2007 NY Innovative Theatre Awards - Nominees Announced

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards describes itself this way:

The IT Awards are given annually to honor individuals and organizations who have achieved artistic excellence in Off-Off-Broadway theatre. The New York IT Awards recognizes the unique and essential role Off-Off-Broadway plays incontributing to American and global culture, and believes that publicly recognizing excellence in Off-Off-Broadway theatre will expand audience awareness and appreciation of the full New York theatre experience."

The nominees were announced last night. Here's the 2007 list:

Outstanding Ensemble

Boo Killebrew, Julia Lowrie Henderson, Ryan Purcell, Max Rosenak, Phillip
Taratula and Daniel Walker Stowell
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree and Aimee German
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Ten Directions

Laura Berlin Stinger, Abigail Browde, Sebastian Calderon-Bentin, Heather
Christian, Sean Donovan, Emmitt George, Mike Mikos, Dan Safer, Orion Taraban
and Randy Thompson
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness
Relocation

Mary Archias, Peter Blomquist, Jason Craig, Rod Hipskind, Jessica Jelliffe,
Casey Opstad and Heather Peroni
The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen,
Banana Bag & Bodice

Adam Belvo, Tom Cleary, Micah Freedman, Marguerite French, Matthew Gray,
Angus Hepburn, Megan Ketch, Christiaan Koop, Elena McGhee, Mick O'Brien and
Andy Waldschmidt
Mad Forest, QED Productions

Jose Cavazos, Catherine Correa, Tino del Casar, Nicole Hafner, Sara
Hatfield, Markus Hirnigel, Denice Kondik, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Sarah Lemp,
Florencia Minniti, Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin, Monica Risi, Paula Roman, Gabriele
Schafer and Jeanne Lauren Smith
Some Historic, Some Hysteric,
New Stage Theatre Company


Outstanding Solo Performance

Dan Carbone
Kingdom of Not, Kaliyuga Arts

Joe Curnutte
Thinking Makes It So, Examined Man Theatre

Mike Houston
The Ledge, eavesdrop

Deborah Louise Ortiz
Changing Violet,
Dangerous Curves Productions/Shetler Studios

Jonathan Tindle
Maud - The Madness by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role

Michael Crane
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company

Jon Frazier
Urinetown, The Musical, The Gallery Players

Jay T. Johnson
I Wish You A Boat, Ward Studio Company

Brian Linden
The Country Wife, HoNkBarK! and Vital Theatre

Julian James Mohammed
fuckplays, Working Man's Clothes

Joe Plummer
As You Like It, poortom Productions

Alex Webb
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company


Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role

Christine Brumbaugh
I Wish You A Boat, Ward Studio Company

Jocelyn Greene
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company

Boo Killebrew
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Denice Kondik
Some Historic, Some Hysteric,
New Stage Theatre Company

Jennifer McGuire
Better Living, T. Schreiber Studio

Suzan Perry
Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist/Cleansed,
The Immediate Theater Company

Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role

Spencer Aste
Rules of the Universe, Rising Phoenix Repertory

Matt DeAngelis
The Flood, Prospect Theater Company

Keir Dullea
Strings, The Open Book

Warren Kelley
Strings, The Open Book

Mac Rogers
The Adventures of Nervous-Boy (a penny dreadful), Nosedive Productions

Max Rosenak
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Mark Setlock
Never Tell, Broken Watch Theatre Company


Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role

Virginia Baeta
The Imaginary Invalid, Resonance Ensemble

Barret Doss
Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist/Cleansed,
The Immediate Theater Company

Judith Hawking
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company

Stephanie Janssen
Israel Horovitz's New Shorts,
Barefoot Theatre Company

Susan Louise O'Connor
the silent concerto,
Packawallop Productions, Inc.

Jessica Scholl
Shangri La, Craig Bowley

Marnye Young
Waxing West, East Coast Artists


Outstanding Choreography/Movement

John Hayden
Hamlet, Orpheus Productions

Gabrielle Lansner
Shangri La, Craig Bowley

Heidi Latsky
Trophy Wife, La MaMa ETC in association with Watson Arts

Qui Nguyen
The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest,
The Brick Theater, Inc.

