THE
2002-2003
SPOTLIGHT
ON
AWARDS
NOMINEES
Best Full Length
Production
The 4am 'lizbeth (Cuchipinoy
Productions) (3 friends meet at the railroad tracks in town to work
out their lives.)
Golem Stories (FHB
Productions) (A new take on Golem legend. 16th Century Prague. Rabbi
Lowe creates a man of clay.)
Information Please -
(Tribe Productions) (April, 1971 - Stanley Cup Hockey. Three
people work out their love problems around a public phone booth.)
La Fenix (Cassandra
Productions) (17th Century Tale of Sor Juana Ines.)
Michael Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (The
Gay and Lesbian Acting Company) (The life of Transgender "michael",
brother, lover and friends)
The Tell Tale Heart (Mobster Style) and
After Poe (Ricardo Cordero plays a
stage actor in the "hit Broadway production of Tell Tale
Heart" and the goings on after the Broadway performance.)
‘tryin t’ touch the sun (White
Rabbit Theatre & FHB) (Inside the head of a murderous child)
Best Director of a Full Length Play
George Adams
- The Insanity of Mary Girard (In 1790 Mary Girard is committed to
an insane asylum by her husband (for having a baby by another).
Glory Bowen
- Golem Stories
Glory Bowen - ‘tryin
t’ touch the sun
Ricardo Cordero
- The Tell Tale Heart (Mobster Style) and After Poe
J. Froomkin
- La Fenix
J.C. Svec
- Information, Please
Steven Thornburg
- Michael Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Best Lighting Design
The Bedsitter -
Studio 31 (low lighting - nighttime - lightning striking) (3
young women go on camping trip and encounter strange goings on)
Golem Stories -
Aaron J. Mason (mood lighting, window lit, house setting,
etc.)
Information Please -
Studio 31 (area lightings - night time)
La Fenix -
J. Froomkin (areas - dark patches - medieval feel)
The Tell Tale Heart (Mobster Style) and
After Poe - Sherrian Felix -areas
lit in Tell Tale - he walks into spots during solo performance)
‘tryin t’ touch the sun -
Sean Doyle - area lighting, mood lighting during
"monster" scenes, etc.)
Who Am I -
Gabriel Martinez (spots - 4 areas) (Done in four segments.
What would you say if you could talk with your "God?")
Best Sound Design
The Fairy Playz -
Original Music and Sound by Dan Lega - "Fairy"
music in waltz form) (Shorter interconnecting fantasy pieces about
fairies.)
Golem Stories -
Christopher Brooks (wind, sound effects, period music -
violin music)
La Fenix -
Cassandra Productions - (mix of
Aztec music from Mexico and liturgical music - Hildegarde Von Bingen
and Gregorian chants)
The Tell Tale Heart (Mobster Style) and
After Poe - Ricardo Cordero (old
organ music - sound of beating heart)
Texas Toast -
Chris Stanis/ Wendy Williams (country music radio station -
voice and music - fit as character in show - lots of Patsy Cline)
(Originated one act version with Spotlight On. Poor white trash
comedy about a dead husband that is brought home by his widow.)
‘tryin t’ touch the sun -
Christopher Brooks (Eclectic music from Doris Day "Que
Sera, Sera"; "Teachers Pet"; "Adams
Family"; "Munsters" music in dance sequences, etc.)
Yet, Another Fairy Tale - Hector Lugo -
Dance music - "monster Mash" during monster scene in
woods)
Best Set Design for a Full Length Production
The 4am 'lizbeth -
Mario Corrales/ Sarah Darnsteadt (railroad tracks)/projection
of scenes (Jonathan Calindas) - Graffiti (Dadisi DuBose)
& Rachael Barba (scenic artist)
The Bedsitter -
Tribe 31 (elaborate cabin in the woods)
The Fairy Playz -
Matthew Jago Jr.- child like colors - pillars, colorful
boxes, etc)
Golem Stories -
Nicole Frankel (period home with all the furnishings - moving
chairs for special effect)
Harlequinade - Ken Bachtold and Stephen
Voutsas (the set of romeo and
juliet - backstage)(Set in the back stage world of 2 Shakespearean
actors.)
Lizzie Borden Invites you To Tea -
Marjorie Conn - home furnishing to represent last
century)(One-Woman show - Lizzie Borden tells her story while
serving you tea.)
The Wisdom of Age -
Stephen Nisbet (white dining room - fire place)(4 men get
together at home of a close friend and his young lover and find out
that he has passed away.)
