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After a yearlong hiatus, we welcome back Creative Loafing's Charlotte Theater Awards, a Queen City tradition since 1987. Last year, as you may know, ownership of Charlotte Theater Awards (also known as The Perrys) was in limbo, pending the outcome of litigation and the judicial evaluation of fiscal plans and projections submitted by the claimants.
"Well, now I'm back," says Awards, "eager to spread my recognition around to Charlotte's best actors, directors, designers and technicians."
Perry Tannenbaum, who claimed ownership of the CL Awards in a recent video, was unavailable for comment. A spokesperson for Tannenbaum indicated he was at a photo studio posing for this week's cover.
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Cody Harding -- Killer Joe (Dottie Smith)
Cynthia Farbman -- Master Class (Maria Callas)
Heather Wilson -- The Rainmaker (Lizzie Curry)
Iesha Hoffman -- Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra)
Karen Abercrombie -- Blue (Peggy Clark)
Kim Watson Brooks -- Yankee Tavern (Janet)
Meg Wood -- No Exit (Inez)
Shon Wilson -- The Drama Club (Tasha)
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Charles LaBorde -- Metamorphoses (Bacchus, Poseidon, Philemon), Marat/Sade (Marquis de Sade)
Jeremy DeCarlos -- Blue (Reuben Clark)
Matt Cosper -- Yankee Tavern (Adam)
Michael Harris -- Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Edward Sheridan)
Michael Nestor -- The Rainmaker (Deputy Fife)
Robert Haulbrook -- Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Michael Waters)
Robert Lee Simmons -- Killer Joe (Killer Joe Cooper), The Rainmaker (Bill Starbuck)
Sultan Omar El-Amin -- Before It Hits Home (Wendell), In the Blood (Baby, Reverend D.)
BEST DIRECTOR, DRAMA
Carey Kugler -- The Rainmaker
Charles LaBorde -- Marat/Sade
Dennis Delamar -- Yankee Tavern
Glenn T. Griffin -- Dangerous
Matt Cosper -- Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
Michael R. Simmons -- Metamorphoses
Sidney Horton -- Blue
Tony Wright -- Killer Joe
BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL
Candace Neal -- The Full Monty (Georgie Bukatinsky)
Caroline Bower -- Evil Dead: The Musical (Linda), Beauty and the Beast (Belle)
Erica McGee -- Grits: The Musical (Georgia)
Grace Kidd -- West Side Story (Maria)
Jes Dugger -- Bat Boy: The Musical (Shelley Parker)
Lisa Smith -- Camelot (Guenevere)
Maggie Monahan -- Bare: A Pop Opera (Ivy)
BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL
Jon Parker Douglas -- Bat Boy: The Musical (Bat Boy), Evil Dead: The Musical (Ash)
Jonathan Van Caudill -- Bare: A Pop Opera (Jason)
Matt Keffer -- The Producers (Leo Bloom)
Robbie Jaeger -- A Year With Frog and Toad (Toad)
Sean Watkins -- Beauty and the Beast (The Beast)
Steven Jepson -- Man of La Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote)
Stuart Spencer -- The Full Monty (Dave Bukatinsky), Seussical (Horton the Elephant)
BEST DIRECTOR, MUSICAL
Alan Poindexter -- Beauty and the Beast
Ben Pierce -- Bare: A Pop Opera
Billy Ensley -- Evil Dead: The Musical
Dennis Delamar -- The Full Monty
Glenn Griffin -- Altar Boyz
Ron Chisholm -- A Year With Frog and Toad
Tom Hollis -- Man of La Mancha
BEST CONDUCTOR/MUSIC DIRECTOR
Craig Estep -- Man of La Mancha
Drina Keen -- A Year With Frog and Toad, Camelot, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast
Ellen Robison -- Seussical
Marty Gregory -- Bat Boy: The Musical, Evil Dead: The Musical, Altar Boyz
Randy Price -- Bare: A Pop Opera
Ryan Stamey -- The Full Monty
BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Autumn Gentile -- Suburban Motel (Denise Reynolds, Amanda Castle)
Greta Marie Zandstra -- Shakespeare in Hollywood (Olivia Darnell), Twelfth Night (Olivia)
Laura Depta -- Southern Rapture (Marjorie Winthrop)
Leslie Ann Giles -- New Kid (Mencha)
Maret Seitz -- Barefoot in the Park (Corie Bratter)
Nicia Carla -- If You Take a Mouse to the Movies (Mouse)
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Jerry Colbert -- Big Boys (Victor Burlington)
Mark Scarboro -- Suburban Motel (RJ Reynolds, Rolly Moore)
Mark Sutton -- If You Take a Mouse to the Movies (Boy)
Philip Robertson -- Shakespeare in Hollywood (Oberon)
Sultan Omar El-Amin -- Day of Absence (Mayor)
Tim Ross -- Southern Rapture (Winston Paxton)
BEST DIRECTOR, COMEDY
Alan Poindexter -- Barefoot in the Park, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
Chip Decker -- Southern Rapture, Big Boys
James Yost -- Shakespeare in Hollywood
Joe Copley -- Twelfth Night
Matt Cosper -- New Kid
Quentin "Q" Talley -- Day of Absence
BEST CHOREOGRAPHER
Courtney Johnson and Alyson Lowe -- Altar Boyz
Delia Neil -- The Drama Club
Eddie Mabry -- The Full Monty, Evil Dead: The Musical
Karina Roberts-Caporino, Leslie Beckham, and Christy Edney -- Metamorphoses
Lisa Blanton -- Seussical
Ron Chisholm -- A Year With Frog and Toad, West Side Story, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha
Tammy Fox -- Grits: The Musical
BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER
Andrew Fisher and Emily Eudy -- Altar Boyz
Chris Socha -- Master Class, Marat/Sade
Chris Timmons -- Death of a Salesman, The Woman in Black
David M. Fillmore, Jr. -- Beauty and the Beast
Gary Sivak -- The Rainmaker, The Producers
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