Elliot Norton Awards

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BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES

2012-2013 OFFICERS AND NEW MEMBER

Kilian Melloy Elected to Committee

Elliot Norton Awards Ceremony Set For Monday May 13, 2013

at the Paramount Mainstage

The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA), which presents the annual Elliot Norton Awards ceremony set for Monday May 13, 2013 at the Paramount Mainstage, announces its 2012–2013 elected officers. Joyce Kulhawik (joyceschoices.com)will continue serving as President, with Iris Fanger (GateHouse Media, Christian Science Monitor) serving as Treasurer and Carolyn Clay (Boston Phoenix) serving as Secretary/Clerk.

The BTCA also elected Kilian Melloy as a new member to the selection committee. Melloy reviews theater and film for EDGE Media Network (EDGE Boston, EDGE New England) and is a member of several critics’ groups, including the Boston Online Film Critics Association. He has also reviews film, books, and other media for a number of publications and websites.

Continuing BTCA members include Don Aucoin (Boston Globe), Jared Bowen (WGBH), Terry Byrne (Boston Globe), Nick Dussault (Metro Boston) Sandy MacDonald (TheaterMania), Robert Nesti (EdgeMedia Networks), and Ed Siegel (WBUR).

The Elliot Norton Awards are named for Mr. Norton who remained an active supporter of the dramatic arts until his death in 2003 at the age of 100. For 48 years Mr. Norton was a drama critic for Boston newspapers and concurrently from 1958 to 1982, he was moderator of Elliot Norton Reviews on WGBH television. The Elliot Norton Awards annually recognize outstanding achievement in the greater Boston theater community.

For more information follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ElliotNortonAwards and Twitter @nortonawards.

To contact by mail address all correspondence to

Joyce Kulhawik

Boston Theater Critics Association,

2 Park Plaza Suite 355, Boston, MA. 02116

The Nominees Are

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2011 ELLIOT NORTON AWARD NOMINATIONS

NORTON PRIZE FOR SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE
Scott Edmiston

SPECIAL CITATION
Wheelock Family Theatre 30th Anniversary

OUTSTANDING VISITING PRODUCTION
“August: Osage County” (Broadway Across America)
“The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience)
“Fragments” (ArtsEmerson/Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord)

OUTSTANDING VISITING MUSICAL PRODUCTION
“Hair” (Broadway Across America)
“Mary Poppins”(Broadway Across America)
“Fraulein Maria” (ArtsEmerson/Doug Elkins and Friends)

OUTSTANDING LOCAL MUSICAL PRODUCTION
“The Blue Flower” (American Repertory Theater)
“Prometheus Bound” (American Repertory Theater)
“The Great American Trailer Park Musical” (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Teal Wicks – The Blue Flower (American Repertory Theater)
Uzo Aduba – Prometheus Bound (American Repertory Theater)
Thomas Derrah – Cabaret (American Repertory Theater)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (LARGE THEATER)
“Circle Mirror Transformation”(Huntington Theatre Company)
“Ruined” (Huntington Theatre Company)
“R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe” (American Repertory Theater)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (MIDSIZE THEATER)
“DollHouse” (New Repertory Theatre)
“In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
“The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II” (Lyric Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (SMALL THEATER)
“Trad” (Tír Na Theatre)
“The Aliens”(Company One)
“9 Circles” (Publick Theatre Boston)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (FRINGE THEATER)
“Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid” (Whistler in the Dark)
“Mrs. Grinchley’s Christmas Carol” (The Gold Dust Orphans)
“My Wonderful Day” (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR (LARGE THEATER)
F. Murray Abraham – “The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience)
Noah Bean – “Bus Stop” (Huntington Theatre Company)
Thomas Derrah – “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe” (American Repertory Theater)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS (LARGE THEATER)
Estelle Parsons – “August: Osage County” (Broadway Across America)
Kate MacCluggage – “The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience)
Tonye Patano – “Ruined” (Huntington Theatre Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR (MIDSIZE THEATER)
Nigel Gore –“The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II” (Lyric Stage Company)
Will Lyman – “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II” (Lyric Stage Company); “DollHouse” (New Repertory Theatre)
Johnny Lee Davenport – “Broke-ology “ (Lyric Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS (MIDSIZE THEATER
Marianna Bassham – “The Hotel Nepenthe” (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Molly Schrieber – “The Turn of the Screw” (Stoneham Theatre)
Anne Gottlieb – “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune “(New Repertory Theatre); “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR (SMALL/FRINGE THEATER)
Jimi Stanton – “9 Circles” (Publick Theatre Boston)
Billy Meleady – “Trad” (Tír Na Theatre)
Alex Pollock – “The Aliens” (Company One)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS (SMALL/FRINGE THEATER)
Stacy Fischer – “Hysteria, or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis”
Ramona Lisa Alexander – “A Moon for the Misbegotten” (Nora Theatre Company); “Ti-Jean & His Brothers” (Underground Railway Theater/Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)
Christine Power – “Neighbors” (Company One)