Best Costume Design for a Full Length Play
3 Guys In Drag Selling Their stuff -
Frank Calo/ Anthony Valbiro (outlandish dresses)
The Fairy Playz - Julia Lintern (fairy
costumes - wings, wands, etc.)
Golem Stories -
Glory Bowen (16th Century Prague)
Harlequinade - Ken Bachtold (Shakespearean
and 1930s)
La Fenix -
J. Froomkin/ Susan Tammany (medieval religious costumes)
‘tryin t’ touch the sun -
David Rigler (monster costumes, school outfits, etc.)
Yet, Another Fairy Tale - Robert Strong
Miller (modern day - modeling
agency - puck's demonic costumes)
Best Actress in a Full Length Production
ALEXANDRA CREMER
- Harlequinade (Edna Selby - "Juliet" in play)
ABENA ASAMOOH DUODU
- Who Am I (Girl - female side of Guy)
ANDREA HOFFMAN - Curse of the Snake Woman (Velma
Lombard - Dick's girlfriend/starlet)(It is WWII and the Snake Woman
is doing her evil best to help Hitler.)
CAMERON PETERSON
- ‘tryin t’ touch the sun (Melissa - "little
girl" that has murderous thoughts.)
KARSON ST. JOHN - Information Please (Katie
Stanton - meets pizza guy after hockey game at telephone booth)
CORNELIA LORENTZEN
- Yet, Another Fairy Tale (Petunia Goodfellow - Secretary to
Models, Inc.)
AGNES TSANGARIDON
- La Fenix (Juana Ines - Sor Juana De La Cruz - nun)
Best Actor in a Full Length Play
JOHN JAY BUOL
- Coyote Calls (Rex - Coyote)
RICARDO CORDERO - Tell Tale Heart (Mobster
Style) (Richard Bishoff)
MICHAEL DIGIOIA - La Fenix
(Father Antonio - in love with and jealous of Juana)
RYAN PIFHER - Information Please (George
Kopac - Pizza delivery guy with nagging girlfriend)
MICHAEL RIVERA
- Yet, Another Fairy Tale (Puck Peaseblossom - demon fairy)
ANDREW ROTHKIN - Michael Doesn’t Live
Here Anymore (Michael/Mickie -
transexual)
ANTHONY VALBIRO - 3 Guys In Drag Selling
Their Stuff (Diva - Bea Arthur-like
woman)
Best Supporting Actress in a Full Length Play
LYNDA GREEN
- Yet, Another Fairy Tale (Helena Knight - Photog's assistant
in Models, Inc.)
GRETCHEN S. HALL
- ‘tryin t’ touch the sun (Mrs. Beckson - Melissa’s
teacher)
CARMELA MARNER
- La Fenix (Maria Luisa - Countess de Paredes)
SUSAN SCUDDER
– Harlequinade (Dame Maud Gosport - aunt of Arthur - hard
drinking "actress")
SARA SHANING - Information Please (Rita
Foley - annoying girlfriend)
B. DRUM SULLIVAN - Michael Doesn’t Live
Here Anymore (Mrs. Brooks, Martha,
A)
ANITA WLODY - ‘tryin t’ touch the sun
(Aunt Marge - Melissa’s aunt (also Scary Clown))
Best Supporting Actor in A Full Length Play
MARK CIRNIGLIARO - Yet, Another Fairy Tale
(Lysander Leicester, the super-model, and voice of the Evil
Cyclops.)
MYLES COHEN
- 3 Guys In Drag Selling Their Stuff (Tink - drag queen in a
coma)
TATE ELLINGTON
- Michael Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Steve - works at
clinic - has breakdown)
HARRY KLEIN - Golem Stories (King
Rudolph)
JACK MERLIS- Michael Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore (Mr. Fishman - landlord -
dispenses advice)
MICHAEL SHATTNER
- Yet, Another Fairy Tale (Demetrius Delargo - Fey
photographer in black leather pants/kept falling.)
ELIAS STIMAC - The Tell Tale Heart (after
Poe) (Melvin - understudy to Mr.
Bishop)
Best Featured Actress in a Full Length Play
JENNIFER BACHMAN - Closing Time (Sunny,
a happy-go-lucky teacher who talks sense every now and then) (A
bartender is trying to close his bar and is subjected to spirits.)
AHRUM CLAIBORNE
- ‘tryin t’ touch the sun (Rita - The awkward Asian
lesbian girl who has a crush on Melissa) Ahrum also played the
Werewolf in the monster scenes.
