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Blue Man Group to Open 2008 IT Awards; Nominations Announced
By Adam Hetrick
22 Jul 2008
The Young Ladies Of..., Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, On the Way to Timbuktu, The Rockae and Yank! are among the nominees for the 2008 IT Awards.
The nominations were announced July 21 at the Off Off-Broadway venue Our Lady of Pompeii. The 2008 nominations, including 127 individual artists and 47 productions, have been culled from the work of over 3,000 artists.
The 2008 IT Awards will be presented Sept. 22 at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The evening, celebrating the best of Off Off-Broadway, will open with a special performance from Blue Man Group.
"We are excited about participating in this New York tradition of honoring diverse theater in NYC," said Blue Man performer Wes Day in a statement. "Blue Man Group celebrates its New York roots and is proud to be grounded in this vibrant New York theatre culture."
A selection of the 2008 IT Award nominations follows:
Outstanding Production of a Musical
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
Outstanding Production of a Play
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
Outstanding Performance Art Production
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
Outstanding Solo Performance
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?
Outstanding Ensemble
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
Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role
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
Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role
Michael DiGioia, Elizabeth Rex
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
Outstanding Director
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
Outstanding Full-Length Script
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
Outstanding Short Script
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
Outstanding Original Music
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 nominations, visit www.nyitawards.com.
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