The 2012 New York Innovative Theatre Awards were announced yesterday. Below are the nominees.
Outstanding Ensemble
TheDaniel Burnam, Brendan Donaldson, Cara Francis, Connor Kalista, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Erica Livingston, Lauren Sharpe, New York Neo-Futurists
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant Returns in: The Mothership Landing
Justin Badger, David M. Barber, Melody Bates, Stephanie Dodd, Jeffrey Fracé, Connie Hall, Kelly Hayes, Jerusha Klemperer, Peter Lettre, Rachel Murdy, Melody Bates, Peter Richards, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant in association with the Irondale Center
Eightythree Down
Melody Bates, Ian Holcomb, Bryan
For Black Boys Who Have Considered
Loren Amos, Duane Boutte, Alexis Francisco, Anthony Gaskins, Michael Alexis Palmer, David Roberts, Robert G. Siverls, Zook, Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company
Homunculus: Reloaded
Adriana Chavez, David DeSantis, Lauren Elder, Regina Gibson, Mel House, Jennifer Luong, Eeva Semerdjiev, William Silva, Brett Teresa, Homunculus Mask Theater
Urban Odyssey
Penelope Armstead-Williams, Rocky Bostick, Ching-I Chang, Maura Donohue, Denise Greber, Alice Pasturel, Federico Restrepo, Gilbert Reyes, Kiku Sakai, Kayla Schetter, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in association with LOCO7
Outstanding Solo Performance
Bree Benton, Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club
Greg
Oliver Bodine, Poe,
Times Two, WorkShop Theater Company
Zac Jaffee, Heroes and Other Strangers, the cell theatre
Melanie
Jones, Endure: A Run
Woman Show, Collision Productions
Juan
Francisco Villa, Empanada
For A Dream, Ballybeg & terraNOVA
Collective
Raïna von
Waldenburg,
Oysters
Orgasms Obituaries, LaMaMa
Experimental Theater Club in association with Center for Embodied Performance
Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role
Karl Gregory, Frogs, Fault Line Theatre
Ian
Holcomb, Eightythree
Down, Hard Sparks in association with
Horse Trade Theatre Group
Jason
Howard, Advance Man,
Gideon Productions
Bryan
Kaplan, Eightythree
Down, Hard Sparks in association with
Horse Trade Theatre Group
Curry
Whitmire, Christopher
Marlowe's Chloroform Dreams, Lunar
Energy
Stephen
Alan Wilson,
The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot, T. Schreiber
Studio
Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role
Celeste
Arias, Demon Dreams
(Oni No Yume), Magic Futurebox
Lauren
Blumenfeld,
Exit
Carolyn, Sans A Productions
Teresa
Kelsey, The House of
Mirth, Metropolitan Playhouse
Marie
Marshall, The House of
Mirth, Metropolitan Playhouse
Ryan
Templeton,
A Hard
Wall at High Speed, Astoria Performing Arts Center
Halley
Wegryn Gross,
Sex Good;
Money Bad, Broken Watch Theatre
Company
Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role
Adam Barrie, Dust, Tenement Street Workshop in association with Incubator Arts Project
Hunter
Canning, Dust,
Tenement Street Workshop in association with
Incubator Arts Project
Karl
Gregory, From White Plains, Fault Line Theatre
Greg
Horton, A Man of No
Importance, The Gallery Players
Brian
Miskell, Eightythree
Down, Hard Sparks in association with
Horse Trade Theatre Group
Charlie
Owens, A Man of No
Importance, The Gallery Players
Aidan
Redmond, The Real
Thing, Boomerang Theatre Company
Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role
Melody Bates, Eightythree Down, Hard Sparks in association with Horse Trade Theatre Group
Renee
Claire Bergeron, A
Man of No Importance, The Gallery
Players
Casandera
M.J. Lollar,
The Runner
Stumbles, Retro Productions
Charlotte
Pines, Callous Cad,
Tom X. Chao in association with Kim Katzberg
Laura
Ramadei, Exit Carolyn,
Sans A Productions
Christina
Shipp, Ajax in Iraq,
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Outstanding Choreography/Movement
Jessica Isa Burns, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Too Much, Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company
Lee Sunday
Evans, The Deepest
Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos, CollaborationTown
Christine
O'Grady, A Man of No
Importance, The Gallery Players
Joe
Osheroff & Evan Zes, Homunculus:
Reloaded, Homunculus Mask Theater
Lauren
Sharpe, The Complete
and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 1, Early/Lost Plays,
New
York
Neo-Futurists
Turner
Smith, Romeo and
Juliet, Northwest
Passage
Outstanding Director
Kevin Laibson, Demon Dreams (Oni No Yume), Magic Futurebox
Christopher
Loar, The Complete
and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 1, Early/Lost Plays,
New
York
Neo-Futurists
Joe
Osheroff, Homunculus:
Reloaded, Homunculus Mask Theater
Alex Roe, The House of Mirth, Metropolitan Playhouse
Aaron
Rossini, Frogs,
Fault Line Theatre
August
Schulenburg,
Ajax in Iraq, Flux Theatre Ensemble
Outstanding Lighting Design
Nick Francone, Miranda, MirandaCo
Richard
Kent Green,
Poe, Times
Two, WorkShop Theater Company
Ben Hagen
& Joe Skowronski, LoveSick
(or Things That Don't Happen), Project
Y Theatre Company
David A.
