On Monday September 21, 2009, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Julie Halston, announced the 2009 recipients at the Fifth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at New World Stages. Those unable to attend joined the OOB theatre community's biggest night of the year online, and also followed theatre critic Aaron Riccio's (Theater Talk's New Theater Corps, That Sounds Cool) live-blogging at www.nyitawards.com/live.
The event was sponsored by Kampfire Films PR, United Stages, Lights Up & Cue Sound, and Five OHM Productions, with media sponsors: nytheatre.com, Show Business Weekly, Stage Buddy, Stagebuzz.com
2009 Innovative Theater Award Winners:
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
RECIPIENT: Christopher Borg, Jeffrey Cranor, Kevin R. Free, Eevin Hartsough,
(Not) Just A Day Like Any Other, New York Neo-Futurists
Kether Donohue, Phyllis Johnson, Jenny Maguire, Chris McKinney, Flaco Navaja, Jennifer Dorr White,
Blue Before Morning, terraNOVA Collective
Bard Goodrich, Ken Matthews, Megan McQuillan, Michael Solomon, Michael Szeles, Chris Thorn,
Most Damaging Wound, The Production Company
Laura Butler, Drae Campbell, Dawn Eshelman, Connie Hall, Ikuko Ikari, Hana Kalinski, Eunjee Lee, Mark Lindberg, Alanna Medlock, Jy Murphy, Jorge Alberto Rubio, Magin Schantz, Maureen Sebastian,
Oph3lia, knife, inc. and HERE Arts Center
Geraldine Bartlett, Brian D. Coats, Katrina Foy, William Jackson Harper, Khris Lewin, Carolyn McCandlish, Joe Mullen, Frank Rodriguez, Christopher Rubin, Jeremy Schwartz, Joe Sullivan, Andrew Zimmerman,
Stomp and Shout (an' Work it All Out), Babel Theatre Project
Joe Basile, Jill Beckman, Christopher Borg, Jeffrey Cranor, Cara Francis, Kevin R. Free, Ryan Good, Alicia Harding, Eevin Hartsough, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Sarah Levy, Erica Livingston, Rob Neill, Lauren Parrish, Joey Rizzolo, Justin Tolley, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, New York Neo-Futurists
Esther Barlow, Jennifer Gordon Thomas, Jason Howard, David Lamberton, David Ian Lee, Michelle O'Connor, Ridley Parson, Nancy Sirianni, Tarantino Smith, Ben Sulzbach,
Universal Robots, Manhattan Theatre Source in association with GidEon Productions
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
RECIPIENT: Jeff Grow,
Creating Illusion, soloNOVA Arts Festival
Martin Dockery,
The Surprise, soloNOVA Arts Festival
Leigh Evans,
Traces, soloNOVA Arts Festival
Abena Koomson,
Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words, soloNOVA Arts Festival
Micia Mosely,
Where My Girls At?, Nursha in association with soloNOVA Arts Festival
Una Aya Osato,
Recess, FRIGID Festival
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE
