THE NOMINEES AND WINNERS OF THE 2007 L.A. OVATION
AWARDS ARE:
WORLD PREMIERE PLAY
Bad Hurt On Cedar Street - Mark Kemble, Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles, John C. Mooney
Because They Have No Words - Tim Maddock & Lotti Louise Pharriss,
Weirdsmobile Productions LLC, Lotti Louise Pharriss
Fallujah - W. Colin McKay,
Theatre East, W. Colin McKay
Film Chinois - Damon Chua
Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson (winner)
Gulf View Drive - Arlene Hutton,
Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre
Space Therapy - Justin Tanner,
Zephyr Theatre, Linda Toliver & Gary Guidinger
Yellow Face - David Henry Hwang,
Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum
WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL
13 - Music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown; Book by Dan Elish
Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum
Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert - Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, based on the music of John Denver, Rubicon Theatre Company & Harold Thau Productions
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - Book & music by Eric Whitacre, Lyrics by David Norona and Eric Whitacre,
The Theatre @ Boston Court
Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Book by Rachel Sheinkin; Music & lyrics by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda,
Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre (winner)
A Time For Love - Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. & Joel Silberman; Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr,
Rubicon Theatre Company
RAY STRICKLYN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR SOLO PERFORMANCE
Dael Orlandersmith, The Gimmick - Fountain Theatre, Simon Levy (winner)
Keo Woolford, I Land - East West Players, Co-commissioned by the Asia Society and the Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City
Lynn Redgrave, Nightingale - Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum
Jodi Long, Surfing DNA - East West Players
Fritz Coleman, Tonight at 11! - Falcon Theatre & Steven Ullman
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Because They Have No Words - Weirdsmobile Productions, LLC, Lotti Louise Pharriss
Beehive, The 60's Musical - Valley Musical Theatre, Ronn Goswick
Jitney - Stagewalker Productions (winner)
The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe
The Marvelous Wonderettes Marvelous Dreams, LLC, David Elzer & Peter Schneider
Plaid Tidings - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Small Tragedy - Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Michael Matthews, The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre
Michael Matthews, Beautiful Thing - Celebration Theatre
Claude Purdy, Jitney - Stagewalker Productions
Stuart Rogers, The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe
Vivian Matalon, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana
Cameron Watson, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company
Robin Larsen, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre
DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
David Lee, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse (winner)
Joel Zwick, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Joel Zwick, Monsieur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty Eight Productions
Roger Bean, The Marvelous Wonderettes - Marvelous Dreams, LLC, David Elzer & Peter Schneider
Michael Michetti, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Jeff Calhoun, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
Nick DeGruccio, Zanna, Don't! - West Coast Ensemble
CHOREOGRAPHY
Lee Martino, Beehive, The 60's Musical - Valley Musical Theatre, Ronn Goswick (winner)
Patti Colombo, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Cheryl Baxter, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III
Lee Martino, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best
Bubba Carr & Caleb Terray, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Tracy Powell, Urinetown: The Musical - Interact Theatre Company
Christine Lakin & Paul Nygro, Zanna, Don't! - West Coast Ensemble
MUSICAL DIRECTION
Dan Wheetman, Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert - Rubicon Theatre Company & Harold Thau Productions (winner)
Steve Orich, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Hershey Felder, Monseiur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Gerald Sternbach, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best
Greg Chun, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court
*Brendan Milburn, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum (winner)
TOURING PRODUCTION
Doubt - Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre
In The Continuum - Center Theatre Group:
Kirk Douglas Theatre, Primary Stages and Perry Street Theatre
Jersey Boys - Center
Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre (winner)
Twelve Angry Men - Center Theatre Group:
Ahmanson Theatre
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson
Theatre
PLAY (INTIMATE THEATRE)
The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre
Bad Hurt on Cedar Street - Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney
Beautiful Thing - Celebration Theatre
Jitney - Stagewalker Productions (winner)
The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe
Safety - Closet Space Theatre
Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre
PLAY (LARGE THEATRE)
As You Like It - A Noise Within
Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana )winner)
Trying - The Colony Theatre Company
The Value of Names - Falcon Theatre
FRANKLIN R. LEVY MEMORIAL AWARD FOR MUSICAL (INTIMATE THEATRE)
The Beastly Bombing - The Secret Order of Revolutionary Operettists, Rorry Daniels & Amit Itelman
The Marvelous Wonderettes - Marvelous Dreams, LLC, David Elzer & Peter Schneider (winner)
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Urinetown: The Musical - Interact Theatre Company
Zanna, Don't! - West Coast Ensemble
MUSICAL (LARGE THEATRE)
Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty Eight Productions (winner)
Monseiur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Plaid Tidings - La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY
Eddie Jones, Death of a Salesman - Miss O Productions, Coleen Kolbacher
Laurence Fishburne, Fences - Pasadena Playhouse
Joe Sears, Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Jaston Williams, Greater Tuna - La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Tim Sullens, Taking Care - The Victory Theatre Center, Tom Ormeny
Alan Mandell, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company (winner)
Dan Lauria, The Value of Names - Falcon Theatre
LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Yeardley Smith, Balancing Act - Falcon Theatre
Anne Gee Byrd, The Bay at Nice - Andak Stage Company
Anne Gee Byrd, Death of a Salesman - Miss O Productions, Coleen Kolbacher
Anna Khaja, Palace of the End - 49th Parallel Theatre
Judy Kaye, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana (winner)
Rebecca Mozo, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company
Deborah Puette, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre
LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Kevin Bailey, Annie Get Your Gun - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III