LINDA DIGIOSAFFATTE - Harlequinade
(Miss Fishlock - secretary at the theater)
AMANDA HILSON - Harlequinade (Joyce
Langland - Jack's fiancée)
MARY ELIZABETH MICARI
- War of the Worlds (Mrs. Phillips; Reporter; Eyewitness)
(Recreation of the 1930’s War of the World broadcast)
RANDI SOBOL - Yet, Another Fairy Tale
(Carol Smith - heavyset "actress" and "stage
manager.")
KARIN CLERMONT – Harlequinade
(Muriel Palmer was part of the couple with the baby. She wore a
green hat with cherries on the side.)
Best Featured Actor in a Full Length Play
BRENDAN BURKE - Michael Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore (Danny - Mickie’s
homophobic brother)
SLADE DECKER - Harlequinade
(Tom Palmer - young fiance of Joyce Langland (illigitimate child of
Arthur)
LARRAY GRIMES- Yet, Another Fairy Tale
(Maxwell Cute - black "director" of the "play"
within play.)
CARL OWENS - Closing Time (Gregg,
a drunk young man who is out of control with alcohol and women)
JOHN RENGSTORFF - Insanity of Mary Girard
(older man - played her husband Stephen Girard)
MICHAEL WHITNEY - Golem Stories
(Thaddeus - evil religious zealot)
Best Cameo (Male or Female) in a Full Length Play
ALL THREE ANNOUNCERS - The War of the
Worlds (Simone Smith; Corey;
Daniel Ishofsky)
REMY CRANE
- Texas Toast (Clodine (sheriff’s assistant), Crystal Lee
(radio voice)
STEVE GREGOR - The Tell Tale Heart (After Poe) (Former
Chairman of Enron/Army Archerd)
SONIA MORENO
- The War of The Worlds (Mabel Dey - the woman praying)
SCOTT PETCHE - Curse of the Snake Woman (Otto
Python - snake at end)
BRAD THOMASON
- Harlequinade (The Constable - comes in several times to
arrest Arthur for bigamy)
Best Ensemble (more than 3 in cast that interact with each other)
Cast for A Full Length Production
Golem Stories (Actors:
Ian Fleet; Brian Glaser; Hannah Hayes; Gina Stec; Ben
Hindell, Harry Klein;
Yvonne Roen;
Michael Whitney; Maxwell Zener)
The Insanity of Mary Girard
(Actors: Klaudia Kovacs; William Greville; Jason C.
Decker; Marilyn Duryea; Lora Goldman; Kathryn
Alexander; John Rengstorff )
La Fenix (Actors:
Agnes Tsangaridon; Michael DiGioia; Carmela Marner;
Betsy Johnson; Margaret Stockton; Nancy
Wilcox)
The Tell Tale Heart (Mobster Style) and
After Poe (Actors: Ricardo
Cordero; Elias Stimac; Betsey Barrera; Cheri
Mims; Anna Roman; Kat Jameson; Steve Gregor;
Sean Ferguson; Luan Begetti; Rachel Scheer; Patrick
Cohen; Heather Fitzpatrick; Amanda Grace; Tania
Jeudy; Geoff Partel; Delia Cyrillo; Camille Delgado;
Brigitte Smith; Cassandra Smith; Shan Raju; Jennifer
Keister; Leann Aslton; Kelvin Coffey; Jonathane
Lewis; Paul Filan)
‘tryin t’ touch the sun (Actors:
Cameron Peterson; Ray Wiederhold; Gretchen S. Hall;
Deborah J. Green; Toney Briggs; Shelley Ray; Ahrum
Claiborne; Tony Harry; Anita
Wlody)
War of the Worlds (Actors:
Jay Michaels; Robert F. Saunders; Matthew Schneider;
Michael D’Antoni; Frank Rosner; Derek Devareaux;
Mary Elizabeth MiCari; Patricia Israel; Eleonora
Mandrinan; Ingrid Griffith; Sonia Moreno; Simone
Smith; Corey; Daniel
Ishofsky)
Best One Act Play
Directly After
/ Dir. Christopher Romero from Finding Center Three
(The funeral of a father/teacher brings together his son and
favorite student to challenge each other's beliefs about envy and
perception. He was his son, she was his young lover.)
Executive Decision / Dir. Elias Stimac -
from American Women (A female executive admonishes her
employee (who is also her daughter).
