in The Lightning Field
(Photo © Chris Fanjul)
Oedipus at Palm Springs, The Lightning Field, and I Am My Own Wife are the winners of the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards for Theater. The honors were announced at the group’s New York ceremony at the Marriot Marquis on March 27.
A comedy/drama about a pair of troubled lesbian relationships, written by and co-starring the Five Lesbian Brothers, Oedipus at Palm Springs was named the winner in the Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway category. The show played at New York Theatre Workshop last summer.
David Ozanich’s The Lightning Field, about a young gay male couple who travel to New Mexico with their parents, was the winner in the Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off-Broadway category. The play debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival in August and had a brief run right afterwards at the Flea Theater. It is expected to have a commerical Off-Broadway run this fall.
Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife, a one-person, multi-character show about the German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, was the winner in the Outstanding Los Angeles Theater category. The Geffen Playhouse production starred Jefferson Mays, who won a Tony Award for his performance in the show on Broadway. The play won the Pulitzer Prize, and the New York production won the Tony as well as a GLAAD Media Award.
Other winners of this year’s GLAAD Media Awards are actor John Cameron Mitchell for his direction of Bright Eyes’ music video “First Day of My Life,” singer Melissa Etheridge, photographer David LaChapelle, and the film Brokeback Mountain.
The New York GLAAD Media Awards ceremony will be telecast on April 15 at 9pm on VH1 and on April 16 at 11pm on LOGO. Ceremonies in Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco are upcoming. For more information, visit www.glaad.org.
