Saltzman, a long-time member of the OCC executive committee, replaces last year's president Aubrey Reuben. The new president has written for several online publications in addition to U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton and the Bergen News Group's Commuter Week.
Gentile serves as a journalist and critic for The Providence and Friedman is a Connecticut broadcaster and critic.
Marjorie Gunner, the organization's president for 25 years prior to Reuben, continues as president emeriti and serves on both the organization's executive board and nominating committee.
The OCC is an "organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway." The collective also present its Outer Critics Circle Awards annual, which are known as the first honors of the theatre season.
The 2004-2005 Outer Critics Circle Awards winners were as follows: OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY
Doubt
OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL
Monty Python's Spamalot
OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY PLAY (tie)
Fat Pig
Going to St. Ives
OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Altar Boyz
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Twelve Angry Men
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
La Cage aux Folles
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Brían F. O'Byrne, Doubt
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Cherry Jones, Doubt
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Jeff Goldblum, The Pillowman
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Amy Ryan, A Streetcar Named Desire
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sara Ramirez, Monty Python's Spamalot
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Doug Hughes, Doubt
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Mike Nichols, Monty Python's Spamalot
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Jerry Mitchell, La Cage aux Folles
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Anthony Ward, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Tim Hatley, Monty Python's Spamalot
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Christopher Akerlind, The Light in the Piazza
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Ron Hutchinson, Moonlight and Magnolias
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Marjorie Gunner
The organization named photo journalist and long-time OCC member Aubrey Reuben as its new acting president in February. Reuben has served as a theatre critic for 15minutesmagazine.com, a columnist for theatrelovers.com, a celebrity photographer for The New York Post, Playbill, Playbill.com, The Hampton Sheet and Black-Tie International.
