Suzi Bass Awards Announces Lifetime Achievement Award
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 07, 2016
Atlanta professional theatre artists, producers and patrons will gather to celebrate the 2015-2016 season of plays and musicals at the 12th Annual Suzi Bass Awards on Monday, November 7, 2016, at 7pm (doors open at 6pm). There is a catered post-show reception after the Awards Ceremony, along with a cash bar and it is included in the ticket. The event is being held at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts and Community Center, 3181 Rainbow Drive, Decatur GA 30034.
Winners from among the nominated artists in twenty-nine (29) categories, the Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award will take home the coveted engraved crystal disk. Judges and Suzi Members have chosen recipients in performance, direction and design categories for plays, musicals, and theatre productions for young audiences.
The Ceremony Is being directed by Suehyla El-Attar and will include live performances from the musicals nominated in the Production-Musical category. Performances will include numbers from Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story (ALLIANCE THEATRE), Miss Saigon (Serenbe Playhouse), In the Heights (Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit), The Light in the Piazza (Theatrical Outfit) and The Toxic Avenger (Horizon Theatre).
Tickets to the ceremony may be purchased online at www.suziawards.org for $50 per adult in advance (by 11pm on Saturday, November 5) and $20 per student, 15 and under. Discounts apply for Suzi Members and 2016 Nominees. All tickets are $60 at the door. The catered after-party is included in the ticket price.
The Winners Lists will be posted to the Suzi website and dispersed to press after the ceremony is concluded. The Nomination Press Release is included in this release dissemination.
Members of the media are invited to attend as guests of the Suzi Bass Awards. Journalists may receive up to two complimentary tickets. Please reply to this email (Jenny@kickstrategy.com) to reserve your press ticket(s). There is a very limited number of press tickets, so please respond quickly!
Five Local Playwrights vie for Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award
The award, named after the primary founder of the Suzi Awards organization, recognizes an Atlanta-based playwright whose work (written or adapted) was produced by a professional Atlanta theatre in the preceding season. A committee of area educators, playwrights and theatre professionals read each of the plays and chose the recipient. Developing local works remains a priority within the professional Atlanta theatre community and there are five plays in contention for this year's Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award.
The five submissions for the Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award are:
Beyond Reasonable Doubt, by Lee Nowell, produced by Synchronicity Theatre;
Dispossessed, by Karen Wurl, produced by the Essential Theatre;
Hot Pink or Ready to Blow, by Johnny Drago, produced by The Weird Sisters Theatre Project;
Moxie, by Lane Carlock and Brian Kurlander, produced by Theatrical Outfit; and
Uprising, by Gabrielle Fulton, produced by Horizon Theatre.
The 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award
The Suzi Bass Awards Board of Directors voted unanimously to award the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to Pete Shinn. Pete passed away on July 21 of this year and his death leaves a gaping hole in the Atlanta theatre community. Pete was the Electrics Manager and a frequent Lighting Designer for the ALLIANCE THEATRE for 38 years. He also managed to design for almost every theatre in Atlanta and beyond. Pete was not only a master designer; he was a mentor and friend to nearly every designer in the Atlanta theater community. His dozens of mentees have gone on to design hundreds of shows in an untold number of theaters around the country. He is a true legend of his craft.
In his honor and name, the ALLIANCE THEATRE has established, with Pete's blessing, the Pete Shinn Memorial Fund which will offer funding for professional development opportunities for technicians and designers across Atlanta. It is the ALLIANCE THEATRE's hope to continue Pete's legacy by providing our region and art form with top-notch designers who will carry our art form forward.
Pete Shinn contributed to the Atlanta theatre community in ways he wouldn't have imagined, and probably would deny. He was one-of-a-kind. He will be missed by the Atlanta Theatre Community.
For more information on the Suzi Bass Awards and to purchase tickets, please visit www.suziawards.org.
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