn as an early prototype of the Tea Party. Penny Martin is tack-sharp as Huck’s Bible-spouting nemesis, Miss Watson. Dayleen DeRiggs has a beautifully sung, mournful solo as a slave woman in “The Crossing.”

The most important supporting roles belong to the Duke (Brian Binney) and the King (David Weaver), two con men who Huck and Jim pick up along the river. Binney, a polished actor who makes the Duke’s pastiche of Shakespeare lines even sound somewhat like Shakespeare, leads the very silly Act II opening number “The Royal Nonesuch,” as the pair deludes the local rubes with a tale of a preposterous humanoid monster (scarcely less preposterous, Twain would no doubt be amused to discover, than what one can find on cable TV channels nowadays). The Duke also has a perhaps unintentionally amusing prop moment when he wields a pad of Post-It notes. His partner in crime, Weaver’s King, is as oily as can be as he tries to lift the inheritance of an innocent girl, Mary Jane Wilkes (Spencer Nelson). What’s most significant is the evolution of the King and the Duke, as Huck and the audience see them, from amusing grifters to casually evil men who think nothing of selling Jim and other slaves down the river for a few dollars. The contrast between these fake aristocrats and the natural aristocracy of Jim is one of the show’s strongest points.

Like many in the cast, Binney (also Judge Thatcher) and Weaver (also a doctor) play multiple roles, and Ginny Zanner’s colorful costume design keeps up with the frequent changes involved. Denim-based for the most part, with countrified plaid or down and dirty shirts as appropriate to various characters, the men’s costumes also include respectable dark suits for the upscale characters. The women’s outfits are mainly of the skirt and blouse variety, and are likewise suitable to the period.

Generally, Mary Lou Fisher’s direction keeps the production moving smoothly, with due attention to the spectators in the side seating areas as well as the main bank of seats. She makes occasional good use of the theater’s two side posts and side aisles in ensemble numbers. Given the number of people per square foot of playing space, there are moments in the full-cast numbers (e.g., “Do Ya Want To Go to Heaven?”) in which movement becomes more a matter of traffic management than choreography. While this is not a dance-heavy show, choreographer Kathleen Moors provides some nice moments, such as the opening tap routine featuring the delightful Isabella Dodro.

Chris Wells’ band, some members of which were on stage at times, conveyed Roger Miller’s country/blues/gospel-influenced score with fine timing and energy. They were not note-perfect at all times, but in context of this show, the occasional imperfections fit the down-home atmosphere and did not distract. There were also some strained or off-pitch vocal moments in a few of the ensemble numbers. Tom Zanner’s lighting design, while leaving actors in shadows on a few occasions, generally made good use of the space’s somewhat limited resources, and it was particularly effective in distinguishing the night scenes (typically done in blue light) from others.

As distinct from shows mounted by some of the larger, more abundantly resourced, groups the area, Big River was clearly a community theater production, with several family groups prominent among the cast and production staff. But it is a good illustration of the proposition that community theater can be very good theater, and that an intelligently conceived community production that its participants care about can have a quality result.

Director’s Notes

Welcome to the literary world of Mark Twain.

As you enter our book sit back and enjoy your trip from St. Petersburg, Missouri down the Big River past Jackson’s Island. Drift by St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois where the Ohio empties into the Mississippi, continue south past Tennessee and you will end up in Arkansas. On the way you will meet the characters Samuel Clemens created, drawing from his own background, to populate his novel “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.”

“Huck Finn is a child of his time, like the author who created him. Both character and author struggled to recognize and correct some of the wrongs of their society. Both learned to listen to the teachings of their sound hearts.” — The Glencoe Literature Library Study Guide For The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Big River uses an ensemble cast in which the actors play multiple roles. In this production, we have also used nontraditional casting. This allows some of our talented cast to appear in roles normally reserved for members of the opposite sex. As a member of the audience we ask you to suspend disbelief and see the characters as they are meant to be.

I fell in love with Big River when I saw a performance by Deaf West Theatre at Ford’s Theater in Washington. The roles were played by both hearing and deaf actors using spoken English and American Sign Language combined with dance and storytelling. The fluid and energetic motions were a perfect accompaniment to the lively and sometimes haunting music and lyrics of Roger Miller. If you ever have an opportunity to see this production I urge you to do so. You can also view some selections on YouTube.

Special thanks go to my Assistant Director, Lela Zanner Moors, and her daughter, our Choreographer, Katy Moors, for their help in bringing this book to life. Not only have they served behind stage, but you will also see them appear in today’s performance. A show I direct wouldn’t be complete without our Costumer, Ginny Zanner, who is a founding member of both GAC and MAD and can also be seen in the chorus. And to make the ‘family’ complete, Tommy Zanner, Ginny’s son, is our lighting designer.

A shout out also goes to our Set Designer, Jen Retterer, who created the book you are ‘reading’ and also took over the role of Tom Sawyer when one of our cast had to withdraw, and to our Producer, Beryl Feldman, for her invaluable assistance and being our ‘Universal Understudy’ and filling in wherever needed.

And finally, a great big HUG to the talented cast, crew and orchestra for making it possible to share this wonderful show with you. Now I can put the wet noodles away until the next show.

Cast

• Huck Finn: Mike Culhane
• Jim: Kevin Sockwell
• Tom Sawyer/Young Fool: Jen Retterer
• Judge Thatcher/Duke: Brian Binney
• King/Doctor/First Man: David Weaver
• Mary Jane Wilkes: Spencer Nelson
• Widow Douglas/Sally Phelps: Tri Whitehall
• Miss Watson/Tart/Chorus: Penny Martin
• Pap Finn/Sheriff Bell: Dan MacMillan
• Alice: Dayleen DeRiggs:
• Alice’s Daughter/Slave Woman/Chorus: Cheramie Julianne Jackson
• Alice’s Grandmother: Isabella Dodro
• Jo Harper/Joanna Wilkes: Erin Delaney
• Dick/Andy/Ben/Susan Wilkes: Beryl Feldman
• Strange Woman: Shirley Weaver
• Mark Twain/Lafe/Counselor Robinson/Harvey Wilkes/Silas Phelps: Brian Moors
• Simon: Kathleen Moors
• Slave Woman/Chorus: Katrina Dodro
• Slave Woman/Chorus: Olayinka Ebony Magnanimous
• Slave Woman/Chorus: Annette Landers
• Tart/Chorus: Becky Granatstein
• Tart/Chorus: Lelia Moors
• Bum/Chorus: Ginny Zanner

Orchestra

• Conductor: Christine Wells
• Fiddle/Violin: Anne Gardner, Mairead Alexander
• Harmonica: Michael K. Heney
• Guitar: Pete Pinocci
• Piano: Daniel Lu, Jonathan Hellerman
• String Bass: Glenn Harris
• Guitar: Tony Miller
• Percussion: Kevin Uleck, Rob Gersten
• Trombone: David Buckingham, Tom Jackson, Webster A. Rogers, Jr.
• Trumpet: Hal Gordon, Rich Sonnenschein
• Woodwinds: Steve Shivers

Production Staff

• Director: Mary Lou Fisher
• Assistant Director: Lelia Moors
• Music Director: Chris Wells
• Choreographer: Kathleen Moors
• Producer: Baryl Feldman
• Stage Manager: Laura Fisher
• Asst. Stage Manager: Scott Dodro
• Set Design: Jen Ritterer
• Lighting Design: Tom Zanner
• Sound Design: David Weaver
• Set Construction Lead: Fred Wells
• Set Painting Lead: Jen Retterer
• Costume Design: Ginny Zanner
• Wardrobe Mistress: Penny Martin
• Hair and Makeup Design: Susan Heney
• Set Construction and Painting: Trina Fisher, Gerald Martin, & the Company
• Lighting Technician: James Chatham
• Sound Technician: Reginald Cruz
• Program & Publications Design: Betsy Marks Delaney
• Program Content: Beryl Feldman & Mary Lou Fisher
• Photographer: Andrew Doorly Culhane
• Box Office/House Manager: Dottie Spivacke
• Original Program Cover Art: Lynda Wallis

Disclaimer: Greenbelt Arts Center provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

Fifteen companies received awards this year. The Arlington Players‘ production of A Little Night Music received the most awards of the musicals, with five, including Outstanding Musical. Fauquier Community Theatre received four awards for Into the Woods, as did Kensington Arts Theatre for Sunday in the Park with George. Providence Players received the most awards, with two plays (Side Man and You Can’t Take it With You) each receiving four awards. The Colonial Players production Going to St. Ives received three awards, including Outstanding Play. Fifteen companies received awards this year.

ShowBizRadio followed the ceremony live, the archive is available.

Winners for outstanding technical achievement

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Eleanor Dicks, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Robbie Snow, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Bette Williams, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical: Kevin Boyce, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play: Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Richard Perryman & Peter Fakoury, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Susan Kaplan, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Ryan Mudd, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Downing, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical: Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play: Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Nancy Daugherty, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Jane B. Wingard, Bloody Murder, 2nd Star Productions
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Kevin Garrett, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Outstanding Special Effects: Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Winners for outstanding performance by an actor or actress

• Outstanding cameo in a musical (TIE): Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes”, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Damascus Theatre Company AND Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist”, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Outstanding cameo in a play: Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston”, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Outstanding featured actress in a musical: Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman”, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding featured actor in a musical: Stephen Deininger as “Tateh”, Ragtime, Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Outstanding featured actress in a play: Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms”, The Dixie Swim Club, Port City Playhouse
• Outstanding featured actor in a play: John Shackelford as “Max Levene”, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding lead actress in a musical: Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett”, Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Outstanding lead actor in a musical: Fred Nelson as “Tevye”, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Outstanding lead actress in a play: Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame”, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Outstanding lead actor in a play: Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon”, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players

Winners for outstanding achievement in overall production

• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Carl Brandt Long, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Outstanding Choreography: Taurean Maray Barber, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical (TIE): Christopher Dykton, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players AND Craig Petinatti, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Edd Miller, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Outstanding Musical: A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Outstanding Play: Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Winners sorted by theatre and show

2nd Star Productions

• Bloody Murder
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Jane B. Wingard
• Fiddler on the Roof
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Fred Nelson as “Tevye”

Arlington Players

• A Little Night Music
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Christopher Dykton
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Bette Williams
  • Outstanding Music Direction, John-Michael d’Haviland
  • Outstanding Musical

Colonial Players

• Going to St. Ives
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Edd Miller
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame”
  • Outstanding Play

Damascus Theatre Company

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes”

Elden Street Players

• Flowers for Algernon
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon”

Fauquier Community Theatre

• Into the Woods
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Tim Kirk
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Richard Perryman & Peter Fakoury
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Tim Kirk
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Nancy Daugherty

Kensington Arts Theatre

• Night of the Living Dead, The Musical
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Kevin Boyce
• Sunday in the Park with George
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Eleanor Dicks
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Craig Pettinati
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kevin Garrett
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim

Laurel Mill Playhouse

• Ragtime
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Stephen Deininger as “Tateh”

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

• Heaven Can Wait
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, John Shackelford as “Max Levene”
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Downing
• Sweeney Todd
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett”

McLean Community Players

• Deathtrap
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Carl Brandt Long

Port City Playhouse

• The Dixie Swim Club
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms”

Port Tobacco Players

• The Sound of Music
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Ryan Mudd
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson

Providence Players

• Side Man
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Chip Gertzog
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Susan Kaplan
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog
• You Can’t Take it With You
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Robbie Snow
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Beth Harrison
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Beth Harrison
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog

Reston Community Players

• August Osage County
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston”

Tantallon Community Theatre

• The Color Purple
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Taurean Maray Barber

• 2nd Star Productions
• Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
• The Alliance Theatre
• The Arlington Players
• Capital City Players of DC
• Bowie Community Theatre
• Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Chevy Chase Players
• Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Damascus Theatre Company
• Dominion Stage
• Elden Street Players
• Fauquier Community Theatre
• Greenbelt Arts Center
• Hard Bargain Players
• Kensington Arts Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Little Theatre of Alexandria
• McLean Community Players
• Montgomery Playhouse
• Port City Playhouse
• Port Tobacco Players
• Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Prince William Little Theatre
• Providence Players of Fairfax
• Reston Community Players
• Rockville Little Theatre
• Rockville Musical Theatre
• St. Mark’s Players
• Silver Spring Stage
• Tantallon Community Players
• Vienna Theatre Company

The nominations are provided by category and then by theater.

The Award Presentation will be held on March 17th at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Tickets can be purchased for $15.50 at the Birchmere Box Office or through Ticketmaster (additional fees will apply). Last year the ceremony sold out, so order your tickets early!

In each of the thirty-eight categories, five nominees were selected based on the average scores of eight judges. In some categories, due to score ties, more than five nominees are announced. Nominations are provided in alphabetical order by nominee.

Nominations for outstanding technical achievements

Outstanding Set Design in a Musical

• Bill Brown & Chad Wheeler, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company
• Matt Karner, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk & Martha Lynch, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Russell Kopp, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Design in a Play

• John Coscia, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• John Downing, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• John Downing, Witness for the Prosecution, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Jane B. Wingard, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical

• Matt Karner & Joel Richon, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk & Kirk Noé, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Jim Korte & Bill Rippey, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company
• Ryan Mudd, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Joe Stine & John Merritt, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Construction in a Play

• John Coscia, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• John Downing, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• John Downing, Witness for the Prosecution, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Chip Gertzog et al, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Bernie Gmiter, Bob Schroth, Bill Glikbarg, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Timothy Hinton & David Johnson, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• John Merritt, To Kill A Mockingbird, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical

• Nancy Daugherty et al, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Jill Hanger, Rhonna Johnson, Betsy Stevens, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Ronna Johnson, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Jane B. Wingard, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Jane B. Wingard, Oklahoma, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Painting in a Play

• Erin Cumbo et al, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Port City Playhouse
• Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Mary Hutzler, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jane B. Wingard, Bloody Murder, 2nd Star Productions
• Jane B. Wingard et al, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical

• Sheila Draper, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Lindsey Hays, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• Ronna Johnson, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Maria Littlefield, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play

• Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Edd Miller, Chapter Two, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Kathy White, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Dinnie Whitson, Cathy Farnsworth, Christine Whitson, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Jane B. Wingard et al, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Properties in a Musical

• Avery Burns, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• Terri Fortney-Beinert, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Maria Littlefield, Meet Me in St. Louis, Damascus Theatre Company
• Richard Perryman et al, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Joanne D. Wilson, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Properties in a Play

• Emily Besuden, Jerry Gideon, Dick La Porte, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Mary Jo Ford & Alexandra Lee, August Osage County, Reston Community Theatre
• Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Susan Kaplan, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Robbie Snow et al, Sleuth, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Joanne D. Wilson, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical

• Kevin Boyce, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Garret R. Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Ben Levine, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• B. Keith Ryder, A Little Night Music, Arlington Players
• Tommy Scott, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play

• Ken & Patti Crowley, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Ken & Patti Crowley, Cantorial, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Frank Florentine & Shirley Panek, Chapter Two, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Bob Zeigler, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

• Keith Bell, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Kevin Garrett, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Matt Rowe, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Gerhard Straub, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

• Chris Alpiar, Equus, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Jamie Coupar, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Silver Spring Stage
• Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Stan Harris, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Janice Rivera, Cantorial, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical

• Pat Brennan, The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Pat Brennan, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Eleanor Dicks, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Grant Kevin Lane, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Susan Noé & Martha Lynch, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre

Outstanding Costume Design in a Play

• Patricia Kratzer et al, Enchanted April, Silver Spring Stage
• Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Robbie Snow, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Linda Swann, The Lion in Winter, 2nd Star Productions
• Beth Terranova, Cinderella Waltz, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Beth Terranova, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical

• Heather Bauer & Kaitelyn Bauer, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Kristina Friedgen, Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Eric Jones, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Tim Kirk & Rebecca Carver, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Larissa Norris, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play

• Laurie T. Freed & Cast, Enchanted April, Silver Spring Stage
• Beth Harrison, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Sheila Hyman & Shemika Berry, The Taming of the Shrew, Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Sue Pinkman, Lend Me A Tenor, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical

• Shemika Berry, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Kristina Friedgen, Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Malca Giblin, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Malca Giblin, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Bette Williams, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play

• Beth Harrison, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Chanukan Jane Lilburne, Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Robin Parker & Hannah Wolf, All the King’s Women, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Gina Quaye, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Arthur Rodger, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Bette Williams, Witness for the Prosecution, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Special Effects

• John Decker & Kevin Boyce, Night of the Living Dead, The Musical, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Chip Gertzog, You Can’t Take It With You, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Tim Kirk, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Keith Linville, Joe Stine, John Merritt, The Wizard of Oz, Port Tobacco Players
• Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Nominations for outstanding performances by an actor or actress

Outstanding cameo in a musical

• Joseph Aquilina as “Kyle,” Legally Blonde, Reston Community Players
• Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes,” Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Damascus Theatre Company
• Karen Batra as “Marge MacDougall,” Promises, Promises, The Arlington Players
• Erica Drezek as “Berthe,” Pippin, Greenbelt Arts Center
• Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist,” The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding cameo in a play

• Katherine Bisulca as “Sales Girl,” Red Scare on Sunset, Prince William Little Theatre
• Bob Burnett as “Beverly Carlton,” The Man Who Came to Dinner, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Carleigh Jones as “Doris,” The Hollow, Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Stuart Orloff as “Teen Charlie,” Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Yvonne Paretzky as “Addie,” The Little Foxes, Rockville Little Theatre
• Shelley Rochester as “Mrs. Winsley,” Stop Kiss, Silver Spring Stage
• Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players

Outstanding featured actress in a musical

• Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman,” A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Amy Dolan as “The Mother Abbess,” The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players
• Annie Ermlick as “Sister Mary Amnesia,” Nunsense, The Alliance Theatre
• Shanice Jones as “Sofia,” The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Molly Hicks Larson as “Paulette Buonofuonte,” Legally Blonde, Reston Community Players
• Anne Marie Pinto as “Petra,” A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players

Outstanding featured actor in a musical

• Stephen Deininger as “Tateh,” Ragtime, Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Michael J. Galizia as “Jud Fry,” Oklahoma, 2nd Star Productions
• Malcolm Lee as “Jimmy Early,” Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Gary Saddon as “Ali Hakim,” Oklahoma, 2nd Star Productions
• Stephen Yednock as “Nicely-Nicely Johnson,” Guys and Dolls, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding featured actress in a play

• Monica Garcia as “Mother McGee,” Cinderella Waltz, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Lorraine Magee as “Virginia,” Clean House, Elden Street Players
• Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Mattie Fae Aiken,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms,” The Dixie Swim Club, Port City Playhouse
• Shelley Rochester as “Costanza,” Enchanted April, Silver Spring Stage
• Lois A. Stanziani as “Helga ten Dorp,” Deathtrap, McLean Community Players

