2011-2012 Suzi Bass Award Winners Announced
Nov 5, 2012
The 2011-2012 Suzi Bass Award Winners were announced on November 5, 2012 at The Porter Sanford, III Performing Arts and Community Center. The Suzi Bass Awards recognize outstanding achievement in professional theater productions for Atlanta-area theaters.
2012 Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Season: Aurora Theatre
2012 Spirit of Suzi Award: Actors' Equity Association
Special Spirit of Suzi Award: Theatre in the Square
2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards: Anne Carole Butler - New American Shakespeare Tavern
2012 Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award: Broke by Janece Shaffer produced by the Alliance Theatre
2012 Volunteer Award: Sandra Meierhofer, Atlanta Shakespeare Company
* Denotes winner in each category below:
Outstanding Production of a Musical Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre * Spring Awakening at Actor's Express Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Outstanding Director of a Musical Alexander Greenfield for Sweeney Todd at Fabrefaction Theatre Dustin Lewis for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Freddie Ashley for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express * Lonny Price for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Ricardo Aponte for Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical Claci Miller-Juday for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Courtney Patterson for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare * Ingrid Cole for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Kylie Brown for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express Laura Floyd for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical Clint Thornton for Sweeney Todd at Fabrefaction Theatre J.C. Long for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Jordan Craig for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express Michael Stiggers for Pippin at Legacy Theatre * Stephen Mitchell Brown for Jane Eyre: The Musical at Legacy Theatre
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Anna Kimmell for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare Caitlin Smith for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Jill Ginsberg for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre * Karen Howell for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Marcie Millard for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Alan Kilpatrick for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Bart Hansard for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre * Bryant Smith for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Greg Bosworth for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express Travis Smith for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical * Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Kayce Grogan-Wallace, Kenya Hamilton, Eric Moore, Jevares C. Myrick, and D. Woods
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Legacy Theatre Amy Alford, Mac Clark, Eean Cochran, Clint Diaz, Dave Dorrell, Patrick Dyer, Michael Ferraro, Alejandro Gutierrez, Dylan Hauek, Jeremiah Hobbs, Taylor Hunt, Danielle Johnson, Nathan Lubeck, Mandy Mitchell, Victoria Norman, Allysa O'Donnell, Rachel Shaw, Mark Smith, Justin Thompson, Kyle Whitaker, Kyle Williams
Motherhood the Musical at GFour Productions Ingrid Cole, Mary Kathryn Kaye, Jewel Lucien, and Lisa Manuli
Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical Erik Teague for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express Joanna Schmink for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre * Lex Liang for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre Lindsey G. Paris for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Patricia M. Wesp for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical Bradley Bergeron for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Jeff Martin for Sweeney Todd at Fabrefaction Theatre Joseph P. Monaghan, III for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express Ken Yunker for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre * Robert Wierzel and Adam Larsen for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical J. David Blatt for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare Phillip Male for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Seamus M. Bourne for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express * Todd Rosenthal for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre Todd Rosenthal for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical Bobby Johnston for Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre * Bobby Johnston for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Bobby Johnston for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Clay Benning for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre Clay Benning for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Music Direction of a Musical Ann-Carol Pence for A Chorus Line at Aurora Theatre * Ann-Carol Pence for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Brandt Blocker for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Michael Fauss for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Seth Davis for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Outstanding Choreography of a Musical Bethany Hayes-Smith for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Legacy Theatre Josh Rhodes for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre * Karen Hebert for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Ricardo Aponte for Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre Sarah Turner for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Outstanding Production of a Play Broke at Alliance Theatre I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre * Red at Theatrical Outfit Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse Tree at Horizon Theatre
Outstanding Director of a Play Brian Clowdus for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse David de Vries for Red at Theatrical Outfit Jason Loewith for Broke at Alliance Theatre Lisa Adler for Tree at Horizon Theatre * Richard Garner for Much Ado About Nothing at Georgia Shakespeare
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play Donna Biscoe for Tree at Horizon Theatre Elisa Carlson for Ghost-Writer at Theatre in the Square Mary Lynn Owen for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare * Tess Malis Kincaid for Broke at Alliance Theatre Wendy Melkonian for Becky's New Car at Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play David de Vries for Freud's Last Session at Theatrical Outfit * Mark Kincaid for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse Mississippi Charles Bevel for I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre Steve Coulter for Underneath the Lintel at Aurora Theatre Tom Key for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Andrea Frye for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? at Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company Bethany Anne Lind for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? at Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company * Bethany Anne Lind for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare Elisabeth Omilami for Broke at Alliance Theatre Minka Wiltz for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Barry Stewart Mann for The Green Book at Theatrical Outfit Dieterich Gray for I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre * Jimi Kocina for Red at Theatrical Outfit Luis R. Hernandez for The Motherfucker with the Hat at Actor's Express Theo Harness for Faith Healer at JibJam Productions
Outstanding Ensemble in a Play A Wrinkle in Time at Theatrical Outfit Lowrey Brown, Mark Cabus, Andrew Crigler, Kate Donadio, Marianne Fraulo and Emma Jackson
Fox on the Fairway at Aurora Theatre Robin Bloodworth, Suehyla El-Attar, Jenny Holden, Courtney Patterson, Dan Triandiflou and Jacob York
Lend Me a Tenor at Stage Door Players Charlie Bradshaw, Mark Gray, Megan Hayes, Eliana Marianes, John Markowski, Larry Ruth, Kelly Chapin Schmidt, and Karen Whitaker
* The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre Kate Goehring, Alexandra Henrikson, Judy Leavell, Diany Rodriguez, Bree Dawn Shannon, and Sarah Elizabeth Wallis
The Foreigner at Georgia Ensemble Theatre Hugh Adams, Nita Hardy, Jonathan MacQueen, Bryan Mercer, Tracy Vaden Moore, John Stephens and Scott Warren
Outstanding Costume Design of a Play Christine Turbitt for The Importance of Being Earnest at Georgia Shakespeare Isabel A. Curley-Clay and Moriah Curley-Clay for The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered at Horizon Theatre * Ivan Ingermann for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre Jim Alford for Lend Me a Tenor at Stage Door Players Jonida Beqo for In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play at Synchronicity
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play * Andrew Carson for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse Chris Whittle for A Wrinkle in Time at Theatrical Outfit Howell Binkley for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre Joseph A. Futral for Red at Theatrical Outfit Mike Post for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play Collette Pollard for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre Isabel A. Curley-Clay and Moriah Curley-Clay for The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered at Horizon Theatre Isabel A. Curley-Clay and Moriah Curley-Clay for Tree at Horizon Theatre Kat Conley for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare * Lee Maples for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Outstanding Sound Design of a Play Clay Benning for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre Kendall Simpson for Red at Theatrical Outfit * Kendall Simpson & Adair Mallory for I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre Thom Jenkins for Sheddin' at Horizon Theatre Thom Jenkins for Tree at Horizon Theatre
Outstanding World Premiere Production Broke at Alliance Theatre * Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre Sheddin' at Horizon Theatre The Green Book at Theatrical Outfit The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered at Horizon Theatre
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