Craig Noel Award Nominees

On February 10 at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle will offer awards in the following categories..

RESIDENT MUSICAL. Chicago, San Diego Musical Theatre, Fiddler on the Roof, Lamb’s Players Theatre, South Pacific, Moonlight Stage Productions, In the Heights, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Young Frankenstein, Moonlight Stage Productions.

NEW MUSICAL. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, The Last Goodbye, Old Globe Theatre.

MUSICAL DIRECTION. Don LeMaster, The Sound of Music, San Diego Musical Theatre, G. Scott Lacey, Fiddler on the Roof, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Elan McMahan, South Pacific, Moonlight Stage Productions, Kris Kukul, The Last Goodbye, Old Globe Theatre, Greg Jarrett, Side Show, La Jolla Playhouse.

CHOREOGRAPHY. Randy Slovacek, Chicago, San Diego Musical Theatre, Javier Velasco, In the Heights, San Diego Rep.

ENSEMBLE. The Brothers Size, Old Globe Theatre, The Bluest Eye, Moxie Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts, Other Desert Cities, Old Globe Theatre, Extraordinary Chambers, Mo’olelo Performing Arts, Bengal Tiger at the Baghadad Zoo, Ion Theatre.

SOLO PERFORMANCE. Hershey Felder, An American Story for Actor and Orchestra, 88 Entertainment, Sean Sullivan, Baby Redboot’s Revenge, San Diego Fringe Festival, Eliza Jane Schneider, Freedom of Speech, Moxie Theatre, Herbert Siguenza, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, San Diego Repertory Theatre.

LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL, FEMALE. Eileen Bowman, Pete ‘n’ Keely, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Emma Radwick, Chicago, San Diego Musical Theatre, Allison Spratt Pearce, The Sound of Music, San Diego Musical Theatre, Hilary Maiberger, South Pacific, Moonlight Stage Productions, Erin Davie and Emily Padgett, Side Show, La Jolla Playhouse.

LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL, MALE. Randall Dodge, South Pacific, Welk Resorts Theatre, Phil Johnson, Pete ‘n’ Keely, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Jai Rodriguez, In the Heights, San Diego Repertory Theatre.

FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL, FEMALE. Chilina Kennedy, A Gentleman’s Guide to Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Lisa O’Hare, A Gentleman’s Guide to Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Victoria Strong, The Sound of Music, San Diego Musical Theatre, Linda Libby, Company, Cygnet Theatre, Susan Denaker, In the Heights, San Diego Repertory Theatre.

FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL, MALE. A. Saunders, Chicago, San Diego Musical Theatre, Randall Dodge, The Sound of Music, San Diego Musical Theatre, Phil Johnson, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Intrepid Shakespeare Company, Randall Dodge, The Wizard of Oz, Moonlight Stage Productions, Spencer Smith, In the Heights, San Diego Repertory Theatre.

LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY, MALE. Miles Anderson, The Merchant of Venice, Old Globe Theatre, Russell Harvard, Tribes, La Jolla Playhouse, John Lavelle, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Old Globe Theatre, Claudio Raygoza, Shining City, Ion Theatre, Stephen Lone, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Ion Theatre.

LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY, FEMALE. Sylvia M’Lafi Thompson, The Trip to Bountiful, New Village Arts, Kandis Chappell, Other Desert Cities, Old Globe Theatre, Caroline Kinsolving, Venus in Fur, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Wit, Lamb’s Players Theatre

FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY, FEMALE. Kandis Chappell, Pygmalion, Old Globe Theatre, Yolanda Franklin, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Diversionary Theatre, Mary Beth Peil, His Girl Friday, La Jolla Playhouse, Meghan O’Neill, Tribes, La Jolla Playhouse, Linda Libby, The Importance of Being Earnest, Cygnet Theatre.

FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY, MALE. Don Sparks, Pygmalion, Old Globe Theatre, Antonio T.J. Johnson, Gem of the Ocean, Cygnet Theatre, Brian Abraham, Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo, Ion Theatre, Steve Gunderson, His Girl Friday, La Jolla Playhouse, Sherman Howard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Old Globe Theatre.

SOUND DESIGN. Joseph Huppert, Extraordinary Chambers, Mo’olelo Performing Arts, Dan Moses Schreier, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Old Globe Theatre, Christopher Luessmann, The Wizard of Oz, Moonlight Stage Productions, Jon Lorenz, Wit, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Lindsay Jones, The Tallest Tree in the Forest, La Jolla Playhouse.

COSTUME DESIGN. Robert Morgan, Pygmalion, Old Globe Theatre, Linda Cho, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Deidre Clancy, The Merchant of Venice, Old Globe Theatre, Shirley Pierson, The Importance of Being Earnest, Cygnet Theatre, Paul Tazewell, Side Show, La Jolla Playhouse.

LIGHTING DESIGN. Christopher Loren Renda, The Trip to Bountiful, New Village Arts, Phillip S. Rosenberg, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, York Kennedy, Other Desert Cities, Old Globe Theatre, David Lander, His Girl Friday, La Jolla Playhouse, Justin Townsend, The Last Goodbye, Old Globe Theatre.

SCENIC DESIGN. Alexander Dodge, Pygmalion, Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Alexander Dodge, Other Desert Cities, Old Globe Theatre, Robert Brill, Other Desert Cities, La Jolla Playhouse, David F Weiner, Extraordinary Chambers, Mo’olelo Performing Arts.

PROJECTION DESIGN. Aaron Rhyne, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Marc Anthony Thompson, The Mountaintop, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Keith Skretch, Double Indemnity, Old Globe Theatre, Victoria Petrovich, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, San Diego Repertory Theatre, John Narun, The Tallest Tree in the Forest, La Jolla Playhouse.

DIRECTION OF A PLAY. Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, The Bluest Eye, Moxie Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts, Claudio Rargoza, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Ion Theatre, Seema Sueko, Extraordinary Chambers, Mo`olelo Performing Art, Sam Woodhouse and Kim Rubenstein, Venus in Fur, San Diego Repertory Theatre,

DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL. Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Old Globe Theatre, Ray Limon, Chicago, Welk Resorts Theatre, Randall Hickman, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Welk Resorts Theatre, Sam Woodhouse, In the Heights, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Matthew J. Vargo, Young Frankenstein, Moonlight Stage Productions.

SPECIAL EVENT. DNA Series, La Jolla Playhouse, “San Diego, I Love You,” Circle Circle dot dot, Accomplice: San Diego, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Fringe Festival, Without Walls Festival, La Jolla Playhouse.

DRAMATIC PRODUCTION. The Bluest Eye, Moxie Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts, Extraordinary Chambers, Mo’olelo Performing Arts, The Merchant of Venice, Old Globe Theatre, Venus in Fur, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Wit, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Old Globe Theatre.