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
“Ruined” (Huntington Theatre Company)
“Bus Stop” (Huntington Theatre Company
“The Hotel Nepenthe” (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR (LARGE THEATER)
Diane Paulus – “Hair” (Broadway Across America); “Johnny Baseball” (American Repertory Theater); “Prometheus Bound” (American Repertory Theater)
Will Pomerantz – “The Blue Flower” (American Repertory Theater)
Darko Tresnjak – “The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR (MIDSIZE THEATER)
David R. Gammons – “The Hotel Nepenthe” (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)
Spiro Veloudos and Courtney O’Connor [Associate Director] – “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II” (Lyric Stage Company)
Paul Daigneault – “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” “Body Awareness” (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR (SMALL THEATER)
Carmel O’Reilly – “Trad” (Tír Na Theatre)
Shawn LaCount – “The Aliens” (Company One)
Meg Taintor – “Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid” (Whistler in the Dark)

OUTSTANDING DESIGN (LARGE THEATER)
Marsha Ginsberg [set], Carol Bailey [costumes], Justin Townsend [lighting], Clive Goodwin [sound, Jim and Ruth Bauer [videography] – “The Blue Flower” (American Repertory Theater)

John Lee Beatty [set], Linda Cho [costumes], David Weiner [lighting], Jane Shaw [sound/composer], Matthew Myhrum [video artist], Charles LaPointe [hair and wig design] – “The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience)

David Zinn [set], Matt Tierney and Ben Williams [sound] – “The Select (The Sun Also Rises)” (ArtsEmerson/Elevator Repair Service)

OUTSTANDING DESIGN (MEDIUM/SMALL/FRINGE THEATER)
Rafael Jaen [costumes] – “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II” (Lyric Stage Company)
Cristina Todesco [sets], Billy Tilley [costumes], Ivan Sifrim [sound], Bryan Prywes [prop designer] – “The Aliens” (Company One)
Matthew T. Lazure [set] – “The Secret Garden” (Wheelock Family Theatre)

OUTSTANDING NEW SCRIPT
Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer – “The Blue Flower” (American Repertory Theater)
John Kuntz – “The Hotel Nepenthe” (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)
Ryan Landry – “Mrs. Grinchley’s Christmas Carol (The Gold Dust Orphans)”

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Matthew Bourne – “Mary Poppins” (Broadway Across America)
Basil Twist – “Petrushka” (ArtsEmerson/Basil Twist)
Doug Elkins – Fraulein Maria (ArtsEmerson/Doug Elkins and Friends)

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29th Annual Elliot Norton Awards

Monday, May 23 at 7pm

Paramount Theatre

Tickets on sale soon.

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Scott Edmiston has directed more than 50 productions in New England since 1992. His workhas been seen at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage Company, American RepertoryTheatre, Huntington Theatre Company, the Nora Theatre, Opera Boston, Stoneham Theatre,Boston Midsummer Opera, New Repertory Theatre, and Gloucester Stage Company, among others.

