Year in Review 2009 & 2000-2009 Decade in Review
Theatre Event of the Year & Decade
Tony Kushner Celebration (Guthrie)
Best Productions 2009
1.Ivan the Drunk and His Terrible Tale of Woe (Off Leash)
2.Caroline, or Change (Guthrie)
3. A Raisin in the Sun (Penumbra/Guthrie)
4. Ruined (Mixed Blood)
5. Grey Gardens (Ordway/Park Square)
6. The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (Guthrie)
7.The Whipping Man (Penumbra)
8. Robots vs. Fake Robots (Walking Shadow)
9. By the Bog of Cats (Frank/Guthrie)
10. (3-Way Tie)
Palace of the End (Frank)
Moonlight and Magnolias (Minnesota Jewish Theatre)
King of Shadows (Pillsbury House)
Theater Artist of the Year
(Tie)
Randy Reyes, Actor: The Romance of Magno Rubio (Theatre Mu); Two Gents (Guthrie)/Director: King of Shadows (Pillsbury House); As You Like It (Strange Capers)
Sally Wingert, Actress: Faith Healer, Happy Days (Guthrie); 2.5 Minute Ride (Minnesota Jewish Theatre)
Best Director
Lou Bellamy, A Raisin in the Sun, The Whipping Man, Radio Golf (Penumbra)
Best Actor—Musical
Joshua James Campbell, The Full Monty (Theatre Latte Da)
Best Actor—Nonmusical
Paul Herwig, Ivan the Drunk and His Terrible Tale of Woe (Off Leash)
Best Actress—Musical
Greta Oglesby, Caroline, or Change (Guthrie)
Best Actress—Nonmusical
Alayne Hopkins The Skin of Our Teeth (Girl Friday Productions)
Best Supporting Actor
(Tie)
Sam Landman Caligula (Walking Shadow)
Nathan Suprenant, Robots vs. Fake Robots (Walking Shadow)
Best Supporting Actress
Kathleen Chalfant The Intelligent Homosexualís Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (Guthrie)
Best Crossgender Performance
Julie Ann Nevill, Life of Galileo (Theatre Pro Rata)
Best Solo Performance
Sonja Parks, No Child (Pillsbury House)
Best Performance Art
My Never Being Loneliness (Open Eye Figure)
Best Choreographer
Carl Flink, Maryís Wedding (Jungle)
Best Dance Production
Short Fall (ARENA Dances)
Best Costumes
Kathy Kohl & Mandi Johnson, .faust (Sandbox)
Best Set
Paul Herwig, Ivan the Drunk and His Terrible Tale of Woe (Off Leash)
Best Lighting
Michael Kittel, Grey Gardens (Ordway/Park Square)
Best Sound Design
Mike Hallenbeck, King of Shadows (Pillsbury House)
Outstanding Puppetry
Masanari Kawahara, A Path Home (In the Heart of the Beast)
Outstanding Achievement—Queer Youth Issues in Theater
Disordered (thy name is teenager) (blank slate)
Outstanding Music Revue
DreamBoys (Blue Umbrella)
Outstanding New Playwriting
David Mann, Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather (Gremlin)
Outstanding Ensembles
Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather (Gremlin)
Homeland Prayer (Urban Samurai)
The Seafarer (Jungle Theater)
.faust (Sandbox)
Best “From Out of Town” Shows
Peter Neofotis’s Concord, Virginia (Minnesota Fringe Festival)
Druid Theatre’s The Walworth Farce (Walker/Guthrie)
National Tour of In the Heights (Orpheum)
Outstanding Farewell Production
My Name is Rachel Corrie (Emigrant Theater)
Most Mythic Actor
Ryan Lindberg, for playing quite marvelously two watershed figures (one actual, one fictional) in classic cinema: David O. Selznick, in Moonlight and Magnolias; and Michael Corleone in Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather (Gremlin)
Best New GLBT Performance Hot Spot
Lab Theatre
Production of the Decade
Third (Guthrie)
Mover and Shaker of the Decade
Joe Dowling, Guthrie Artistic Director
Theater Artists of the Decade
Lou Bellamy, Penumbra Artistic Director
Wendy Knox, Frank Artistic Director
Staged Reading of the Decade
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Guthrie)