Outstanding featured actor in a play

• Chuck Dluhy as “Roma,” Glengary Glen Ross, Elden Street Players
• Michael Kharfen as “Levene,” Glengary Glen Ross, Elden Street Players
• Stuart Rick as “Benjamin Hubbard,” The Little Foxes, Rockville Little Theatre
• John Shackelford as “Max Levene,” Heaven Can Wait, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Kevin Wallace as “Victor Fleming,” Moonlight and Magnolias, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actress in a musical

• Madeline Botteri as “Monica,” Rooms, A Rock Romance, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Shawnee Louise Coleman-Lining as “Effie Melody White,” Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Andrea Gerald as “Cellie,” The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett,” Sweeney Todd, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Farrell Parker as “Dot/Marie,” Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding lead actor in a musical

• Ryan Burke as “Georges/George,” Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Eric Jones as “Ian,” Rooms, A Rock Romance, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Fred Nelson as “Tevye,” Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Gabriel T. Potter as “Freddy Benson,” Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Damascus Theatre Company
• Brent Stone as “Fredrik Egerman,” A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players

Outstanding lead actress in a play

• Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame,” Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Heather Quinn as “Dr. Cora Gage,” Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Lee Slivka as “Barbara Fordham,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Mary Suib as “Violet Weston,” August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Jo Sullivan as “Jennie Malone,” Chapter Two, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actor in a play

• Dann Alagna as “Zed,” Cinderella Waltz, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon,” Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Phil Hosford as “Ralph Wantage,” Frozen, Rockville Little Theatre
• Sandy Irving as “Richard Nixon,” Frost/Nixon, Greenbelt Arts Center
• Ryan Manning as “Max Levene,” Lend Me A Tenor, Reston Community Players

Nominations for outstanding achievement in overall production

Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

• Steve Lada, August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Steve Lada, Equus, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Carl Brandt Long, Deathtrap, McLean Community Players
• Carl Brandt Long, Man of La Mancha, McLean Community Players
• Kevin Robertson, The Taming of the Shrew, Castaways Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Choreography

• Richelle “Rikki” Howie, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Martha Lynch, Into the Woods, Fauquier Community Theatre
• Taurean Maray Barber, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• Vincent Musgrave, A Chorus Line, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Corinne Shumaker, The Music Man, Fauquier Community Theatre

Outstanding Music Direction

• LaVar Betts, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• John-Michael d’Haviland, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• John-Michael d’Haviland, Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• John-Michael d’Haviland, Spring Awakening, Dominion Stage
• David Rohde, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Brian Douglas, Fiddler on the Roof, 2nd Star Productions
• Christopher Dykton, A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Craig Petinatti, Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• Joshua Redford, Legally Blonde, Reston Community Players
• Charla Rowe, The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Gloria DuGan, Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Jimmy Gertzog, Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Ron Giddings, Moonlight and Magnolias, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Edd Miller, Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Andrew JM Regiec, August Osage County, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Musical

• A Little Night Music, The Arlington Players
• Dreamgirls, Dominion Stage
• Sunday in the Park with George, Kensington Arts Theatre
• The Color Purple, Tantallon Community Players
• The Sound of Music, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Play

• August Osage County, Reston Community Players
• Flowers for Algernon, Elden Street Players
• Going to St. Ives, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Moonlight and Magnolias, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Side Man, Providence Players of Fairfax

Nominations sorted by theatre and show

2nd Star Productions

4 productions received 14 nominations total

Bloody Murder

• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Jane B. Wingard

Fiddler on the Roof

• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Brian Douglas
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Fred Nelson as “Tevye”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Garret R. Hyde
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Joanne D. Wilson
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Jane B. Wingard

Oklahoma

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Michael J. Galizia as “Jud Fry”
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Gary Saddon as “Ali Hakim”
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Jane B. Wingard

The Lion in Winter

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Linda Swann
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Joanne D. Wilson
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Jane B. Wingard et al
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Jane B. Wingard
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Jane B. Wingard et al

Alliance Theatre

1 production received 1 nomination

Nunsense

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Annie Ermlick as “Sister Mary Amnesia”

Arlington Players

2 productions received 14 nominations total

A Little Night Music

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Grant Kevin Lane
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Christopher Dykton
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Annie Coffman as “Anne Egerman”
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Anne Marie Pinto as “Petra”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Bette Williams
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Brent Stone as “Fredrik Egerman”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: B. Keith Ryder
• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland
• Outstanding Musical
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Avery Burns
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Lindsey Hays
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Russell Kopp
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Keith Bell

Promises, Promises

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Karen Batra as “Marge MacDougall”

Castaways Repertory Theatre

1 production received 2 nominations

The Taming of the Shrew

• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Sheila Hyman & Shemika Berry
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Kevin Robertson

Colonial Players

4 productions received 15 nominations total

Chapter Two

• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Jo Sullivan as “Jennie Malone”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Frank Florentine & Shirley Panek
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Edd Miller

Cinderella Waltz

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Beth Terranova
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Monica Garcia as “Mother McGee”
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Dann Alagna as “Zed”

Going to St. Ives

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Beth Terranova
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Edd Miller
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Gina Quaye
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Lolita-Marie as “May N’Kame”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Heather Quinn as “Dr. Cora Gage”
• Outstanding Play

Moonlight and Magnolias

• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Ron Giddings
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Kevin Wallace as “Victor Fleming”
• Outstanding Play

Damascus Theatre Company

2 productions received 6 nominations total

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Jolene Oakes”
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Gabriel T. Potter as “Freddy Benson”

Meet Me in St. Louis

• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Maria Littlefield
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Jim Korte & Bill Rippey
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Maria Littlefield
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Bill Brown & Chad Wheeler

Dominion Stage

2 productions received 8 nominations total

Dreamgirls

• Outstanding Choreography: Richelle “Rikki” Howie
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Malcolm Lee as “Jimmy Early”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Malca Giblin
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Shawnee Louise Coleman-Lining as “Effie Melody White”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Larissa Norris
• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland
• Outstanding Musical

Spring Awakening

• Outstanding Music Direction: John-Michael d’Haviland

Elden Street Players

4 productions received 10 nominations total

Clean House

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Lorraine Magee as “Virginia”

Flowers for Algernon

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Stuart Orloff as “Teen Charlie”
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Gloria DuGan
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Arthur Rodger
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Matt Baughman as “Charlie Gordon”
• Outstanding Play
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Stan Harris

Glengary Glen Ross

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Chuck Dluhy as “Roma”
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Michael Kharfen as “Levene”

Rooms, A Rock Romance

• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: James Villarubia

Fauquier Community Theatre

3 productions received 13 nominations total

Into the Woods

• Outstanding Choreography: Martha Lynch
• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Susan Noe & Martha Lynch
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk & Rebecca Carver
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Richard Perryman et al
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Tim Kirk & Kirk Noe
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Tim Kirk
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk & Martha Lynch
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Nancy Daugherty et al
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Tim Kirk
• Outstanding Special Effects: Tim Kirk

The Man Who Came to Dinner

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Bob Burnett as “Beverly Carlton”

The Music Man

• Outstanding Choreography: Corinne Shumaker

Greenbelt Arts Center

2 productions received 2 nominations total

Frost/Nixon

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Sandy Irving as “Richard Nixon”

Pippin

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Erica Drezek as “Berthe”

Kensington Arts Theatre

3 productions received 18 nominations total

Night of the Living Dead, The Musical

• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Kevin Boyce
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Matt Rowe
• Outstanding Special Effects: John Decker & Kevin Boyce

Rooms, A Rock Romance

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Eric Jones as “Ian”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Madeline Botteri as “Monica”

Sunday in the Park with George

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Eleanor Dicks
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Craig Pettinati
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Malca Giblin
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Ryan Burke as “Georges/George”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Farrell Parker as “Dot/Marie”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Ben Levine
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Eric Jones
• Outstanding Music Direction: David Rohde
• Outstanding Musical
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Matt Karner & Joel Richon
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: Matt Karner
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Kevin Garrett
• Outstanding Special Effects: Jordan Rose & Doe B. Kim

Laurel Mill Playhouse

2 productions received 2 nominations total

Ragtime

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Stephen Deininger as “Tateh”

The Hollow

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Carleigh Jones as “Doris”

Little Theatre Of Alexandria

5 productions received 15 nominations total

All the King’s Women

• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Robin Parker & Hannah Wolf

Cantorial

• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Ken & Patti Crowley
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Janice Rivera

Heaven Can Wait

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: John Shackelford as “Max Levene”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Chanukan Jane Lilburne
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Downing
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Downing
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Mary Hutzler

Sweeney Todd

• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Kristina Friedgen
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Jennifer Lyons Pagnard as “Mrs. Lovett”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Kristina Friedgen

Witness for the Prosecution

• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Bette Williams
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Downing
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Downing

Mclean Community Players

2 productions received 7 nominations total

Deathtrap

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Lois A. Stanziani as “Helga ten Dorp”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Bob Zeigler
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Emily Besuden, Jerry Gideon, Dick La Porte
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Bernie Gmiter, Bob Schroth, Bill Glikbarg
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Dinnie Whitson, Cathy Farnsworth, Christine Whitson
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Carl Brandt Long

Man of La Mancha

• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Carl Brandt Long

Port City Playhouse

2 productions received 2 nominations total

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Erin Cumbo, et al

The Dixie Swim Club

• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Vernadette Simms”

Port Tobacco Players

3 productions received 17 nominations total

The Sound of Music

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Pat Brennan
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Amy Dolan as “The Mother Abbess”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Musical: Tommy Scott
• Outstanding Musical
• Outstanding Properties in a Musical: Terri Fortney-Beinert
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Ryan Mudd
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Sheila Draper
• Outstanding Set Design in a Musical: John Merritt, Ryan Mudd, Ben Simpson
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Jill Hanger, Rhonna Johnson, Betsy Stevens

