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(* denotes winner) Special Awards *The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hartford Stage) Tom Killen Award *The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT Outstanding Production – Play *Eclipsed – Yale Rep Holiday – Elm Shakespeare The Miracle Worker – Ivoryton Playhouse No Child – Long Wharf Shakespeare’s R&J – TheaterWorks Outstanding Production – Musical *POP! – Yale Rep Annie Get Your Gun – Goodspeed Camelot – Goodspeed She Loves Me – Westport Country Playhouse Song Man, Dance Man – Seven Angels Outstanding Actress – Play *Nilaja Sun (No Child) – Long Wharf Charlotte Booker (The Lady With All the Answers) – TheaterWorks… read more

(*denotes winner) SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD *Elizabeth Helitzer & Mark Parenti (Around the World in 80 Days) – Westport Country Playhouse OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY Coming Home – Long Wharf Dead Man’s Cell Phone – TheaterWorks *Dividing the Estate – Hartford Stage No Child – TheaterWorks Of Mice and Men – Westport Country Playhouse OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL *Big River – Goodspeed Musicals Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas – Goodspeed Musicals 42nd Street – Goodspeed Musicals The Music Man – New Canaan Summer Theater The Producers – Seven Angels OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Hallie Foote (Dividing the Estate) –… read more

*denotes winner Outstanding Production of a Play *Blackbird – TheaterWorks The Bluest Eye – Hartford Stage/Long Wharf The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore – Hartford Stage The Price – Long Wharf Theatre The Shape of Things – TheaterWorks Stamford Outstanding Production of a Musical (tie) *1776 – Goodspeed Happy Days – Goodspeed *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Ivoryton Playhouse The Music Man – Bushnell Outstanding Actress in a Play Olympia Dukakis (The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore) – Hartford Stage *Patricia Kilgarriff (A Woman of No Importance) – Rosemary Prinz (Driving Miss Daisy) – Beth Wittig… read more

(*denotes winner) *Outstanding Debut Award Vanessa Kai (Far East) – Stamford TheaterWorks Outstanding Costume Design Jacqueline Firkins (Man of La Mancha) – Long Wharf *Angela Weimdt (Singin’ in the Rain) – Goodspeed Musicals David C. Woolard (Summer and Smoke) – Hartford Stage Outstanding Sound Design Christopher A. Granger (Far East) – Stamford TheatreWorks *David Remedios (No Exit) – Hartford Stage Outstanding Set Design *Scott Bradley (Eurydice) – Yale Rep Scott Bradley (Fences) – Hartford Stage John Culbert (Man of La Mancha) – Long Wharf Alexander Dodge (Archbishop ‘s Ceiling) – Westport Country Playhouse Outstanding Lighting Design *Russell H. Champa (Eurydice)… read more

(*denotes winner) Tom Killen Memorial Award *The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Outstanding Costume Design *Linda Fisher and Randall E. Klein (David Copperfield) – Westport Country Playhouse Jane Greenwood (The Front Page) – Long Wharf Tony Walton and Rachel Navarro (The Boy Friend) – Goodspeed Musicals Outstanding Sound Design David Stephen Baker (Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grille) – Long Wharf *Arielle Edwards (dance of the holy ghosts) – Yale Rep John Gromada (Journey’s End) – Westport Country Playhouse Lindsay Jones (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune) – Hartford Stage Andrew Pluess and Ben Sussman (After… read more

*denotes winner Special Award of Recognition *Joanne Woodward – Artistic Director, Westport Country Playhouse Tom Killen Award *Michael Wilson – Artistic Director, Hartford Stage Outstanding Costume Design *Linda Fisher (School for Husbands) – Westport Country Playhouse Emily Sosa (Crowns) – Hartford Stage Tony Walton & Martha Bromelmeir (Where ‘s Charley?) – Goodspeed Musicals Outstanding Sound Design Joe Boerst (Hair) – Downtown Cabaret *Hilary Chamas (Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow) – Yale Rep John Gromada (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) – Hartford Stage Outstanding Set Design Patrick McCluskey (The Music Lesson) – Stamford TheatreWorks Russell Metheny (Seven Brides for Seven… read more

*denotes winner The Connecticut Critics Circle Playwright Award *Donald Margulies Tom Killen Memorial Award *Bert Bernardi Outstanding Costume Design Camille Assaf (King Stag) – Yale Rep *Suzy Benzinger (Very Good Eddie) – Goodspeed Musicals Mara Blumenfield (Metamorphoses) – Hartford Stage Linda Cho (Hay Fever) – Westport Country Playhouse Outstanding Sound Design *Keith Townsend Obadike (The Mystery Plays) – Yale Rep Joe Pino (The Mystery of Irma Vep) – Hartford Stage Asa F. Wember (Route 66) – Seven Angels Asa F. Wember (Sweepers) – Seven Angels Outstanding Set Design *Adrian W. Jones (The Dazzle) – TheaterWorks, Hartford Patrick McCluskey (K2) –… read more

(*denotes winner) Outstanding Costume Design *Christal Weatherly (Wintertime) – Long Wharf Theatre David Zinn (Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella) – Yale Repertory Theatre Catherine Zuber (Much Ado About Nothing) – Hartford Stage Outstanding Set Design *Jeff Cowie (The Night Of The Iguana) – Hartford Stage Jeff Cowie (The Trip to Bountiful) – Hartford Stage Annie Smart (Wintertime)- Long Wharf Theatre Outstanding Sound Design David Budries (Medea /Macbeth /Cinderella)- Yale Repertory Theatre *Christopher A. Granger (A Lesson Before Dying )- Stamford Theatre Works Matthew Spiro (Wintertime) – Long Wharf Theatre John Gromada (The Night of the Iguana) – Hartford Stage Outstanding Lighting Design Howell Binkley… read more

(*denotes winner) Outstanding Production – Play Pera Palas – Long Wharf *Seascape – Hartford Stage *Yellowman – Long Wharf Theatre You Never Can Tell – Yale Repertory Theatre Outstanding Production – Musical Jekyll and Hyde – Downtown Cabaret A Little Night Music – Goodspeed Opera House *Smokey Joe’s Cafe – Downtown Cabaret They All Laughed – Goodspeed Opera House Wings – CT Repertory Theatre Outstanding Actress – Play Suzanne Cryer (The Philadelphia Story) – Hartford Stage Annalee Jefferies (Seascape) – Hartford Stage *Dael Orlandersmith (Yellowman) – Long Wharf Theatre Joan Shepard (Lost in Yonkers) – River Rep/Ivoryton Playhouse Julyana Soelistyo… read more

(*denotes winner) Outstanding Production – Musical *Brigadoon – Long Wharf Theatre Outstanding Actress – Play *Anne Dudek (The Glass Menagerie) – Hartford Stage *Lauren Klein (Big Love) – Long Wharf Theatre Outstanding Actress – Play *Jeremy Shamos (Baptiste A Life of Moliere) – Harford Stage Outstanding Actress – Musical *Kristen Howe (Joseph . . . Dreamcoat) – Downtown Cabaret Theatre Outstanding Actor – Musical *John Scherer (George M) – Goodspeed Musicals Outstanding Director – Play *Les Waters (Big Love) – Long Wharf Theatre Outstanding Director – Musical *Greg Ganakas (Brigadoon) – Goodspeed Musicals Outstanding Choreography *Peggy Hickey (Brigadoon) – Goodspeed… read more