Tuesday, September 22, 2015

11th Annual Innovative Theatre Award Winners Announced

The 11th Annual Innovative Theatre Awards celebrated the outstanding year of Off Off Broadway. The 2015 NYIT Award Nominees represent 145 individual nominees, 57 productions, and 55 theatre companies.


The Winners

Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play: In Vestments (Theatre 4the People)

Outstanding Revival of a Play: Much Ado About Nothing (Smith Street Stage, Inc)

Outstanding Production of a Musical: Merrily We Roll Along (Astoria Performance Arts Center)

Outstanding Performance Art Production: Night (The New Stage Theatre Company)

Outstanding Original Full Length Script: Micheline Auger, Donkey Punch (Ivy Theatre Company)

Outstanding Original Short Script: Lisa Bruna, Invasion from Estrogenius: Andi’s Night (manhattan theatre source)

Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role: Matthew Trumbull, The Temple, or Lebensraum (Tin Drum Productions in Association with MozzleStead)

Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role: Emily Koch, In the Bones (Astoria Performing Arts Center)

Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role: Dan McVey, Pretty Babies (Elsinore County)

Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role: Mel House, In the Bones (Astoria Performing Arts Center)

Outstanding Ensemble: Much Ado About Nothing (Smith Street Stage, Inc)

Outstanding Solo Performance: Sylvia Milo, The Other Mozart (Little Matchstick Factory)

Outstanding Director: Isaac Byrne, In Vestments (Theatre 4the People)

Outstanding Choreography/Movement: Isaac Bush, The Mountain (The Circle Theater of New York)

Outstanding Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce, The Law of Return (Newsom Zipoy Productions)

Outstanding Costume Design: Debbi Hobson, Unmentionables (Nylon Fusion Collective)

Outstanding Set Design: Carolyn Mraz, The Twelfth Labor (Loading Dock Theatre Company)

Outstanding Sound Design: Jeanne Travis, The Temple, or Lebensraum (Tin Drum Productions in Association with MozzleStead)

Outstanding Innovative Design: Stephanie Cox-Williams, R&J&Z (Hard Sparks)

Outstanding Original Music: Phyllis Chen and Nathan Davis, The Other Mozart (Little Matchstick Factory)

Artistic Achievement Award Recipient: Marshall W. Mason

Ellen Stewart Award: HERE Arts Center

Caffe Cino Fellowship Award: Theatre 167

Doric Wilson independent Playwright Award: Andrea Alton

Outstanding Stage Manager: Juni Li