L.A. WeeklyThe following productions and individuals have been nominated by a quorum of Weekly theater critics for excellence in local venues of 99 seats or less, for productions that opened between January 1 and December 31, 1999. The award recipients will be announced at a ceremony (co-hosted by Charlotte Rae, Chris Wells and the Sacred Fools Theater Company) on Monday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), at the Los Angeles Theater Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown. A catered reception will follow the ceremony. Admission for nominees (plus one guest) is free; all others, $12. Checks can be made out to “L.A. Weekly” and sent c/o Lisa Yu to: L.A. Weekly, 6715 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028. Nominees in all production- and musical-of-the-year categories include producers, writers, directors, designers, actors and stage managers listed in the production's program. Seating can be guaranteed only for the first 450 reservations received, though limited standing room is available. To reserve, call the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Hot Line: (323) 993-3693.
–Steven Leigh Morris
PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
The Greeks, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent
Exposure Theater Company at Los
Angeles Theater Center
No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation
Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, Burglars of Hamm/Ghost Road Company at Theater of NOTE
REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR (OF A 20th-CENTURY WORK)
The Adding Machine, Sacred Fools
Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Dutchman, Authentic Company at Theater at the Improv
The Illusion, Namaste Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
Terminal, Non-Prophet Hatching Company at Theatre/Theater
MUSICAL OF THE YEAR
How To Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying, Colony Studio Theater
Marry Me a Little, Celebration Theater
Medea: The Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
Reefer Madness!, Hudson Backstage
Theater
Too Old for the Chorus, Celebration Theater
LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Michele Farr, The Cherry Orchard, Interact Theater Company
Ames Ingham, No Orchids for Miss
Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
Bernadette Sullivan, Scenes From an
Execution, Zoo District
LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE
Loren Bass, Othello, Pasadena Shake- speare Company
Leland Crooke, 900 Oneonta, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Richard Fancy, The Master Builder, Pacific Resident Theater
Craig Mathers, The Adding Machine,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Beth Hogan, The Greeks, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Juanita Jennings, Ninth Wave, Black Artists' Network Development Inc. at the Lillian Theater
Mimi Lieber, The Greeks, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Joan Maurer, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
Marilyn McIntyre, The Cherry Orchard, Interact Theater Company
SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Jon Cryer, 900 Oneonta, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Jeff Goldman, The Adding Machine,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the
Heliotrope Theater
Jay Karnes, The Cherry Orchard, Interact Theater Company
COMEDY PERFORMANCE, MALE
Nicholas Gilhool, Medea: The Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
Daniel J. Parker, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
F. William Parker, Van Gogh's Ear, Fremont Center Theater
Bob Simon, The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Chris Wells, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
COMEDY PERFORMANCE, FEMALE
Anneh B. Gabriel, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
Rebecca O'Brien, Grantwritings, Theater Neo at Hudson Avenue Theater
Kimberly Rae, Grantwritings, Theater Neo at Hudson Avenue Theater
Ann Randolph, Eight Ways To Meet Your Neighbor, Buzzworks Theater Company at the Tamarind Theater
Susan Rubin, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
Elsa Wolthausen, Medea, the Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE, MALE
Jeff Boland, Bible Stories, Celebration Theater
Brian Cox, St. Nicholas, Matrix Theater
Steve White, Dutchman, Authentic
Company at the Theater at the Improv
ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE, FEMALE
Shannon O'Hurley, Show and Tell, Circle X Theater Company at Stages Theater
April White, Dutchman, Authentic Company at the Theater at the Improv
Marian Woods, Bible Stories, Celebration Theater
PLAYWRITING
John Fisher, Medea: The Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
Larry Dean Harris, Bible Stories, Celebration Theater
Wendy Kesselman, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
Paul Mullin, Louis Slotin Sonata, Circle X Theater Company at the Hollywood Court Theater
Tom Scanlon, The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Wesley Walker, The Conception, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa Studios
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ONE-ACT PLAYWRITING
Beth Bigler, Boy, Blank Theater Company at the 2nd Stage
Alyson Croft, Cellophane City, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theater
Sandra Tsing Loh, Aliens in America, Tiffany Theater
Sharon Yablon, The First Good Day, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa
Studios
DIRECTION
Michael Arabian, Streamers, Hudson Backstage Theater
Bart DeLorenzo, No Orchids for Miss
Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
Lauren Hollingsworth, The Adding Machine, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Scott Rabinowitz, Burning Chrome,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the
Heliotrope Theater
