The second wave of Artie Award Nominations went live on WBFO's Facebook page on Wednesday (final categories will be announced next Wednesday at noon) as read by a talented collection of 2019 winners (see the archives as lovingly maintained by MusicalFare's Doug Weyand). The first (and so far only) live theater of 2020-2021, Torn Space's SILENCE, is rapidly selling out. Find out more here.
Actor/Director/Artie Committee member (and multiple former Artie Award winner herself) Mary Craig joined Anthony Chase to announce more 30th Anniversary Artie Award Nominations at www.wbfo.org on Facebook Live. Craig and Chase were joined virtually by winners from 2019 including:
Kyle Baran who won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role in Ragtime at MusicalFare Theatre,
Cassie Cameron who won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play for her role in Golden Boy at Irish Classical Theatre Company
Melinda Capeles who won Outstanding Actress in a Musical for La Lupe: My Life, My Destiny at Raíces Theatre Company
Lou Colaiacovo who won Outstanding Actor in a Musical for his role in Big Fish at Second Generation Theatre,
Augustus Donaldson, Jr. who won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play for his role in Native Son at the Paul Robeson Theatre, and
Dominique Kempf who won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in Ragtime at MusicalFare Theatre.
Already announced last week were the nominees for Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Production of a Musical.
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
Kiss of the Spider Woman, New Phoenix Theatre
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare in Delaware Park
Pipeline, Ujima Theatre Company
Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Irish Classical Theatre Company
To Kill a Mockingbird, Kavinoky Theatre
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
Fun Home, MusicalFare
Hairspray, Kavinoky Theatre
Nine, Second Generation Theatre
Passing Strange, Ujima Theatre Company
Toxic Avenger, Second Generation Theatre
The new announcements this August 5 included:
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF A PLAY
Antipodes, Road Less Traveled Theatre
El Coqui Espectacular, RAICES
Mercury Fur, Subversive Theatre
She Kills Monsters, Subversive
Two Trains Running, Paul Robeson Theatre
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Brian Brown, Passing Strange
Steve Copps, The Bridges of Madison County
Preach Freedom, Passing Strange
Chris Handley, Fun Home
Ben Michael Moran, Nine
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Bethany Burrows, The Toxic Avenger
Robyn Lee Horn, Fun Home
Maeghan McDonald, Hairspray
Michele Marie Roberts, The Bridges of Madison County
Zoe Scruggs, Cookin’ at the Cookery
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR
Ann DeFazio, Hairspray
Chris J. Handley, The Tempest
Peter Horn, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Lorenzo Shawn Parnell, Hairspray
Marc Sacco, Hairspray
Norm Sham, The Tempest
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Jacob Albarella, Miss Nelson is Missing
Alejandro Gabriél Gómez, West Side Story
John Kreuzer, Young Frankenstein
Nick Lama, Elf the Musical
Raphael A. Santos, The Toxic Avenger
Dylan Zalikowski, The Toxic Avenger
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Lucas Colon, Mercury Fur
Rolando Martin Gómez, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Patrick Moltane, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ricky Needham, The Boys Upstairs
Tom Owen, Navigators
Johnny Rowe, Pipeline
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jenn Stafford, The Toxic Avenger
Pamela Rose Mangus, Young Frankenstein
Blaise Mercedes, West Side Story
Ember Tate, Cookin’ at the Cookery
Kelly Copps, Nine
Renee Landrigan, Izzy!
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Cassie Cameron, The Antipodes
Ellen Horst, Lost in Yonkers
Kristen Tripp Kelley, The Antipodes
Aleks Malejs, Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Shantinna Moore, To Kill a Mockingbird
Emily Yancey, Factory for Murderers
And again, many thanks to MusicalFare's Doug Weyand for the Artie Archives which were consulted in preparation for this posting.
