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Joanna Gleason, Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald, Christopher Sieber Receive IRNE Nominations

Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis
in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
(© Michael J. Lutch)
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis
in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
(© Michael J. Lutch)

Nominations for the 2012 Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) awards have been announced.

The A.R.T. production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which is now playing on Broadway, received 11 nominations, including for Best Musical; director Diane Paulus; music directors David Loud and Sheila Walker; costume designer Esosa; lighting designer Christopher Akerlind; lead actors Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald; supporting actors Natasha Yvette Williams, Nikki Renee Daniels, and Phillip Boykin; and Ensemble.

Among the other actor nominees are F. Murray Abraham, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Raul Aranas, Pascale Armand, Sam Babbitt, Ross Bickell, Angela Brazil, Michael Cristofer, Nathan Darrow, Matt DeAngelis, Thomas Derrah, Nicolas Dromard, Catherine Eaton, Kate Fisher, Gaelen Gilliland, Joanna Gleason, Kippy Goldfarb, Brent Harris, Doug Jabara, Zainab Jah, Todd Alan Johnson, Evan Jonigkeit, Casey Seymour Kim, Austin Ku, Steffanie Leigh, Stephen Mark Lukas, Kate MacCluggage, Karen MacDonald, Andrea Maulella, Brian McEleney, Lauren Molina, Lisa O’Hare, Geoff Packard, Tonye Patano, Robyn Payne, Jennifer Paz, Ellen Peterson, Jane Pfitsch, Anne Scurria, Mark Shanahan, Charles Shaughnessy, Christopher Sieber, Timothy John Smith, Cheryl Stern, Fred Sullivan, Jr., Nik Walker, Joe Wilson, Jr, and Beth Wittig.

Among the other nominated directors are Maria Aitken, Julianne Boyd, Joe Brancato, Curt Columbus, Paul Dobie, Peter DuBois, Charles Repole, Liesl Tommy, Charles Towers, and Mary Zimmerman.

Nominated in the Best New Play category for Large Theaters are Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro’s Before I Leave You, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Thorne’s The Completely Fictional-Utterly True-Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe, Bob Clyman’s The Exceptionals, and Sulayman Al-Bassam’s The Speaker’s Progress.

For more information, including a full list of nominations, click here.