MITF Awards to Honor Best of 2014 Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, 10/27

The 2014 Midtown International Theater Festival culminates its 15th anniversary celebration with the MITF Awards recognizing the best of this summer's MITF and the February 2014 Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival. The night will be packed with special guests, outstanding performances and even a few surprises - including a special guest host! The event is Monday night, October 27 at the Actor's Temple.

John Chatterton has always believed in celebrating creativity in all it many forms so - like any awards show - this one celebrates the best plays and musicals in full length, short subject and staged reading format, best actors and actresses (including one-person showings); best script; music & lyrics; and much more, but the MITF also highlights the ingenuity it takes to create unique production elements within a festival format: best lighting, sound, costumes, concept, even marketing, and most dedicated!

Year 2015 is SWEET 16 for John Chatterton. The once bachelor Midtown International Theatre Festival now has a full family of arts programs: The Short Play Lab, presenting the best in brief works of art; Midwinter Madness, series of innovative one-act works presented during the season's "off" months; the new MITF Children's Theatre Festival, presenting plays and musicals for young audiences; Cabaret MITF - spotlighting Broadway and cabaret performers; and the Commercial Division, presenting works whose production values and subject matter are the stuff for Off- [and on] Broadway; and, of course, the founding Midtown International Theatre Festival, prolific producer John Chatterton's brainchild, celebrating the diversity of theatre and has become a leader in presenting powerful works from around the world.

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MITF Awards Nominees 2014:

Outstanding Production of a Full-Length Play

The Bauer Sisters

Cover

Eddie

Fortune

Julia & Buddy

Tide Beyond the Rift

Outstanding Production of a Full-Length Musical

Bielzy & Gottfried

Eddie & the Palaceades

New Dawn

This Will All Be Yours

Warp Speed: A Sci Fi Parody Musical

Outstanding Production of a Short Subject (Play or Musical)

Countdown

The Darkroom

Himmelreich

Lottie & Leo

Sleep Well

The Swans

Outstanding Production of a Staged Reading (Play or Musical)

Home Body

Old Men Are Full Of Sh*t

Soundview Summer

To Win a Crown of Thorns

Your Name On My Lips

Outstanding Production in the Short Play Lab (Play or Musical)

Blank Canvas

Daguerreotype Dialogue #7

For All Eternity

HIV A Positive Negativity

Star of David, Men of Bondage

Outstanding New Script for a Full-Length Play

John Dirrigl, The Bauer Sisters

Michael Mack, Conversations With My Molester

N.G. McClernan, Julia & Buddy

Bill McMahon, Cover

Fred Rohan Vargas, Tide Beyond the Rift

Outstanding New Book, Music & Lyrics for a Full-Length Musical

Clara Hoch, Eva Thorpe, Brandon Boling, Erich Hoch, Elvis Miller,

Henry Koperski, Shawn Hollenbach, Jason J. Michael, Amanda

Humphreys, Christopher Noffke, Warp Speed: A Sci Fi Parody Musical

Pat Holley, Me & Caesar Lee

Aaron Michael Krueger, New Dawn

Roy O'Neill and Stephen Feigenbaum, Eddie & the Palaceades

Laura Pedersen and Charles Bloom, This Will All Be Yours

Outstanding New Script, Music & Lyrics for a Short Subject (Play or Musical)

Glynn Borders, Sleep Well

Michael F. Bruck, Lottie & Leo

Kevin Clancy, Controlling Interest

Karin Fazio Littlefield, Eurydice Descending

William Packard, Countdown

Outstanding New Script, Music & Lyrics for a Staged Reading (Play or Musical)

Mohammed Saad Ali, Old Men Are Full Of Sh*t

Amy Drake, Home Body

Catherine Gill, Soundview Summer

Chris Savery, To Win a Crown of Thorns

Eric Sirota, Your Name on My Lips

Outstanding Direction of a Full-Length Play

Brian Catton, Eddie

Troy Diana, The Bauer Sisters

Joy Kelly, Fortune

Paul Michael, Cover

Rain Pryor, Diary of a MILF

Outstanding Direction of a Full-Length Musical

Jamibeth Margolis, Eddie & the Palaceades

Lexie Fennell Frare, New Dawn

Omar Hansen, Bielzy & Gottfried

Christopher Noffke, Warp Speed: A Sci Fi Parody Musical

Ludovica Villar-Hauser, This Will All Be Yours

Outstanding Direction of a Short Subject (Play or Musical)

Michael F. Bruck, Lottie & Leo

Glynn Borders and Herbie Quinones, Sleep Well

Julie Daley, Countdown

Shino Frances & Sun ae Hwang, The Swans

Roark Littlefield, Eurydice Descending

Outstanding Direction of a Staged Reading (Play or Musical)

Home Body

Old Men Are Full Of Sh*t

Soundview Summer

To Win a Crown of Thorns

Your Name On My Lips

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Full-Length Play

Yair Ben-Dor, Eddie

Matthew DeCapua, Julia & Buddy

Max Rhyser, Cover

Tony Travostino, Cover

Jacob Banser, Eddie

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Full-Length Play

Marisol Carrere, Tide Beyond the Rift

Karin de la Pena, Cover

Elizabeth Flax, Fortune

Victoria Rae Sook, Frame 313

Deborah Unger, The Bauer Sisters

Claire Warden, Julia & Buddy

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Full-Length Musical

Bill E. Dietrich, Eddie & the Palaceades

Matt Farcher, This Will All Be Yours

Collin Kessler, Warp Speed

Max King, New Dawn

Josh Powell, This Will All Be Yours

Daniel Rowan, This Will All Be Yours

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Full-Length Musical

Jenny Rose Baker, This Will All Be Yours

Sheila Egan, Eddie & the Palaceades

Amy Griffin, This Will All Be Yours

Robyn Payne, Me & Caesar Lee

DeAnne Stewart, Warp Speed: A Sci Fi Parody Musical

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Full-Length Play

Michael Andrews, Fortune

Michael Gnat, The Bauer Sisters

Miller Lide, Farm Hall

Terrence Montgomery, Farm Hall

Jay Rivera, Eddie

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Full-Length Play

Anne Bates, Long Division

Olivia Gordon, Fortune

Jacqueline Kroschell, The Bauer Sisters

Madison McGhee, Eddie

Suzanne H. Smart, The Bauer Sisters

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Full-Length Musical

Jacob Chapman, Bielzy & Gottfried

Nick Mara, Me & Caesar Lee

Adam Salazar, New Dawn

Spencer Thayne, Bielzy & Gottfried

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