As it did last year, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre again dominated the list of nominees for the Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, announced Tuesday night. The company received 15 nominations, including six for its production of the musical Rent and four for A Marvin Hamlisch Songbook.
Rent's six noms were matched by Bailiwick Chicago's musical Murder Ballad and by the new play Byhalia, Mississippi, a co-production of the New Colony and Definition Theatre Company. Also showing strong with five nominations a piece were Kokandy Productions' Heathers: The Musical and Loving Repeating, Griffin Theatre Company's Pocatello and Oracle Productions' The Hairy Ape.
The Jeff Awards' Non-Equity Wing honors work that's not produced under contract with Actors' Equity Association. Between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016, Jeff committee members considered 148 productions by 67 non-Equity companies. In the end, the nominations are spread across 53 productions from 32 producing companies, which the committee says is a record high. The complete list of nominations follows. The 2016 Non-Equity Jeff Awards will be presented Monday, June 6, at Park West.
Byhalia, Mississippi - The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company
Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys - Raven Theatre
London Wall - Griffin Theatre Company
Pocatello - Griffin Theatre Company
Posh - Steep Theatre Company
Byhalia, Mississippi photograph: Joe Mazza
Heathers: The Musical - Kokandy Productions
Loving Repeating - Kokandy Productions
A Marvin Hamlisch Songbook - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Murder Ballad - Bailiwick Chicago
Rent - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Heathers: The Musical photograph: Emily Schwartz
Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys - Raven Theatre
The Drowning Girls - Signal Ensemble Theatre
The Hairy Ape - Oracle Theatre
Incident at Vichy - Redtwist Theatre
Posh - Steep Theatre Company
Rent - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Jonathan Berry - Pocatello - Griffin Theatre Company
Jonathan Berry - Posh - Steep Theatre Company
Monty Cole - The Hairy Ape - Oracle Theatre
Michael Menendian - Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys - Raven Theatre
Tyrone Phillips - Byhalia, Mississippi - The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company
Robin Witt - London Wall - Griffin Theatre Company
Fred Anzevino - Blood Brothers - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
James Beaudry - Heathers: The Musical - Kokandy Productions
James Beaudry - Murder Ballad - Bailiwick Chicago
Courtney Crouse - A Marvin Hamlisch Songbook - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Allison Hendrix - Loving Repeating - Kokandy Productions
Scott Weinstein - Rent - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Travis Delgado (the Foundling Father) - The America Play - Oracle Theatre
Michael McKeogh (Eddie) - Pocatello - Griffin Theatre Company
Julian Parker (Yank) - The Hairy Ape - Oracle Theatre
Brian Parry (George) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Redtwist Theatre
Mike Tepeli (Raleigh) - Last Train to Nibroc - Haven Theatre
Stephen Walker (Teach) - American Buffalo - Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.
Matt Frye (Hunter) - [title of show] - The Brown Paper Box Co.
Quinton Guyton (Mama) - Lawd the CVS is Burning...A Gospel Musical Stage Play - MPAACT
Christopher Logan (Peter Allen) - The Boy From Oz - Pride Films and Plays
Tommy Novak (Max Bialystock) - The Producers - NightBlue Performing Arts Company
Patrick Rooney (Roger) - Rent - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Amanda Drinkall (May) - Last Train to Nibroc - Haven Theatre
Jacqueline Grandt (Margie) - Good People - Redtwist Theatre
Jacqueline Grandt (Martha) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Redtwist Theatre
Liz Sharpe (Laurel) - Byhalia, Mississippi - The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company
Eliza Stoughton (Lila Green) - A Loss of Roses - Raven Theatre
Jenifer Tyler (Miss Buncle) - Miss Buncle's Book - Lifeline Theatre
Kyrie Anderson (Mrs. Johnstone) - Blood Brothers - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Amanda Giles (Young Gertrude) - Loving Repeating - Kokandy Productions
Emily Goldberg (Rose) - Dogfight - BoHo Theatre
Courtney Mack (Veronica) - Heathers: The Musical - Kokandy Productions
Stephen Cefalu Jr. (Nick) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Redtwist Theatre
Dennis Grimes (Sam) - Lips Together, Teeth Apart - Eclipse Theatre Company
Steve Love (Helen) - Miracle! - Hell in a Handbag Productions
JP Pierson (Mendy) - The Lisbon Traviata - Eclipse Theatre Company
Michael Woods (Trigorin) - The Seagull - Eclectic Full Contact Theatre
