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Performers and Presenters Ready for L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards
By Ernio Hernandez
07 Mar 2006
Performers and presenters have been announced for the upcoming Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony to be held at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, California, March 13.
As previously announced, Jason Graae (Grand Hotel, Fully Committed) will perform and, with Back Stage West critic Wenzel Jones, co-hosts the 37th Annual L.A.D.C.C. Awards which honor excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2005.
Broadway-bound Jay Johnson (Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!) is among the presenters which also include Alan Vincent and Vicky Evans (star and restaging/artistic tour manager of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake), last year's award winners Morlan Higgins (Exits and Entrances), William Dennis Hurley (Exits and Entrances) and writer L. Trey Wilson (Stage Directions) as well as previous multiple winners songwriting team Jim Brochu and Steve Schalchlin (The Big Voice and The Last Session), director Jessica Kubzansky (Toys in the Attic) and Tim Dang (artistic director of East West Players).
Joining Graae on the performer lineup will be cast members of Pacific Resident Theatre's revival of Happy End, Reece Holland, Roger Befeler, and Paul Keith of A Man of No Importance and nominee Bets Malone (On The Town).
Awards will be given in fifteen categories and six special awards will also be bestowed to theatre artists for outstanding achievements.
The nominees for the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards are as follows:
PRODUCTION
Pera Palas, The Theatre@Boston Court & Antaeus Company
Play Without Words, Center Theatre Group
Stuff Happens, Center Theatre Group
The Drowsy Chaperone, Center Theatre Group
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Center Theatre Group
The Paris Letter, Center Theatre Group
The Wild Party, Blank Theatre Company
Yellowman, Bennett Bradley and The Fountain Theatre
T.H. McCULLOH AWARD FOR REVIVAL
Happy End, Pacific Resident Theatre
Mother Courage and Her Children, Antaeus Theatre Company
On The Town, Reprise! Broadway’s Best
Private Lives, Pasadena Playhouse
DIRECTION
Michael Michetti, Pera Palas
Casey Nicholaw, The Drowsy Chaperone
Stefan Novinski and Hassan Christopher, J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera, Stella Adler Theatre
Warner Shook, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?
Pat Towne, Gorey Stories, Sacred Fools Theater
MUSICAL DIRECTION
Graham Jackson, Gorey Stories
David O,The Wild Party
Phil Reno, The Drowsy Chaperone
Gerald Sternbach, On the Town
WRITING
Edward Albee, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?
David Hare, Stuff Happens
Bob Martin and Don McKellar, The Drowsy Chaperone
Dael Orlandersmith, Yellowman
ADAPTATION/TRANSLATION
Joanne Gordon, Love, Bukowski, California Repertory Company
KOAN Ensemble, Kafka Thing, Odyssey Theatre
Simon Levy, What I Heard About Iraq, The Fountain Theatre
MUSICAL SCORE
David Aldrich, Gorey Stories
Michael John LaChiusa, The Wild Party
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, The Drowsy Chaperone
LEAD PERFORMANCE
Michael Arden, Pippin, Reprise! Broadway’s Best
Chris Butler, Yellowman
Deidrie N. Henry, Yellowman
Beth Hogan, Kafka Thing
Brian Kerwin, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?
Bob Martin, The Drowsy Chaperone
Lisa Tharps, Medea
Trieu D. Tran, Equus, East/West Players
FEATURED PERFORMANCE
Frank Ashmore, National Pastime, Fremont Centre Theatre
Nathan Lee Graham, The Wild Party
Daren A. Herbert, The Wild Party
Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone
Bets Malone, On the Town
Jeff Marlow, Medea
Kirsten Potter, Honour, Matrix Theatre Company
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Gorey Stories
Kafka Thing
Love, Bukowski
Pera Palas
SCENIC DESIGN
Evan A. Bartoletti, Floyd Collins, West Coast Ensemble
Tom Buderwitz, Pera Palas
David Gallo, The Drowsy Chaperone
LIGHTING DESIGN
Mike Durst, Kafka Thing
Cricket Sloat, Gorey Stories
Steven Young, J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera
COSTUME DESIGN, HAIR, WIGS & MAKEUP
Ann Closs-Farley (costumes, hair, wigs & makeup), Gorey Stories
Mary Vogt (costumes), Private Lives
Gerald Altenburg (hair, wigs & make-up), The School for Scandal, CTG
SOUND DESIGN
Cricket Meyers, Floyd Collins
Kurt Thum, Kafka Thing
John Zalewski, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, EvidEnce Room
CHOREOGRAPHY
Matthew Bourne and the company, Play Without Words, CTG
Hassan Christopher, J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera
Lee Martino, On the Town
The 2005 special award recipients are as follows:
The Margaret Harford Award
(for sustained excellence in theater)
Musical Theatre Guild.
The Ted Schmitt Award
(for world premiere of an outstanding new play)
Jon Robin Baitz for The Paris Letter
The Bob Z Award
(for career achievement in set design)
Donna Marquet
The Angstrom Award
(for career achievement in lighting design)
Jeremy Pivnick
The Polly Warfield Award
(for an excellent season in a small to mid-size theater)
California Repertory Company
The Joel Hirschhorn Award
(for outstanding achievement in musical theatre)
Eric Anderson
Multiple nominees include:
The Drowsy Chaperone - 8
Gorey Stories - 6
Kafka Thing - 5
The Wild Party - 5
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? - 4
On The Town - 4
Pera Palas - 4
Yellowman - 4
J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera - 3
Floyd Collins - 2
Play Without Words - 2
Stuff Happens - 2
Love, Bukowski - 2
Medea - 2
Private Lives - 2
For tickets ($35) to the show, at the El Portal Theatre, located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood, CA, call (818) 754-4419 for a reservation then send a check made out to the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, to Dany Margolies, P.O. Box 641127, Los Angeles, CA 90064. Doors open at 6:30 PM for a catered reception (with no-host bar) and silent auction (bring your checkbooks, no credit cards accepted). The show starts at 7:30 PM.
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