Wesley Walker, The Conception, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa Studios
COMEDY DIRECTION
Matt Almos, The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Patrick Murphy, Exit the King, Actors' Gang
Alexander Yannis Stephano, Want's Unwished Work, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Rainn Wilson, The New Bozena, Hudson Mainstage Theater
ONE-ACT DIRECTION
Jessica Kubzansky, Boy, Blank Theater Company at the 2nd Stage
Bjørn Johnson, Dutchman, Authentic
Company at theTheater at the Improv
Bill Penton, Renaissance Geek, Gascon Center Theater/Zephyr Theater
ENSEMBLE
The Conception, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa Studios
The House of Bernarda Alba, Deaf West Theater Company at the Ventura Court Theater
The Illusion, Namaste Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Terminal, Non-Prophet Hatching Company at Theatre/Theater
COMEDY ENSEMBLE
Eight Ways To Meet Your Neighbor, Buzzworks Theater Company at the Tamarind Theater
Kabbalah, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theater
The New Bozena, Hudson Mainstage
Theater
The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Want's Unwished Work, Sacred Fools
Theater Company at the Heliotrope
Theater
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Steven Berkoff, Shakespeare's Villains, Odyssey Theater
Louis Mustillo, Bartenders, Theatre/
Theater
Paul Stroili, Renaissance Geek, Gascon Center Theater/Zephyr Theater
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Burning Chrome, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
The Living, Colony Studio Theater
Reefer Madness!, Hudson Backstage
Theater
Tagteam Lovefest 2000, Actors' Gang
COSTUME DESIGN
M.E. Dunn, Want's Unwished Work,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the
Heliotrope Theater
Audrey Eisner, The Swan, Pacific Resident Theater
Todd Oldhan, The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Robert A. Prior/Teresa Shea, Voluptuous Madness, Fabulous Monsters at
Highways
Salvatore Salamone, Tagteam Lovefest 2000, Actors' Gang
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, The Living, Colony Studio Theater
Kharen Zeunert, The Illusion, Namaste
Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
LIGHTING DESIGN
Ken Booth, The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Aaron Francis/Norman Gilmore, Burning Chrome, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Matthew O. O'Donnell, The Living, Colony Studio Theater
David Robkin, Will Strip for Food, Glaxa Studios/Tamarind Theater
Rand Ryan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Deaf West Theater Company at the
Ventura Court Theater
Ron Scarborough, The Conception,
Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa
Studios
John Zamora, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
SET DESIGN
Jason Adams, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation
David Ledger, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
Robert A. Prior, A Fairy Tale, Actors' Gang
Douglas Ridgeway, Properties of
Silence, About Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Kris Sandheinrich, The Illusion, Namaste Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
MAKEUP
Circle X Theater Company, Louis Slotin Sonata
Colony Studio Theater, The Living
Marie Del Prete, Ugly's First World, Actors' Gang
Sacred Fools Theater Company, The Adding Machine
SOUND DESIGN
Erik Bleuer/Sera Gamblek, Will Strip for Food, Glaxa Studios/Tamarind Theater
Ruth Judkowitz, The Living, Colony
Studio Theater
Peter Stenshoel, Dutchman, Authentic Company at the Theater at the Improv
John Zalewski, Flow My Tears, the
Policeman Said, Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation
John Zalewski, No Orchids for Miss
Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
Brian Benison, The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Steve Goodie, The Memorandum, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Ellen Geer
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Golden State Klezmers, Kabbalah, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theater
Julie Adler, Properties of Silence, About Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Jef Bek, Scenes From an Execution, Zoo District
Steve Jankowski, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
Simon Hugi/Theo Welch,Voluptuous Madness, Fabulous Monsters at Highways
QUEEN OF THE ANGELS AWARD
Polly Warfield
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS:
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For props:
Stan Freitag/Darrin W. Jaques, Burning Chrome, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
For videography:
Adam Soch, Flow My Tears, the Police-
man Said, Evidence Room at the Ivy
SubstationThe following productions and individuals have been nominated by a quorum of Weekly theater critics for excellence in local venues of 99 seats or less, for productions that opened between January 1 and December 31, 1999. The award recipients will be announced at a ceremony (co-hosted by Charlotte Rae, Chris Wells and the Sacred Fools Theater Company) on Monday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), at the Los Angeles Theater Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown. A catered reception will follow the ceremony. Admission for nominees (plus one guest) is free; all others, $12. Checks can be made out to “L.A. Weekly” and sent c/o Lisa Yu to: L.A. Weekly, 6715 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028. Nominees in all production- and musical-of-the-year categories include producers, writers, directors, designers, actors and stage managers listed in the production's program. Seating can be guaranteed only for the first 450 reservations received, though limited standing room is available. To reserve, call the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Hot Line: (323) 993-3693.
