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On Monday, June 14, this year's "adult" San Diego Playbill Awards will be presented at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla. If you are interested in attending the awards ceremony, please click here for more details and RSVP information. 

Rob Hopper
San Diego Playbill

Youth Theatre Awards

And the winners are ...

Outstanding Production:
Fraulein Else (La Jolla Playhouse)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (Diversionary Theatre)

Artists of the Year:
Dr. George Flint (Directed Arsenic and Old Lace, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Gingerbread Lady, Shirley Valentine, and A View from the Bridge. Part of award-winning Midsummer ensemble)

Dr. Marianne McDonald (Children of Heracles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Medea: Queen of Colchester, Oedipus at Colonus)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical:
David Brannen as The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical:
Melissa Supera-Fernandes as Trina in Falsettos (Diversionary Theatre)
Debra Wanger as Mitzi St. Clair in My Nights With George, Kurt, and Cole (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
Joy Yandell as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (Welk Resort Theatre)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy or Drama:
Ron Choularton in Ashes to Ashes & The Lover (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
Jesse MacKinnon as Eddie in A View From the Bridge (Renaissance Theatre Company)
David McBean as Sam (et al.) in Fully Committed (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Daren Scott as Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in The Clair de Lune (Vantage Theatre)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy or Drama:
Christine Albright as Nina in The Seagull (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
Priscilla Allen as The Corpulent Gentleman in The Painting (Vantage Theatre)
Devlin as Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in The Clair de Lune (Vantage Theatre)
Sandra Ellis-Troy as Evy Meara in The Gingerbread Lady (Renaissance Theatre Company)
Jessica John as Catherine in A View From the Bridge (Renaissance Theatre Company)
Rosina Reynolds as Shirley in Shirley Valentine (Renaissance Theatre Company)
Cristina Soria in Ashes to Ashes & The Lover (6^th @ Penn Theatre)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical:
Barry Bosworth as King Sextimus in Once Upon a Mattress (Grossmont College)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical:
Linda Libby as Bloody Mary in South Pacific (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
Heather Megill as The Woman in White in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Megill & Company)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama:
Tim Irving as Buzz Hauser in Love! Valour! Compassion! (Diversionary Theatre)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama:
Susan Denaker as Beatrice in A View from the Bridge (Renaissance Theatre Company)

Dignitary Awards (for those artists who came from far and wide): 
Francesca Faridany as Fraulein Else in Fraulein Else (La Jolla Playhouse)

Outstanding Ensemble:
Company directed by Brian Wells (Starlight Musical Theatre)
Falsettos directed by Tim Irving (Diversionary Theatre)
Kimberly Akimbo directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
Love! Valour! Compassion! directed by Tim Irving and Sean Murray (Diversionary Theatre)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Kira Simring (New Village Arts)
Singin’ in the Rain directed by Don and Bonnie Ward (Moonlight Stage Productions)
The Sound of Music directed by Joshua Carr (Welk Resort Theatre)

Outstanding Costume Design:
Jennifer Hanson for Honk! (SDSU)
Tamara Myers for Traditions of Christmas (Christian Community Theater)

Outstanding Lighting Design:
Eric Lotze for Fiddler on the Roof (Starlight Musical Theatre)
Jason H. Thompson for Eurydice (UCSD Theatre and Dance)

Outstanding Set Design:
Mike Buckley for The Game of Love and Chance (Moonlight Stage Productions)
Melpomene Katakalos for Eurydice (UCSD Theatre and Dance)

Outstanding Sound Design:
Paul Peterson for Nu (Sledgehammer Theatre)

Outstanding Choreography:
Kirsten Brandt and Jessa Watson for Nu (Sledgehammer Theatre)

Outstanding Direction:
Kirsten Brandt for Macbeth (Sledgehammer Theatre)
Robert May for Ashes to Ashes & The Lover (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
Travis Russell and Jason Russell for Jesus Christ Superstar (Christian Community Theater)

Outstanding New Play by Local Playwright:
Mat Smart for The Hopper Collection (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
Matt Wurdeman for 24-five (The Fritz Theatre)

155 Total Shows (113 adult productions)

56 Different Theatres (35 adult theatres)

45 Awards Given

32 Shows received awards (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Ashes to Ashes/The Lover, and A View from the Bridge – 3).