Justin Adair (Performer) - Fugitive Songs - BoHo Theatre
Carl Herzog (Ensemble) - My Way - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Christopher Logan (Tom) - Murder Ballad - Bailiwick Chicago
Aubrey McGrath (Angel) - Rent - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Jordan Phelps (Narrator) - Blood Brothers - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Marzena Bukowska (Babushka/Baba Yaga/Yaroslava) - The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls - Trap Door Theatre
Simina Contras (Masha) - The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls - Trap Door Theatre
Ann James (Janet) - Rolling - Jackalope Theatre Company
Becca Savoy (Becky) - Pocatello - Griffin Theatre Company
Cecelia Wingate (Celeste) - Byhalia, Mississippi - The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company
Cara Chumbley (Ulla) - The Producers - NightBlue Performing Arts Company
Emily Goldberg (Alice B. Toklas) - Loving Repeating - Kokandy Productions
Stephanie Hansen (Featured Singer) - A Marvin Hamlisch Songbook - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Amanda Horvath (Sara) - Murder Ballad - Bailiwick Chicago
Michelle Lauto (Liza Minnelli) - The Boy From Oz - Pride Films and Plays
Anna Dauzvardis (April, et al.) - Liberty City - eta Creative Arts Foundation
Charlie Irving (Daisy Fay) - The Summer of Daisy Fay - New American Folk Theatre i/a/w Redtwist Theatre
Nelson Rodriguez (Man on the Verge) - Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown - Pride Films and Plays
Peter Gwinn and Jody Shelton - The Story of a Story (The Untold Story) - Underscore Theatre Company
Hansol Jung - No More Sad Things - Sideshow Theatre Company
Evan Linder - Byhalia, Mississippi - The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company
Cody Lucas - Truth in Context - The Agency Theater Collective
Carla Stillwell - Lawd the CVS is Burning...A Gospel Musical Stage Play - MPAACT
Isaiah Werner - Scissortail - Adapt Theatre Productions i/a/w Redtwist Theatre
Calamity West - Rolling - Jackalope Theatre Company
Zachary Baker-Salmon - This House Believes the American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro - Oracle Theatre
Christina Calvit - Miss Buncle's Book - Lifeline Theatre
Elizabeth Lovelady - D.O.A. - Strawdog Theatre Company
Aaron Todd Douglas - Upstate - MPAACT
Kim Green and Jenna Schoppe - The Producers - NightBlue Performing Arts Company
Christopher Logan - A Marvin Hamlisch Songbook - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Stephen Schellhardt - Dogfight - BoHo Theatre
Sawyer Smith - Heathers: The Musical - Kokandy Productions
Cameron Turner - The Boy From Oz - Pride Films and Plays
Leif Olsen - Beast on the Moon - Raven Theatre
Danny Rockett - How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients -Trap Door Theatre
Andrew Rovner - The December Man - Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.
Kory Danielson - Heathers: The Musical - Kokandy Productions
Kory Danielson - Loving Repeating - Kokandy Productions
Nicholas Davio - Murder Ballad - Bailiwick Chicago
Jeremy Ramey - My Way - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
Jeremy Ramey - Rent - Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
William Boles - Barefoot in the Park - Step Up Productions
Jeffrey D. Kmiec - A Loss of Roses - Raven Theatre
Kevin Hagan - Lips Together, Teeth Apart - Eclipse Theatre Company
Mike Mroch - After Miss Julie - Strawdog Theatre Company
Joe Schermoly - Pocatello - Griffin Theatre Company
John Wilson - Byhalia, Mississippi - The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company
Michael C. Smith - The Drowning Girls - Signal Ensemble Theatre
Charles Cooper - Murder Ballad - Bailiwick Chicago
Diane D. Fairchild - No More Sad Things - Sideshow Theatre Company
John Kelly - D.O.A. - Strawdog Theatre Company
Eric Watkins - Porcelain - Prologue Theatre Company
Raquel Adorno - D.O.A. - Strawdog Theatre Company
John Nasca - The Boy From Oz - Pride Films and Plays
John Nasca - Design for Living - Pride Films and Plays
Kate Setzer Kamphausen - Miracle! - Hell in a Handbag Productions
Rachel M. Sypniewski - London Wall - Griffin Theatre Company
Joe Court - Last Train to Nibroc - Haven Theatre
Cooper Forsman - A Perfect Ganesh - Eclipse Theatre Company
Jeffrey Levin - The Hairy Ape - Oracle Theatre
Jeffrey Levin - The Long Christmas Ride Home - Strawdog Theatre Company
Danny Rockett - The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls - Trap Door Theatre
Breon Arzell - Step Master - The Hairy Ape - Oracle Theatre
R&D Choreography - Violence Design - D.O.A. - Strawdog Theatre Company
Stephanie Diaz - Puppet Design - The Long Christmas Ride Home - Strawdog Theatre Company
David Knezz - Mask Design - Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys - Raven Theatre
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