Haiku from
Haiku and The Playground / Dir. Anthony Ciccotelli (Mother
believes autistic daughter is able to compose Haiku poetry)
Little Play About Sex and Death
/Dir. Justin-Michael Youron from Untender (two high
school friends talk about how they killed a man)
Medieval (K)nights from
Medieval (K)nights / Dir. Mario Corrales and Rodney Reyes (group
of friends visit the famous Knights eatery in NJ)
The Right Kind of House/ Dir. Anthony
Ciccotelli from Hitchcock in The
Twilight Zone (Man wants to buy a house at any cost-
"Alfred Hitchcock" narrates)
Snickerdoodle from
Medieval (K)nights / Dir. Mario Corrales and Rodney Reyes (cute
alternate language)
Best Technical Achievement in a One-Act Play (lights, sound,
costumes, set - the look of the show)
Directly After
from Finding Center Three (Music: Nick Moore (moody
music) lights/costumes/set: Christopher Romero (area
lighting, modern clothes, sparse set Set: none/ lights: dark /
sound: n/a/ costumes: dark/funeral)
Fairy why art though so Crickety? Dir. Marc
Weitz (Costume: Julia Lintern (fairy
outfits) Lights: Will Fisher (area); Original Music and Sound
by Dan Lega (waltz type music); Sets by Matthew Jago Jr. (child
like pillars and blocks, colorful)
Haiku from
Haiku and The Playground (Set: Mathew Jago Jr./Joan Slavin
/ living
room - chairs, plants, lamps, rug, etc./ lights: Scott James warm
/ sound: Anthony Cocottelli - classical-like / costumes:
modern (Haiku - livingroom) Costumes: Julia Lintern)
Medieval (K)nights from
Medieval (K)nights (Set: Mario Corrales - Medieval
Knights arena setting/ lights: Sarah Darnseadt - dark/ area/
sound: Jonathan Calindas crowds roaring - announcements/
costumes: Mario Corrales modern - knights crowns Set: Mario
Corrales (medieval knight arena set up - the rest tables and
chairs)
The Playground from
Haiku and The Playground (Matthew Jago Jr. Set: playground (cut out leafs,
tree, plants)/ lights: Scott James - leaf gobo / sound: Anthony
Ciccotelli (‘eerie playground music /costumes: Julie
Lintern - modern/ overcoat for Man )
The Right Kind of House from
Hitchcock in The Twilight Zone (Set: desk (office)/ kitchen
table setting (house)/ lights: area/ sound: twilight zone/ costumes:
suit for woman (playing man)/ dress for man (playing woman - Anthony
Ciccotelli)
Best Evening of One Act Plays or Shorter Works
Hitchcock In The Twilight Zone
(Conn Artists Productions, 2B Theater Company/ Purple Man Theatre
Company & Cuchipinoy Productions) (4 adapted tales by Henry
Slezar original Hitchcock/Twilight Zone)
The Fairy Playz (2B
Theater Company) Shorter interconnecting fantasy pieces about
fairies.)
Untender (
Producer/Author: Emily Steel - Three Tales of Relationships)
Wild and Deviant Women
(Conn Artists Productions - one person monologues by women)
Best Actor in a One-Act Play
Vance Clemente - Undestined Traveler from
Valentino’s Muse and Otherz (Jerry-The undestined traveler
looking for love or a place to go.)
Sean Doran
- Directly After from Finding Center Three (son at
funeral for father - tall thin man with dark hair)
Matthew C. Hammond
- Valentino’s Muse from Valentino’s Muse and Otherz
(Dan Gardner - A tortured would be poet finds inspiration from a
childhood friend and learns a poet needs to fall in love in order to
write about love.)
Peter Meadows
- The Candidate from Hitchcock in The Twilight Zone - (Lee
Grunzer - looking to kill boss - arogant - Man looks up organization
to kill his boss)
Jack Merlis
- The Right Kind of House from Hitchcock in The Twilight
Zone (Aaron Hacker/ Grimes - real estate agent and mother that
owns the house)
Peter O’Connor - The Dance
from Valentino’s Muse and Otherz (Oliver - Sensitive, shy
playwright trying to rewrite the laughably bad first play 20 years
later)
Rodney Reyes
- Medieval (K)nights from Medieval (K)nights (Stan -
geeky boyfriend that is taken out for his birthday)
Thomas Westphal
- Little Play About Sex and Death from Untender (talks
about having sex with Alice at a wedding)
Best Actress in a One-Act Play
Lynda Green - Haiku from
Haiku and The Playground (Billie - sister that doesn’t
believe Louise is able to compose Haiku)
Heather Murdock -
Little Play About Sex and Death from Untender (Alice -
came up with the plot)
Marci Occhino - Haiku from
Haiku and The Playground (Louise - autistic daughter that
does Haiku)
Marci Occhino- Playground from
Haiku and The Playground (Naida - daughter that is in
wheelchair and is transformed)
Joan Slavin - Haiku from
Haiku and The Playground (Nell - mother of autistic child)
Susan Barnes Walker - Fairy why art though
so Crickety? from Fairy Playz
(Cynthia who is 89 stops for possibly the last time in a strange
land where gatekeepers are fairies in disguise, water from fountains
bring back your youth and statues hold secrets from an unhappy
life.)