19 Theatres received awards (6^th @ Penn – 5, Renaissance – 5, Diversionary – 5).

Shows Reviewed:

1. 42^nd Street (Broadway-San Diego)
2. Aida (Broadway-San Diego)
3. Annie Get Your Gun (Welk Resort Theatre)
4. Arsenic and Old Lace (Scripps Ranch Theatre)
5. Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse)
6. Berlin’s Best/Porter’s Picks (La Jolla Stage Co.)
7. Better Homes & Homelands (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
8. Blue/Orange (The Old Globe)
9. The Boy Who Fell Into A Book (Lamb’s Players Theatre – The Play House)
10. Brighton Beach Memoirs (Moonlight Stage Productions)
11. The Burning Deck (La Jolla Playhouse Page-to-Stage)
12. Cargo (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
13. Cats (Broadway-San Diego)
14. Chicago (Broadway-San Diego)
15. Children of Eden (Moonlight Stage Productions)
16. The Children of Heracles (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
17. A Chorus Line (Pixler Productions)
18. Comedy of Errors (La Jolla Playhouse)
19. Company (Starlight Musical Theatre)
20. Dirty Blonde (The Old Globe)
21. Eden Lane (La Jolla Playhouse)
22. Eleemosynary (La Jolla Stage Company)
23. Eurydice (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
24. Falsettos (Diversionary Theatre)
25. The Fantasticks (North Coast Repertory Theatre)
26. Festival of Christmas (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
27. Fiddler on the Roof (Starlight Musical Theatre)
28. Frankie & Johnny (Vantage Theatre)
29. Fraulein Else (La Jolla Playhouse)
30. Fritz Blitz (The Fritz Theater)
31. Full Circle (UCSD)
32. Fully Committed (Cygnet Theatre Company)
33. The Game of Love and Chance (Moonlight Stage Productions)
34. The Gingerbread Lady (Renaissance Theatre Company)
35. The Graduate (Broadway-San Diego)
36. Grease! (Broadway-San Diego)
37. The Great Divorce (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
38. Guitar (La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour)
39. Hamlet (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
40. The Hamletmachine (Iris Theatre)
41. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Cygnet Theatre Company)
42. Hello Dolly! (Welk Resort Theatre)
43. Honk! (SDSU)
44. The Hopper Collection (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
45. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe)
46. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Starlight Musical Theatre)
47. Hypocrisy (Twenty/20 Productions)
48. I Ain’t Yo Uncle (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
49. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Theatre in Old Town)
50. Jesus Christ Superstar (Christian Community Theater)
51. Julius Caesar (The Old Globe)
52. Kimberly Akimbo (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
53. Kooky Nights (6^th @ Penn Theatre) [N]
54. The Laramie Project (OnStage Playhouse)
55. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Megill & Company)
56. Love! Valour! Compassion! (Diversionary Theatre)
57. The Lover / Ashes to Ashes (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
58. Lucky Stiff (Moonlight Stage Productions)
59. M. Butterfly (Diversionary Theatre)
60. Macbeth (Sledgehammer Theatre)
61. Medea: Queen of Colchester (Sledgehammer Theatre)
62. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Village Arts)
63. Moon Over Buffalo (Coronado Playhouse)
64. Much Ado About Nothing (The Old Globe)
65. The Music Man (Christian Community Theater)
66. My Nights With George, Kurt, and Cole (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
67. Nu (Sledgehammer Theatre)
68. Oedipus at Colonus (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
69. Oedipus Tyrannus (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
70. Oliver! (Broadway-San Diego)
71. Oliver! (Lyric Opera of San Diego)
72. Once Upon a Mattress (Grossmont College)
73. Orphans (New Village Arts)
74. Pentecost (The Old Globe)
75. Peter Pan (Christian Community Theater)
76. Phaedra in Delirium (Sledgehammer Theatre)
77. Private Lives (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
78. Richard III (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
79. The Road to Mecca (6^th @ Penn Theatre)
80. Romeo and Juliet (Independant Players)
81. Rough Crossing (The Old Globe)
82. Rounding Third (The Old Globe)
83. Run for Your Wife (Patio Playhouse)
84. The Scarlet Pimpernel (Starlight Musical Theatre)
85. The Seagull (UCSD)
86. Seascape (Grossmont College)
87. She Loves Me (Lamplighters Theatre)
88. Shirley Valentine (Renaissance Theatre Company)
89. [sic] (Sledgehammer Theatre)
90. Singin’ in the Rain (Moonlight Stage Productions)
91. Sky Girls (The Old Globe)
92. Smokey Joe’s Café (Moonlight Stage Productions)
93. The Sound of Music (Carlsbad Community Theatre)
94. The Sound of Music (Welk Resort Theatre)
95. South Pacific (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
96. Starlight Express (Broadway-San Diego)
97. Still Life (New Village Arts)
98. Story Theatre (North Coast Rep)
99. Striking 12 (The Old Globe)
100. Sweet Charity (Moonlight Stage Productions)
101. Time Flies (The Old Globe)
102. Titus Andronicus (Independant Players)
103. Traditions of Christmas (Christian Community Theater)
104. Two Hands, Very Tired (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
105. The Vagina Monologues (Cygnet – benefit performance)
106. Uncle Vanya (La Jolla Playhouse)
107. A View from the Bridge (Renaissance Theatre)
108. The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower and The Painting (Vantage Theatre)
109. The Weight of Paper (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
110. Welk Christmas Show (Welk Resort Theatre)
111. The Wizard of Oz (MiraCosta College)
112. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (La Jolla Stage Company)

[N] = New Play