Highlights include: The History Boys, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In the Next Room or thevibrator play, My Name is Asher Lev, The Light in the Piazza, Reckless, A Marvelous Party: The Noel Coward Celebration, Miss Witherspoon, The Women, Private Lives, Jacques Brel isAlive and Well…,The Scene, Happy Days, Lobby Hero, Hay Fever, Dear Miss Garland, MollySweeney, Dancing at Lughnasa, Dinner with Friends, and Betrayal.

His direction of the first U.S. revival of the opera Nixon in China was hailed as “musically deft and deeply touching”by The New York Times; and in 2006, he conceived and directed Five by Tenn, an original compilation of lost Tennessee Williams plays honored with four Elliot Norton Awards. Four of his productions have received Elliot Norton Awards as Outstanding Production or Musical, and he has received three Elliot Norton Awards for his direction. He is the recipient of the 2005 StageSource Theatre Hero Award for “vision, leadership, and inspiration” to Boston’s theatre artists and producers.

Mr. Edmiston was Artistic Associate at the Huntington Theatre Company,an Assistant Professor at Boston University, and has served as guest faculty for Trinity Rep/Brown University. He is currently Director of the Office of the Arts at Brandeis University.

Photo Credit: Mike Lovett

Elliot Norton Awards

BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES

2012-2013 OFFICERS AND NEW MEMBER

Kilian Melloy Elected to Committee

Elliot Norton Awards Ceremony Set For Monday May 13, 2013

at the Paramount Mainstage

The Nominees Are

2011 ELLIOT NORTON AWARD NOMINATIONS

NORTON PRIZE FOR SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE Scott Edmiston

SPECIAL CITATION Wheelock Family Theatre 30th Anniversary

OUTSTANDING VISITING PRODUCTION “August: Osage County” (Broadway Across America) “The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience) “Fragments” (ArtsEmerson/Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord)

OUTSTANDING VISITING MUSICAL PRODUCTION “Hair” (Broadway Across America) “Mary Poppins”(Broadway Across America) “Fraulein Maria” (ArtsEmerson/Doug Elkins and Friends)

OUTSTANDING LOCAL MUSICAL PRODUCTION “The Blue Flower” (American Repertory Theater) “Prometheus Bound” (American Repertory Theater) “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Teal Wicks – The Blue Flower (American Repertory Theater) Uzo Aduba – Prometheus Bound (American Repertory Theater) Thomas Derrah – Cabaret (American Repertory Theater)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (LARGE THEATER) “Circle Mirror Transformation”(Huntington Theatre Company) “Ruined” (Huntington Theatre Company) “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe” (American Repertory Theater)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (MIDSIZE THEATER) “DollHouse” (New Repertory Theatre) “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” (SpeakEasy Stage Company) “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II” (Lyric Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (SMALL THEATER) “Trad” (Tír Na Theatre) “The Aliens”(Company One) “9 Circles” (Publick Theatre Boston)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (FRINGE THEATER) “Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid” (Whistler in the Dark) “Mrs. Grinchley’s Christmas Carol” (The Gold Dust Orphans) “My Wonderful Day” (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS (LARGE THEATER) Estelle Parsons – “August: Osage County” (Broadway Across America) Kate MacCluggage – “The Merchant of Venice” (ArtsEmerson/Theatre for a New Audience) Tonye Patano – “Ruined” (Huntington Theatre Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR (SMALL/FRINGE THEATER) Jimi Stanton – “9 Circles” (Publick Theatre Boston) Billy Meleady – “Trad” (Tír Na Theatre) Alex Pollock – “The Aliens” (Company One)

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE “Ruined” (Huntington Theatre Company) “Bus Stop” (Huntington Theatre Company “The Hotel Nepenthe” (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR (SMALL THEATER) Carmel O’Reilly – “Trad” (Tír Na Theatre) Shawn LaCount – “The Aliens” (Company One) Meg Taintor – “Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid” (Whistler in the Dark)

OUTSTANDING DESIGN (LARGE THEATER) Marsha Ginsberg [set], Carol Bailey [costumes], Justin Townsend [lighting], Clive Goodwin [sound, Jim and Ruth Bauer [videography] – “The Blue Flower” (American Repertory Theater)