Winners Announced for First Annual MITF Awards

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By Dan Bacalzo • Sep 12, 2007 • New York

Ron Palillo in I'm in Love with Your Wife
(© Alicia Zappier)

Winners for the first annual MITF Awards, celebrating excellence in the eighth annual Midtown International Theatre Festival, which ran July 16-August 5, were presented at the Zipper Theatre on Sunday, September 9.

Alex Goldberg's comedy I'm In Love With Your Wife, which starred television star Ron Palillo, won Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script as well as the MITF Congeniality Award, which came with a $250 cash prize.

Jan Leslie Harding was named Outstanding Overall Actress in a Musical for her work in Take Me America, which also won the award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical and Outstanding Overall Actor in a Musical for Eric Chan. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? won three awards, including Outstanding Overall Production of a Play.

For a complete list of winners and nominees, visit www.midtownfestival.org and click on "Best of the Fest" in the left hand column.