Regional Awards Roundup: Los Angeles

As Awards Season comes upon us, I thought it might be interesting to start posting the results of all the non New York City based awards that happen in our other theatre capitals around the country.

The point is not to validate all the troublesome competitive and commodifying aspects of awards in the arts, but rather to use such lists as a snapshot of what's going on around the country. I find it interesting to see what plays are getting done, who's acting in them (perhaps you'll see a name of a long lost colleague), what the up and coming companies are in different towns, etc.

Today's edition: Los Angeles and Monday's LA Weekly Awards devoted to "celebrating the best of L.A.'s small theaters"--i.e. not the Taper.

32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Winners


PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR

La Razón Blindada (Armored Reason), 24th Street Theatre

REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR (of a 20th- or 21st-century work)

Wit, Actors Co-op

MUSICAL OF THE YEAR

Hoboken to Hollywood, Reasoner Productions at the Edgemar Center for the Arts

DIRECTION (TIE)

Peter Haskell, Kataki, Prince Livingston Players at the McCadden Place Theatre

Simon Levy, Opus, Fountain Theatre  

DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

Jeremy Aldridge, Hoboken to Hollywood, Reasoner Productions at the Edgemar Center for the Arts

COMEDY DIRECTION

Jaime Robledo, Watson, Sacred Fools Theater Company  

MUSICAL DIRECTION

Paul Litteral, Hoboken to Hollywood, Reasoner Productions at the Edgemar Center for the Arts

ENSEMBLE

Oedipus El Rey, Theatre @ Boston Court

MUSICAL ENSEMBLE

The Women of Brewster Place, Celebration Theatre

COMEDY ENSEMBLE

Yellow, Coast Playhouse

LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Nan McNamara, Wit, Actors Co-op

LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE

Kevin Brief, A Prayer for My Daughter, Crown City Theatre m

SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Agatha Nowicki, Parasite Drag, Elephant Theatre Company

SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE (TIE)

Tom Costello, Take Me Out, Celebration Theatre

Garrett Matheson, Take Me Out, Celebration Theatre

Thomas James O'Leary, Take Me Out, Celebration Theatre

TWO-PERSON PERFORMANCE

Robert Mammana and Will Bradley, The Twentieth-Century Way, Theatre @ Boston Court


SOLO PERFORMANCE

Ann Randolph, Loveland, Santa Monica Playhouse  

FEMALE COMEDY PERFORMANCE

Christine Estabrook, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Blank Theatre

MALE COMEDY PERFORMANCE

Henry Dittman, Watson, Sacred Fools Theater Company


ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE

Candice Afia, Blood and Thunder, Moving Arts


PLAY WRITING

John Steppling, Phantom Luck, Gunfighter Nation at the Lost Studio

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT

Lee Kissman

QUEEN OF THE ANGELS

Jessica Kubzansky & Michael Michetti


PRODUCTION DESIGN

Brewsie and Willie, Poor Dog Group and the Center for New Performance at CalArts at the 7th Floor Penthouse

ADAPTATION

Luis Alfaro, Oedipus El Rey, Theatre@ Boston Court


LIGHTING DESIGN (TIE)

Efren Delgadillo Jr. and Adam Haas Hunter, Brewsie and Willie, Poor Dog Group and Center for New Performance at CalArts at the 7th Floor Penthouse

Dan Weingarten, A Tale Told By an Idiot, Psittacus Productions at Son of Semele Theatre/Lounge Theatre

COSTUME DESIGN

Christina Wright, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Open Fist Theatre Company

SET DESIGN

Potsch Boyd, Kataki, Prince Livingston Players at the McCadden Place Theatre

SOUND DESIGN
Robert Oriol, Oedipus El Rey, Theatre @ Boston Court

CHOREOGRAPHY
Tina Kronis, Anton's Uncles, Theatre Movement Bazaar at 24th Street Theatre/Bootleg Theater

PUPPET DESIGN
Lynn Jeffries, Project: Wonderland, Bootleg Theater

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Andrew Conrad and Andrew Gilbert, Brewsie and Willie, Poor Dog Group and the Center for New     Performance at CalArts at the 7th Floor Penthouse

FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
Louis Roth, Kataki, Prince Livingston Players at the Lex Theatre

PROJECTION DESIGN
Steven Calcote, The Limitations of Genetic Technology, Off-Chance Productions at                
    Theatre of NOTE 

TRANSLATION
Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe, The Marriage of Figaro, City Garage

SPECIAL CITATION

Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's trilogy of original plays presented in repertory at the Powerhouse Theatre: Gospel According to the First Squad, Wounded, and Survived, collectively titled The War Cycle. Each concerned the U.S. military presences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The citation is given for breadth of vision and clarity of purpose by an ensemble