Produced by Victory Gardens and Teatro Vista, the world premiere of Chad Deity took a total of five awards including Best New Work and Best Production, the play that uses professional wrestling to tell of "the manipulation of American prejudices" was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and transferred to an Off-Broadway production.
Ragtime, produced by Drury Lane Productions took top honors for a musical with a total of seven awards. Quentin Earl Darrington, who played Coalhouse Walker, Jr., in the 2009 Broadway revival, won the Jeff for Principal Actor in a Musical. Steppenwolf Theatre Company's The Brother/Sister Plays, a gritty trilogy of plays by Tarell McCraney about hard times in the Louisiana bayou and the clash of self-identity with community values, won the Ensemble Award, sponsored by Actors' Equity Association.
Mary Beth Fisher won a Jeff for her solo turn in The Year of Magical Thinking, the rumination on loss and grief.
Actors Deanna Dunagan and Felicia P. Fields emceed the Jeff ceremony.
2010 Jeff Equity Award Recipients PRODUCTION - PLAY – LARGE
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - Victory Gardens Theater in association with Teatro Vista...Theatre With a View
PRODUCTION - PLAY – MIDSIZE
The Farnsworth Invention - TimeLine Theatre Company
PRODUCTION - MUSICAL – LARGE
Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
PRODUCTION – REVUE
Oh Coward! - Writers' Theatre
ENSEMBLE (sponsored by Actors' Equity Association)
The Brother/Sister Plays - Steppenwolf Theatre Company
DIRECTOR – PLAY
Edward Torres - The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - Victory Gardens Theater in association with Teatro Vista...Theatre With a View
DIRECTOR – MUSICAL
Rachel Rockwell - Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Mary Beth Fisher - The Year of Magical Thinking - Court Theatre
ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – PLAY
Desmin Borges - The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - Victory Gardens Theater in association with Teatro Vista...Theatre With a View
ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – MUSICAL
Quentin Earl Darrington - Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
ACTRESS IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – PLAY Natasha Lowe - A Streetcar Named Desire - Writers' Theatre
ACTRESS IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – MUSICAL
Cory Goodrich - Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – PLAY
Francis Guinan - A Guide for the Perplexed - Victory Gardens Theater
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – MUSICAL
Mark David Kaplan - Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – PLAY
Natalie West - Abigail's Party - A Red Orchid Theatre
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – MUSICAL
Valisia LeKae - Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
ACTOR IN A REVUE
Rob Lindley - Oh Coward! - Writers' Theatre
ACTRESS IN A REVUE
Kate Fry - Oh Coward!" - Writers' Theatre
SCENIC DESIGN – LARGE
Walt Spangler - A True History of the Johnstown Flood - Goodman Theatre
SCENIC DESIGN – MIDSIZE
James Leaming - Tobacco Road - American Blues Theater
COSTUME DESIGN – LARGE
Alison Siple - The Mystery of Irma Vep - Court Theatre
COSTUME DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Sarah E. Ross & Kristin DeiTos - Tobacco Road - American Blues Theater
LIGHTING DESIGN – LARGE
John Culbert - The Illusion - Court Theatre
LIGHTING DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Jaymi Lee Smith - Mary's Wedding - Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
SOUND DESIGN – LARGE
Ray Nardelli - Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale - Lookingglass Theatre Company and Silverguy Entertainment
SOUND DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Victoria DeIorio - Mary's Wedding - Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
CHOREOGRAPHY
Tammy Mader - Thoroughly Modern Millie - Drury Lane Productions
ORIGINAL INCIDENTAL MUSIC
Ray Nardelli, Andre Pluess, Joshua Horvath, and Kevin O'Donnell - Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale - Lookingglass Theatre Company and Silverguy Entertainment
MUSIC DIRECTION
Roberta Duchak - Ragtime - Drury Lane Productions
NEW WORK – PLAY
Kristoffer Diaz - The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - Victory Gardens Theater in association with Teatro Vista...Theatre With a View
MULTIMEDIA DESIGN
Bridges Media - Trust - Lookingglass Theatre Company
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
David Woolley - The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - Victory Gardens Theater in association with Teatro Vista...Theatre With a View
