First up, miscellaneous honors from the 2019-2020 (non-Broadway) theatre season.

Here are my favorite (use of, where applicable) ______s in the year that was:

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CHORUS

1. The HawtPlates (Jade Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, & Justin Hicks), Waterboy and the Mighty World
2. A Strange Loop
3. A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)
4. Little Shop of Horrors
5. The Wrong Man

 

Chorus Member

1. Ari Groover, Little Shop of Horrors

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COMEDY

1. Wild Bore
2. Get On Your Knees
3. A Strange Loop
4. IVANKA 2020
5. Eureka Day
6. Keep
7. Is This A Room
8. The Anna Wintour Musical
9. King Philip’s Head Is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road
10. Eraser Mountain
11. Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
12. The Plot
13. Georgia Mertching Is Dead
14. Little Women
15. Twohander

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CURTAIN CALL

1. one in two
2. Wild Bore

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ENSEMBLE

1. one in two
2. The Michaels
3. Wild Bore
4. Is This A Room
5. Eraser Mountain
6. The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
7. King Philip’s Head Is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road
8. Paris
9. Before the Meeting
10. A Raisin in the Sun
11. Bad Penny
12. Adrienne Truscott’s (Still) Asking For It (A Stand-Up Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!)
13. History of Violence
14. Little Women
15. The Rolling Stone

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FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY

1. Zhang Jun, Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

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FOG

1. White Noise
2. Queens Row
3. Judgement Day

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HORROR

(revivals are ineligible)

1. The Thin Place

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INTERMISSION

1. Red Light + Sounds — Nomad Motel

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ONE-PERSON SHOW

(revivals are ineligible)

1. Keep
2. Get On Your Knees
3. White Noise
4. Tom Morello at the Minetta Lane
5. Douglas

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PRE-SHOW SOUND DESIGN

1. Audible Stage Managers — Working
   • (very 10 out of 12, but whatevs)

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PROJECTIONS

1. Jim Findlay, White Noise
2. Shimpei Yamada, Eraser Mountain
3. Tomás Arias, Feos
4. Marmelo & Preference Studios, User Not Found
5. Rhian Hinkley and lowercase, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
6. Kate Ducey, Eureka Day
7. Joshua Higgason, Acquanetta
8. Finn Ross, The End of Eddy
9. José Miguel Jiménez, Hamnet
10. The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker
11. Carmine Covelli, Adrienne Truscott’s (Still) Asking For It (A Stand-Up Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!)
12. A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)
13. Sébastien Dupouey, History of Violence
14. Gabriel Gigliotti, IVANKA 2020
15. Hannah Wasileski, Fires in the Mirror
16. one in two
17. The Anna Wintour Musical
18. Leigh Sachwitz / flora&faunavisions, Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

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PROPS

1. Wild Bore

 

Prop

1. Bloody Chicken Purse, You Never Touched the Dirt

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TEARJERKER

(revivals are ineligible)

1. Goodnight Nobody
2. The White Chip

 

Sniffler

1. one in two
2. The Michaels
3. Before the Meeting
4. Greater Clements
5. Unknown Soldier
6. We’re Gonna Die
7. A Strange Loop
8. The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
9. Waterboy and the Mighty World
10. Mojada

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SOUNDTRACK

During Show

1. one in two
2. Wild Bore
3. A Raisin in the Sun
4. Anatomy of a Suicide

 

Pre-show

1. Problematic — Wild Bore
2. Classical Music — Get on Your Knees
3. Death Pop — We’re Gonna Die
4. Deep House — Bad Penny
5. Inner White Girl Toonage — A Strange Loop
6. Party — Barber Shop Chronicles
7. What We Were Listening to While Some Real Shit Went Down — Is This A Room
8. Disco — Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed
9. Bops — Georgia Mertching Is Dead
10. Classic Rock — The White Chip
11. “Girl Power” — Mac Beth

 

Both

1. BLKS

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TITLE

(revivals are ineligible)

 

In Relation to Show

1. one in two
2. The Plot
3. Eraser Mountain
4. Waterboy and the Mighty World
5. Douglas
6. Manmade Earth
7. Power Strip
8. salt.
9. [Veil Widow Conspiracy]
   • The redacted brackets!

 

In Themselves

1. Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
2. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord

 

Both

1. Is This A Room
2. Wild Bore
3. The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
4. Get on Your Knees
5. King Philip’s Head Is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road
6. A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)
7. You Never Touched the Dirt
8. for all the women who thought they were Mad
9. Anatomy of a Suicide
10. A Strange Loop
11. Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow

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TRANSITIONS

1. Before the Meeting
2. You Never Touched the Dirt
3. Judgement Day

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TWO-HANDER

(revivals are ineligible)

1. Dana H.
2. The End of Eddy

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VOICES

1. The HawtPlates (Jade Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, & Justin Hicks), Waterboy and the Mighty World
2. In the Green

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YEAR OF THE YEAR

Performer

1. Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H. / Before the Meeting
2. Patrice Johnson Chevannes, runboyrun & IN OLD AGE / Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
3. Brittany Bradford, Fefu and Her Friends / Mac Beth
4. Grace McLean, In the Green / Cyrano 

 

Playwright

(revivals are ineligible)

1. Lucas Hnath, Dana H. / The Thin Place
2. Bess Wohl, Continuity / Make Believe
   • And Grand Horizons on Broadway!
3. Will Eno, The Plot / The Underlying Chris
4. Kate Hamill, Little Women / Dracula
5. Erica Schmidt, Mac Beth / Cyrano