Lisa Kron (Well) hosted the Off-Off Broadway awards show Sept. 22 at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Blue Man Group opened the ceremony that honored Living Theatre founder Judith Malina (Artistic Achievement Award), The New York Theatre Experience (Stewardship Award) and the Boomerang Theatre (Caffe Cino Fellowship).
Presenters for the IT Awards included Edward Albee (Peter and Jerry), Olympia Dukakis (The Rose Tattoo), Rob Ashford (Cry-Baby), Michael Berresse ([title of show]), Kirk Wood Bromley (Three Dollar Bill), John Bucchino (A Catered Affair), Desiree Burch (Rip Me Open), Barrett Foa (Avenue Q), Michael Dahlen (Blue Man Group), Catherine Zuber (South Pacific), Anna Louizos (To Be Or Not To Be), Anne Militello (Tooth of Crime), Dan Moses Schreier (Emergence-SEE!), Tina Howe (Pride's Crossing), David Cote (Time Out New York) and Leonard Jacobs (National Theater Editor at Back Stage).
Highlights of the 2008 IT Award winners, listed in bold and preceded by an asterisk, follow:
Conjur Woman, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club
Honor, Prospect Theater Company
The People vs. Mona, Ground Up Productions
The Rockae, Prospect Theater Company
Triumph of Love, Astoria Performing Arts Center
*Yank! A New Musical, The Gallery Players
*Burn, Crave, Hold: The James Wilde Project, Blessed Unrest
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Hipgnosis Theatre Company
Cherry Docs, Theatre of the Expendable
Fight Girl Battle World, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company
No End of Blame, Potomac Theatre Project
The Night of Nosferatu, Rabbit Hole Ensemble
Art of Memory, Company SoGoNo
The Island of Dr. Moreau, Radiotheatre
*Removable Parts, HERE Arts Center
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, New York Neo-Futurists
You Got Questions? I Got Answers!, Coyote REP Theatre Company
The Young Ladies Of..., Taylor Mac, HERE Arts Center
Dana Berger, Washing Machine
*Andrea Caban, You Got Questions? I Got Answers!
Taylor Mac, The Young Ladies Of...
Petronia Paley, On the Way to Timbuktu
Jonathan Pereira, American Cake
Melle Powers, Whence Came Ye Scarlett O'Hara O'Hanrahan?
Art of Memory
Burn, Crave, Hold: The James Wilde Project
*Fight Girl Battle World
The Leopard and The Fox
The Night of Nosferatu
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Abby Baum, Triumph of Love
*Stephanie Barton-Farcas, Elizabeth Rex
Laura Heidinger, Six Degrees of Separation
Lauren Kelston, Mill Fire
Kira Sternbach, Gerald's Method
Kristen Vaughan, Mill Fire
Alex Draper, No End of Blame
Peter Judd, You Can't Take It With You
*Cameron J. Oro, The Accidental Patriot
Maximilian Osinski, Cherry Docs
Bobby Steggert, Yank! A New Musical
*Edward Elefterion, The Night of Nosferatu
David Gow, Cherry Docs
Emma Griffin, Removable Parts
Richard Romagnoli, No End of Blame
Robert Ross Parker, Fight Girl Battle World
Damen Scranton, Burn, Crave, Hold: The James Wilde Project
*Bekah Brunstetter, You May Go Now
Qui Nguyen, Fight Girl Battle World
Matthew Opatrny, Burn, Crave, Hold: The James Wilde Project
David Pumo, Auntie Mayhem
James Scruggs, (RUS)H
Stanton Wood, The Night of Nosferatu
Andrea Caban, You Got Questions? I Got Answers!
Bronwen Denton-Davis, Pealing Figs
Daniel Gallant, Gerald's Method
Philip Gawthorne, Modern Life is Rubbish
Nancy Harris, Girl in a Bath
*Aliza Shane, The Three Sillies
C. Denby Swanson, Potato Feast
Dan Bianchi, The Invisible Man
*Dan Bianchi, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Mark Bruckner, Same Train
Larry Lees, The Magic of Mrs. Crowling
Pete Mills, The Rockae
Mitun Sinha, The Leopard and The Fox
Min Xiao-Fen, On the Way to Timbuktu For a complete list of IT Award winners, visit www.nyitawards.com.
