Richard Foreman, Mariah McCarthy & More Win 2013 IT Awards

On Monday, September 30, 2013, The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (IT Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway,and host comedian and Andy Kauffman Award winner, Harrison Greenbaum, announced the 2013 award recipients at the ninth Annual IT Awards Ceremony atMason Hall @ Baruch Performing Arts Center, 17 Lexingont Avenue, NYC. The ceremony was directed by Tim Butterfield, Artistic Director of the Straphanger Collective, and written by playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays, 2013 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award recipient. Those unable to attend joined the OOB theatre community's biggest night virtually by following Molly Marinik of TheatreIsEasy and TravSD (OOBR writer, producer, actor) at nyitawards.com/live

Presenters for the evening included: Stephen Schwartz (music/lyrics Godspell, Pippin...), Gaby Alter (songwriter/composer Nobody Loves You), Carl Andress(director The Divine Sister), C. Andrew Bauer (theatrical video designer The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Dan Bianci (independent theatre artist), Christopher Borg(performer, writer and director), Stephen Cabral (director of the TDF costume collection), Jack Davidson (actor Grace), Kelly Devine (choreographer Rocky), David Drake (playwright and performer The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me), Jules Fisher (lighting designer Assasins), Donnetta Lavinia Grays (playwright and actor Bdwy: In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play), David Herskovitz (Target Margin Theater), Cynthia Hopkins (writer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and theater artist), Tina Howe(playwright), Jayne Houdyshell (actor Well), Ari Laura Kreith (Artistic Director of Theatre 167), Greg Kotis (Neo-Futurist and book/lyrics Urinetown the Musical), Julia Murney (actress Wicked), Nicky Paraiso (actor musician, writer, performance artist and curator The Club at La MaMa), Kris Stone (set designer), Dael Orlandersmith(playwright and actress Stoop Stories), and Amy Van Nostrand (actress).

Over the past nine years, the IT Awards has honored over 1,800 individual artists, over 510 productions, and 410 theatre companies; having collected over 42,000 ballots and disseminated more than 7,400 judges. The 2013 Nominees include 134 individual artists, 60 different productions and 60 Off-Off-Broadway theatre companies.

2013 Recipients:

Richard Foreman to receive the Artistic Achievement Award

The Dramatist Guild Fund to receive the Ellen Stewart Award

terraNOVA Collective to receive the Caffé Cino Fellowship Award

Abbey Bay outstanding Stage Manager Award

Mariah McCarthy 2013 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award

Outstanding Ensemble

-The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

Inés Garcia, Robin Johnson, Nick Smerkanich

Outstanding Solo Performance

-Erin Treadway

Spaceman, Loading Dock Theatre Company

Treadway on Spaceman "The play runs the actor through the gamut of human experience, emotion and thought. Not many roles allow the opportunity to ride that ride, which expands your whole range of feeling, thinking and moving."

Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role

- Justin Danforth

The Thirteenth Commandment, Libra Theater Company

Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role

-Lauren Pennline

The Thirteenth Commandment, Libra Theater Company

Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role

-Nick Smerkanich

The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role

-Amara Haaksman

That Lady from Maxim's, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Outstanding Choreography/Movement

- Jessica Burr and Sonia Villani

Eurydice's Dream, Blessed Unrest in association with The InterArt Theatre

Outstanding Director

-Padraic Lillis

The Rise And Fall Of A Teenage Cyberqueen, LabRats Theatre Company

Outstanding Lighting Design

-Maruti Evans

Will Elliott's The Pilo Family Circus, Godlight Theatre Company

Outstanding Costume Design

- Daniela Codarcea Kamiliotis

The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

Kamiliotis on The Window:4 ALICE "The most challenging, but most fulfilling part of the production was hand creating all costumes and sets, dyeing, and painting. This was a very visual production where the set and costumes add much more than in a traditional production."

Outstanding Set Design

-Daniela Codarcea Kamiliotis

The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

Outstanding Sound Design

- Leegrid Stevens

Spaceman, Loading Dock Theatre Company

Outstanding Innovative Design

- Lynda White

Mask Design & Construction

Oedipus Rex XX/XY, The Faux-Real Theatre Company

White on Oedipus Rex XXIXY ""I love the rich language and the timelessness of the story. The Production team and I all started making art together at Antioch college, thirty years ago. Oedipus Rex is the perfect crucible to exercise our particular sensibility of the horrors and humor of humanity. As a mask maker I act as a translator, creating a visual vocabulary that spells out the emotion that language has no words for."

Outstanding Original Music

-BRyan Williams

That Lady from Maxim's, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Outstanding Original Short Script

-Jonathan Draxton

Soldier, The Plowmen

Outstanding Original Full-length Script

- BRyan Williams

That Lady from Maxim's, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Outstanding Performance Art Production

-Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Production Workshop in association with Kickstarter Backers

Outstanding Production of a Musical

-That Lady from Maxim's, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Amara Haaksman (who was in the workshop production as well) on The Lady from Maxim's "I was so excited to get to return to the free-spirited shoes of La mome Crevette. It was thrilling to get a second chance to explore the character even more. It was also wonderful playing with all the new dialogue and music that was created for the second version. It is very exciting getting to be the person to bring an authors new work to life."

Outstanding Premiere Production of A Play

-The Rise And Fall Of A Teenage Cyberqueen, LabRats Theatre Company

Outstanding Revival of A Play

-Macbeth, The Crook Theater Company