My recap thus far of the 2018-2019 theatre season:
Today: Play Categories!
Note: I categorically reject any at all category rigidity. Par exemple: who says that only one actor should win their respective category per year? Sometimes — as you’ll see below — performers from the same show, usually pitted against each other, ALL deserve EQUAL recognition, because their performances cannot be evaluated separately. Par another exemple: why should someone win an award for only one show when they’ve turned in miraculous work, all eligible for the same category, in multiple shows in a single season (at the same time, not ALL of their work in that season need be recognized; only the worthy)? If awards are meant to memorialize the moment for the historical record, we should strive to expand the bounds of that time capsule as much as possible, making room for achievements that fall outside the conventional standard. Isn’t that, um, like, kind of the point?
ACTRESS
- Julia Mounsey & Mo Fry Pasic, [50/50] old school animation
- Halley Feiffer, The Pain of My Belligerence
- Shannon Tyo, The Chinese Lady
- Kathryn Erbe, Something Clean
- Mia Barron, Hurricane Diane
- Annie McNamara, Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf
- Emily Davis, Is This a Room
- Teyonah Parris, Slave Play
- Jessica Frances Duke, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
- Kristine Haruna Lee, Suicide Forest
- Edie Falco, The True
- Heather Raffo, Noura
- Annapurna Sriram, Whirlwind
- Kristin Griffith, Lewiston/Clarkston
- Kathryn Hunter, The Emperor
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- MaYaa Boateng / Roslyn Ruff / Heather Alicia Simms, Fairview
- Danielle Skraastad, Hurricane Diane
- Jeanine Serralles, Catch As Catch Can
- Charlayne Woodard, “Daddy”
- Megan Hill, Do You Feel Anger? / Eddie and Dave
- Stephanie Wright Thompson, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
- Yvonne Woods, Uncle Vanya
- Sheria Irving, White Noise
- Vanessa Kai, The Pain of My Belligerence
- Patrice Johnson Chevannes, Mies Julie / Good Grief
- Carra Patterson, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
- Abby Corrigan, Usual Girls
- Samira Wiley, Dangerous House
- Ellen Lauren, The Bacchae
- Hattie Morahan, Grief is the Thing With Feathers
- Voice acting: considered unfairly lesser-than in movies, lesserer-than — perhaps by virtue of its paucity— in theatre.
ACTOR
So many Michaels!
- Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles & Adam Godley, The Lehman Trilogy
- Jay O. Sanders, Uncle Vanya
- Michael C. Hall, Thom Pain (based on nothing)
- Jon Michael Hill & Namir Smallwood, Pass Over
- Scott Shepherd, Gatz
- Michael Stuhlbarg, Socrates
- Michael Breslin & Patrick Foley, This American Wife
- Edmund Donovan, Lewiston/Clarkston
- Clay McLeod Chapman, The Pumpkin Pie Show Presents: One-on-Ones
- Ronald Peet, “Daddy”
- Stephen Rea, Cyprus Avenue
- Bill Irwin, On Beckett
- James Udom, Mies Julie
- Kirk Lynn, The Cold Record
- Vin Knight, Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf
- Cillian Murphy, Grief is the Thing With Feathers
- Aasif Mandvi, Sakina’s Restaurant
- Ammar Haj Ahmad, The Jungle
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Pete Simpson, Is This a Room / Gatz
- Hamish Linklater, The Pain of My Belligerence
- Rafael Sardina, Recent Alien Abductions
- Jesse Pennington, Uncle Vanya
- Jordan E. Cooper, Ain’t No Mo’
- Christopher Livingston, Something Clean
- Joe Curnutte, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
- Alan Cumming, “Daddy”
- Luke Robertson, Fairview
- Gabriel Ebert, Pass Over
- Marc Bovino, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
- Brooks Ashmanskas, The Closet
- Omer Abbas Salem, Eddie and Dave
CHOREOGRAPHY
- Whitney White, What To Send Up When It Goes Down
- Raja Feather Kelly, Fairview
- Kelly Bartnik, PLANO
- Mummenschanz, you & me
COSTUMES
- Montana Levi Blanco, Ain’t No Mo’ / Fairview / The House That Will Not Stand
- Mummenschanz, you & me
- Ásta Bennie Hostetter, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie / Usual Girls
- Dina El-Aziz, Marjana and the Forty Thieves
- Dede Ayite, If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka
- Oana Botez, Thunderbodies
- David C. Woolard, I Was Most Alive with You
DIRECTION
- Tim Etchells, Table Top Shakespeare
- Whitney White, What to Send Up When It Goes Down
- Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
- Lila Neugebauer, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
- Richard Nelson, Uncle Vanya
- Danya Taymor, “Daddy” / Pass Over
- Sarah Benson, Fairview
- Ken Rus Schmoll, Catch As Catch Can
- Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey, [50/50] old school animation
- Stevie Walker-Webb, Ain’t No Mo’
- Sammi Cannold, Endlings
- Leigh Silverman, Hurricane Diane
- Taylor Reynolds, PLANO
- Trip Cullman, The Pain of My Belligerence
- John Collins, Gatz / Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf?