Schnele Wilson
- In The Midst from Finding Center Three (blond, woman
- takes walk in the park to meditate)
Best featured or supporting actor/actress in a one-act play
Eze P. Ihenetu
- Medieval (K)nights from Medieval (K)nights (Little
Stanley - boy (played by man) that has asthma attack)
Heather Murdock
- Boy Meets Girl From Untender (Jackie - friend of
girl)
Daniel Roach
- Jack & Jill from the evening entitled Medieval (K)nights
(Mack - friend of couple)
Daniel Roach
- Medieval (K)nights from Medieval (K)nights (Announcer/King
- big voice)
Thomas Westphal
- Boy Meets Girl From Untender (Mick - Friend of boy -
couple meet at a bar)
Best Reading
Claymont (Dir.
Kevin Brofsky - Claymont is coming of age in this
comedy/drama. Halloween presentation.)
Midsummer Night’s Poetry (Sage
Theater Company - performed at the Comedy Club. Poetry and short
works. Hosted by Frank Calo. Presented in June 2002)
Tangible Synapse Lust (Collection
of new works by new poet. Ranging from the fetus of the past to the
skeleton of the future. Presented at the week long festival in
August, 2002- Performer: Jesse Roche)
Wizard of Oz (Dir.
Michael Gershowitz - Reading of Classic tale with additions
from movie and other media. Presented in August, 2002)
Best Performer in a Reading
Diane Bradshaw - Rosaries and Vodka
(Mrs. Murphy, Lady Eve, Leticia Landrun) & Sweet
and
Sour Love
(Female lead in both pieces of the evening)
Susan Bucci - Wizard of Oz
- August, 2002 & Halloween Festival (Miss Gulch/ Wicked Witch)
Michael Gershowitz - Wizard of Oz
- August, 2002 (Boq/Nikko/ Wizard Of Oz.)/ Halloween
Festival (Cowardly Lion; Boq Mayor)
Jessica Rios - Wizard of Oz
- August, 2002 & Halloween Festival (Dorothy)
Sabastion Susnowski - Wizard of Oz
- August, 2002 & Halloween Festival (Scarecrow Hunk)
Best Musical and/or Comedy Revue
Boooo! (The
Mistake Productions) (Sketch comedy by Halloween Festival
presentation) (Booooo! (team tries to scare audience); Announcements
(turn off cellphones, etc. done in clever fashion); Inside The
Actors' Studio (James Lipton interviews Godzilla); Victim's Lament
(How vampire always misses); Scary Movies (how scary movies effect
us); Family Feud (vampires vs. monsters); Zombie Health Club
(Zombies need exercise); I'm In Love With a Werewolf (monologue);
The Debate (competition); Necks In The City (spoof of Sex In The
City);The Draculos (family portrait); Bedtime Story (father tells
spider story); Werewithall (commercial to get rid of excess hair);
Transylvania Radio (Jay is DJ in Transylvania); Blair Witch, The
Musical ("off broadway" backers audition for new musical)
Fear of. . . (Peyari
Dance Project) (Peyari Dance Group dances 13 pieces pertaining
to Fear.)
