As President of  the BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION I am happy to announce our 32nd ANNUAL ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS NOMINATIONS!

Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis To Receive Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award


SpeakEasy Stage Founder/Artistic Director Paul Daigneault To Receive Annual Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence

Monday May 19, 2013 at 7pm The Wheelock Family Theatre

Highlights include special remarks by Olympia Dukakis’s cousin and former Governor Michael Dukakis, plus musical performances and award tributes for Julie Harris and Jeremy Geidt.

The complete list of the 2014 Elliot Norton Awards Nominations
:

Outstanding Visiting Production

Mies Julie (Baxter Theatre Centre, presented by ArtsEmerson)

Waiting for Godot (Gare St Lazare Players and Dublin Theatre Festival, presented by ArtsEmerson)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic in association with Handspring Puppet Company, presented by

ArtsEmerson)

Outstanding Production by a Large Resident Theater

All the Way (American Repertory Theater)

The Heart of Robin Hood (American Repertory Theater)

Venus in Fur (Huntington Theatre Company)

Outstanding Production by a Midsize Theater

Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Imagining Madoff (New Repertory Theatre)

The Cherry Orchard (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

Outstanding Production by a Small Theater

Windowmen (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

How We Got On (Company One)

The Flick (Company One)

Outstanding Production by a Fringe Theater

Punk Rock (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

The Normal Heart (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

The Libertine (Bridge Repertory Theater)

Outstanding Design, Large Theater

The Heart of Robin Hood: Set design by Börkur Jónsson, costumes by Emma Ryott, lighting by Björn Helgason,

sound by Jonathan Deans (American Repertory Theater)

Mies Julie: Set and lighting design by Patrick Curtis, original lighting design by Paul Abrams, costumes by Birrie

Le Roux, music composed and performed by Daniel and Matthew Pencer (Baxter Theatre Centre, presented by

ArtsEmerson)

The Jungle Book: Scenic design by Daniel Ostling, costumes by Mara Blumenfeld, lighting by T.J. Gerckens,

sound by Joshua Horvath, Ray Nardelli, and Andre J. Pluess (Huntington Theatre Company)

Outstanding Design, Midsize, Small or Fringe Theater

Windowmen: Scenic design by Anthony R. Phelps, sound and lighting by David Wilson, costumes by Rachel

Padula Shufelt (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

The Flick: Scenic design by Cristina Todesco, lighting by Jen Rock, costumes by Amanda Maciel Antunes, sound

by Edward Young, props master Anita Shriver (Company One)

The Whale: Scenic design by Cristina Todesco, costumes by Gail Astrid Buckley, lighting by Jeff Adelberg, sound

by David Remedios (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Outstanding Musical Production by a Large Theater

Once (Broadway in Boston)

The Jungle Book (Huntington Theatre Company)

Witness Uganda (American Repertory Theater)

Outstanding Musical Production by a Midsize, Small or Fringe Company

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Stoneham Theatre)

It’s a Horrible Life (Gold Dust Orphans)

Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Outstanding Musical Performance by an Actor

Andre De Shields, The Jungle Book (Huntington Theatre Company)

Paul Melendy, It’s a Horrible Life (Gold Dust Orphans)

Francis Jue, Miss Saigon (North Shore Music Theatre)

Outstanding Musical Performance by an Actress

Melody Betts, Witness Uganda (American Repertory Theater)

Aimee Doherty, On the Town (Lyric Stage Company of Boston), Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Ephie Aardema, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Stoneham Theatre)

Outstanding New Script

Windowmen, by Steven Barkhimer (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

Absence, by Peter M. Floyd (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

Breaking the Shakespeare Code, by John Minigan (Vagabond Theatre Company)

Outstanding Director, Large Theater

Gisli Örn Gardarsson, The Heart of Robin Hood (American Repertory Theater)

Mary Zimmerman, The Jungle Book (Huntington Theatre Company)

Yael Farber, Mies Julie (Baxter Theatre Centre, presented by ArtsEmerson)

Outstanding Director, Midsize Theater

M. Bevin O’Gara, Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Ilyse Robbins, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Stoneham Theatre)

Melia Bensussen, The Cherry Orchard (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

Outstanding Director, Small or Fringe Theater

Summer L. Williams, How We Got On (Company One)

David J. Miller, Punk Rock and The Normal Heart (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

Shawn LaCount, The Flick (Company One)

Outstanding Actor, Large Theater

Bryan Cranston, All the Way (American Repertory Theater)

Bongile Mantsai, Mies Julie (Baxter Theatre Center, presented by ArtsEmerson)

Denis O’Hare, An Iliad (Homer’s Coat, presented by ArtsEmerson)

Outstanding Actress, Large Theater

Hilda Cronje, Mies Julie (Baxter Theatre Center, presented by ArtsEmerson)

Andrea Syglowski, Venus in Fur (Huntington Theatre Company)

Christina Bennett Lind, The Heart of Robin Hood (American Repertory Theater)

Outstanding Actor, Midsize Theater

John Kuntz, The Whale (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Steven Barkhimer, The Cherry Orchard (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

Jeremiah Kissel, Imagining Madoff (New Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Actress, Midsize Theater

Erica Spyres, Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Georgia Lyman, The Whale (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Marianna Bassham, The Cherry Orchard (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

Outstanding Actor, Small or Fringe Theater

Phil Gillen, Punk Rock (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

Alex Pollock, This Is Our Youth (Gloucester Stage Company), Windowmen (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), The

Flick (Company One)

Victor Shopov, The Normal Heart (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

Outstanding Actress, Small or Fringe Theater

Maureen Adduci, The Normal Heart (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

Brenna Fitzgerald, The Flick (Company One)

Cloteal Horne, How We Got On (Company One)

Outstanding Ensemble, Large Theater

All the Way (American Repertory Theater)

The Heart of Robin Hood (American Repertory Theater)

The Seagull (Huntington Theatre Company)

Outstanding Ensemble, Midsize, Small or Fringe Theater

Punk Rock (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

Windowmen (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Stoneham Theatre)

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Tickets are $30 (including post-party) and available by phone at 617-879-2300 or online www.nortonawardsboston.com. (Use “Norton2014” code to receive $10 off thru April 30, 2014.) Sponsors for the 2014 awards include Actors’ Equity Association, ArtsBoston, Mandarin Oriental Boston, TheaterMania/OvationTix, The Boston Globe, UBER, WBUR and WGBH.

The Elliot Norton Awards are named in honor of the distinguished Boston theater critic Elliot Norton, who for many years served on the selection committee and who remained an engaged supporter of the drama, both locally and nationally, until his death in 2003 at the age of 100.  The Boston Theater Critics Association, which presents the Elliot Norton Awards, includes Don Aucoin, Jared Bowen, Terry Byrne, Carolyn Clay, Nick Dussault, Iris Fanger, Joyce Kulhawik (President), Robert Nesti, Kilian Melloy, and Ed Siegel.