Playbill News: Paulo Szot and Deanna Dunagan Among Winners of Theatre World Awards

Paulo Szot and Deanna Dunagan Among Winners of Theatre World Awards

By Andrew Gans
May 15, 2008

The winners of the 64th Annual Theatre World Awards — honoring performers making their New York stage debuts on or Off-Broadway — were announced May 15.

This year's winners include:

de'Adre Aziza, Passing Strange

Cassie Beck, Drunken City

Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange

Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County

Hoon Lee, Yellow Face

Alli Mauzey, Cry-Baby

Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George

Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing

Loretta Ables Sayre, South Pacific

Jimmi Simpson, The Farnsworth Invention

Paulo Szot, South Pacific

The Theatre World Awards ceremony will be held in Manhattan June 10 at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre from 2-4 PM ET. Theatre critic-writer Peter Filichia will host the annual event, which will be directed by Barry Keating.

Past winners will perform and also present awards at the ceremony.

First presented in 1945, the Theatre World Awards are among the oldest theatrical awards. Traditionally, a committee of theatre writers chooses six men and six women. On occasion, the awards bestow a Special Theatre World Award on "performers, casts or others who have made a particularly lasting impression on the New York theatre scene," as stated on the official Theatre World Awards website.

Honorees were chosen by the Theatre World Awards committee, which includes Filichia (Theatermania), Harry Haun (Playbill), Matthew Murray (Talkin' Broadway), Frank Scheck (New York Post), Michael Sommers (Newhouse Papers), Doug Watt (Critic Emeritus, New York Daily News) and Linda Winer (Newsday).

For further information, visit theatreworldawards.org.