Lisa Kron Will Host IT Awards; Lanford Wilson to Be Honored

by Adam Hetrick 03 Sep 2010

Tony Award-nominated playwright and actress Lisa Kron will host the 2010 IT Awards, recognizing achievements in the Off-Off Broadway community, Sept. 20 at Cooper Union.

The sixth annual Innovative Theatre Awards ceremony has also announced special honors for the evening. Playwright Lanford Wilson will receive the Artistic Achievement Award; Dixon Place will be presented with the Stewardship Award; and the Caffe Cino Fellowship will go to the New York Neo-Futurists.

Astoria Performing Arts Center artistic director Tom Wojtunik will direct the 7 PM event. The 2010 IT Award nominations were announced July 19.

The 2010 IT Award nominees follow:

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF a MUSICAL Caroline, or Change The Gallery Players Children of Eden, Astoria Performing Arts Center Romance, Romance, The Active Theater Rootless: La No-Nostalgia, terraNOVA Collective’s soloNOVA Arts Festival The Cradle Will Rock, Theater ten Ten Top of the Heap, The Gallery Players

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF a PLAY Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks Pink!, Down Payment Productions Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad ones The Desk Set, Retro Productions The Return of Peter Grimm, Metropolitan Playhouse The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE Christine Rebecca Herzog, Itsuko Higashi, Jubil Khan, Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks Kaela Crawford, Julia Giolzetti, Caitlin Mehner, Alison Scaramella, Stephanie Strohm, Pink!, Down Payment Productions Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto, Stephanie Wright Thompson, Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad ones Jenny Bennett, Melissa D. Brown, John Graham, John J. Isgro, Courtney Kochuba, Kyle Minshew, Amanda Nichols, Katherine Nolan Brown, Jed Peterson, Sean Reidy, Miranda Shields, Douglas Taurel, Nate Washburn, The Disorder Plays, Milk Can Theatre Company Joie Bauer, David Bishins, Gina Nagy Burns, James Patterson, Chris Skeries, Harris Yulin, Janet Zarish, The Glass House, Resonance Ensemble Daniel Abeles, Craig Jorczak, Jacob Murphy, Anna O'Donoghue, Laura Ramadei, Claire Siebers, Too Little Too Late, Red Elevator Productions

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE Dan Berkey, Remission, terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival Michael Graves, The Report of My Death, One Armed Man, Inc. in association with Oracle Theatre, Inc. and Faux-Real Theatre Company David Harrell, A Little Potato and Hard to Peel, ADH Enterprises Erin Markey, Puppy love: a Stripper's Tail, terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival Brian McManamon, It or Her, terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival Avery Pearson, Monster, Really Sketchy and terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival Jesse Zaritt, Binding, Theatre C and terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN a FEATURED ROLE Michael Cyril Creighton, MilkMilkLemonade, The Management & Horse Trade Theater Group Amir Darvish, Psych, Cake Productions Kyle Haggerty, The Hypochondriac, the cell theatre company Douglas Scott Sorenson, The Hypochondriac, the cell theatre company Evan Thompson, Loyalties, Unity Stage Company Paco Tolson, The Brokenhearteds, I Mean! Productions

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN a FEATURED ROLE Jess Barbagallo, MilkMilkLemonade, The Management & Horse Trade Theater Group Nikole Beckwith, MilkMilkLemonade, The Management & Horse Trade Theater Group Jessica Crandall, Agamemnon, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club Jennifer Harder, MilkMilkLemonade, The Management & Horse Trade Theater Group Elaine O'Brien, Granada, Polybe + Seats Anna O'Donoghue, Too Little Too Late, Red Elevator Productions

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN a LEAD ROLE Frank Anderson, The Return of Peter Grimm, Metropolitan Playhouse Marc Bovino, Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad ones Joe Curnutte, Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad ones Christopher Domig, A Mysterious Way, Firebone Theatre John Halbach, Children at Play, CollaborationTown Harris Yulin, The Glass House, Resonance Ensemble

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN a LEAD ROLE Elizabeth a. Davis, Emily, an Amethyst Remembrance, Firebone Theatre Elyse Mirto, Next Year in Jerusalem, WorkShop Theater Company Susan Louise O'Connor, Children at Play, CollaborationTown Tanya O'Debra, Radio Star, Horse Trade Theater Group and Tanya O'Debra Kristen Vaughan, The Desk Set, Retro Productions Stephanie Wright Thompson, Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad Ones

