Doug Hughes, Christopher Gattelli Win SSDC’s Callaway Awards

Director Doug Hughes and choreographer Christopher Gattelli are the winners of the 2005 Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Awards for Excellence. The honors were presented on November 14 at the SSDC’s annual meeting.

Hughes won for his direction of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, for which he additionally received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Obie Awards. During the 2004-2005 season, he also directed The Paris Letter and McReele for the Roundabout Theatre Company. He is currently represented on Broadway by two more Roundabout shows, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way and A Touch of the Poet, and is scheduled to direct the Manhattan Theater Club production of Defiance and the Lincoln Center Production of A House in Town later this season. Hughes previously won a Callaway Award for his production of Flesh and Blood at New York Theatre Workshop.

Gattelli won the award for his choreography of Altar Boyz. His other credits include SILENCE! The Musical, Bat Boy: The Musical!, and tick, tick… BOOM!. He is currently represented by Adrift in Macao and Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh.

The other finalists for the award were directors Stafford Arima (Altar Boyz), Michael Bogdanow (Lone Star Love), Nick Corley (Flight), David Cromer (Orson’s Shadow), Graciela Daniele (Dessa Rose), Joanna Settle (Nine Parts of Desire), and Sandy Shinner (Trying), and choreographers Martha Clarke (Belle Epoque) and Randy Skinner (Lone Star Love).

The 2004-2005 Callaway Committee, co-chaired by Linda Burson and Leslie (Hoban) Blake, included Melvin Bernhardt, Hope Clarke, Edie Cowan, Susan Einhorn, John Going, Bick Goss, Gus Kaikkonen, Sue Lawless, Michael Montel, Tony Parise and Melanie Sutherland.