2019 TBA Awards Finalists - Cdn.ymaws

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF A PLAYTier IFairview at Berkeley Repertory TheatreHOME at Berkeley Repertory TheatreMetamorphoses at Berkeley Repertory TheatreOedipus el Rey at Magic TheatreThe Great Leap at American Conservatory TheaterTier IICry It Out at Just TheaterFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf at African-American Shakespeare CompanySilent Sky at City Lights Theater CompanyThe Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball TheaterThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre CompanyTier IIIClybourne Park at Altarena PlayhouseDrumming with Anubis at Left Edge TheatreHand to God at Left Edge TheatreRapture, Blister, Burn at Lucky Penny ProductionsThe Nether at Left Edge TheatreTwelfth Night at Arabian Shakespeare Festival2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAYTier INatalie Venetia Belcon for Fairview at Berkeley Repertory TheatreSteven Epp for Metamorphoses at Berkeley Repertory TheatreLance Gardner for The Good Person of Szechwan at California Shakespeare TheaterArye Gross for The Great Leap at American Conservatory TheaterAlfredo Huereca for The Who & The What at Marin Theatre CompanyDenmo Ibrahim for The Who & The What at Marin Theatre CompanyMonique Robinson for Fairview at Berkeley Repertory TheatreGeoff Sobelle for HOME at Berkeley Repertory TheatreSango Tajima for Metamorphoses at Berkeley Repertory TheatreBD Wong for The Great Leap at American Conservatory TheaterTier IIGIna Alvarado for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre CompanyMartha Brigham for Cry It Out at Just TheaterNatasha LaGrone for For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf at African-American ShakespeareCompanyPaige Mayes for For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf at African-American Shakespeare CompanyRadhika Rao for The Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball TheaterRenee Rogoff for When We Were Young and Unafraid at Custom Made Theatre Co.Katie Rubin for ANNA CONSIDERS MARS at PlayGroundBrad Satterwhite for One Man, Two Guvnors at Palo Alto PlayersBronwen Shears for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre CompanyJennifer Vega for El Gato Ensombrerado at Bay Area Children's TheatreDavid L. Yen for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre Company2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY (CONTINUED)Tier IIIAmelia Adams for Twelfth Night at Arabian Shakespeare FestivalTed Barker for Clybourne Park at Altarena PlayhouseDamion Clark for The 39 Steps at Chanticleers TheatrePilar Gonzales for Rapture, Blister, Burn at Lucky Penny ProductionsDrew B. Jones for Macbeth at Silicon Valley ShakespeareJennifer Le Blanc for Twelfth Night at Arabian Shakespeare FestivalShay Oglesby-Smith for Clybourne Park at Altarena PlayhouseRebecca Pingree for Twelfth Night at Arabian Shakespeare FestivalSara Renée Morris for Macbeth at Silicon Valley ShakespeareSteve Rhyne for Clybourne Park at Altarena PlayhouseKatie Rubin for Every Day Alice at Utopia Theatre ProjectTim Setzer for Arsenic And Old Lace at Sonoma Arts Live2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A PLAYTier IKyle Cameron for Significant Other at San Francisco PlayhouseEsteban Carmona for Oedipus el Rey at Magic TheatreJames Carpenter for The Resting Place at Magic TheatreSteven A. Jones for August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned at Marin Theatre CompanyFrancis Jue for King of the Yees at San Francisco PlayhouseCraig Marker for Dancing Lessons at Center Repertory CompanyFrancesca Fernandez McKenzie for The Good Person of Szechwan at California Shakespeare TheaterSharon Rietkerk for Dancing Lessons at Center Repertory CompanyStacy Ross for The Year of Magical Thinking at Aurora Theatre CompanyLorraine Velez for Oedipus el Rey at Magic TheatreTier IILauren English for Cry It Out at Just TheaterHilary Hesse for The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? at Custom Made Theatre Co.Maria Giere Marquis for Silent Sky at City Lights Theater CompanyMelissa Ortiz for ANNA CONSIDERS MARS at PlayGroundKrystle Piamonte for Ripped at Z SpaceBrennan Pickman-Thoon for The Gentleman Caller at New Conservatory Theatre CenterElijah Pinkman for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre CompanyPaige Rogers for The Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball TheaterStacy Ross for When We Were Young and Unafraid at Custom Made Theatre Co.David Sinaiko for The Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball TheaterMax Tachis for Noises Off at Hillbarn Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A PLAY (CONTINUED)Tier IIICaleb Cabrera for Transfers at Crowded Fire Theater CompanyKim Donovan for dirty butterfly at Anton's Well Theater CompanyJohn Fisher for Action Hero at Theatre RhinocerosEvelyn Huynh for The White Snake at Silicon Valley ShakespeareDean Linnard for Hand to God at Left Edge TheatreCarlos Mendoza for American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose at Los Altos Stage CompanyJudith A. Miller for The Grapes of Wrath at Los Altos Stage CompanyChristian Phillips for All My Sons at Role Players EnsembleAdrian Roberts for The Urban Retreat at Lorraine Hansberry TheatreGabriel A. Ross for Action Hero at Theatre RhinocerosChris Schloemp for Drumming with Anubis at Left Edge TheatreMichael Ray Wisely for Rapture, Blister, Burn at Lucky Penny ProductionsDavid Yen for The Nether at Left Edge Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAYTier ISarah Benson for Fairview at Berkeley Repertory TheatreJoy Carlin for Dancing Lessons at Center Repertory CompanyLee Sunday Evans for HOME at Berkeley Repertory TheatreMargo Hall for August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned at Marin Theatre CompanyMary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses at Berkeley Repertory TheatreTier IIMolly Aaronson-Gelb for Cry It Out at Just TheaterMark Anderson Phillips for Silent Sky at City Lights Theater CompanyElizabeth Craven for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre CompanyLisa Mallette for Eurydice at City Lights Theater CompanyRob Melrose for The Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball TheaterLisa Steindler for Ripped at Z SpaceTier IIIDavid Abrams for Uncle Vanya at Birdbath TheatresJohn Fisher for Action Hero at Theatre RhinocerosRonlin Foreman for Tempting Fate at Antic in a DrainJohn Maio for The 39 Steps at Chanticleers TheatreAudrey Rumsby for Twelfth Night at Arabian Shakespeare FestivalCharlie Varon for Border People at The Marsh2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF A MUSICALTier ICabaret at San Francisco PlayhouseDames at Sea at 42nd Street MoonKiss My Aztec! at Berkeley Repertory TheatreOnce at 42nd Street MoonParadise Square: A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory TheatreTier IIJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Broadway by the BayMillion Dollar Quartet at 6th Street PlayhousePippin at Berkeley PlayhouseSweeney Todd at Hillbarn TheatreViolet: The Musical at Bay Area MusicalsTier IIIAmerican Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreBingo! The Winning Musical at Lucky Penny ProductionsLegally Blonde at Marin Musical Theatre CompanyLerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady at Sonoma Arts LiveRodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Foothill Music TheatreThoroughly Modern Millie at South Bay Musical Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICALTier IJeffrey Brian Adams for Mamma Mia! at San Jose Stage CompanyDavid Crane for Tuck Everlasting at TheatreWorksMatt Davis for Once at 42nd Street MoonAbby Haug for Cabaret at San Francisco PlayhouseZachary Infante for Kiss My Aztec! at Berkeley Repertory TheatreKatrina McGraw for Mary Poppins at San Francisco PlayhouseBrady Morales-Woolery for Once at 42nd Street MoonKeith Pinto for Dames at Sea at 42nd Street MoonRob Ready for Once at 42nd Street MoonAllison F. Rich for Mamma Mia! at San Jose Stage CompanyMelissa WolfKlain for Dames at Sea at 42nd Street MoonTier IIDave Abrams for Hairspray at Bay Area MusicalsAshley Cowl for In The Heights at Woodminster Summer MusicalsMartin Rojas Dietrich for In The Heights at Woodminster Summer MusicalsF. Lawrence Ewing for H.M.S. Pinafore at Lamplighters Music TheatreJessica Maxey for Anything Goes at Hillbarn TheatreHeather Orth for Sister Act at Broadway by the BayDaniel Lloyd Pias for Disney's Tarzan at Palo Alto PlayersDaniel Lloyd Pias for Grease at Broadway by the BayMichael D. Reed for Disney's Tarzan at Palo Alto PlayersMarcel Saunders for Dreamgirls at Berkeley Playhouse2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL (CONTINUED)Tier IIIDanielle Altizio for American Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreDani Beem for Legally Blonde at Marin Musical Theatre CompanyAbigail Campbell for Sister Act at Theatre RhinocerosRocky James Concepcion for Grease at Sunnyvale Community PlayersEmily Dwyer for Spring