CL Theater Award Nominations 

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City Stage Fringe Theatre Fest -- NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

Iago Reading -- Moving Poets Theatre of Dance

Opening Night Panel Discussion @ Sin: A Cardinal Deposed -- Pi Productions

Royal Shakespeare Residency @ Davidson College

Saturday Night Panel Discussion @ The Exonerated -- Charlotte Repertory Theatre

The Body Chronicles -- Donna Scott Productions

Thinking in Pictures Festival -- The Light Factory/Playworks

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

Allison Whitmeyer -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lucy)

Austin York -- Amazing Grace (Felix)

Caroline Kasay -- Gypsy (Baby June)

Carrie Anne Hunt -- The Tempest (Miranda)

Chris Donoghue -- Noises Off (Tim Allgood), Our Town (George Gibbs), Coyote Ugly (Fight Choreography), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Fenris Ulf-Fight Choreography)

Corey Cray -- Nine (Guido at 9), Beauty and the Beast (Chip)

Joseph Klosek -- tick, tick ... BOOM! (Michael), Johnny Guitar (The Dancin' Kid)

Kimberlee Robinson -- Amazing Grace (Grace)

Leigh Fresina -- Fiddler on the Roof (Fruma-Sarah), The Tempest (Iris-Spirit-Mariner-Choreographer)

Meagan Douglas -- Our Town (Emily Webb)

Robert Haulbrook -- Our Town (Simon Stinson), A Few Good Men (Cmdr. Walter Stone, M.D., USN), Crazyface (Wormwood-Alfonso-Barty), Mrs. Bob Crachit's Wild Christmas Binge (Bob Crachit)

Stephen Friedrich -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Edmund), A Christmas Story (Flick)

BEST DRAMA

Amazing Grace -- Children's Theatre of Charlotte

Fahrenheit 451 -- Children's Theatre of Charlotte

Orange Lemon Egg Canary -- Carolina Actors Studio Theatre

Orphans -- Carolina Actors Studio Theatre

Our Town -- Theatre Charlotte

Sin: A Cardinal Deposed -- Pi Productions

The Exonerated -- Charlotte Repertory Theatre

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- Children's Theatre of Charlotte

BEST MUSICAL

Beauty and the Beast -- Charlotte Summer Theatre

Forever Plaid -- Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

Johnny Guitar -- Actor's Theatre of Charlotte

Menopause The Musical -- Capri Productions--TOC Entertainment

Miss Nelson Is Missing -- Children's Theatre of Charlotte

The Sound of Music -- CPCC Theatre

tick, tick... BOOM! -- Actor's Theatre of Charlotte

BEST COMEDY

A Christmas Story -- Children's Theatre of Charlotte

An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf -- BareBones Theatre Group

Coyote Ugly -- BareBones Theatre Group

Crazyface -- BareBones Theatre Group

Polish Joke -- Actor's Theatre of Charlotte

Suitcase, or Those That Resemble Flies From a Distance -- BareBones Theatre Group

The Tempest -- The Actor's Gym

THEATERPERSON OF THE YEAR

Alan Poindexter, Anne Lambert, Craig Spradley, Jill Bloede, Johann Stegmeir, Julie Janorschke, Matt Cosper, Mark Sutton, Michael Simmons, Nicia Carla, Pamela Nichols Galle, Sandra Gray, Tom Gabbard, Tony Wright

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA

Austin J. Murphy -- Sin: A Cardinal Deposed (Man)

Brett Gentile -- A Lesson Before Dying (Sheriff Guidry)

Chris Donoghue -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Fenris Ulf)

Dennis Delamar -- Fahrenheit 451 (C.R. Faber)

George Cole -- God's Country (Robert Matthews-Skinhead)

Jonathan Ewart -- Orphans (Phillip)

Michael Nesbitt -- A Lesson Before Dying (Reverend Ambrose)

Scott Helm -- Fahrenheit 451 (Beatty)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA

Adrienne Nixon -- A Thousand Cranes (Mom and Others)

Adyana de la Torre -- Orange Lemon Egg Canary (Egypt-China-Ellen)

Annette Saunders -- Our Town (Mrs. Webb)

Claire Whitworth Helm -- Fahrenheit 451 (Mildred)

Gretchen McGinty -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Mr. Tumnus)

Joanna Gerdy -- Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs)

Kim Watson Brooks -- A Lesson Before Dying (Vivian Baptiste), Bug (R.C.)

Polly Adkins -- Sin: A Cardinal Deposed (Woman)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MUSICAL

Ashby Blakely -- Fiddler on the Roof (Motel)

Brian Charles Rooney -- Forever Plaid (Jinx)

Joseph Klosek -- tick, tick ... BOOM! (Michael), Johnny Guitar (The Dancin' Kid)

Kevin Vortmann -- Forever Plaid (Smudge)

Stan Peal -- Johnny Guitar (Bart-Tom-Carl)

Steven Bryan -- Beauty and The Beast (Lumiere)

Ted Weiner -- Kiss Me, Kate (General Howell)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MUSICAL

Darryl Wood Gerber -- Nine (Liliane La Fleur)

Deborah Rhodes -- Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts)

Kate Flaherty -- tick, tick... BOOM! (Susan)

Linda Booth -- Kiss Me, Kate (Lois Lane-Bianca)

Polly Adkins -- Nine (Sarraghina), Johnny Guitar (Emma)

Rebecca Cook-Carter -- The Sound of Music (The Mother Abbess)

Susan Roberts Knowlson -- Cats (Grindlebone)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY

Aaron Moore -- Crazyface (Lenny Eulenspiegel)

Craig Spradley -- Polish Joke (Woytek-Mr. O'Flanagan-Priest-Policeman-Leon-Doctor)

Hank West -- Coyote Ugly (Red Pewsey), Caught in the Net (Stanley Gardner)

Joe Falocco -- Polish Joke (Uncle Roman-Ladislaw-Sanitation Worker-Kosciuszko)

Patrick Ratchford -- Noises Off (Frederick Fellowes)

Robert Haulbrook -- Crazyface (Wormwood-Alfonso-Barty), Mrs. Bob Crachit's Wild Christmas Binge (Bob Crachit)

Steven Ivey -- A Christmas Story (The Old Man)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY

Anne Lambert -- Coyote Ugly (Andreas Pewsey)

Daryl Wood Gerber -- Caught In the Net (Barbara Smith)

Elyse Williams -- The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Lee)

Jill Bloede -- A Christmas Story (Miss Shields)

Joanna Gerdy -- Crazyface (Ella-King of Spain-Mary Toller)