The Wizard of Oz

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical: Pat Brennan
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical: Heather Bauer & Kaitelyn Bauer
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical: Joe Stine & John Merritt
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical: Ronna Johnson
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical: Ronna Johnson
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Gerhard Straub
• Outstanding Special Effects: Keith Linville, Joe Stine, John Merritt

To Kill A Mockingbird

• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Merritt

Prince William Little Theatre

1 production received 1 nomination

Red Scare on Sunset

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Katherine Bisulca as “Sales Girl”

Providence Players

3 productions received 19 nominations total

Side Man

• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Jimmy Gertzog
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
• Outstanding Play
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Susan Kaplan
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Chip Gertzog et al
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Kathy White
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog

Sleuth

• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Robbie Snow et al

You Can’t Take it With You

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Robbie Snow
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Coscia
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog
• Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Coscia
• Outstanding Special Effects: Chip Gertzog

Reston Community Players

3 productions received 15 nominations total

August Osage County

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Mark Yeager as “Beverly Weston”
• Outstanding Direction of a Play: Andrew JM Regiec
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Gayle Nichols-Grimes as “Mattie Fae Aiken”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Lee Slivka as “Barbara Fordham”
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Mary Suib as “Violet Weston”
• Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Ken & Patti Crowley
• Outstanding Play
• Outstanding Properties in a Play: Mary Jo Ford & Alexandra lee
• Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Timothy Hinton & David Johnson
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Steve Lada

Legally Blonde

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Joseph Aquilina as “Kyle”
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Joshua Redford
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Molly Hicks Larson as “Paulette Buonofuonte”

Lend Me A Tenor

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Ryan Manning as “Max Levene”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Sue Pinkman

Rockville Little Theatre

2 productions received 3 nominations total

Frozen

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Phil Hosford as “Ralph Wantage”

The Little Foxes

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Yvonne Paretzky as “Addie”
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Stuart Rick as “Benjamin Hubbard”

Rockville Musical Theatre

1 production received 1 nomination

A Chorus Line

• Outstanding Choreography: Vincent Musgrave

Silver Spring Stage

3 productions received 5 nominations total

Beauty Queen of Leenane

• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jamie Coupar

Enchanted April

• Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Patricia Kratzer et al
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Shelley Rochester as “Costanza”
• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Laurie T. Freed & Cast

Stop Kiss

• Outstanding Cameo in a Play: Shelley Rochester as “Mrs. Winsley”

Taking Flight Theatre Company

1 production received 2 nominations

Equus

• Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Chris Alpiar
• Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography: Steve Lada

Tantallon Community Theatre

2 productions received 9 nominations total

Guys and Dolls

• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Stephen Yednock as “Nicely-Nicely Johnson”

The Color Purple

• Outstanding Cameo in a Musical: Brenda Parker as “Church Soloist”
• Outstanding Choreography: Taurean Maray Barber
• Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Charla Rowe
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Shanice Jones as “Sofia”
• Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical: Shemika Berry
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: Andrea Gerald as “Cellie”
• Outstanding Music Direction: LaVar Betts
• Outstanding Musical

• Incorruptible, September 2012 Schedule
• Frost/Nixon, November – December 2012 Schedule
• Superior Donuts, February – March 2013 Schedule
• Big River, April – May 2013 Schedule
• Into the Woods, May – June 2013 Schedule

Schedule is subject to change due to performance rights conflicts or other issues.

In 1963, a recent college graduate named Charles Webb decided that he was not yet ready to be a man or a mensch, so he bypassed working for money and wrote a dirty book, cunningly titled The Graduate. It was, for that era, the 50 Shades Of Grey of its day. Oh dear…what is polite society supposed to do with such a book? Make it into a hit movie and cultural yardstick for the era. Right?…Of course I’m right.

Lacking talent, intelligence and testicular fortitude, theatrical poobahs of the early 21st century, too fearful of attempting to produce original work, dreamed up a scheme requiring famous, but aging, actresses to come to Broadway and appear stark, raving naked!!!!…in an adaptation called…ta da…. The Graduate.

Your reviewer is a bit of a puritan about these things. She has nothing personal against naked people. Some of her best friends are naked. Even she was naked once. What she has trouble with is the memory of naked people. From here on out, any mention of the name Rachel Duda and your reviewer’s response will be, “I know what she looks like naked.”

The image of the lovely and dumpling shaped Ms. Duda burned into the farthest reaches of your reviewer’s pea brain comes courtesy of the Greenbelt Arts Center and its production of The Graduate. The Graduate is really a very sophisticated send up of the social transition of the mid 1960’s from country club youth dances and cotillions to youth disaffection and rebellion and GAC’s Producer/Director Jeffery Lesniak reflects that sophistication here.

The immediate problem with the show is the absence of a set designer. It is the reviewer’s understanding that the set was created and built by the actors at the last minute…so all of that is forgiven. No further discussion about that. But the music is pure Paul Simon and Arthur Garfunkel with bit of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. But no “Mrs. Robinson,” the Oscar-winning theme of the film.

Benjamin Braddock (Zachary Hamilton) is the pride and joy of his upwardly social, upper middle class suburban parents. Mr. and Mrs. Braddock (Bob Kleinberg, Mendy Ault) are the portrait of success…lovely home, in ground swimming pool, country club membership, elite social standing and fully stocked bar. They are actually very nice people living the lives expected of them in 1963. Braddock is a lawyer and Olive is a homemaker. Ault transports us back into time with her helmet headed coif (Denise A. Levien) and brocaded apparel (Dory Gean Cunningham) illustrating her satisfaction with and achievement of her goal..to marry well and raise enviable children and Braddock is an upstanding man even if he is an annoying father. Ben is as rumpled as his father is sharp; but whereas Mr. Braddock’s self-satisfaction is grounded in genuine achievement, Ben is a supercilious twit dependent on that success as he insults his father for it.

Benjamin returns home from college graduation to a liquor soaked party by the pool in his honor. His unexplained disaffection is a puzzle to his proud parents, but a lure to his father’s business partner’s wife, Mrs. Robinson (Rachel Duda).

Mrs. Robinson, long neglected by her husband and ruminating over the emptiness of her nest, takes comfort in alcohol until she sees the opportunity for some good old-fashioned nookie in her rebel without a cause. Though Mrs. R. seems like the aggressor in the encounter in Benjamin’s bedroom, it is Ben who asks her directly if she is trying to seduce him…..duh…. She claims not to be seducing him, but she’s stark, raving naked!!!! while she disclaims any interest in him.

Ben is angry, alienated and antagonistic towards his parents and his life; his consternation at Mrs. R.’s advance evolves into intrigue and a desire to relieve himself of his apparent virginity.

Mrs. R. and Ben spend the summer in hourly rate hotel room bliss until the Robinson daughter, Elaine (Laura McGee), returns from Berkeley…of course. Normally, this shouldn’t be a problem except that horny Ben has convinced himself that he is in love with the insipid Elaine. Hijinks ensue, but all is not well that ends well.

The show seems to be an anachronism, but its theme of college graduation and the diffidence of youth embarking on adult independence is very au courant. Ben, in his desire and attempt to bind his self-image to the Pepsi Generation, has the drive to leave home and see what life will bring him serendipitously. He discovers he does not care for blue-collar work….but he doesn’t care for any work; so he returns home to his childhood room and Mrs. Robinson, whose husband is zonked out on sleeping pills every night. It seems that each generation has its boomerangs.

The two family conflagration that erupts when Ben and Mrs. R. are found out is embarrassing and dispiriting. Mr. R. is the infuriated,liquor soaked, barbiturate zonked cuckold. Mrs. R. is the discounted woman having lost both her husband and her lover. Elaine, for the first time, realizes that not only is life not so simple and uncomplex, but that she is the complication in more ways than one. The Braddock parents are mortified and afraid for their standing among the neighbors as they gamely try family therapy in an attempt to blame themselves for Benjamin’s self-destructive ennui. And Benjamin, in his conceit, wants what he wants, whether he knows just what that is or not.

Ault is sympathetic in the extreme when she moves from contented mother to undeserved, blame taking guilt. She is sincere and genuinely baffled by the turn her perfect life has taken; but she is never judgmental as might be expected considering the era. It is hard to know here how close Mrs. Braddock and Mrs. Robinson are to each other. It is the relationship between the two husbands that matters but the effects of all this mishigas on the two lawyers and their partnership is never made clear.

Mrs. Robinson is aggressive and downright predatory, but Duda’s interpretation is sympathetic. She is a soft dumpling of a woman trapping her prey with questions without easy answers in her sugary, velvet voice. She is a naked prosecutor questioning her subject into a corner from which he can’t escape. Once Mrs. R. achieves what she wants, she discovers she has created a monster who is turning on her…an immature and self-destructive Frankenstein who won’t see beyond the limit of his own tumescence.

Zachary Hamilton starts out tentatively, but turns in a canny performance as Benjamin. He keeps his panties on. His conceited disdain graduates into galling insistence as he pursues the daughter at the expense of the mother, who does have a genuine affection for him even if there is nothing of interest to talk about with him.

Lesniak preserves the sophistication of the text while his actors give body…no pun intended…and warmth to the story at hand. There are no lessons to be learned here and certainly no morals to be taken. By today’s standard, this is reality show fare dressed up as art and nothing shocking or unbelievable is occurring at all. The ending is a let down, but that seems what was intended all along. GAC’s production is good but the film is still The Graduate to see.

