The annual honors are presented for the best theater in the Windy City.
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