The Hypocrites' All Our Tragic Wins Big at Chicago's Jeff Awards
(© Evan Hanover)
The winners of Chicago's 47th Annual Equity Jeff Awards have been announced. The awards honored outstanding theater produced within the immediate Chicago area from the 2014-15 season.
The list of recipients is as follows:
PRODUCTION – PLAY – LARGE
Moby Dick — Lookingglass Theatre Company in association with the Actors’ Gymnasium
PRODUCTION – PLAY – MIDSIZE
All Our Tragic — The Hypocrites
PRODUCTION – MUSICAL – LARGE
Les Misérables — Paramount Theatre
PRODUCTION – MUSICAL – MIDSIZE
The Addams Family — Mercury Theater Chicago
PRODUCTION – REVUE
Sondheim on Sondheim — Porchlight Music Theatre
DIRECTOR – PLAY
Sean Graney — All Our Tragic — The Hypocrites
DIRECTOR – MUSICAL
Jim Corti — Les Misérables — Paramount Theatre
DIRECTOR – REVUE
Nick Bowling — Sondheim on Sondheim — Porchlight Music Theatre
ENSEMBLE
All Our Tragic — The Hypocrites
ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – PLAY
Jerod Haynes (Bigger) — Native Son — Court Theatre and American Blues Theater
ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – MUSICAL
Nicholas Dantes (Billy) – Billy Elliot, the Musical – Drury Lane Productions
ACTRESS IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – PLAY
Kate Fry (Rosemary Muldoon) — Outside Mullingar — Northlight Theatre
ACTRESS IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – MUSICAL
Heidi Kettenring (Anna Leonowens) — The King and I — Marriott Theatre
ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN A REVUE
Cory Goodrich (June Carter Cash) — Ring of Fire, The Music of Johnny Cash —
Mercury Theater Chicago and Theatre at the Center
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Ronald Keaton (Winston Churchill) — Churchill — SoloChicago Theatre and
Greenhouse Theater Center
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – PLAY
Anthony Fleming III (Queequeg/Ensemble) — Moby Dick — Lookingglass Theatre Company
in association with the Actors’ Gymnasium
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – MUSICAL
Matthew Crowle (Hysterium) – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum —
Porchlight Music Theatre
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – PLAY
Kate Buddeke (Tanya) — Airline Highway — Steppenwolf Theatre Company
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – MUSICAL
Michelle Aravena (Anita) — West Side Story — Drury Lane Productions
NEW WORK – PLAY
PJ Paparelli and Joshua Jaeger — The Project(s) — American Theater Company
NEW WORK – MUSICAL
Paul Gordon — Sense and Sensibility — Chicago Shakespeare Theater
NEW ADAPTATION
Sean Graney — All Our Tragic — The Hypocrites
CHOREOGRAPHY
Rachel Rockwell — Billy Elliot, the Musical — Drury Lane Productions
ORIGINAL MUSIC IN A PLAY
Henry Marsh — Pericles — Chicago Shakespeare Theater
MUSIC DIRECTION
Austin Cook — Sondheim on Sondheim — Porchlight Music Theatre
SCENIC DESIGN – MIDSIZE
John Holt — Accidentally Like a Martyr — A Red Orchid Theatre
SCENIC DESIGN – LARGE
Kevin Depinet and Jeffrey D. Kmiec — Les Misérables — Paramount Theatre
LIGHTING DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Brian Sidney Bembridge — The Royale — American Theater Company
LIGHTING DESIGN – LARGE
Greg Hofmann — The Who’s Tommy — Paramount Theatre
COSTUME DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Alison Siple — All Our Tragic — The Hypocrites
COSTUME DESIGN – LARGE
Dede M. Ayite — Marie Antoinette — Steppenwolf Theatre Company
SOUND DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Victoria Deiorio — The White Road — Irish Theatre of Chicago
SOUND DESIGN – LARGE
Rick Sims — Moby Dick — Lookingglass Theatre Company in association with
the Actors’ Gymnasium
PROJECTIONS/VIDEO DESIGN
Mike Tutaj — The Who’s Tommy — Paramount Theatre
ARTISTIC SPECIALIZATION
Isaac Schoepp — Rigging Design — Moby Dick — Lookingglass Theatre Company in association with
the Actors’ Gymnasium
SPECIAL AWARD
Paula Scrofano and John Reeger