Photo Gallery

Mrs Robinson (Rachel Duda) begins her assignation at the Taft Hotel with young Benjamin Braddock (Zachary Hamilton).	Benjamin Braddock (Zachary Hamilton) and Elaine Robinson (Heather Martin) discuss their futures.
Benjamin Braddock (Zachary Hamilton) attempts to kidnap Elaine (Heather Martin) from her wedding, while Mrs Robinson (Rachel Duda) intervenes.

Photos by Jeff Lesniak

Cast

• Benjamin Braddock: Zachary Hamilton
• Mr. Braddock: Bob Kleinberg
• Mrs. Braddock: Mendy Ault
• Mr. Robinson: Aref Dajani
• Mrs. Robinson: Rachel Duda
• Elaine Robinson: Heather Martin (Laura McGee (May 4, 5, 6))
• Desk clerk, Bartender: Nigel Parkinson, Jr.
• Receptionist, Stripper, Psychiatrist: Jennifer Harvey
• Bar Patron, Priest: Phil Brandis
• Bar Patron: Brian Lynch

Crew

• Producer, Director, Technical Design: Jeffery Lesniak
• Stage Manager: Wynne Kleinberg
• Costume Design: Dory Gean Cunningham
• Hair/Makeup Design: Denise A. Levien

Disclaimer: Greenbelt Arts Center provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. This musical tells the story of Charlemagne’s son Pippin and Pippin’s quest to find meaning and fulfillment in his life.

Pippin (Ben Harris) had some difficulty in sustaining the high notes and at one point seemed to go through a voice change as he struggled to stay on key. His love interest Catherine (Jen Retterer) gave a fairly strong performance, but may have had some mic problems, as her voice simply disappeared a few times in the middle of a song. Catherine and Pippin did not seem as comfortable with each other as they perhaps should have been. We needed to see more growth in their relationship as they got closer with time. Missing that closeness made the show’s ending a bit weaker than it could have been.

King Charles of the holy Roman Empire was played perfectly by Brian Binney. His voice was clear and could be heard above the live orchestra. His expressions were great and his relationship with both Pippin (purposefully distant) and Fastrata and Lewis (alternately wary and disgusted) were believable and appropriate. Berthe, Pippin’s Grandmother was played with much enthusiasm by Erica Drezek. Her character is fun and lighthearted which Drezek managed to create.

The Leading Player was fairly devious. Hana Cai played the role with deviousness and cunning. She was perhaps a bit standoffish during some scenes, but overall she was believable. Her voice too struggled with staying on key.

Director Franklin Akers made a few decisions that were odd. One was to move a noisy wheeled platform out for Catherine and Pippin to sit on during “Love Song.” Why not have them on the floor, or just a bench if the sight lines preclude sitting on the floor? My least favorite decision was the last bit of the show when one character protected another character from continuing his legacy.

One disappointment in this production was the choreography. It was uneven, with just a few numbers utilizing the chorus effectively, such as “War Is a Science” and “The Finale.” One disappointment was that Berthe didn’t interact with her “men” until late in her song, so they were more distracting than adding to the scene. There were also players who did not know their dance steps and appeared very stiff.

Staging the show was also interesting. The audience was seated on three sides of the playing area, and there were many moments when the view from the side areas were blocked by cast members. One notable time was Berthe’s song “No Time At All.” You need to sit in the center seats if you’d like to participate as the lyrics weren’t visible to the sides. Set Designer Betsy Marks Delaney made good use of the area. She kept things simple, but with attention to detail so that you did not have to stretch your imagination to find out where you were location wise. Alison Rollins’ costumes were quite nice, mostly appearing authentic to the medieval time period.

In general, The Greenbelt Arts Center’s Pippin was an uneven performance with poor choreography, but believable acting made for a fun evening.

Director’s Notes

“Join us,” the Leading Player exhorts, as this fantastic and schizophrenic play begins. She goes on: “We have magic to do….romance… hearts to warm…as we go along our way.”

Following this, Pippin outlines a plan to become extraordinary, to find some great meaning too his life. And, surely as the oxymorons and anachronisms mount up, we get the feeling that everyone is dreaming.

And isn’t that, indeed, what life is like for most of us? In youth we dream dreams and establish grand plans which often fail to materialize. “Things never work out the way you expect them to” states one of the players.

So, Pippin is ME…and YOU. Pippin is Everyman (or, as a flaming feminist, I would say Everyperson.)

But what does actually happen is often far better than what we had planned…And that is what happens for Pippin. That extraordinary thing he seeks is actually belonging…. caring… loving. He doesn’t suspect this as he starts out, and he is not even sure about it when he finds it at the end. it will make time for him to come to terms with it, as it has with me… and maybe you. We learn that love is everything!

No grande finale, no fireworks, no fame or fortune…just peace. We would wish this for each of you, and I fervently hope that is what this production brings home to its audience.

Thank you for coming.

-Franklin Akers

Photo Gallery

Charles (Brian Binney) and Pippin (Ben Harris)	Troupe Member (Kristin Peck), Pippin (Ben Harris), Fastrada/Troupe Member (Cheramie Julianne Jackson), Troupe Member (Damia Torhagen)
Leading Player (Hana Cai) and Pippin (Ben Harris)	Theo (Jason Kalshoven) and Pippin (Ben Harris)
Pippin (Ben Harris) and Catherine (Jen Retterer)

Photos by Stephen Yednock

Cast

• Pippin: Ben Harris
• Leading Player: Hana Cai
• Charles: Brian Benney
• Lewis: William Privott
• Fastrada: Cheramie Jackson
• Berthe: Erica Drezek
• Catherine: Jen Retterer
• Theo: Jason Kalshoven
• Troupe: Mike Culhane, James Kalshovan, Alex Meyer-Stokes, Rebecca Hall, Kristin Peck, David Scharton, Damia Torhagen

Production Team

• Lead Producer: Stephen P. Yednock
• Asst. Producers: Eliot Malumuth, Bill Jones
• Director: Franklin Akers
• Asst. Director: Kathleen Alvania
• Music Director: Juliana Marin
• Choreographer: Renee
• Stage Manager: Kristi Gardner
• Rehearsal Pianists: Debbie Grossman, Lisa Sedares, Will Derr, Daniel Lu
• Piano: Lisa Sedres, Daniel Lu, Will Derr
• Flute: Hayley North
• Clarinet/Recorder: Will Derr
• Percussion: Jim Hoffman, Rob Gerston, Danny Walsh
• Bass Guitar: Rob Weaver
• Costume Design: Alison Rollins
• Make-up: Amanda Aslam, Jewel Frazier
• Set Design: Betsy Marks Delaney
• Set Construction: Brian Binney, Scott Bringen, Fred Wells, Andy Culhane, Mike Culhane, John Culhane, Candy Culhane, Marc Hall, James Kalshovan, Jason Kelshovan, Alex Meyer-Stokes
• Set Painting: Erica Drezek, Jen Retterer, Damia Torhagen, Kristi Gardner, Ben Harris, Betsy Marks Delaney
• Banner Design/Painting: Jen Retterer, Damia Tohagen, Cheramie Jackson, Fred Wells
• Lighting Design: Jeff Poretsky
• Lighting Asst/Board Operator: Liana Olear
• Sound Design: David Weaver
• Sound Board Operators: Eliot Malumuth, Scott Bringen, Stephen Yednock
• Props: Melanie Hall, Carolyn Cornelius
• Business Manager: Bill Jones
• Logo Design: Peg Yednock
• Program: Eliot Malumuth, Stephen Yednock
• Publicity/Program Design: Betsy Marks Delaney
• House Manager: Dottie Spivacke

Disclaimer: Greenbelt Arts Center provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

Help Wanted!!! Are you (or do you know) an accompanist who is available from now till the end of March to work on Pippin? 10 performances at the Greenbelt Arts Center. Small stipend is available.

Send an email to Betsy Marks Delaney at info -at- greenbeltartscenter.org.

The first thing Greenbelt Arts Center did right was to select Paula Vogel’s brilliant 1997 script to produce. Long before the Penn State scandal, before the investigations of pedophilia in the Catholic church had fully gathered steam, Vogel wrote this complex, funny, sometimes terrifyingly disturbing story of a 45-year-old uncle’s relationship with his 11-18-year-old niece. Vogel won a Pulitzer for her efforts, deserved at least in part because she presents the characters’ actions as part of a deeply human relationship, albeit a distorted and damaging one, not simply as a Manichean tale of abuser and victim. No one’s humanity is slighted, and the script holds out possibility of understanding, perhaps even a degree of forgiveness, for even the most flawed of people.

Lil’ Bit, the protagonist and narrator of this memory play, lives in the midst of a family that is not only dysfunctional but one in which everyone and everything is sexualized, down to the names they are called. It is a family that devalues all that the bright, adventurous, interesting Lil’ Bit wants to be, focusing only on her prematurely large breasts. Only Uncle Peck supports her ambitions to talk about history and literature, to go to college, to live in a wider world. He shows her the promise of freedom by teaching her to drive, a gift that lasts into her adulthood. But while he is teaching her, he is touching her, leading up to what he patiently hopes will be a time when they are fully lovers. He is simultaneously the best thing and the worst thing in her life.

As Lil’ Bit, Elizabethann English moves seamlessly between a ruefully ironic sensibility as an adult, looking back on what has happened and what it has meant to her, and as the girl she had been at various ages and various stages of her relationship with Peck. She has a particularly nice moment when, at the end of a scene in which Peck is doing a basement photo shoot of the then-13 year old Lil’ Bit, he tells her that he loves her. English breaks into a transforming smile at the thought of being loved by the one person in her world who pays attention to who she is.

