Intimate Apparel Awarded Six AUDELCO Awards

By: Nov. 17, 2004
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Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) and Center Theatre Group's co-production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel has received six Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre. The awards, also known as "The VIVs", are presented annually to recognize and honor excellence in black theatre.

Intimate Apparel won for Best Dramatic Production of the Year, Lynn Nottage won for Best Playwright, Viola Davis won for Best Lead Actress, Lynda Gravatt won for Best Supporting Actress, Catherine Zuber won for Best Costume Design and Derek Melane won for Best Set Design.

Daniel Sullivan (Direction), Allen Lee Hughes (Lighting Design) and cast members Corey Stoll, Lauren Velez, Russell Hornsby had also been nominated. The awards were presented on November 15th at Aaron Davis Hall in New York.

AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee) is an organization devoted to generating recognition, understanding and awareness in black communities and to building new audiences for non-profit theatre and dance. Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Blue received 8 AUDELCO Awards in 2001.

Intimate Apparel began previews at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre) on March 17th and opened on April 11th, 2004. It concluded an acclaimed limited engagement on June 13th, 2004 and transferred to the Mark Taper Forum where it ran from July 25th through September 12th.

Intimate Apparel garnered an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the John Gassner Award for Best Play and the 2004 American Theatre Critic's Association's Francesca Primus Award, as well as the coveted 2004 Steinberg New Play Award and the Laura Pels "Pen" Award for Lynn Nottage for emerging playwright. Viola Davis received Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Actress in a Play and was nominated for Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for her performance as Esther Mills in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel.

Roundabout's current production at the Laura Pels Theatre, Larry Shue's The Foreigner, starring Matthew Broderick and Frances Sternhagen, opened on November 7th and will run through January 16th, 2005. Tickets available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212) 719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org, or at the box office at the Laura Pels Theatre (111 West 46th Street).

www.rounabouttheatre.org



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