Kevin Earley, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions (winner)
Hershey Felder, Monsieur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Jeffry Denman, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best
LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Michelle Duffy, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse (winner)
Misty Cotton, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III
Hila Plitmann, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Valerie Vigoda, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
Alexandria Wailes, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Laurence Cohen, Bad Hurt on Cedar Street - Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney
Hugo Armstrong, Bleed Rail - The Theatre @ Boston Court ( tie-winner)
Richard Tatum, A Doll's House - Ark Theatre Company
*Dan Alemshah, The Fat of the Land - The New Theatre, Don Cummings, Dan Alemshah & Mary McBride (tie-winner)
Orlando Jones, Fences - Pasadena Playhouse
Wendell Pierce, Fences - Pasadena Playhouse
Matt Foyer, Power - Theatre Banshee
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Iris Gilad, Bad Hurt on Cedar Street - Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney
Lily Holleman, Bleed Rail - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Sharon Johnston, Kimberly
Akimbo - The Victory Theatre Center, Tom Ormeny & Maria Gobetti
Judith Moreland,Miss
Julie - Fountain Theatre (winner)
Peggy Goss, Safety - Closet Space Theatre
Bonnie Bailey-Reed, See Rock City - Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre
Deborah Strang, A
Touch of the Poet - A Noise Within
FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
David Engel, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse (winner)
Amir Talai, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Kevin McMahon, The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West
John Massey, Jr., The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West
Randal Keith, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company
Norman Large, The Pirates of Penzance - Musical Theatre West
Kevin Earley, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Carol Hatchett, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies - Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III
Mary Jo Catlett, The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West
Tami Tappan Damiano, The Full Monty - Musical Theatre West
Vicki Lewis, Hotel C'est L'amour - The Blank Theatre Company (winner)
Yvette Tucker, On Your Toes - Reprise! Broadway's Best
Erika Amato, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
Gina D'Acciaro, Tales of Tinseltown - Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre
SET DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)
Two Blue Chairs, 1 to 10? - The Theatre District
Brian Sidney Bembridge, Eurydice - Circle X Theatre Company
Leonard Ogden, Film Chinois - Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson
Joel Daavid, Jitney Stagewalker Productions
Travis Gale Lewis, Miss Julie - Fountain Theatre
Tom Buderwitz, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court (winner)
Craig Siebels, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre
SET DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)
Roy Christopher, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse (tie-winner)
Thomas S. Giamario, The Diary of Anne Frank - Rubicon Theatre Company
Yael Pardess, George Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Thomas S. Giamario, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company
Francois-Pierre Couture, A Picasso - Geffen Playhouse
Victoria Profitt, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company
Keith Mitchell, The Value of Names - Falcon Theatre (tie-winner)
LIGHTING DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)
Tim Swiss, The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre
Brian Sidney Bembridge, Eurydice - Circle X Theatre Company
Jeremy Pivnick, Gilgamesh - The Theatre @ Boston Court
Joel Daavid, Jitney - Stagewalker Productions
Luke Moyer, The Long Christmas Ride Home - Theatre Tribe
Christopher Kuhl, Monster of Happiness - 24th St. Theatre
Steven Young, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court (winner)
LIGHTING DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)
Michael Gilliam, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Michael Gilliam, George
Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions (winner)
Richard Norwood, Monsieur Chopin - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions
Jeremy Pivnick, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre Company
Michael Gilliam, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
Jason H. Thompson, Sunday in the Park with George - Reprise! Broadway's Best
Jared Sayeg, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company
SOUND DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)
Cricket Myers, The Bacchae - Celebration Theatre
John Zalewski, Bleed Rail - The
Theatre @ Boston Court
Robbin E. Broad, Eurydice - Circle X Theatre Company
John
Zalewski, Melancholia - Latino Theater Company
Richard Alger & Tina Kronis, Monster of Happiness - 24th St. Theatre
John Zalewski, No Mercy - 24th St. Theatre
Martin Carillo, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court (winner)
SOUND DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)
Francois Bergeron, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Ken Huncovsky, Greater Tuna - La Mirada
Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Jon Gottlieb, George
Gershwin Alone - Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions (winner)
Eric Snodgrass, Sleeping Beauty Wakes - Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre
David Budries, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana
John Zalewski, The
Thousandth Night - The Colony Theatre Company
Cricket Myers, Trying - The Colony
Theatre Company
COSTUME DESIGN (INTIMATE THEATRE)
Leonard Ogden, Film Chinois - Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson
Rudy Dillon, Hogan's Goat - Pacific Resident Theatre, Alley Mills, Jake Arnette &
Dan Kozlowski
Nanci Martin, Jitney - Stagewalker Productions
JoAnna Jocelyn, Les
Liaisons Dangeureses - Ark Theatre Company
Soojin Lee, Paradise Lost: Shadows and
Wings - The Theatre @ Boston Court
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Travesties - Open Fist
Theatre Company
Audrey Fisher, Tryst - Black Dahlia Theatre (winner)
COSTUME DESIGN (LARGE THEATRE)
Randy Gardell, Can-Can - Pasadena Playhouse
Linda Fisher, Greater Tuna - La Mirada
Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
Marcy Froehlich,
Hamlet - Rubicon Theatre Company
Marcy Froehlich, Man of La Mancha - Rubicon Theatre
Company
Bob Mackie & Joe McFate, No Strings - Reprise! Broadway's Best
Tracy Christensen, Souvenir - Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana (winner)
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Trying - The Colony Theatre Company
LA STAGE ALLIANCE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AWARDS
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Annette Bening
THE JAMES A. DOOLITTLE LEADERSHIP IN THEATRE AWARD
Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
COMMUNITY OUTREACH AWARD
The Actors Fund