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Cleopatra, Opa! and Love, Incorporated Among MITF Award Winners
By Adam Hetrick
September 8, 2008
Love, Incorporated; Cleopatra; and Opa! were among the winners of the 2008 Midtown International Theatre Awards, which were presented Sept. 5.
The 9th annual Midtown International Theatre Festival, which ran July 14-Aug. 10, honored winning productions in 32 categories, in a ceremony held at the Bleecker Street Theatre. The awards ceremony also offered highlights from the nominated productions, including Love, Incorporated; Cleopatra: A Life Unparalleled; Prince Trevor; and Kidnapping Laura Linney.
Opa! earned five awards, while Cleopatra and The Wendy Complex took home four apiece. Love, Incorporated; Prince Trevor; Bubby's Shadow; and Directors' Reality earned three awards each.
MITF Awards highlights (winners in bold) follow:
Outstanding Overall Production of a Commercial Division Production
Exit Cuckoo
Love, Incorporated
OPA!
Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical
Cleopatra: A Life Unparalleled
Eighty-1
Love, Incorporated
OPA!
Outstanding Overall Production of a Short Play, One-Act, or Monologue
The Proposal from "Flies in the Snuffbox"
The Claw of the Schwa from "Directors Reality"
A Telephone Call from "Those Whistling Lads: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker"
The Trip to Bahia Blanca from "Striptease into the Trip to Bahia Blanca"
Outstanding Overall Production of a Solo Show
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Exit Cuckoo
Mother May I?
Sacred is the New Profane
Outstanding Overall Production of a Revival
A Shot in the Dark
Flies in the Snuffbox
Intimate Exchanges
Quake
Outstanding Overall Production of a New Comedy Play
10-Speed Revolution
Kidnapping Laura Linney
Prince Trevor Amongst The Elephants
The Higher Education of Khalid Ami
Writer's Block
Outstanding Overall Production of a New Drama Play
Bubby's Shadow
Couldn't Say
Childhood Montana
Penang
The Wendy Complex
Outstanding Overall Production of a Staged Reading
Raggedy Ann & Andy
Alice
Gentleman's Wish
Daughters of the Mock
Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script Play OR Book of a Musical
Monica Bauer for The Higher Education of Khalid Amir (tie)
Mira Gibson for Childhood Montana
Stacey Lane for A Thousand Variations on a Lie Told Once
Philip Mutz for Kidnapping Laura Linney
Duncan Pflaster for Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants (tie)
Andrew Rothkin for Bubby's Shadow
Outstanding Music & Lyrics
Cheryl E. Kemeny for Cleopatra: A Life Unparalleled
Mari Carras, Nicholas Carras and Nicholas Kitsopoulos for OPA!
Marc Castle for Love, Incorporated
Mary Stewart David and Clive Chang for Eighty-1
Outstanding Direction
Maura Farver, Sympathetic Division (tie)
Nadine Friedman, The Ghost Dancers
Ann Garner, Intimate Exchanges
Nathan Lemoine, 10-Speed Revolution
Ramona Pula, Bubby's Shadow
Lisa Rothe, Couldn't Say (tie)
Outstanding Choreography (Fight/Dance/Physical Movement)
Jeremy Bloom, The Wendy Complex (tie)
Igor Goldin, Love, Incorporated
Kate Loprest, Eighty-1
Merete Muenter, They Walk Among Us (tie)
Wendy Waring, OPA!
Named as the winners of the Producer's Awards – honoring the best-selling production for each venue – were Cleopatra: A Life Unparalleled, Directors' Reality, Entwine, Flies in the Snuffbox, OPA! and Yom Kippur.
The Congeniality Award, acknowledging the company that honored the Festival regulations and guidelines most cooperatively, was presented to 81st Street Productions for Writer's Block.
For a complete list of MITF Award nominations and winners, visit MITF.
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