2007 Elliot Norton Award Nominees Announced

Nominations for the 2007 Elliot Norton Awards, honoring the best of Boston-area theater, were announced this morning. The awards ceremony will be held at 7pm on Monday, May 21 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and will include performances by the casts of the three shows nominated for Outstanding Musical.

Leading the nominations are the Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s production of Miss Witherspoon, the American Repertory Theatre’s production of Britannicus, and the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius. Acting nominees include Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, Cherry Jones, Jacqui Parker, and Paula Plum.

Following is a complete list of nominees:

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OUTSTANDING VISITING PRODUCTION:
Doubt
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION BY A LARGE COMPANY:
Britannicus (American Repertory Theatre)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre Company)
Mauritius (Huntington Theatre Company)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION BY A MIDSIZE COMPANY:
Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company)
The Pillowman (New Repertory Theatre)
Titus Andronicus (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION BY A SMALL COMPANY:
King of the Jews (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boston Theatre Works)
White People (Downstage @ New Rep)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION BY A FRINGE COMPANY:
Samurai 7.0: Under Construction (Beau Jest Moving Theatre)
Silent Night of the Lambs (The Gold Dust Orphans)
Stuff Happens (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PRODUCTION:
Caroline, or Change (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Ragtime (New Repertory Theatre)
See What I Wanna See (Lyric Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR, LARGE COMPANY:
Curt Columbus, The Cherry Orchard (Trinity Repertory Company)
Nicholas Martin, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre Company)
Robert Woodruff, Britannicus, Island of Slaves (American Repertory
Theatre)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR, MIDSIZE COMPANY:
Scott Edmiston, Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company), The Women (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
David R. Gammons, Titus Andronicus (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)
Paul Melone, Fat Pig (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR, SMALL/FRINGE COMPANY:
Diego Arciniegas, White People (Downstage @ New Rep)
Jon Lipsky, Coming Up for Air: An AutoJAZZography (Alliger Arts), King of the Jews (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)
David J. Miller, Hiding Behind Comets, Sacred Hearts, Stuff Happens (Zeitgeist Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING DESIGN, LARGE COMPANY:
Eugene Lee, set, Mauritius (Huntington Theatre Company), Wicked
(Broadway Across America/Boston)
Christine Jones, set, Justin Townsend, lighting, The Onion Cellar
(American Repertory Theatre)
John Coyne, set, Clint Ramos, costumes, The Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company)

OUTSTANDING DESIGN, SMALL/MIDSIZE COMPANY:
Jeff Adelberg, lighting, Cam Willard, sound, Titus Andronicus
(Actors’ Shakespeare Project)
Dewey Dellay, sound, Miss Witherspoon, 9 Parts of Desire (Lyric Stage Company), The Women (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Jon Savage, set, King of the Jews (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE:
Leigh Barrett, Ragtime (New Repertory Theatre), Souvenir (Lyric Stage Company)
Jacqui Parker, Caroline, or Change (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Stephanie Umoh, Ragtime (New Repertory Theatre), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE:
Diego Arciniegas, Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Downstage @ New Rep)
Jonathan Epstein, Via Dolorosa (Brandeis Theatre Company)
Stan Strickland, Coming Up for Air: An AutoJAZZography (Alliger Arts)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR, LARGE COMPANY:
Michael Aronov, Mauritius (Huntington Theatre Company)
Alfredo Narciso, Britannicus (American Repertory Theatre)
James A. Williams, Radio Golf (Huntington Theatre Company)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS, LARGE COMPANY:
Marin Ireland, Mauritius (Huntington Theatre Company)
Cherry Jones, Doubt (Presented by Jon B. Platt)
Joan MacIntosh, Britannicus (American Repertory Theatre)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR, SMALL/MIDSIZE COMPANY:
Larry Coen, The Plexiglass Menagerie, Silent Night of the Lambs (The Gold Dust Orphans), Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company), The Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Samurai 7.0: Under Construction (Beau Jest Moving Theatre)
Will Lyman, King of the Jews (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)
Robert Walsh, Titus Andronicus (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS, SMALL/MIDSIZE COMPANY:
Liliane Klein, Fat Pig (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Georgia Lyman, White People (Downstage @ New Rep)
Paula Plum, Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company)

SPECIAL AWARD FOR SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE:
Eugene Lee