–Steven Leigh Morris
PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
The Greeks, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent
Exposure Theater Company at Los
Angeles Theater Center
No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation
Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, Burglars of Hamm/Ghost Road Company at Theater of NOTE
REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR (OF A 20th-CENTURY WORK)
The Adding Machine, Sacred Fools
Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Dutchman, Authentic Company at Theater at the Improv
The Illusion, Namaste Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
Terminal, Non-Prophet Hatching Company at Theatre/Theater
MUSICAL OF THE YEAR
How To Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying, Colony Studio Theater
Marry Me a Little, Celebration Theater
Medea: The Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
Reefer Madness!, Hudson Backstage
Theater
Too Old for the Chorus, Celebration Theater
LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Michele Farr, The Cherry Orchard, Interact Theater Company
Ames Ingham, No Orchids for Miss
Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
Bernadette Sullivan, Scenes From an
Execution, Zoo District
LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE
Loren Bass, Othello, Pasadena Shake- speare Company
Leland Crooke, 900 Oneonta, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Richard Fancy, The Master Builder, Pacific Resident Theater
Craig Mathers, The Adding Machine,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Beth Hogan, The Greeks, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Juanita Jennings, Ninth Wave, Black Artists' Network Development Inc. at the Lillian Theater
Mimi Lieber, The Greeks, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Joan Maurer, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
Marilyn McIntyre, The Cherry Orchard, Interact Theater Company
SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Jon Cryer, 900 Oneonta, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Jeff Goldman, The Adding Machine,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the
Heliotrope Theater
Jay Karnes, The Cherry Orchard, Interact Theater Company
COMEDY PERFORMANCE, MALE
Nicholas Gilhool, Medea: The Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
Daniel J. Parker, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
F. William Parker, Van Gogh's Ear, Fremont Center Theater
Bob Simon, The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Chris Wells, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
COMEDY PERFORMANCE, FEMALE
Anneh B. Gabriel, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
Rebecca O'Brien, Grantwritings, Theater Neo at Hudson Avenue Theater
Kimberly Rae, Grantwritings, Theater Neo at Hudson Avenue Theater
Ann Randolph, Eight Ways To Meet Your Neighbor, Buzzworks Theater Company at the Tamarind Theater
Susan Rubin, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Indecent Exposure Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center
Elsa Wolthausen, Medea, the Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE, MALE
Jeff Boland, Bible Stories, Celebration Theater
Brian Cox, St. Nicholas, Matrix Theater
Steve White, Dutchman, Authentic
Company at the Theater at the Improv
ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE, FEMALE
Shannon O'Hurley, Show and Tell, Circle X Theater Company at Stages Theater
April White, Dutchman, Authentic Company at the Theater at the Improv
Marian Woods, Bible Stories, Celebration Theater
PLAYWRITING
John Fisher, Medea: The Musical!, Hudson Mainstage Theater
Larry Dean Harris, Bible Stories, Celebration Theater
Wendy Kesselman, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
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Paul Mullin, Louis Slotin Sonata, Circle X Theater Company at the Hollywood Court Theater
Tom Scanlon, The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Wesley Walker, The Conception, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa Studios
ONE-ACT PLAYWRITING
Beth Bigler, Boy, Blank Theater Company at the 2nd Stage
Alyson Croft, Cellophane City, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theater
Sandra Tsing Loh, Aliens in America, Tiffany Theater
Sharon Yablon, The First Good Day, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa
Studios
DIRECTION
Michael Arabian, Streamers, Hudson Backstage Theater
Bart DeLorenzo, No Orchids for Miss
Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
Lauren Hollingsworth, The Adding Machine, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Scott Rabinowitz, Burning Chrome,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the