Awakening at Marin Musical Theatre CompanyKyle Ewalt for American Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreMichael Hirsch for Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at South Bay Musical TheatreKirstin Louie for American Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreZoey Lytle for American Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreJoan Pugh Newman for My Fair Lady at Woodside Community TheaterTim Setzer for Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady at Sonoma Arts LiveMaya Michael Sherer for Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Ray of Light Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A MUSICALTier ISidney Dupont for Paradise Square: A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory TheatreEddie Grey for Tuck Everlasting at TheatreWorksCate Hayman for Cabaret at San Francisco PlayhouseMichelle E. Jordan for Marie and Rosetta at TheatreWorksYani Marin for Kiss My Aztec! at Berkeley Repertory TheatreKatie Maupin for Tuck Everlasting at TheatreWorksCorbin Mayer for Once at 42nd Street MoonOlivia Nice for Once at 42nd Street MoonChristina Sajous for Paradise Square: A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory TheatreA.J. Shively for Paradise Square: A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory TheatreTier IINick Kenrick for Million Dollar Quartet at 6th Street PlayhouseJuliana Lustenader for Violet: The Musical at Bay Area MusicalsCaitlin McGinty for Anything Goes at Hillbarn TheatreMatt Ono for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Broadway by the BayHeather Orth for Passion at Custom Made Theatre Co.Heather Orth for Sweeney Todd at Hillbarn TheatreKeith Pinto for Sweeney Todd at Hillbarn TheatreChristopher Reber for Anything Goes at Hillbarn TheatreNathaniel Rothrock for Anything Goes at Hillbarn TheatreDaniel Rubio for In The Heights at Woodminster Summer Musicals2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A MUSICAL (CONTINUED)Tier IIIChristina Boothman for Monty Python's Spamalot at Pittsburg Community TheatreAngela Cesena for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Foothill Music TheatreGwyneth Forrester for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Foothill Music TheatreElla Ruth Francis for Next to Normal at Los Altos Stage CompanyJake Gale for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Novato Theater CompanyAnthone Jackson for Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at South Bay Musical TheatreZoey Lytle for Mamma Mia! at Stage 1 TheatreMary Melnick for Mame at South Bay Musical TheatreColeton Schmitto for Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Ray of Light TheatreAlicia Teeter for Will Rogers Follies at WVLO Musical Theatre CompanyBranden Noel Thomas for Sister Act at Theatre RhinocerosSarah Wintermeyer for My Fair Lady at Sonoma Arts Live2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTIONTier IEryn Allen for Once at 42nd Street MoonDave Dobrusky for Dames at Sea at 42nd Street MoonDave Dobrusky for Cabaret at San Francisco PlayhouseWilliam Liberatore for Fun Home at TheatreWorksMartin Rojas Dietrich for Mamma Mia! at San Jose Stage CompanyTier IICesar Cancino for Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter at Cinnabar TheaterCarl Danielsen for In The Heights at Woodminster Summer MusicalsAlicia Jeffrey for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Broadway by the BayKarl Pister for A Little Night Music at Lamplighters Music TheatreRick Reynolds for Sweeney Todd at Hillbarn TheatreMichael Patrick Wiles for Dreamgirls at Berkeley PlayhouseMichael Patrick Wiles for Pippin at Berkeley PlayhouseTier IIISteven Bollinger for Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Ray of Light TheatreDan Feyer for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Foothill Music TheatreJake Gale for Spring Awakening at Marin Musical Theatre CompanyJoseph Kelly for Thoroughly Modern Millie at South Bay Musical TheatreBen Prince for American Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreLuis Zuniga for Monty Python's Spamalot at Pittsburg Community Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICALTier ISusi Damilano for Cabaret at San Francisco PlayhouseCindy Goldfield for Once at 42nd Street MoonNicole Helfer for Dames at Sea at 42nd Street MoonRobert Kelley for Tuck Everlasting at TheatreWorksChristina Lazo for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at 42nd Street MoonTier IIJoshua Marx for Sweeney Todd at Hillbarn