Finding Myself (Fil
Straughan Concert - inspirational on moving on - He has been
downsized - "Movin’ On" is lead song)
Fish and Chips (Malcolm
Gordon - Songs, stories and Poem from the pubs of London
1860-1960) (Performed by Malcolm Gordon; The Street and The
Costermonger (the street vendors); The Music Hall ("Toff
Songs"); "Henry VIII" (the 8th Henry that she
married); "Father Papered the Parlour" (wallpapering);
"Great Big Shame"; Poem: "My Mother Doesn’t Know I’m
On the Stage" (acting is worse than anything); Songs of the
Working Man; Albert and The Lion Parts 1 and 2 (albert eaten by
lion); The Working Man Medley; The Seaside Medley; The Cockney
Medley; The Pub Medley; "Saturday Night At the Rose and Crown;
"And Her Mother Came Too" (mother comes on all dates);
"Bullfighter Spignonni" finale
Thaw (The
Mistake Productions - Sketch Comedy - includes star trek
take-off) (Sketch Comedy: Take a Memo; Introduction; Commercial
Triad; The Deal; No, Not Him; British Porn; Eliminate Debt; Drop The
Puck; The Response; Zip Code Sex Ed Rock; Blind Date; Southern
Indiana Iron Chef; Jay’s House of Videos; Mutlilegged Threat
Bedtime; Star Trek2, The Wrath of Khan, The Musical)
Best Piece or Moment from Revue or Special Event
"And Her Mother Came Too" - Fish
And Chips (Malcolm Gordon - mother
comes on all dates)
"Crowds"
- Fear of. . . (fear of being in crowded public places - the
dancers go further back as song progresses) music: The Muppets,
dancers: Brittney Jensen, Jennie Karr, Martha Madison, Austin
Marolla, Tripp Pettigrew) Choreographer: Jen
MacQueen
Scene representing Golem Stories from
Promotional Night (Hanna Hayes reads ancient Jewish
legends) Director: Glory Bowen
"Repeating Kid"
- Internal Eternity (gangsters and repeating kid) Nathanael
Reimer (father of kid), Kristen Lynn Herbert (repeating
kid), Devon Ewalt (gangster)
Songs from Fish and Chips:
from Promotional Night (Malcolm Gordon "Henry
VIII" and "Father Papered the Parlour")
Scene from "Longest Ride" from
Promotional Night (Ginger Dalton - wife speaks about
just getting married)
"Sex Ed Rock" from
Thaw (School house rock singing about erectile dysfunction) Andrew
Martin; Jay Colligan; Ken Scudder; Kim Chaskell; Gabriel Gold;
Maggie Justice
Best Direction (dir/ musical dir/ choreographer) Musical
and/or Comedy Revue
Fear of. . . (Dir. Jen MacQueen/
Choreographers: Jen MacQueen, Melanie Furjanic, Jason Kalish, Jen
MacQueen, Tripp Pettigrew, Jenn Weddel, Paige Worsham, Sara Herrera,
Lynn Mancinelli) (Peyari Dance
Project) (Peyari Dance Group dances 13 pieces pertaining to Fear.)
Fish and Chips (Dir: Malcolm Gordon;
Accompanist: Robert Rogers) (Songs,
stories and Poem from the pubs of London 1860-1960)
Halloween Promotional
(Musical Accompanist: Martin St. Lawrence)
Old Devil Moon (Jimmy Hoffman) (Dir. Teresa
Fischer; Musical Director: James Logan) (A
bar is about to undergo the wrecking ball and old ghosts come to
visit)
Trapped In Seven (Spit) (Fay
Simpson’s Impact Theater Co.) (Director: Deborah Kampmeier;
Choreography: Patrice Regnier with Fay Simpson; Accompanist:
(Original music) Karl Francke and Daniel Smith) (One-woman dance
concert - Theme: AIDS)
Best Performer Male in a Musical and/or Comedy Revue or Special
Event
Scott Baker from
Kiwi Dreams (the guy who did "Lemonade" and the
"Watcher")
Jay Colligan (from
Boooo; Inside The Actor's Studio; Scary Movies; Family Feud;
Zombie Health Club; The Debate; The Draculos; Transylvania Radio;
Blair Witch, The Musical)
David Dotterer - "Nobody
Loves a Fairy When She’s 40" from Halloween Promotional
(as Lillian from 3 Guys In Drag Selling Their Stuff)
Malcolm Gordon
from Fish and Chips (The Street and The Costermonger (the
street vendors); "Henry VIII" (the 8th Henry that she
married); "Father Papered the Parlour" (wallpapering);
Poem: "My Mother Doesn’t Know I’m On the Stage"
(mother thinks acting is worse than anything); Albert and The Lion
Parts 1 and 2 (albert eaten by lion); "Saturday Night At the
Rose and Crown"; "And Her Mother Came Too" (mother
comes on all dates); "Bullfighter Spignonni" finale)
David Mitchell from
