BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Alan McClintock — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (George), Skylight (Tom Sergeant), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Randle P. McMurphy)
Bobby Tyson — Drift (Lee)
Carver Johns — American Buffalo (Teach)
Chad Calvert — Turn of the Screw (The Master, Miles, Mrs. Grose, Narrator)
Eric Foss — Corpus Christi (Joshua)
Graham Smith — Dinner With Friends (Gabe)
James Yost — Farewell Party (Alex), Drift (Joel)
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Adrienne Nixon — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Nyasha)
Jeannie Woods — Master Class (Maria Callas)
Nicia Carla — Huck Finn’s Story (Huckleberry Finn)
Pam Galle — Benedictions (Jesse)
Polly Adkins — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Martha), One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Nurse Ratched)
Rebecca Koon — Wit (Dr. Vivian Bearing), Dinner With Friends (Karen)
Sheila Snow — Les Liaisons Dangeureuses (Marquise de Merteuil)
BEST DIRECTOR, DRAMA
Candace Sorensen — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Glenn Griffin — Les Liaisons Dangeureuses
James Yost — Skylight, Drift
John Hartness — Corpus Christi, Love Letters
Michael Simmons — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Steve Umberger — Benedictions, Wit
Terry Loughlin — Having Our Say, Dinner With Friends
BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL
Billy Ensley — Oliver! (Fagin)
Jared Bradshaw — Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood)
Kevin Campbell — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Pseudolus)
Kevin Jayroe — Damn Yankees (Joe Hardy), Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph)
Travis Osley — Valley of the Dolls (Neely O’Hara)
Walter Shepherd — Singin’ in the Rain (Cosmos Brown), On the Town (Gabey)
BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL
Cass Morgan — True Home (Cass Morgan)
Deborah Rhodes — A Century of Musical Theatre, And the World Goes ‘Round
Lesley Shires — Singin’ in the Rain (Kathy Seldon)
Rachel Shumate — Rapunzel (Rapunzel Schwartzbuckle)
Sarah Bright — Violet (Violet)
Susan Roberts Knowlson — And the World Goes ‘Round
BEST DIRECTOR, MUSICAL
Daina Giesler — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Eric Woodall — Violet
Jamey Varnadore — Singin’ in the Rain
Jeffrey Ballero — Valley of the Dolls
Tom Hollis — Oliver!
Tom Vance — On the Town, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
BEST CONDUCTOR/MUSIC DIRECTOR
Bill Congdon — Oliver!, Rapunzel, On the Town
Drina Keen — Singin’ in the Rain, And the World Goes ‘Round, Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Eric Reed — Black Nativity
Keith Denson — A Century of Musical Theatre
Scott McKenzie — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Violet,
The Robber Bridegroom
Steven Tyler — True Home
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Dennis Delamar — The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon Moncrieff),
Miracle on 34th Street (Kris Kringle)
Duke Ernsberger — The Foreigner (Charlie Baker)
George Gray — Krapp’s Last Tape (Krapp)
Jacob Pinion — Babe the Sheep Pig (Babe)
Justin Bitton — Play It Again, Sam (Allen Felix)
Ryan McCurdy — The Cripple of Inishmaan (Cripple Billy)
Tony Wright — The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus), The Boys Next
Door (Jack)
BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Amanda Rentschler — Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Lily)
Catherine Smith — The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolen Fairfax)
Deanna Gibson — The Triumph of Love (Princess Leonide)
Kellyn Ellwood — Anton in Show Business (Holly Sebae)
Laura Depta — Thumbs (Sheriff Jane Morton)
Leslie Beckham — Anton in Show Business (Lisabette Cartwright)
Sheila Snow — The Baltimore Waltz (Anna)
BEST DIRECTOR, COMEDY
Alan Poindexter — Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Craig Spradley — The Cripple of Inishmaan
Daina Giesler — The Importance of Being Earnest
Dennis Delamar — Anton in Show Business
Glenn Griffin — The Baltimore Waltz
Jeannie Woods — The Triumph of Love
Steve Umberger — The Foreigner
BEST SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER
Anthony Proctor — Fefu and Her Friends, The Baltimore Waltz
Daveed Korup, Robert Teixeira, Moving Poets — The Irony of Sex
Dean Kleusner — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Gary Sivak — Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Huck Finn’s Story, Lilly’s Purple
Plastic Purse, Turn of the Screw, Miracle on 34th Street
Gary Sivak/Roger Davis — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
James Vesce — Antigone
John Hartness & Anthony Proctor — Les Liaisons Dangeureuses
BEST SET DESIGNER
Anna Sartin — The Foreigner