- Oliver Butler, Thom Pain (based on nothing)
- Andrew Schneider & Alicia ayo Ohs, NERVOUS/SYSTEM
- David Herskovits, Marjana and the Forty Thieves
- Aya Ogawa, Suicide Forest
- Mummenschanz, you & me
- Stephen Daldry, An Inspector Calls / The Jungle
- Margot Bordelon, Something Clean
- Davis McCallum, Lewiston/Clarkston
- Annie Tippe, Bonnie’s Last Flight
- Adam Spreadybury-Maher & Greg Esplin, Trainspotting
- Enda Walsh, Grief is the Thing With Feathers
- Margot Bordelon, Do You Feel Anger?
LIGHTING
- Kate McGee, Marjana and the Forty Thieves / [50/50] old school animation
- Andrew Schneider & Chu-hsuan Chang, NERVOUS/SYSTEM
- Mummenschanz, you & me
- Mark Barton, Gatz
- Jen Schriever, Thom Pain (based on nothing)
- Dallas Estes, Radio Delirio
- Wonders at Dusk
- Simon Cleveland, Spaceman
- Amith Chandrashaker, Fairview / Fire in Dreamland
- Thomas Dunn, Is This a Room
- Marcus Doshi, Pass Over
- David Todaro, 17 Border Crossings
- Jiyoun Chang, Something Clean
- Isabella Byrd, PLANO
- Jane Cox & Teresa James, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- R. Lee Kennedy, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
- Adam Honoré, Behind the Sheet
- Jon Clark, The Jungle
- Ben Stanton, The Pain of My Belligerence
- Isabella Byrd, “Daddy”
- Rajiv Pattani, Nassim
- Stacey Derosier, Lewiston/Clarkston
- Yi Zhao, Thunderbodies
- Rude Mechs, The Cold Record
- Oliver Wason, The Chinese Lady
- Ryan Seelig, Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf
- Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Suicide Forest
- Kate McGee, Marie and Bruce
SCORE
- Nick Powell, The Lehman Trilogy
- Aleshea Harris, What to Send Up When It Goes Down
- Jerome Ellis & James Harrison Monaco, INK: A Piece for Museums
- Eamon Goodman, Marjana and the Forty Thieves
- Kyle Vegter & Ben Kauffman, Frankenstein
- Joy Ike, Good Grief
- Daniel Kluger, I Was Most Alive with You
- Dave Price, The Emperor
PARK AVENUE ARMORY AWARD FOR SET DESIGN
- Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
- Jason Sherwood, Endlings
- Matt Saunders, “Daddy”
- Mimi Lien, Fairview
- Ian MacNeil, An Inspector Calls
- Miriam Buether, The Jungle
- Amy Rubin, Thom Pain (based on nothing)
- Carolyn Mraz, Marjana and the Forty Thieves
- Mark Wendland, The Pain of My Belligerence
- Carolyn Mraz, Spaceman
- Arnulfo Maldonado, Catch As Catch Can / Usual Girls
- A master at making the most out of the least.
- Jian Jung, Suicide Forest
- Meredith Ries, Bonnie’s Last Flight
- Rude Mechs, The Cold Record
- Dane Laffrey, Lewiston/Clarkston
- Es Devlin, Girls & Boys
- Junghyun Georgia Lee, The Chinese Lady
- Clint Ramos, Wild Goose Dreams / Slave Play
- You-Shin Chen & Laura Jellinek, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
- Julia Noulin-Mér, Emma and Max
- Reid Thompson, Something Clean
- Susan Hilferty, Fire in Dreamland
- Lizzie Clachan, Cyprus Avenue
- Carolyn Mraz, Infinite Love Party
SOUND
- Mikaal Sulaiman, Fairview
- Helen Atkinson, Grief is the Thing With Feathers
- Leegrid Stevens, Spaceman
- Ben Williams, Gatz
- Andrew Schneider & Sadah Espii Proctor, NERVOUS/SYSTEM
- Will Pickens, Uncle Vanya
- Chris Masullo & Peter Mills Weiss, [50/50] old school animation
- Lee Kinney, “Daddy”
- Rude Mechs, The Cold Record
- Jimin Brelsford & Tina Satter, Is This a Room
- Michael Costagliolia, This American Wife
- Fan Zhang, Suicide Forest
- Palmer Hefferan, Marys Seacole
- Andrew Maillet, Radio Delirio
- Ben Kauffman & Kyle Vegter, Frankenstein
- Tyler Kieffer, PLANO
- Tei Blow, Usual Girls
- Lindsay Jones, Slave Play
- David Herskovits, Marjana and the Forty Thieves