TheatreLee Ann Payne for Anything Goes at Hillbarn TheatreRobert Shryock for Gold: The Midas Musical at Bay Area Children's TheatreBrendan Simon for Dreamgirls at Berkeley PlayhouseLily Tung Crystal for Flower Drum Song at Palo Alto PlayersTier IIIMilissa Carey for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Foothill Music TheatreSailor Galaviz and Jason Hoover for Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Ray of Light TheatreJason Hoover for American Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreLee Ann Payne for Thoroughly Modern Millie at South Bay Musical TheatreDianna Schepers for Monty Python's Spamalot at Pittsburg Community TheatreJamie Yuen-Shore for I, Too, Sing America at San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Co.2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING WORLD PREMIERE PLAYJesse Brownstein for Uncle Vanya at Birdbath TheatresRachel Bublitz for Ripped at Z SpaceJohn Fisher for Action Hero at Theatre RhinocerosNick Medina in collaboration with Ava Roy for Caesar Maximus at We PlayersDavid Templeton for Drumming with Anubis at Left Edge Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING WORLD PREMIERE MUSICALMarcus Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan, book; Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan, music; Nathan Tysen, lyrics for ParadiseSquare: A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory TheatreMichael Gene Sullivan, w/Ellen Callas and Marie Cartier, playwrights; Michael Bello, composer; Daniel Savio, lyrics for Treasure Islandat San Francisco Mime TroupeMin Kahng, playwright, composer, lyrics for Gold: The Midas Musical at Bay Area Children's TheatreJohn Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, playwrights; Benjamin Velez, composer; David Kamp, Benjamin Velez and John Leguizamo, lyricsfor Kiss My Aztec! at Berkeley Repertory TheatreAdam Tobin, Playwright and lyrics; Deborah Wicks La Puma, Composer for She Persisted, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING SOLO PRODUCTIONSusan Claassen for A Conversation with Edith Head at Pear TheatreRegina Evans for 52 Letters at Ubuntu Theater ProjectHershey Felder for Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story at TheatreWorksWayne Harris for Mother's Milk: A Blues and Gospel Play in 3 Acts at Marsh, TheDan Hoyle for Border People at Marsh, TheRoss Travis for Tempting Fate at Antic in a Drain2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING SPECIALTY PRODUCTIONBuffy the Vampire Slayer Live! Season 3 at OasisCircus Nonsense at Kinetic Arts ProductionsHow Does That Make You Feel? at Killing My LobsterLongshotz: Disruption Junction at AmiosWestMind the Gap at Kinetic Arts ProductionsMy Friend Hafiz at Sweet Can Productions2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAYTier IAugust Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned at Marin Theatre CompanyDancing Lessons at Center Repertory CompanyHOME at Berkeley Repertory TheatreMetamorphoses at Berkeley Repertory TheatreOedipus el Rey at Magic TheatreTier IIEurydice at City Lights Theater CompanyRipped at Z SpaceSilent Sky at City Lights Theater CompanyThe Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball TheaterThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Spreckels Theatre CompanyTier IIIAction Hero at Theatre RhinocerosDrumming with Anubis at Left Edge TheatreHand to God at Left Edge TheatreThe 39 Steps at Chanticleers TheatreThe Last Sermon of Sister Imani at TheatreFIRSTTwelfth Night at Arabian Shakespeare Festival2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICALTier ICabaret at San Francisco PlayhouseDames at Sea at 42nd Street MoonFun Home at TheatreWorksOnce at 42nd Street MoonTuck Everlasting at TheatreWorksTier IIDreamgirls at Berkeley PlayhouseFlower Drum Song at Palo Alto PlayersMillion Dollar Quartet at 6th Street PlayhousePippin at Berkeley PlayhouseSweeney Todd at Hillbarn TheatreTier IIIAmerican Psycho at Ray of Light TheatreHedwig and the Angry Inch at Ray of Light TheatreI, Too, Sing America at San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Co.Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady at Sonoma Arts LiveRodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Foothill Music TheatreThoroughly Modern Millie at South Bay Musical Theatre2019 TBA Awards FinalistsTheatre Bay Area

2019 TBA Awards Finalists Theatre Bay Area . OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY (CONTINUED) Tier III . Amelia Adams . for . Twelfth Night