Brian Ruggaber — Fefu and Her Friends, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum, Antigone, You Can’t Take It With You
Chip Decker — Anton in Show Business, Thumbs
Frank Ludwig — Benedictions, Dinner With Friends
George Gray — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jim Gloster — Miracle on 34th Street
Michael Simmons — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sandra Gray — The Importance of Being Earnest, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
Aimee Kandl — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, You Can’t
Take It With You
Annamarie Gatto — The Cripple of Inishmaan, Fefu and Her Friends, Anton
in Show Business, Violet
Jeff Ballero & Gretchen Mathis — Valley of the Dolls
Johann Stegmeir — Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Lisa Liebering — Babe the Sheep Pig, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, Huck
Finn’s Story
Myk Chambers — The Importance of Being Earnest
Rebecca Cairns — Benedictions, Damn Yankees, The Robber Bridegroom, Dinner
With Friends
Robert Croghan — The Misanthrope, Antigone, Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, Miracle on 34th Street
BEST CHOREOGRAPHER
Candace Jennings — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
Delia Neil — Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Antigone, Electra/Orestes, Lilly’s
Purple Plastic Purse
Eddie Mabry — Singin’ in the Rain
Keith Martin — Damn Yankees, The Robber Bridegroom
Linda Booth — Oliver!, On the Town, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat
Till Schmidt-Rimpler — Going Wilde, The Irony of Sex
BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER
Eric Winkenwerder — Babe the Sheep Pig, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters,
Dinner With Friends, Miracle on 34th Street
Hallie Gray — The Cripple of Inishmaan, Three Viewings, A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, Turn of the Screw
James Duke — And the World Goes ‘Round, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat
John Hartness — Fefu and Her Friends, Les Liaisons Dangeureuses, Corpus
Christi, The Baltimore Waltz
Kimberly Ashton — Electra/Orestes
Lucas Alonso — Oliver!, Singin’ in the Rain
Todd Wren — Wit
SPECIAL TECHNICAL EFFECTS
Ali Gharib, Dominic Demichina, and Robert Lee Simmons — One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest (Video Design)
Anthony Proctor — The Baltimore Waltz (Projection Design)
CPCC Television Studio — Singin’ in the Rain (Silent Screen Sequences)
Lisa Liebering — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Puppets)
Rachel Ebgi — Valley of the Dolls (Make-Up)
Richard Dills — Singin’ in the Rain (Rain System)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Duke Ernsberger — Benedictions (Ray Richey)
Eric Blake — Les Liaisons Dangeureuses (Chevalier Danceny), American
Buffalo (Bobby)
Mike Farmer — Corpus Christi (John)
Patrick Ratchford — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nick)
Rob Trevelier — Dinner With Friends (Tom)
Sidney Horton — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Mufaro)
Terrell Dulin — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (King, Messenger, Beggar,
Old Woman, Serpent)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
April Jones — Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Manyara), Wit (Susie
Monahan)
Julie Janorschke — Fefu and Her Friends (Sue)
Karla Mason — Dinner With Friends (Beth)
Lesley Hunt — Wit (Dr. E.M. Ashford)
Lorraine Larocque — Farewell Party (Vaughan Loman), Drift (Marie)
Mary Lucy Bivins — Benedictions (Agnes Day)
Meredith McBride — Fefu and Her Friends (Julia)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MUSICAL
Bobby Tyson — Violet (Flick)
Chris Wilkerson — Valley of the Dolls (Jennifer North)
Corey Mitchell — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hysterium)
Dennis Delamar — Violet (Father), Damn Yankees (Mr. Applegate)
Patrick Ratchford — Violet (Monty), On the Town (Chip)
Steve Bryan — Oliver! (Bill Sykes)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MUSICAL
Holly Riley — Singin’ in the Rain (Lina Lamont), On the Town (Lucy Schmeeler)
J. Courtney Taylor — On the Town (Hildy Esterhazy)
Lesley Shires — Rapunzel (Rene Schwartzbuckle)
Lisa Smith — Oliver! (Nancy), Damn Yankees (Gloria Thorpe)
Lynne Morris — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Domina)
Pat Heiss — On the Town (Madame Maude P. Dilly)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Alan Poindexter — Babe the Sheep Pig (Farmer Hoggett), The Foreigner (Ellard Simms), Miracle on 34th Street (Sawyer/Humpty Dumpty)
Brett Kiedasch — Play It Again, Sam (Bogart/Dick), WASP (Dad),
Mindscreams (Rev. Tolar /”Mr. Nifty”)
Graham Smith — The Foreigner (Owen Musser)
Greg McGrath — The Cripple of Inishmaan (Babbybobby), The Triumph