Heliotrope Theater
Wesley Walker, The Conception, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa Studios
COMEDY DIRECTION
Matt Almos, The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Patrick Murphy, Exit the King, Actors' Gang
Alexander Yannis Stephano, Want's Unwished Work, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Rainn Wilson, The New Bozena, Hudson Mainstage Theater
ONE-ACT DIRECTION
Jessica Kubzansky, Boy, Blank Theater Company at the 2nd Stage
Bjørn Johnson, Dutchman, Authentic
Company at theTheater at the Improv
Bill Penton, Renaissance Geek, Gascon Center Theater/Zephyr Theater
ENSEMBLE
The Conception, Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa Studios
The House of Bernarda Alba, Deaf West Theater Company at the Ventura Court Theater
The Illusion, Namaste Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Terminal, Non-Prophet Hatching Company at Theatre/Theater
COMEDY ENSEMBLE
Eight Ways To Meet Your Neighbor, Buzzworks Theater Company at the Tamarind Theater
Kabbalah, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theater
The New Bozena, Hudson Mainstage
Theater
The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Want's Unwished Work, Sacred Fools
Theater Company at the Heliotrope
Theater
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Steven Berkoff, Shakespeare's Villains, Odyssey Theater
Louis Mustillo, Bartenders, Theatre/
Theater
Paul Stroili, Renaissance Geek, Gascon Center Theater/Zephyr Theater
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Burning Chrome, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
The Living, Colony Studio Theater
Reefer Madness!, Hudson Backstage
Theater
Tagteam Lovefest 2000, Actors' Gang
COSTUME DESIGN
M.E. Dunn, Want's Unwished Work,
Sacred Fools Theater Company at the
Heliotrope Theater
Audrey Eisner, The Swan, Pacific Resident Theater
Todd Oldhan, The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Robert A. Prior/Teresa Shea, Voluptuous Madness, Fabulous Monsters at
Highways
Salvatore Salamone, Tagteam Lovefest 2000, Actors' Gang
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, The Living, Colony Studio Theater
Kharen Zeunert, The Illusion, Namaste
Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
LIGHTING DESIGN
Ken Booth, The Rocky Horror Show, Tiffany Theater
Aaron Francis/Norman Gilmore, Burning Chrome, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
Matthew O. O'Donnell, The Living, Colony Studio Theater
David Robkin, Will Strip for Food, Glaxa Studios/Tamarind Theater
Rand Ryan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Deaf West Theater Company at the
Ventura Court Theater
Ron Scarborough, The Conception,
Oxblood Theater Company at Glaxa
Studios
John Zamora, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
SET DESIGN
Jason Adams, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation
David Ledger, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
Robert A. Prior, A Fairy Tale, Actors' Gang
Douglas Ridgeway, Properties of
Silence, About Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Kris Sandheinrich, The Illusion, Namaste Theater Company at the Actors' Gang Theater
MAKEUP
Circle X Theater Company, Louis Slotin Sonata
Colony Studio Theater, The Living
Marie Del Prete, Ugly's First World, Actors' Gang
Sacred Fools Theater Company, The Adding Machine
SOUND DESIGN
Erik Bleuer/Sera Gamblek, Will Strip for Food, Glaxa Studios/Tamarind Theater
Ruth Judkowitz, The Living, Colony
Studio Theater
Peter Stenshoel, Dutchman, Authentic Company at the Theater at the Improv
John Zalewski, Flow My Tears, the
Policeman Said, Evidence Room at the Ivy Substation
John Zalewski, No Orchids for Miss
Blandish, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
Brian Benison, The Superhumans, Moving Arts
Steve Goodie, The Memorandum, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Ellen Geer
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Golden State Klezmers, Kabbalah, Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex Theater
Julie Adler, Properties of Silence, About Productions at 2100 Square Feet
Jef Bek, Scenes From an Execution, Zoo District
Steve Jankowski, My Sister in This House, Hole Brain Productions at the McCadden Place Theater
[
Simon Hugi/Theo Welch,Voluptuous Madness, Fabulous Monsters at Highways
QUEEN OF THE ANGELS AWARD
Polly Warfield
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS:
For props:
Stan Freitag/Darrin W. Jaques, Burning Chrome, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Heliotrope Theater
For videography:
Adam Soch, Flow My Tears, the Police-
man Said, Evidence Room at the Ivy
Substation
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