As written by Vogel and portrayed by English, Lil’ Bit is not a passive victim. She actively collaborates in her relationship with Peck, setting limits — which Peck is careful not to transgress — but allowing, even encouraging, things to occur that she knows are wrong. Vogel does not use this facet of Lil’ Bit’s character to excuse Peck’s actions — he is an adult who has better reason than a young girl to know the locations of lines that must not be crossed — but Vogel does not shrink from the sight of a girl testing the power her sexuality can exert over a man. Nor does she pretend that, while Lil’ Bit survives the relationship with Peck, she comes away unscathed. By the end of the play, Lil’ Bit concedes that she is unable to live in her body, only above the neck and in her car. As interpreted by English, Lil’ Bit appears more sanguine about this than one might expect.

Other characters try without success to understand Peck, whose parts do not seem to add up to a coherent whole. He is a helpful man around the house and the community. He drinks too much. He had apparently searing experiences during World War II that he won’t talk about. He was a disappointment to his mother. He can form sexual relationships with children (not only with Lil’ Bit; there is a wrenching monologue in which he describes his grooming of Cousin Bobby on a fishing trip) but not adults. He may have been abused as a child himself. He speaks of a fire in the heart that cannot be quenched. Vogel’s writing provides a rich lode of possibilities for an actor to dig into.

Unfortunately, Bill Brekke is able to do little more than skim the surface. His consistently low-key, quiet, somewhat passive, one-level performance misses opportunities to portray the character’s cleverness, seductiveness, sweetness, self-deception, and nearly bottomless emptiness. Near the end of the play, for example, when Lil’ Bit decisively rejects him, he briefly lies down and then goes for a drink, but a sense of his being so totally crushed that he will drink himself to death over the next several years is lacking.

A three-person ensemble rounds out the cast. Jill Goodrich’s roles include Lil’ Bit’s mother and Aunt Mary (Peck’s wife). As the former, she gives a three-part, progressively drunker and progressively funnier, monologue on how women should drink. As Aunt Mary, she speaks poignantly of her patient understanding of her errant and damaged husband, blaming Lil’ Bit for seducing him. Both women know there is something very wrong going on between Lil’ Bit and Peck, and — perhaps in this way not too unlike supposedly responsible officials of academic or religious institutions — take no action to stop it. Jessica Powers-Heaven portrays Lil’ Bit’s sexually put-upon grandmother, who knows her husband asks only that she put food on the table and keep the bed covers rolled down. Ric Andersen has highly effective comic turns as Lil’ Bit’s high-decibel, vulgar, sexist, dirty old man of a grandfather and a short, shy, persistent boy trying unsuccessfully to get Lil’ Bit to dance with him.

The Greenbelt Arts Center space is a small black box, and the setting for the play is appropriately simple, consisting of a dinner table, a liquor stand, and a bench serving as a car and a hotel bed. The set is augmented by sporadic slide projections of period cars and, most effectively, of interspersed photos of Lil’ Bit and Vargas-style pinups in the photo shoot scene. The lighting works well in establishing and changing scenes in the various playing areas, and a well conceived and executed sound design provides a good sense of the period’s musical soundtrack (the all-too-appropriate “Young Girl, Get Out of My Mind” makes an appearance in the pre-show music, for example).

The play is set in the Beltsville area of Prince Georges County, not far from Greenbelt. Lil’ Bit and most of her Maryland family sometimes speak with Southern accents, while Uncle Peck, who hails from South Carolina, does not. Having lived in Prince George’s County during the time covered by the play (late 60s/early 70s), I don’t recall hearing that many accents of this sort, but this counts as merely a quibble.

As a most creditable production of a top-notch script, this show deserves a larger house than it has drawn during the first two weekends of its four-week run. Even for theater goers based in Virginia or DC, the commute to Greenbelt is not that long. It will be worth your trip.

Director’s Notes

This production marks a homecoming of sorts for How I Learned to Drive. The play’s references to the area including the Beltsville Agricultural Farms, Route 1, and the Beltway put Greenbelt squarely in Lil’ Bit’s backyard. In addition to its geographic proximity, GAC is an ideal space to put up this show. The intimate space of the black box allows makes this a very exciting place to mount a show that is both subtle and powerful, and connect with the audience along the way.

It was as an audience member that I first fell in love with this play. I was working at a summer theater during college, and How I Learned to Drive was the last show of our season. It was the only show that summer that I wasn’t involved with on some level, so I was able to enjoy opening night with the same fresh eyes as the rest of the audience. By the end of that performance I felt both exhilarated and totally shattered. I sat through every performance of that run, finding something new to enjoy each time.

The layers of comedy and depths of tragedy that Paula Vogel probes as the play unfolds provoke myriad responses in audience members. No two people will react to this play and its characters in the same way. I encourage you to share your reactions with others after the show, you may be surprised what others were thinking. In the meantime, thank you for coming to the show, and enjoy the ride.

Photo Gallery

Photos by Heather Benjamin

Cast

• Lil’ Bit: Elizabethann English
• Uncle Peck: Bill Brekke
• Male Greek Chorus: Ric Andersen
• Female Greek Chorus: Jill Goodrich
• Teenage Greek Chorus: Jessica Powers-Heaven

Production Team

• Director: Patrick Miller
• Producer: Julia Morrissey
• Assistant Director: Heather Benjamin
• Stage Manager: Kevin O’Connell
• Assistant Stage Manager: Caroline Duffy
• Set Designer: Patrick Miller
• Lighting Designer: Jeffery Lesniak
• Lighting Assistant: Jacinda Shelly
• Costumes: Melanie Papasian and Cast
• Sound Designer: Kevin O’Connell
• Projection Design: J. Michael Griggs
• Program/Poster Design: Betsy Marks Delaney
• House Manager: Dotty Spivacke

Disclaimer: Greenbelt Arts Center provided two complimentary media tickets to ShowBizRadio for this review.

• Aldersgate Church Community Theatre
• The Alliance Theatre
• The Arlington Players
• Capital City Players of DC
• Bowie Community Theatre
• Castaways Repertory Theatre
• Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Chevy Chase Players
• Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Damascus Theatre Company
• Dominion Stage
• Elden Street Players
• Fauquier Community Theatre
• Greenbelt Arts Center
• Hard Bargain Players
• Kensington Arts Theatre
• Laurel Mill Playhouse
• Little Theatre of Alexandria
• McLean Community Players
• Montgomery Playhouse
• Port City Playhouse
• Port Tobacco Players
• Prince George’s Little Theatre
• Prince William Little Theatre
• Providence Players of Fairfax
• Reston Community Players
• Rockville Little Theatre
• Rockville Musical Theatre
• St. Mark’s Players
• Silver Spring Stage
• Tantallon Community Players
• Vienna Theatre Company

In each of the thirty-eight categories, five nominees were selected based on the average scores of eight judges. In some categories, due to score ties, more than five nominees are announced. Nominations are provided in alphabetical order by nominee. The nominations are provided by category and then by theater.

The Award Presentation willbe held on March 11th at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Tickets can be purchased for $15.50 at the Birchmere Box Office or through Ticketmaster (additional fees will apply).

In 2012, 132 shows are scheduled for adjudication across the thirty-three participating WATCH member companies.

Nominations for outstanding technical achievements

Outstanding Set Design in a Musical

• Melissa Gilpin & John Merritt, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players
• Mark Hamberger, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Grant Kevin Lane, Thrill Me, Elden Street Players
• Myke Taister, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• James Villarrubia, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Set Design in a Play

• Amanda Acker, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• John Coscia et al, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Chip Gertzog & John Coscia, Shadow Box, Providence Players of Fairfax
• C. Evans Kirk & Dan Remmers, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Andrew JM Regiec, The Twilight of the Golds, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical

• Sara Birkhead, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Chris Feldmann, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jim Korte et al, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• John Merritt, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players
• James Villarrubia et al, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players

Outstanding Set Construction in a Play

• John Coscia & Chip Gertzog, Shadow Box, Providence Players of Fairfax
• John Coscia et al, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Chris Feldmann, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• John Merritt, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, Port Tobacco Players
• Arthur Pleasants et al, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Dan Remmers, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical

• Erin Cumbo, Oliver, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Malca Giblin et al, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Kevin O’Dowd, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Cathy Rieder & James Villarrubia, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Cathy Rieder, Sabrina Begley, Maggie Cotter, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• April Dawn Weimer et al, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Painting in a Play

• Mary Hutzler, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Ronna Johnson, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, Port Tobacco Players
• Karl Meier & Kate Meier, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Kevin O’Dowd, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Melanie Papasian, Translations, Rockville Little Theatre
• Kate Roehr, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Christa Westall, The Twilight of the Golds, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical

• Nancyanne Burton, Oliver, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Marian Holmes & Russell Wyland, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Dawne LeKang, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Maria Littlefield, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Nancy McLaughlin et al, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Bea and Jerry Morse & Barbara Wilson, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Joe Stine & John Merritt, Willy Wonka, Port Tobacco Players
• April Dawn Weimer & John Merritt, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Play

• Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark, Translations, Rockville Little Theatre
• Ingrid Helvig David, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Lindsey Hays, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Evan Hoffmann, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Bea and Jerry Morse, Moonlight and Magnolias, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Properties in a Musical

• Derek Critzer & Dawne LeKang, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Mary Jo Ford, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Judy Kee & Margaret Snow, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Maria Littlefield, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Elli Swink, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Properties in a Play