of Love (Dimas)
Mark Scarboro — Thumbs (Wilton Dekes)
Mark Sutton — Babe the Sheep Pig (Ma), Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Mr. Slinger)
Michael Edwards — The Foreigner (Froggy LeSueur)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
April Jones — Babe the Sheep Pig (Fly), Lilly’s Purple Plastic
Purse (Mom)
Donna Baldwin-Bradby — Anton in Show Business (Andwyneth/Don Blount)
Elizabeth Diane Wells — The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Sunny Freitag)
Gloria King — The Importance of Being Earnest (Lady Bracknell)
Lorraine Larocque — The Cripple of Inishmaan (Slippy Helen)
Mary Lucy Bivins — The Foreigner (Betty Meeks)
Meredith McBride — Play It Again, Sam (Linda)
BEST CAMEO APPEARANCE
Dustin Rubin — Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Baby Julius)
Ginger Richardson — The Importance of Being Earnest (Miss Prism)
Madeline Jurch — Miracle on 34th Street (Janet Mara)
Mike Farmer — Violet (Preacher)
Pat Heiss — You Can’t Take It With You (Olga)
Peter Smeal — Miracle on 34th Street (Drunken Santa)
Sarah Martin — Violet (Young Vi)
Steve Bryan — Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Pharaoh)
BEST COLLEGE/TEEN ACTOR
Bryson Avery — The Benefit Show (Valet, Mr. D’Arcy), Electra/Orestes (Orestes)
Chaz Pofahl — Carousel (Billy Bigelow)
Chris Murray — The Misanthrope (Alceste)
Chris Walters — Boy Gets Girl (Mercer Stevens)
Jacob Pinion — The Robber Bridegroom (Jamie Lockhart)
Jason Loughlin — Antigone (Creon), Beyond the Horizon (Andrew)
Jeremy Cartee — Noises Off (Garry Lejeune)
Parker Dixon — Boy Gets Girl (Tony Ross)
BEST COLLEGE/TEEN ACTRESS
Anna Jensen — The Misanthrope (Celimene), The Robber Bridegroom (Salome)
Beth Gardner — Boy Gets Girl (Theresa Bedell)
Christina Ritchie — Boy Gets Girl (Harriet)
Cody Harding — Antigone (Antigone), Beyond the Horizon (Ruth)
Deanna Gibson — Noises Off (Dottie Otley), The Madwoman of Chaillot (Countess Aurelia)
Deirdre Pfeiffer — The Benefit Show (Lavinia, Queen Catherine), Electra/Orestes (Electra)
Erin Smith — 27 Rue de Fleuris (Gertrude Stein)
Laura Filosa — The Robber Bridegroom (Rosamund)
BEST COLLEGE/TEEN SHOW
Antigone — UNCC
Beyond the Horizon — UNCC
Boy Gets Girl — Davidson College
Noises Off — Winthrop University
The Benefit Show — Children’s Theatre Ensemble
The Misanthrope — Davidson College
BEST ORIGINAL SHOW
Benedictions — Charlotte Rep
Farewell Party — Stage One Summer Stock
Noon Day Sun — Stage One Summer Stock
The Prince and the Pauper — Children’s Theatre
The Third Plague — Off-Tryon Theatre Company
Valley of the Dolls — Charlotte Conservatory Theatre
THEATER EVENT OF THE YEAR
Charlotte Shakespeare Festival 2001 — The Actor’s Gym
Fefu and Her Friends — Chickspeare
First Annual 15-Minute Play Festival — BareBones Theatre Group
Going Wilde — Moving Poets
Thumbs — Actor’s Theatre
VDay 2001/The Vagina Monologues — Davidson College
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
Andrea King — Anton in Show Business (Joby), You Can’t Take It
With You (Alice)
Andy Baird — Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All to You (Thomas)
Charlotte Parrott — Miracle on 34th Street (Susan Walker)
Chris Murray — The Misanthrope (Alceste), The Vortex (Jones)
Deanna Gibson — Noises Off (Dotty Ashley), The Triumph of Love (Princess Léonide)
Eric Blake — Les Liaisons Dangeureuses (Chevalier Danceny), Mindscreams (Mitchell/”Mr. Nifty”), American Buffalo (Bobby)
Laura Depta — Thumbs (Sheriff Jane Morton)
Mark Scarboro — Thumbs (Wilton Dekes)
BEST DRAMA
Dinner With Friends — Charlotte Rep
Les Liaisons Dangeureuses — Off-Tryon
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters — Children’s Theatre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Victory Pictures
Turn of the Screw — BareBones
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Theatre Charlotte
Wit — Charlotte Rep
BEST MUSICAL
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — Theatre Charlotte
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — CPCC Theatre
Oliver! — CPCC Summer Theatre
Singin’ in the Rain — CPCC Summer Theatre
Valley of the Dolls — Charlotte Conservatory Theatre
Violet — Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte
BEST COMEDY
Anton in Show Business — Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse — Children’s Theatre
Play It Again, Sam — Off-Tryon
The Cripple of Inishmaan — Actor’s Theatre
The Foreigner — Charlotte Rep
The Importance of Being Earnest — Theatre Charlotte
Thumbs — Actor’s Theatre
THEATERPERSON OF THE YEAR
Alan Poindexter; Anne Lambert; Candace Sorensen; Carver Johns; Dennis Delamar;
George, Sandra & Hallie Gray; James Yost; Joanna Gerdy; John Hartness; Julie
Janorschke; Michael Simmons *
This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2002.
