Nominees Announced For New York Innovative Theater Awards, Celebrating Off-Off-Broadway
On Monday, July 29, 2019, nominees were announced for The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, celebrating Off-Off-Broadway.
The It Awards have celebrated the vibrant and creative theatre community for the past 15 years. The official announcement took place at (Le) Poisson Rouge by six celebrated artists and producers from the community including:Jazmyn Arroyo, Jennifer Betite Yen, Iyvon Edebiri, Chris Ignacio, Ashley Rogers, and Erez Ziv.
This year's nominees include 147 individual artists and 64 productions presented by 73 theatre companies. Over the past 15 years, the It Awards have honored over 2,600 artists, 750 productions and over 725 Indie Theatre companies.
The 2019 New York Innovative Theatre Awards Ceremony will take place in September.
List of the 2019 New York Innovative Theatre Awards Nominees Follows:
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
Alex & Eugene
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Aja Downing, Reggie Herold, Katherine Leidlein, Joseph M. Mace, Rori Nogee, Noah Pyzik, Jae Shin, Anna Stefanic, Brittany Zeinstra
Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre
Lindsay Alexandra Carter, Ade Otukoya, Chauncy Thomas, Nathan Winkelstein
The Seeing Place Theater
Erin Cronican, Christine Redhead, Gaia Visnar Plan G
Randomly Specific Theatre
Allan Hayhurst, Lauren LeBeouf, Tiffany May McRae, Sarah Misch, Larry Phillips, Forrest Weber Spring Awakening
Gallery Players
Taylor Bloom, Aaron Braden, Harrison Bryan, Jacob Anthony Cain, Brendan Charles, Osborn Focht, Nick Godfrey, Gaby Greenwald, Nathaniel Gregory, Mikaela Kafka, Raquel Kahn, Isabella King, Thomas Kuklenski, Nicole Lopez, Gaby Mank, Tyler Moscaritola, Mariela Flor Olivo, Amanda Starr Who Am I This Time? (And Other Conundrums Of Love)
Wise Fish Theater Collective in association with Martina Bonolis & Meghan Ginley
Zach Gamble, Meghan Ginley, Robin Johnson, Kent Koren, Franco Pedicini, Isabel Shill, Stephen Zuccaro
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Amie Cazel
Pregnant Pause
Good Pilgrim
Dad in a Box
Eat a Radish ProductionsLarry Phillips
The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear
Larry Phillips Laura Sisskin Fernandez
You Hold a Pole Everday
Playful Substance
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE
Bruce Barton
Hamlet
Hudson Warehouse in association with Susane Lee
She Calls Me Firefly
Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company Connor Chaney
The Harrowing of Hell
American Theatre of Actors in association with Collectio Musicorum, Inc.Desmond Dutcher
Mary, Mary
Retro Productions David Leeper
Stupid F-ing Bird
Stripped Scripts Jacob Lewis Lovendahl
Experimenting with Katz
New Ambassadors Theatre Company in association with Julia Botero Federico Mallet
Eight Tales of Pedro
The Secret Theatre Scott McCord
The Head Hunter
One Shot Deal
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE
Maybe Burke
Red Emma and the Mad Monk
The Tank & Emma Orme
You Wouldn't Expect
American Bard Theater CompanyMelissa Glasgow
A Chorus Line
Gallery Players Meghan E. Jones
Mary, Mary
Retro Productions Meredith M. Sweeney
Catch the Sparrow
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc. Jo Vetter
The Poor of New York
Metropolitan Playhouse Yokko
Shinka
Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
Adam Belvo
The Brutes
spit&vigor in association with Jay Michaels Arts & Entertainment
Spring Awakening
Gallery Players Braeson Herold
Worse Than Tigers
The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre Milo Longenecker
The Fantastical Dangerous Journey of Q
Rebel Playhouse in association with 14th Street Y Vinnie Penna
Twelfth Night
Boomerang Theatre CompanyOlivier Renaud
Stupid F-ing Bird
Stripped ScriptsEvan Teich
Assassins
The Secret Theatre Ronnie Williams
Man Frog and Other People
Necessary I. T. E. M. S. Project
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE
Heather E. Cunningham
Mary, Mary
Retro Productions
Entangled
The Amoralists Lori Elizabeth Parquet
Operating Systems
Flux Theatre Ensemble Mahima Saigal
Queen
Astoria Performing Arts CenterLisa Strum
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Nora's Playhouse in association with The Tank Shannon Marie Sullivan
Worse Than Tigers
The Mill in association with New Ohio TheatreGaia Visnar
The Maids
The Seeing Place Theater
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT
Shiloh Goodin
Spring Awakening
Gallery Players
A Chorus Line
Gallery PlayersAlex Johnson
Alex & Eugene
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.Joey McKneely
Shadows, a dance musical
Go Joe Enterprises Shoko Tamal
The Tempest
The Secret Theatre Yoshiko Usami
Shinka
Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Adam Knight
Stupid F-ing Bird
Stripped Scripts
Red Emma and the Mad Monk
The Tank &Emma Orme Lauren A Shields
Assassins
The Secret TheatreSara Thigpen
Twelfth Night
Boomerang Theatre Company Owen Thompson
The Tempest
The Secret Theatre Yoshiko Usami
Shinka
Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Annie Garrett-Larsen
And Then There Were None
The Secret Theatre
Alex & Eugene
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc. Anthony Logan Cole
The Tempest
The Secret Theatrekia rogers
Operating Systems
Flux Theatre Ensemblekia rogers
Real
Rodrigo Nogueira in association with The TankCha See
Honors Students
Tavine Productions
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Michelle Beshaw
Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story
GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre
Hamlet (What Dreams May Come)
Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre Julia Kulaya
Experimenting with Katz
New Ambassadors Theatre Company in association with Julia Botero Marissa L. Menezes
Once Upon a Mattress
Gallery Players Ben Philipp
Mary, Mary
Retro Productions Yunzhu Zeng
Where Is My Maple Town
MapleTown Production Company
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Matthew Carlin
Worse Than Tigers
The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
Mary, Mary
Retro ProductionsGabriel Firestone
Whirlwind
Jordan's Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC Lily Guerin
The Year of the Solar Eclipse
Kyoko & Ezra Daniel Hogan
Friendly's Fire
The Rising Sun Performance Company in association with the Theatre at the 14th Street Y Matthew D. McCarren
Goodbody
The Crook Theater CompanyTim McMath
Cannibal Galaxy: a love story
Between Two Boroughs Productions
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Beata Bocek
Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story
GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre
Queen
Astoria Performing Arts CenterJohn Salutz
Red Emma and the Mad Monk
The Tank & Emma Orme Aj Surasky
Worse Than Tigers
The Mill in association with New Ohio TheatreJeanne Travis
Honors Students
Tavine ProductionsFan Zhang
Cannibal Galaxy: a love story
Between Two Boroughs Productions
OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN
Hao Bai, Eric Marciano & Ildiko Nemeth
for Projection Design
Electronic City
The New Stage Theatre Comapny
for Projection Design
Cannibal Galaxy: a love story
Between Two Boroughs Productions Magnus Pind Bjerre
for Video Design
The Neurology of the Soul
Untitled Theater Co. No. 61 Raquel Cion, Maia Cruz Palileo, & Kim Katzberg
for Video Design
Dad in a Box
Eat a Radish Productions Sarah George & Sonya Plenefisch
for Properties Design
Whirlwind
Jordan's Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC John J.A. Jannone
for Video Design
The Female Role Model Project
Transforma Theatre, Inc. Keo X-Men
for Graffiti Design
This Is Modern Art
Blessed Unrest
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC
Karen Bishko, Maxim Moston, & Edison Woods
Shadows, a dance musical
Go Joe Enterprises
Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story
GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre Luis D'Elias
Eight Tales of Pedro
The Secret Theatre Joe Jung
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Smith Street StageTeresa Lotz
Red Emma and the Mad Monk
The Tank & Emma Orme Francesco Santalucia
MacBeth
First Maria Ensemble
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT
Eliza Bent
The Beyoncé
Adjusted Realists
Pregnant Pause
Good Pilgrim Kim Katzberg
Dad in a Box
Eat a Radish ProductionsTeresa Lotz
She Calls Me Firefly
Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre CompanyLarry Phillips
The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear
Larry PhillipsCarrie Robbins
The Dragon Griswynd
Days of the Giants LLC
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT
Emily J Daly
#yourmemorial
Pigeonholed
Entangled
The AmoralistsTori Keenan-Zelt
Truth/Dare
Project Y Theatre CompanyDorothy Lyman
In The Bleak Midwinter
Stuffed Olive, Inc. in association with Allison Threadgold & Tana Sirois Alexis Roblan
Red Emma and the Mad Monk
The Tank & Emma Orme Madhuri Shekar
Queen
Astoria Performing Arts CenterCharly Evon Simpson
Entangled
The Amoralists
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION
The 11th Dimension
ETdC Projects' Lab in association with Roi Escudero & Valentin Ewan
Part of the 10th Annual H.P.Lovecraft Festival
Radiotheatre in association with Theatre At St.John's Befuddled 101
Amnesia Wars Productions Electronic City
The New Stage Theatre Company The Harrowing of Hell
American Theatre of Actors in association with Collectio Musicorum, Inc. now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories
LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club In Association with Mount Tremper Arts
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
Assassins
The Secret Theatre
Astoria Performing Arts Center A Chorus Line
Gallery Players Into The Woods
Theater 2020 Red Emma and the Mad Monk
The Tank & Emma Orme Spring Awakening
Gallery Players
OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
36 Juniper
Wrong House Productions
Stuffed Olive, Inc. in association with Allison Threadgold & Tana Sirois Queen
Astoria Performing Arts Center Shinka
Ren Gyo Soh Whirlwind
Jordan's Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC Worse Than Tigers
The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
And Then There Were None
The Secret Theatre
Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre The Maids
The Seeing Place Theater Mary, Mary
Retro Productions Stupid F-ing Bird
Stripped Scripts The Tempest
The Secret Theatre The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation is a not-for-profit organization recognizing the great work of New York City's Off-Off-Broadway, honoring its artistic heritage, and providing a meeting ground for this extensive and richly varied community. The organization advocates for Off-Off-Broadway and recognizes the unique and essential role it plays in contributing to American and global culture. They believe that publicly recognizing excellence in Off-Off-Broadway will expand audience awareness and foster greater appreciation of the New York theatre experience. www.nyitawards.com
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