• Avery Burns, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark, Translations, Rockville Little Theatre
• Rebecca & John Johnson, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jessie Roberts, Loose Knit, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Nicole Zuchetto, Rabbit Hole, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical

• Franklin C. Coleman, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Ryan Desmond, 42nd Street, The Arlington Players
• Tom Epps, Thrill Me, Elden Street Players
• Noam Lautman, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Rick Swink, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play

• AnnMarie Castrigno, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Ken & Patti Crowley , Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Ken & Patti Crowley, The Twilight of the Golds, Reston Community Players
• Jennifer Lyman, Almost Maine, Vienna Theatre Company
• Liz Owens & Nancy Owens, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

• Keith Bell, 42nd Street, The Arlington Players
• David Correia & David Hale, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• David Correia, Oliver, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Bill Johnson, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Kenny Neal & Daniel Tobiassen, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Vitol Wiacek, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

• Ben Allen, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Wes Bedsworth, The Diviners , Colonial Players of Annapolis
• William Chrapsynski, Moonlight and Magnolias, Reston Community Players
• Jonathan Powers, Almost Maine, Vienna Theatre Company
• Alan Wray, The Seagull, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical

• Mary Ayala-Bush, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Michelle Bogert, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Kevin Lane, Nine , The Arlington Players
• Charlotte Marson & Judy Whelihan, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Costume Design in a Play

• Lory Levitt & McKenna Kelly, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Susan Schulman et al, Romeo and Juliet, Silver Spring Stage
• Robbie Snow & Christian D. Faulkner, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Annie Vroom, Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Annie Vroom, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical

• Kat Brais & Andy Izquierdo, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Jaimie Nelson, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Port Tobacco Players
• Robin Parker, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Jaclyn Young, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Sammi Zanelotti, Willy Wonka, Port Tobacco Players

Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play

• Scott Beadle, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• C. Evans Kirk, Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Howard Vincent Kurtz, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• PJ Mitchell, Psycho Beach Party, Dominion Stage
• Sue Pinkman, The Seagull, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical

• Kat Brais, Nine, The Arlington Players
• Maureen Clum, Julie Perez, Derek Critzer, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Anna Michelle Jackson & Irene Kasotakis, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Melodie Wilson, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Jaclyn Young , The Drowsy Chaperone , Reston Community Players

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play

• Beth Harrison, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Howard Vincent Kurtz, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Molly Hicks Larson, A Streetcar Named Desire, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Denise A. Levine, Same Time Next Year, Greenbelt Arts Center
• PJ Mitchell, Psycho Beach Party, Dominion Stage
• Sue Pinkman, The Seagull, The Arlington Players
• Scott Ross & Kaeti Bradley, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Mary-Anne Sullivan, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre

Outstanding Special Effects

• Ben Allen, Almost Maine, Vienna Theatre Company
• Ken & Patti Crowley, Widdershins, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Denise Gilmore et al, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Keith Linville et al, Willy Wonka, Port Tobacco Players
• Dav Timmermann, A Christmas Carol, Port Tobacco Players

Nominations for outstanding performances by an actor or actress

Outstanding cameo in a musical

• Taurean Maray Barber as “Fred Casely”, Chicago, St. Mark’s Players
• Micky Goldstein as “Burt Healey”, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Andy Izquierdo as “Blind Man”, Frankenstein, Taking Flight Theatre Company
• Scott J. Strasbaugh as “Mr. Pinky”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Gina C. Tomkus as “Matron/Gym Teacher”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Mark Williams as “High School Principal”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding cameo in a play

• Carolyn Cameron as “Maggie”, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre
• Victor Maldonado as “Lou Tanner”, The Gingerbread Lady, Chevy Chase Players
• Lisa Nichols as “Olga”, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre
• Laura Rogers as “Girl”, Blackbird, Silver Spring Stage
• Sally Zatkoff as “Candy Starr”, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Prince William Little Theatre
• Robin Zerbe as “Crystal Allen”, The Women, Prince William Little Theatre

Outstanding featured actress in a musical

• Michelle Harmon as “Armeila McQueen”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Rikki Howie as “Charlayne Woodard”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Jade Jones as “Nell Carter”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Brenda Parker as “Motormouth Maybelle”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Miriam Urquart as “Star to Be”, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Jaclyn Young as “Penny Pingleton”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding featured actor in a musical

• Alex Bedont as “Audrey II voice”, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Chaz Coffin as “Seaweed Stubbs”, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Adrian Cubbage as “Seaweed J. Stubbs”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Patrick Doneghy as “Andre DeShields”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Gabriel Potter as “Leaf Coneybear”, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Christopher Prince as “Ken Page”, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players

Outstanding featured actress in a play

• Bernadette Arvidson as “Juanita”, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Joanne Bauer as “Sissy Hickey”, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Karen Elle as “Saint Monica et al”, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Silver Spring Stage
• Ruth Neaveill as “Vera Charles”, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Jaclyn Young as “Hermia/Snout/Wall”, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players

Outstanding featured actor in a play

• Scott Beadle as “Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram”, Sordid Lives, Bowie Community Theatre
• Adam Downs as “Garry Lejeune”, Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Tom Flatt as “Mason Marzak”, Take Me Out, Dominion Stage
• Brendan Murray as “Butch Honeywell et al”, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Silver Spring Stage
• Pat Reynolds as “Paul Gauguin”, Inventing Van Gogh, Colonial Players of Annapolis

Outstanding lead actress in a musical

• Maya Brettell as “Annie”, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• Laura Fontaine as “Audrey”, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Shannon Kingett as “Tracy Turnblad”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Kate Merryman as “The Narrator”, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, McLean Community Players
• Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Audrey”, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Anya Randall Nebel as “Velma Kelly”, Chicago, St. Mark’s Players

Outstanding lead actor in a musical

• Christopher Harris as “Edna Turnblad”, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Anthony Ingargiola as “Seymour”, Little Shop of Horrors, The Alliance Theatre
• Eric Kennedy as “Guido Contini”, Nine, The Arlington Players
• Gabriel Potter as “Seymour”, Little Shop of Horrors, Damascus Theatre Company
• Christopher Smith as “Nathan”, Thrill Me, Elden Street Players

Outstanding lead actress in a play

• Sherry Berg as “Una”, Blackbird, Capital City Players of DC
• Lolita-Marie as “Mattie Cheeks”, No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, Port City Playhouse
• Jo Black Sullivan as “Glorie”, Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Theatre
• Sandra Cox True as “Grace”, Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Theatre
• Beth Whitehead as “Auntie Mame Dennis”, Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Robin Zerbe as “Irma Grese”, Angel: A Nightmare in Two Acts, Port City Playhouse

Outstanding lead actor in a play

• Mark Lee Adams as “Dr. Farquhar”, Mindgame, Port City Playhouse
• J. McAndrew Breen as “Charlie Conlon etc.”, Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse
• William Cassidy as “Randle P. McMurphy”, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Silver Spring Stage
• Adam Downs as “Ralph”, Frozen, Elden Street Players
• Kevin S. Dykstra as “Jake Quinn etc.”, Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse

Nominations for outstanding achievement in overall production

Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography

• Steve Custer, Hair, Kensington Arts Theatre
• William T. Fleming, Romeo and Juliet, Silver Spring Stage
• Katherine Frattini, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Richard Koster, Company, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• Karen Schlumpf & Brian Farrell, Moonlight and Magnolias, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Choreography

• Iván Dávila, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Andrea Heininge, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players
• Rikki Howie, Chicago, St. Mark’s Players
• Pam & Kathleen McCormack, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, McLean Community Players
• Duane Monahan, Annie, Rockville Musical Theatre
• John K. Monnett, 42nd Street, The Arlington Players

Outstanding Music Direction

• Mayumi Baker & Valerie A. Higgs, Jekyll & Hyde, Kensington Arts Theatre
• J. Michael d’Haviland, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Paul Nasto, Nine, The Arlington Players
• Keith Tittermary, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Christopher A. Tomasino, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Stephanie Bonte-Lebair, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Annie Ermlick, Hairspray, The Alliance Theatre
• Richelle “Rikki” Howie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Sue Pinkman, Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Joshua Redford, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reston Community Players

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Bob Benn, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Silver Spring Stage
• Joanna Henry, Rabbit Hole, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Evan Hoffmann, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Estelle Miller, Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Theatre
• Roxanne Fournier Stone, Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse

Outstanding Musical

• Hairspray , The Alliance Theatre
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Damascus Theatre Company
• Ain’t Misbehavin’, Elden Street Players
• Hairspray, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Annie , Rockville Musical Theatre

Outstanding Play

• Grace and Glorie, Bowie Community Players
• The Shape of Things, Colonial Players of Annapolis
• A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Elden Street Players
• Noises Off, Little Theatre of Alexandria
• Stones in His Pockets, Montgomery Playhouse
• Auntie Mame, Providence Players of Fairfax
• Shadow Box, Providence Players of Fairfax

Nominations sorted by theatre and show

Alliance Theatre

2 productions received a total of 11 nominations

• Hairspray
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Michelle Bogert
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Annie Ermlick
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Chaz Coffin as “Seaweed Stubbs”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Maureen Clum, Julie Perez, Derek Critzer
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Bill Johnson
• Little Shop of Horrors
  5 nominations
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Alex Bedont as “Audrey II voice”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Anthony Ingargiola as “Seymour”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Laura Fontaine as “Audrey”
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Derek Critzer & Dawne LeKang
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Dawne LeKang