Kiwi Dreams ("team sports" -- men’s fantasies in
a steam room
Fil Straughan
from Winter Promotional (Song from Finding Myself -
"Moving On" )
Andrew Martin
from Thaw (announcer in "Southern Indiana Iron
Chef"; The crook selling ovens in The Deal; The British host in
British Porn; The man about to commit suicide in "Eliminate
Debt"; responder to Bush’s speech in "The
Response", Khan in "Star Trek"; father hearing spider
story in "Bedtime")
Best Performer Female in a Musical and/or Comedy Revue or Special
Event
Simone Berman -
"My Favorite Things" (all food items) (representing Eden
Bewitched) from Halloween
Promotional
Ginger Dalton (Scene
from Longest Ride (wife speaks about just getting married) from Winter
Promotional
Teresa Fischer
("Old Devil Moon"; Is There A Straight Man in The
House"; The French Song") from Halloween
Promotional
Renee Flemings (author
- did Baby Ruth monologue) from Kiwi
Dreams
Jenny Greeman
("I’m In Love With A Soldier Boy",- "Stuff Like
That"; "Marry The Man Today"; "Baby Its Cold
Outside"; femme fatale from early days of Devil Moon) from Old
Devil Moon
Hanna Hayes
(Scene representing Golem Stories - reads ancient Jewish legends)
from Winter Promotional
Faye Simpson
(One-woman dance performance) from Trapped
in Seven - Split
Best Ensemble in a Musical and/or Comedy Revue
Boooo! (The
Mistake Productions) (Sketch comedy by Halloween Festival
presentation) (Performers: Andrew Martin; Kim Chaskel; Jay
Colligan; Suzanne Lynch; Katy Ostrander; Ken
Scudder )
Fear of. . . (Peyari
Dance Project) (Peyari Dance Group dances 13 pieces pertaining
to Fear.) (Performers: Melanie Furganic, Jen MacQueen, Lynn
Mancinelli, Paige Powers, Jenn Weddel, Anissa Wiley, Paige Worsham;
Sara Herrera; Brittney Jensen, Jennie Karr, Martha Madison, Tripp
Pettigrew; Jenn MacQueen;
Austin
Marolla)
Internal Eternity (The
Escapists)(Avant Gard mixture of comedy and drama directed by
Nathanael Reimer) (Performers: Nathanael Reimer, Karen Marie
Ball, Josh Billig, Devon Ewalt, Katherine Harte, Kristen Lynn
Herbert; Nancy Pagan)
Kiwi Dreams
(Renee’sance Productions) (Performers: Amy Fortuol;
Scott Baker; David Mitchell;
Sharon Heller (sax
player); Renee Flemings)
Thaw (The
Mistake Productions) Sketch Comedy - includes star trek
take-off) (Performers: Andrew Martin; Kim Chaskel; Jay
Colligan; Gabrielle Gold; Maggie Justice; Ken
Scudder
Best One-Person Event
Cooking With Typhoid Mary- Dir. Karen
Maloney (Typhoid Mary cooks at a
restaurant as she tells her story) from Wild
and Deviant Women
Lorena Hickock, Eleanor Roosevelt’s
Lesbian Lover - Dir. Karen Maloney
(Reporter Lorena Hickock tells of her love affair with Eleanor
Roosevelt) from Wild and Deviant
Women
Lizzie Borden Invites you To Tea - Dir.
Marjorie Conn (One-Woman show -
Lizzie Borden tells her story while serving you tea.)
Spic Chic - Dir. Petronia Paley ("the
adventures of one peculiar Puerto Rican." The show features
vignettes that include meeting the original poets of the Nuyorican
Poets café; an expose of drugs and terrorism at Amherst College; a
bizarre confrontation with the KKK while working as a television
reporter; neighborhood conspiracy theories about the Twin Towers
attack; and the effort of a one legged pistol packing former call
girl to save her marriage with a bank robbery.)
Trapped In Seven (Spit)
(Fay Simpson’s Impact Theater Co.) - Dir.: Deborah
Kampmeier (One-woman dance concert - Theme: AIDS)
Best Performer in a One-Person Event
Christina Derosier
(Gold Rose, Gold Heart from American Women)(An actress recalls a
lost chance at love.) from American Women
Marjorie Conn (from Lizzie Borden Invites You to Tea)
Marjorie Conn
(Lorena Hickok) from Wild and
Deviant Women
Karen Maloney (Calamity
Jane) from Wild and Deviant Women
Annie Hart Cool (Cooking
with Typhoid Mary) from Wild and
Deviant Women
Best Special Event
Gumborama - The
Strung Out String Band and Julie Zee and the Brand New Opry Band
trade sets for a Southern Jamboree
Kiwi Dreams and Other Erotic Fantasies - Erotic
poetry and music from Renee Flemings
Patsy Cline Does Yoga - Julie
Zimmermann teaches yoga as Patsy Cline and sings a few songs.
