Craig Noel

Musical Direction

Charlie Alterman, October Sky, Old Globe Theatre

Mark Danisovsky, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre

Tony Houck, Oklahoma! New Village Arts

Don LeMaster, Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre

Elan McMahan, Titanic: The Musical, Moonlight Stage Productions

Colleen Kollar Smith

Choreography

Paul David Bryant, Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre

Jill Gorrie, 42nd Street, San Diego Musical Theatre

Colleen Kollar Smith, American Rhythm, Lamb’s Players Theatre

Ray Limon, Jesus Christ Superstar, Welk Resort Theatre

Nejla Y. Yatkin, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Diversionary Theatre

Original Score

Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Equivocation, Lamb’s Players Theatre

Peter Golub, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

Robert Grossman, Way Downriver, North Coast Repertory Theatre

Erin McKeown, Miss You Like Hell, La Jolla Playhouse

Tim Rosser, Charlie Sohne, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Diversionary

Theatre

In Manifest Destinitis, the afflicted Don Aragon can’t tell love from hate. He’s convinced wife Belen adores him, even as she schemes with a gringo to steal the estate.

Daren Scott

Ensemble

Manifest Destinitis, San Diego Repertory Theatre

Seminar, InnerMission Productions

Seven Guitars/King Hedley II, Cygnet Theatre

When the Rain Stops Falling, Cygnet Theatre

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Intrepid Theatre

Solo Performance

Mike Daisey, The Trump Card, La Jolla Playhouse

Bets Malone, Tell Me on a Sunday, Broadway Theatre

Rosina Reynolds, Golda’s Balcony, New Village Arts

Benjamin Scheuer, The Lion, Old Globe Theatre

Keith A. Wallace, The Bitter Game, La Jolla Playhouse

Oklahoma! new village arts cast

Lead Performance in a Musical, Male

Brian Barbarain, Big River, New Village Arts

Jacob Brent, The Drowsy Chaperone, SDSU School of Theatre, Television,

and Film

Jack French, Oklahoma! New Village Arts

Justin Huertas, Lizard Boy, Diversionary Theatre

Reed Lievers, Big River, New Village Arts

Melissa Fernandes

Lead Performance in a Musical, Female

Carolyn Agan, Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre

Melissa Fernandes, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre

Linda Libby, Gypsy, Cygnet Theatre

Daebreon Polema, Sister Act, Moonlight Stage Productions

Sharon Rietkerk, Sense and Sensibility, Old Globe Theatre

Featured Performance in a Musical, Female

Bets Malone, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Cygnet Theatre

Nicole Pryor, Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre

Allison Spratt Pearce, Gypsy, Cygnet Theatre

Alexandra Slade, Oklahoma! New Village Arts

Wendy Waddell, Fiddler on the Roof, Welk Resort Theatre

Miner's chorus from October Sky

Featured Performance in a Musical, Male

Ron Bohmer, October Sky, Old Globe Theatre

Cornelius Jones Jr., Sister Act, Moonlight Stage Productions

Sean Allan Krill, Sense and Sensibility, Old Globe Theatre

David McBean, Ruthless! The Musical, Moxie Theatre

Jonathan Sangster, Oklahoma! New Village Arts

Lead Performance in a Play, Male

Richard Baird, Way Downriver, North Coast Repertory Theatre

Ro Boddie, Seven Guitars, Cygnet Theatre

Ronobir Lahari, Disgraced, San Diego Repertory Theatre

Claudio Raygoza, The Normal Heart, Ion Theatre

Robert Smyth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Intrepid Theatre

Jo Anne Glover

Erin Bigley

Lead Performance in a Play, Female

Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid

Theatre

Jo Anne Glover, The Kid Thing, Moxie Theatre

Cashae Monya, Our Lady of Kibeho, Moxie Theatre

Jennifer Paredes, Lydia, Ion Theatre

M’Lafi Thompson, Brownsville Song (b-side for Tray), Moxie Theatre

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

Featured Performance in a Play, Male

Laurence Brown, Jesus Hates Me, Ion Theatre

Laurence Brown, Seven Guitars, Cygnet Theatre

Kevin Cahoon, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

Ross Hellwig, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid Theatre

Antonio “TJ” Johnson, Seven Guitars/King Hedley II, Cygnet Theatre

Featured Performance in a Play, Female

Dana Fares, Airline Highway, Ion Theatre

Jennifer Paredes, Seven Spots on the Sun, InnerMission Productions

Erin Peterson, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid Theatre

Kim Strassberger, The Normal Heart, Ion Theatre

Jacque Wilke, Stupid Fking Bird, Cygnet Theatre

DESIGN CATEGORIES

Scenic Design

John Lee Beatty, Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, La Jolla Playhouse

