Roundabout Theatre Company's Intimate Apparel receives 12 AUDELCO nominations

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Off-Broadway premiere of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel has received 12 nominations for the Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Award for Excellence in Black Theatre. The awards, also known as "The VIVs", are presented annually to recognize and honor excellence in black theatre. 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. The Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Blue received 8 AUDELCO Awards in 2001.

Intimate Apparel nominees include the show for Dramatic Production of the Year, Playwright Lynn Nottage, Director Daniel Sullivan, cast members Viola Davis, Lynda Gravatt, Corey Stoll, Lauren Velez and Russell Hornsby; set designer Derek McLane; costume designer Catherine Zuber; lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes and sound designer Marc Gwinn.

The 32nd Annual Awards will be presented at Aaron Davis Hall in New York on Monday, November 15th at 7:30p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster: (212) 307-4100.

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 a Drama Desk Award for Viola Davis as Best Actress, 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.

Roundabout's next production at the Laura Pels Theatre, Larry Shue's The Foreigner, starring Matthew Broderick and

Frances Sternhagen, begins previews October 15th, 2004. 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).