Best Male Singer
Knox Bundy (Ghost
- former patron - large man - deep voice - Songs: "I Love A
Piano"; "The Girl That Got Away"; "Blame It On
My Youth"; "Baby, Its Cold Outside") from Old
Devil Moon
Lee Byar - from
Myself and I (musical biography of drag performer Lee Byar)
and Winter Promotional ("Smile", etc. )
Duquincy Cooks
(Mr. Satan - Songs: "Old Devil Moon"; "Brotherhood of
Man"; "That Old Black Magic"; "Not While I’m
Around"; "Best of Times") from Eden
Bewitched
Malcolm Gordon
(The Street and The Costermonger (the street vendors); "Henry
VIII" (the 8th Henry that she married); "Father Papered
the Parlour" (wallpapering); "Saturday Night At the Rose
and Crown"; "And Her Mother Came Too" (mother comes
on all dates); "Bullfighter Spignonni" finale) from Fish
and Chips and Winter Promotional
Roger Hanson
(Mr. Adam - Songs: "I Have Dreamed"; "Everything’s
Coming Up Roses"; "It Ain’t Necessarily So";
"Best of Times"; "Theme From The Valley of the
Dolls"; "Those Eden Days"; Something Wonderful";
"No Other Love Have I"; "Learn Your Lesson";
"Day By Day") from Eden Bewitched/ "I Have
Dreamed" from Halloween
Promotional
Fil Straughan (from
Finding Myself + Winter Promotional)
Sabastion Susnowski - Wizard of Oz
- August, 2002 (Scarecrow Hunk - "If I only had a brain",
etc.) from August Festival and
Halloween Festival
Best Singer Female
Simone Berman -
"My Favorite Things" (all food items) (representing Eden
Bewitched) from Halloween
Promotional
Charlene Berry (Ghost
- former singer at bar - black woman - "As Time Goes By";
"Fever"; "A Kiss To Build A Dream On") from Old
Devil Moon
Teresa Fischer
("Old Devil Moon"; Is There A Straight Man in The
House"; The French Song") from Halloween
Promotional
Renee Flemings -
Song representing Kiwi Dreams ("Fever") from Winter
Promotional
Christina Malina
(Miss Angel - Songs: "Two Lost Souls"; "Hello Young
Lovers"; "Love Makes The World Go Round"; "Learn
Your Lesson"; "Day By Day") from Eden
Bewitched
Jessica Rios Dorothy
Gale - August and Halloween Festival - Wizard
of Oz
Amber Womack
(Miss Eve - "Stranger In Paradise"; "Everything’s
Coming Up Roses"; "It Aint Necessarily So"; "Mr.
Wonderful"; "Best of Times"; "Valley of the
Dolls"; "No Other Love Have I"; "Learn Your
Lesson"; "Day By Day") from Eden Bewitched
Best Original Play (long form - over 45 minutes) - Playwrights
Award
Jonathan Calindas - The 4am 'lizbeth (3
friends meet at the railroad tracks in town to work out their
lives.)
Edward Einhorn
- Golem Stories (A new take on Golem legend. 16th Century
Prague. Rabbi Lowe creates a man of clay.)
Hector Lugo - Michael Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore (The life of Transgender
"michael", brother, lover and friends)
Hector Lugo - Yet, Another Fairy Tale (Retelling
of Shakespear’s Midsummer Night)
Andrew Rothkin - ‘tryin t’ touch the
sun (Inside the head of a murderous
child)
J.C. Svec - Information Please (April,
1971 - Stanley Cup Hockey. Three people work out their love problems
around a public phone booth.)
Susan Tammany
- La Fenix (Medieval Tale of Sor Juana Ines.)
Best Original Play (short form - under 45 minutes) -
Playwrights Award
Sharon E. Cooper
- In The Midst - from Finding Center Three (Two
strangers meet in Central Park on October 13, 2001 and search for
a way to cope with reality - she wants to meditate, he wants the
boom box.)
Rodney Reyes - The Medieval Knights from
Medieval Knights - (group of friends visit the famous Knights
eatery in NJ)
Emily Steel
- Love In a Bed of Roses - from Untender (A
relationship told in he said, she said fashion)
Elias Stimac - Executive Decision - -
from American Women (A female executive admonishes her
employee (who is also her daughter).
Elias Stimac - Snickerdoodle from
Medieval Knights - (cute alternate language)
Andres Wrath -The Dance - from
Valentino’s Muse and Otherz (A playwright tries to rewrite
a play about his younger man/older woman affair from the past and
learns love never dies it only informs your art and life.)
Best Postcard/Flyer Design
American Women - Designer:
Elias Stimac & Ricardo Cordero
Coyote Calls - Designer:
Salvatore S. Carolei
Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same - Cross-Eyed
Bear Productions
Fear of. . . - Designer:
Peyari Dance Project
Harlequinade - Designer:
Stephen Voutsas
Hitchcock In The Twilight Zone - Conn
Artists Productions (Larry Donell Davis)
The Wisdom of Age
- Designer: Ted Williams and Andy
Propst
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