John Lee Beatty, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

Kevin Depinet, October Sky, Old Globe Theatre

Sean Fanning, Manifest Destinitis, San Diego Repertory Theatre

Sean Fanning, Seven Guitars/King Hedley II, Cygnet Theatre

Mark Wendland, Rain, Old Globe Theatre

Koji and his apprentice Takashi in Tokyo Fish Story

Sound Design

Mark Bennett, Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, La Jolla Playhouse

Charles Coes, Nathan A. Roberts, Tokyo Fish Story, Old Globe Theatre

Emily Jankowski, Brownsville Song (b-side for Tray), Moxie Theatre

Bray Poor, The Last Match, Old Globe Theatre

Ken Travis, Rain, The Old Globe

Costume Design

Jennifer Brawn Gittings, Manifest Destinitis, San Diego Repertory

Theatre

Jennifer Brawn Gittings, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show,

Cygnet Theatre

Michael Krass, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

Janet Turner Pitcher, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre

Jeanne Reith, American Rhythm, Lamb’s Players Theatre

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

Photo by Simpatika

Lighting Design

Howell Binkley, Hollywood, La Jolla Playhouse

Wen-Ling Liao, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Diversionary Theatre

Jason Lyons, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

Nathan Peirson, The Miracle Worker, Lamb’s Players Theatre

Ben Stanton, Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, La Jolla Playhouse

Japhy Weideman, October Sky, Old Globe Theatre

Projections

Jonathan Infante, Titanic, The Musical, Moonlight Stage Productions

Tara Knight, Hollywood, La Jolla Playhouse

Blake McCarty, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre

Michael McKeon, Woodie Guthrie’s American Song, Intrepid Theatre

Shawn Sagady, October Sky, Old Globe Theatre

DIRECTING CATEGORIES

Direction of a Play

Rob Lutfy, When the Rain Stops Falling, Cygnet Theatre

Kathleen Marshall, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

Jennifer Nelson, Seven Guitars/King Hedley II, Cygnet Theatre

Glenn Paris, Claudio Raygoza, The Normal Heart

Christy Yael-Cox, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid Theatre

Direction of a Musical

Stephen Broteback, The Drowsy Chaperone, SDSU School of Theatre, TV,

and Film

Barbara Gaines, Sense and Sensibility, Old Globe Theatre

Colleen Kollar Smith, Big River, New Village Arts

Sean Murray, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Cygnet Theatre

Glenn Paris, Kim Strassberger, Sunday in the Park with George, Ion

Theatre

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

New Play

Damascus, by Bennett Fisher, Wagner New Play Festival, UCSD

Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, by Ayad Akhtar, La Jolla Playhouse

The Last Match, by Anna Ziegler, Old Globe Theatre

The Last Tiger in Haiti, by Jeff Augustin, La Jolla Playhouse

Manifest Destinitis, by Herbert Siguenza, San Diego Repertory Theatre

Touring Production

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Broadway/San Diego

Cabaret, Broadway/San Diego

Maestro, 88 Entertainment at San Diego Repertory Theatre

The Metromaniacs, Old Globe Theatre

1918, Le Moana, San Diego International Fringe Festival

Dramatic Production

Disgraced, San Diego Repertory Theatre

Love’s Labor’s Lost, Old Globe Theatre

The Normal Heart, Ion Theatre

Seven Guitars/King Hedley II, Cygnet Theatre

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Intrepid Theatre

Resident Musical

Gypsy, Cygnet Theatre

Lizard Boy, Diversionary Theatre

October Sky, Old Globe Theatre

Ragtime, San Diego Musical Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George, Ion Theatre

Titanic: The Musical, Moonlight Stage Productions

Special Categories (winners announced from the stage)

Outstanding Young Artist Award, Sandra Ellis-Troy Scholarship

Don Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work by a Small Theater

Actor of the Year, Male

Actor of the Year, Female

Designer of the Year

The ceremony will take place Monday, February 6, 2017, at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, 404 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, from six to 10 p.m.