Sexton, The Spring
Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever, F*It
Club
Cat Tate
Starmer, A Hard Wall
at High Speed, Astoria Performing Arts Center
Jeanette
Oi-Suk Yew,
Conni's
Avant Garde Restaurant Returns in: The
Mothership Landing, Conni’s Avant
Garde Restaurant in association with the Irondale Center
Outstanding Costume Design
Sidney Fortner, The House of Mirth, Metropolitan Playhouse
Denise
Greber, Urban Odyssey,
LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in association
with LOCO7
Kim
Katzberg, Penetrating
the Space, Kim Katzberg
Jessica
Sofia Mitrani, Hypnotik:
The Seer Will Doctor You Now, The New
Stage Theatre Comapny
Ayanna
Siverls-Streater, For
Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Too Much,
Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company
David L.
Zwiers, The Asphalt
Christmas, Gracye Productions
Outstanding Set Design
Stephen K. Dobay, A Hard Wall at High Speed, Astoria Performing Arts Center
Kevin Judge, LoveSick (or Things That Don't Happen),
Project Y Theatre Company
Sarah E. Martin
& Sara Nelson, The
Spring Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever, F*It Club
Steve
O'Shea, Up To You,
TADA! Youth Theater
Sean Ryan, Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics, Clowns Ex Machina/La MaMa
Andy Yanni, Felix and the Diligence, or a Play About
Fishermen in the 1940's, Pipeline
Theatre Company
Outstanding Sound Design
Martha Goode, Costa Rehab, Maieutic Theatre Works (MTWorks)
Christopher
Loar, The Complete
and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 1, Early/Lost Plays,
New
York
Neo-Futurists
Mark
Parenti, The Spring
Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever, F*It
Club
Nathan A. Roberts, A Hard Wall at High Speed, Astoria Performing Arts
Center
Tim Schellenbaum, Urban Odyssey, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in association with
LOCO7
Matt
Schloss, Miranda,
MirandaCo
Outstanding Innovative Design
Gyda Arber & Aaron Baker, Phone & Text Design, Red Cloud Rising, The Fifth Wall in association with The Brick Theater
Maia Cruz
Palileo,
Animation and Sculpture, Penetrating the Space, Kim Katzberg
Elizabeth Barrett
Groth & Amy Mathews, Puppet Design, We in Silence Hear a Whisper, Red Fern Theatre Company
Joe
Osheroff,
Mask Design, Homunculus: Reloaded, Homunculus
Mask Theater
Federico
Restrepo & Angela Sierra, Video Editing & Design, Urban Odyssey, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in association with
LOCO7
Suchan
Vodoor,
Interactive Technology Design, Endure: A Run Woman Show, Collision Productions
Outstanding Original Music
Karolyn Bethke, Kris Kukul, John Sully, Elizabeth Swados & Martin Wallace, Urban Odyssey, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in association with LOCO7
Sasha
Bogdanowitsch, Erosion:
a Fable, Loom Ensemble
Christine
Owman, Endure: A Run
Woman Show, Collision Productions
Jeff Raab, 12th Night, Libra Theater Company
Kamala
Sankaram, Miranda,
MirandaCo
Sxip
Shirey, Prometheus
Within, LaMaMa Experimental Theater
Club in association with Skysaver Productions
Outstanding Original Short Script
Lucy Boyle, Mort, The Spring Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever, F*It Club
Chisa
Hutchinson,
This is
Not the Play, Mad Dog Theatre Company
Dean
Imperial, The Needle Through the Arm Trick, Too Much Too
Soon, Lesser America
Vincent Marano, Artistic License, What I Meant Was... The Odd, Short-Ish Of Vinnie
Marano, teatro oscuro
Joe
Osheroff & Evan Zes, Homunculus:
Reloaded, Homunculus Mask Theater
Anna
Ziegler, A Map of Broken Glass, The Spring
Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever, F*It Club
Outstanding Original Full-Length Script
Zac Jaffee, Heroes and Other Strangers, the cell theatre
Melanie
Jones, Endure: A Run
Woman Show, Collision Productions
Mariah
MacCarthy,
The
Foreplay Play, Caps Lock Theatre
Michael
Perlman, From White Plains, Fault Line Theatre
Mac Rogers, Advance Man, Gideon Productions
Juan
Francisco Villa, Empanada
For A Dream, Ballybeg & terraNOVA
Collective
Outstanding Performance Art Piece
The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 1, Early/Lost Plays, New York Neo-Futurists
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant Returns in: The Mothership Landing, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant in association with the Irondale Center
Empanada For A Dream, Ballybeg &
terraNOVA Collective
Endure: A Run Woman Show, Collision
Productions
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Too Much, Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company
Homunculus: Reloaded, Homunculus Mask
Theater
Outstanding Production of a Musical
LoveSick (or Things That Don't Happen), Project Y Theatre Company
A Man of No Importance, The Gallery
Players
Miranda, MirandaCo
The Secret Garden, Astoria Performing Arts
Center
Unville Brazil, FullStop Collective
Up To You, TADA! Youth Theater
Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play
Advance Man, Gideon Productions
Demon Dreams (Oni No Yume), Magic Futurebox
Eightythree Down, Hard Sparks in association with Horse
Trade Theatre Group
The Foreplay Play, Caps Lock Theatre
From White Plains, Fault Line Theatre
A Hard Wall at High Speed, Astoria Performing Arts Center
Outstanding Production of a Remounted Play
Ajax in Iraq, Flux Theatre Ensemble
Frogs, Fault Line Theatre
The House of Mirth, Metropolitan Playhouse
Poe, Times Two, WorkShop Theater Company
The Real Thing, Boomerang Theatre Company
The Violet Hour, The Active Theater in association with Goode Productions