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT Nina Ashe, Manhattanpotamia IV, The Hyperion Theatre Project Jonothon Lyons, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble Austin McCormick, Le Serpent Rouge, Company XIV Christine O'Grady, Children of Eden, Astoria Performing Arts Center Kim Weild, Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks Jesse Zaritt, Binding, terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR Daniel Brodie and Jonothon Lyons, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble Heather Cohn, The Lesser Seductions of History, Flux Theatre Ensemble Lila Neugebauer, Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad ones Alex Roe, The Return of Peter Grimm, Metropolitan Playhouse Brian Smith, Pink!, Down Payment Productions Kim Weild, Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN Tim Cryan, Welcome to the Woods, The International Theatre Laboratory Workshop Charles Foster, Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks Gina Scherr, Le Serpent Rouge, Company XIV Joel Silver, Pink!, Down Payment Productions John Tees III, Down Range, Delano Celli Productions Christopher Weston, The Return of Peter Grimm, Metropolitan Playhouse

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN Stephanie Alexander, Pink!, Down Payment Productions Brooke Berry and mark Mears, Psych, Cake Productions Olivera Gajic, Le Serpent Rouge, Company XIV Viviane Galloway, The Desk Set, Retro Productions Julianne Kroboth, Craven Monkey and The Mountain of Fury, Piper McKenzie Lisa Zinni, Killing Women, kef theatrical productions

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN Daniel Brodie, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble Rebecca Cunningham, The Desk Set, Retro Productions Michael P. Kramer, Children of Eden, Astoria Performing Arts Center Zane Pihlstrom, Snow White, Company XIV Brian Scott, Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks Amanda Stephens, Pink!, Down Payment Productions

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN The Broken Chord Collective, Thunder Above, Deeps Below, second Generation Productions, Inc. Stowe Nelson, Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad ones Shane Rettig, Alice in Slasherland, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company Philip Rothman, Proof, Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions Jeanne Travis, The Desk Set, Retro Productions mark Valadez, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Performance Lab 115

OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN C. Andrew Bauer, Fêtes de la Nuit, WeildWorks Daniel Brodie, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble Heather E. Cunningham and Casandera M.J. Lollar, The Desk Set, Retro Productions Daniel Heffernan, The Glass House, Resonance Ensemble Jonothon Lyons, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble Zane Pihlstrom, Snow White, Company XIV Matt Tennie, Alice in Slasherland, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company David Valentine, Alice in Slasherland, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC Michael Kosch, The Return of Peter Grimm, Metropolitan Playhouse Jonothon Lyons, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble Andrew Mauriello, Radio Star, Horse Trade Theater Group and Tanya O'Debra Carl Riehl, Laika Dog in Space, New York Neo-Futurists Colonna Sonora, 'tis Pity She's a Whore, Toy Box Theatre Company mark Valadez, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Performance Lab 115

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT Lorraine Cink, Emilia's Wish in The Disorder Plays, Milk Can Theatre Company Cheryl L. Davis, BMW in The Disorder Plays, Milk Can Theatre Company Amy Herzog, Christmas Present in Too Little Too Late, Red Elevator Productions ML Kinney, What If… in The Disorder Plays, Milk Can Theatre Company Bethany Larsen, The third Date in The Disorder Plays, Milk Can Theatre Company Jonothon Lyons, The Tenement, The associated Mask Ensemble

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT James Comtois, Infectious Opportunity, Nosedive Productions Stacy Davidowitz, Pink!, Down Payment Productions Ashlin Halfnight, Balaton, Electric Pear Productions Adam Kraar, Empire of the Trees, Wizard Oil Productions Tanya O'Debra, Radio Star, Horse Trade Theater Group and Tanya O'Debra Crystal Skillman, The Vigil or The Guided Circle, Impetuous Theater Group & The Brick Theater

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION Binding, terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival Craven Monkey and The Mountain of Fury, Piper McKenzie Diagnosis of a Faun, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club Haunted House, Vortex Theater Company Manhattanpotamia IV, The Hyperion Theatre Project Remission, terraNOVA Collective‚s soloNOVA Arts Festival The Soup Show, New York Neo-Futurists

For tickets to the ceremony, priced $25, NYITAwards.