Dan Safer
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness
Relocation

Wendy Seyb
The Great Conjurer,
Fluid Motion Theater & Film


Outstanding Director

Eric Davis
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Ten Directions

Matthew Hopkins
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Padraic Lillis
The Dirty Talk, Spare Change Productions, Inc

Davis McCallum
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company

Anya Saffir
Hamlet, Orpheus Productions

Daniel Talbott
Rules of the Universe, Rising Phoenix Repertory


Outstanding Lighting Design

Andrea Boccanfuso
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, T. Schreiber Studio

Peter Hoerburger
The Present Perfect, The Operating Theater

Dusty Ray
Never Tell, Broken Watch Theatre Company

Mike Riggs
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Jay Ryan
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness
Relocation

Tim Walsh
Jitter, Ladylike Productons


Outstanding Costume Design

Pandora Andrea Gastelum
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness
Relocation

Karen Ann Ledger
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, T. Schreiber Studio

Ramona Ponce
Trophy Wife, La MaMa ETC in association with Watson Arts

Karl Ruckdeschel
The Country Wife, HoNkBarK! and Vital Theatre

David Withrow
Bug Boy Blues, The Looking Glass Theatre

Naomi Wolff
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company


Outstanding Set Design

George Allison
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, T. Schreiber Studio

Megan Biddle
The Present Perfect, The Operating Theater

Michael Casselli
Abandon, La MaMa ETC in association with Creation Production Company

Brian Garber
The Country Wife, HoNkBarK! and Vital Theatre

Michael Paul Kramer
A New Brain, Astoria Peforming Arts Center

Hal Tine'
Better Living, T. Schreiber Studio


Outstanding Sound Design

Dan Bianchi
Radiotheatre's The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street, Radiotheatre/Horsetrade

Andrew Eisele
Better Living, T. Schreiber Studio

Brandon Lowry
Shangri La, Craig Bowley


Ryan Maeker
the silent concerto, Packawallop Productions, Inc.

Ryan Maeker & Tim Schellenbaum
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness
Relocation

Brandon Wolcott
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.


Outstanding Original Music

Cormac Bluestone
Hamlet, Orpheus Productions

Leanne Darling
The Landlord, Toy Box Theatre Company

Paul Foglino & Terry Waldo
Trophy Wife, La MaMa ETC in association with Watson Arts

Andrew Ingkavet
Abandon, La MaMa ETC in association with Creation Production Company

Genji Ito, Heather Paauwe, David Sawyer, Ben Sher, Michael Sirotta, Ellen
Stewart & Yukio Tsuji
Herakles Via Phaedra, La MaMa ETC

Peter Mills & Cara Reichel
The Flood, Prospect Theater Company


Outstanding Original Full Length Script

Thomas Bradshaw
Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist/Cleansed,
The Immediate Theater Company

Kirk Wood Bromley
The Death of Griffin Hunter,
Inverse Theater Company

Jason Craig
The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen, Banana Bag & Bodice

Michael Puzzo
The Dirty Talk, Spare Change Productions, Inc

Saviana Stanescu
Waxing West, East Coast Artists

Rob Urbinati
West Moon Street, Prospect Theater Company


Outstanding Original Short Script

Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Eric Davis & Aimee German
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Ten Directions

Justin Cooper
Wood, fuckplays, Working Man's Clothes

Israel Horovitz
Beirut Rocks, Israel Horovitz's New Shorts, Barefoot Theatre Company

Israel Horovitz
The Hotel Play, Israel Horovitz's New Shorts, Barefoot Theatre Company

Daniel Reitz
Rules of the Universe, Rising Phoenix Repertory

Casey Wimpee
Arms and the Octopus, fuckplays, Working Man's Clothes


Outstanding Production of a Performance Art Piece

Abandon
La MaMa ETC in association with Creation Production Company

Changing Violet
Dangerous Curves Productions/Shelter Studios

Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment
La MaMa ETC in association with Witness Relocation

Radiotheatre's The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street
Radiotheatre/Horsetrade

Some Historic, Some Hysteric
New Stage Theatre Company

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
New York Neo-Futurists


Outstanding Production of a Musical

Greed: a Musical Love $tory
The Brick Theater, Inc.

Happy End
Theater Ten Ten
Shangri La
Craig Bowley

The Flood
Prospect Theater Company

Tock Tick
Prospect Theater Company

Urinetown
The Musical, The Gallery Players


Outstanding Production of a Play

Bouffon Glass Menajoree
Ten Directions

Rules of the Universe
Rising Phoenix Repertory

Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist/Cleansed
The Immediate Theater Company

The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen
Banana Bag & Bodice

The Imaginary Invalid
Resonance Ensemble

West Moon Street
Prospect Theater Company


The 3rd Annual IT Awards Ceremony will be held on September 24th, 2007. According to all that's good and true, their sponsors are Backstage, United Stages, Oudinot Champange, and my hometown brew, Yeungling Beer.

As a side note, where I'm from, one does not say Yeungling. It is simply referred to as Lager. That is what there is to drink. It costs $1.50 a pint. That is neither here nor there.

Pretty cool stuff. Mac Rogers is having a good month.