Arlington Players

3 productions received a total of 17 nominations

• 42nd Street
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Choreography, John K. Monnett
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Ryan Desmond
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Keith Bell
• Nine
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Kevin Lane
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Kat Brais
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Eric Kennedy as “Guido Contini”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Paul Nasto
• The Seagull
  10 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Lory Levitt & McKenna Kelly
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Sue Pinkman
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, AnnMarie Castrigno
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Sue Pinkman
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Avery Burns
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Arthur Pleasants et al
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Lindsey Hays
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Amanda Acker
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Kate Roehr
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Alan Wray

Bowie Community Theatre

2 productions received a total of 9 nominations

• Grace and Glorie
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Estelle Miller
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Jo Black Sullivan as “Glorie”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Sandra Cox True as “Grace”
  • Outstanding Play
• Sordid Lives
  5 nominations
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Scott Beadle as “Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Bernadette Arvidson as “Juanita”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Joanne Bauer as “Sissy Hickey”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Scott Ross & Kaeti Bradley
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Scott Beadle

Capital City Players Of Dc

1 production received 1 nomination

• Blackbird
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Sherry Berg as “Una”

Chevy Chase Players

1 production received 1 nomination

• The Gingerbread Lady
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Victor Maldonado as “Lou Tanner”

Colonial Players

4 productions received a total of 4 nominations

• Company
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Richard Koster
• Inventing Van Gogh
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Pat Reynolds as “Paul Gauguin”
• The Diviners
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Wes Bedsworth
• The Shape of Things
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Play

Damascus Theatre Company

2 productions received a total of 12 nominations

• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Stephanie Bonte-Lebair
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Gabriel Potter as “Leaf Coneybear”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Keith Tittermary
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Elli Swink
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Vitol Wiacek
• Little Shop of Horrors
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Gabriel Potter as “Seymour”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Chrissy Barnett Miller as “Audrey”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Rick Swink
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Maria Littlefield
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Jim Korte et al
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Maria Littlefield

Dominion Stage

2 productions received a total of 3 nominations

• Psycho Beach Party
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, PJ Mitchell
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, PJ Mitchell
• Take Me Out
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Tom Flatt as “Mason Marzak”

Elden Street Players

4 productions received a total of 22 nominations

• A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream
  7 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Evan Hoffmann
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Jaclyn Young as “Hermia/Snout/Wall”
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Evan Hoffmann
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Kate Meier & Karl Meier
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Ben Allen
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Katherine Frattini
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
  11 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Richelle “Rikki” Howie
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Patrick Doneghy as “Andre DeShields”
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Christopher Prince as “Ken Page”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Michelle Harmon as “Armeila McQueen”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Rikki Howie as “Charlayne Woodard”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Jade Jones as “Nell Carter”
  • Outstanding Music Direction, J. Michael d’Haviland
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, James Villarrubia et al
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, James Villarrubia
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Cathy Rieder & James Villarrubia
• Frozen
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Adam Downs as “Ralph”
• Thrill Me
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Christopher Smith as “Nathan”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Tom Epps
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Grant Kevin Lane

Greenbelt Arts Center

1 production received 1 nomination

• Same Time Next Year
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Denise A. Levine

Kensington Arts Theatre

2 productions received a total of 2 nominations

• Hair
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Steve Custer
• Jekyll & Hyde
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Mayumi Baker & Valerie A. Higgs

Little Theatre of Alexandria

6 productions received a total of 43 nominations

• Hairspray
  22 nominations
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Scott J. Strasbaugh as “Mr. Pinky”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Gina C. Tomkus as “Matron/Gym Teacher”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Mark Williams as “High School Principal”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Ivan Davila
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Jean Schlichting & Kit Sibley
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Sue Pinkman
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Adrian Cubbage as “Seaweed J. Stubbs”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Brenda Parker as “Motormouth Maybelle”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Jaclyn Young as “Penny Pingleton”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Anna Michelle Jackson & Irene Kasotakis
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Christopher Harris as “Edna Turnblad”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Shannon Kingett as “Tracy Turnblad”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Franklin C. Coleman
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Robin Parker
  • Outstanding Music Direction, Christopher A. Tomasino
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Judy Kee & Margaret Snow
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Chris Feldmann
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Marian Holmes & Russell Wyland
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Myke Taister
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Kevin O’Dowd
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, David Correia & David Hale
• Move Over, Mrs. Markham
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Howard Vincent Kurtz
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Liz Owens & Nancy Owens
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, Howard Vincent Kurtz
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Rebecca & John Johnson
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Chris Feldmann
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Mary Hutzler
• Noises Off
  6 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Annie Vroom
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Adam Downs as “Garry Lejeune”
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, Dan Remmers
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, C. Evans Kirk & Dan Remmers
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Kevin O’Dowd
• Oliver!
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Nancyanne Burton et al
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Erin Cumbo
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, David Correia
• Rabbit Hole
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Joanna Henry
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Nicole Zuchetto
• Widdershins
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Annie Vroom
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play, C. Evans Kirk
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Ken & Patti Crowley

McLean Community Players

1 production received 2 nominations

• Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Outstanding Choreography, Pam & Kathleen McCormack
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Kate Merryman as “The Narrator”

Montgomery Playhouse

1 production received 4 nominations

• Stones in His Pockets
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Roxanne Fournier Stone
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, J. McAndrew Breen as “Charlie Conlon etc.”
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Kevin S. Dykstra as “Jake Quinn etc.”
  • Outstanding Play

Port City Playhouse

3 productions received a total of 3 nominations

• Angel: A Nightmare in Two Acts
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Robin Zerbe as “Irma Grese”
• Mindgame
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, Mark Lee Adams as “Dr. Farquhar”
• No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Lolita-Marie as “Mattie Cheeks”

Port Tobacco Players

4 productions received a total of 11 nominations

• A Christmas Carol
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Dav Timmermann
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  5 nominations
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Jaimie Nelson
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, April Dawn Weimer & John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Melissa Gilpin & John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, April Dawn Weimer et al
• Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Merritt
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Ronna Johnson
• Willy Wonka
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Sammi Zanelotti
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Joe Stine & John Merritt
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Keith Linville et al

Prince William Little Theatre

2 productions received a total of 5 nominations

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Sally Zatkoff as “Candy Starr”
• The Women
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Carolyn Cameron as “Maggie”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Lisa Nichols as “Olga”
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Robin Zerbe as “Crystal Allen”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Mary-Anne Sullivan

Providence Players

2 productions received a total of 11 nominations

• Auntie Mame
  8 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Robbie Snow & Christian D. Faulkner
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Ruth Neaveill as “Vera Charles”
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Beth Harrison
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Beth Whitehead as “Auntie Mame Dennis”
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Coscia et al
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Ingrid Helvig David
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, John Coscia et al
• Shadow Box
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Play
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Play, John Coscia & Chip Gertzog
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Chip Gertzog & John Coscia

Reston Community Players

3 productions received a total of 15 nominations

• Moonlight and Magnolias
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Bea and Jerry Morse
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, William Chrapsynski
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, Karen Schlumpf & Brian Farrell
• The Drowsy Chaperone
  9 nominations
  • Outstanding Choreography, Andrea Heininge
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Charlotte Marson & Judy Whelihan
  • Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Joshua Redford
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Jaclyn Young
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Jaclyn Young
  • Outstanding Properties in a Musical, Mary Jo Ford
  • Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical, Sara Birkhead
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Bea and Jerry Morse & Barbara Wilson
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Cathy Reider, Sabrina Begley, Maggie Cotter
• The Twilight of the Golds
  3 nominations
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Ken & Patti Crowley
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Play, Andrew JM Regiec
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Christa Westall

Rockville Little Theatre

1 production received 3 nominations

• Translations
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play, Mary Dalto & Nancy Eynon Lark
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Play, Melanie Papasian

Rockville Musical Theatre

1 production received 11 nominations

• Annie
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Micky Goldstein as “Bert Healey”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Duane Monahan
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Miriam Urquart as “Star to Be”
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Maya Brettell as “Annie”
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Musical, Noam Lautman
  • Outstanding Musical
  • Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical, Nancy McLaughlin et al
  • Outstanding Set Design in a Musical, Mark Hamberger
  • Outstanding Set Painting in a Musical, Malca Giblin et al
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, Kenny Neal & Daniel Tobiassen
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Denise Gilmore et al

Silver Spring Stage

4 productions received a total of 7 nominations

• Blackbird
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Play, Laura Rogers as “Girl”
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Direction of a Play, Bob Benn
  • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, William Cassidy as “Randle P. McMurphy”
• Romeo and Juliet
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Play, Susan Schulman et al
  • Outstanding Stage Combat Choreography, William T. Fleming
• The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
  2 nominations
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Brendan Murray as “Butch Honeywell et al”
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Karen Elle as “Saint Monica et al”

St. Mark’s Players

1 production received 3 nominations

• Chicago
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Taurean Maray Barber as “Fred Casely”
  • Outstanding Choreography, Rikki Howie
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Anya Randall Nebel as “Velma Kelly”

Taking Flight Theatre Company

3 productions received a total of 6 nominations

• A Streetcar Named Desire
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Play, Molly Hicks Larson
• Frankenstein
  4 nominations
  • Outstanding Cameo in a Musical, Andy Izquierdo as “Blind Man”
  • Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical, Mary Ayala-Bush
  • Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical, Melodie Wilson
  • Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical, Kat Brais & Andy Izquierdo
• Loose Knit
  1 nomination
  • Outstanding Properties in a Play, Jessie Roberts

Vienna Theatre Company

1 production received 3 nominations

• Almost Maine
  • Outstanding Light Design in a Play, Jennifer Lyman
  • Outstanding Sound Design in a Play, Jonathan Powers
  • Outstanding Special Effects, Ben Allen