Photo by Daren Scott

Ross Hellwig, Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Robert Smyth, Erin Petersen in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The San Diego Theater Critics Circle held its 12th annual awards ceremony on February 4. Congratulations to the winners, the nominees, and the entire community of theater artists for one heck of a year.

Designer of the Year: Sean Fanning

Resident Musical: October Sky, Old Globe Theatre.

Musical Direction: Don LeMaster, Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre.

Big River includes dozens of characters

Choreography: Colleen Kollar Smith, American Rhythm, Lamb’s Players Theatre.

Young Artist/Sandy Ellis-Troy Scholarship: Reed Lievers, Big River, New Village Arts.

Lead Performance in a Musical, Female: Carolyn Agan, Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre.

Lead Performance in a Musical, Male: Justin Huertas, Lizard Boy, Diversionary Theatre.

Featured Performance in a Musical, Female: Allison Spratt Pearce, Gypsy, Cygnet Theatre.

Featured Performance in a Musical, Male: Sean Allan Krill, Sense and Sensibility, Old Globe Theatre.

Sittichai Chaiyahat and Troy Iwata in The Boy Who Danced on Air

Photo by Simpatika

Original Score: Tim Rosser, Charlie Sohne, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Diversionary Theatre.

Ensemble: Seven Guitars/King Hedley II, Cygnet Theatre.

Costume Design: Jennifer Brawn Gittings, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Cygnet Theatre.

Scenic Design: John Lee Beatty, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre.

Lighting Design: Howell Binkley, Hollywood, La Jolla Playhouse.

Sound Design: Charles Coes, Nathan A. Roberts, Tokyo fish story, Old Globe Theatre.

Projections: Blake McCarty, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre.

Laurence Brown, Grandison Phelps III, Milena Phillips in Seven Guitars

Featured Performance in a Play, Male: Laurence Brown, Seven Guitars, Cygnet Theatre.

Featured Performance in a Play, Female: Kim Strassburger, The Normal Heart, Ion Theatre.

Lead Performance in a Play, Male: Robert Smyth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Intrepid Theatre Company.

Lead Performance in a Play, Female: Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid Theatre.

Rosina Reynolds

Solo Performance: Rosina Reynolds, Golda’s Balcony, New Village Arts.

Direction of a Musical: Glenn Paris, Kim Strassburger, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre.

Direction of a Play: Christy Yael-Cox, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid Theatre Company.

Touring Production: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Broadway/San Diego.

Melissa Fernandes

New Play: Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, La Jolla Playhouse.

Actor of the Year, Male: Ro Boddie.

Actor of the Year, Female: Melissa Fernandes.

Dramatic Production: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Intrepid Theatre Company.

Don Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work by a Small Theater, Diversionary Theatre.

(corrected 2/7, 9:15 p.m.)