Doug Hughes and Christopher Gattelli Win Callaway Awards

Director Doug Hughes (Doubt) and choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Altar Boyz) are the winners of the 2005 Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Awards for "Excellence in the Craft of Direction and Choreography."

The Callaway Awards were presented to both Hughes and Gattelli immediately prior to the SSDC Annual Meeting on November 14th, 6:00 pm, at the Abingdon Theatre (312 W. 36th St.). Each award consists of an elegant crystal memento plus a cash stipend, provided from an endowment bequeathed by Joe A. Callaway. 

Hughes, a Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Award-winner, previously won a Callaway Award for his production of Flesh and Blood at New York Theatre Workshop. One of New York's busiest directors (Doubt, Paris Letter and McReele, 2004-2005), his work this season includes Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way as well as the new Broadway production of A Touch of the Poet. Among Hughes' other recent New York productions are Engaged (TFANA), Othello (Public Theater), The Beard of Avon and A Question of Mercy (NYTW). His Rregional work has been seen at such prestigious venues as Seattle Rep, the Guthrie, Westport Playhouse, Yale Rep, McCarter, Long Wharf and La Jolla Playhouse.

Gattelli, a Lucille Lortel Award winner for Bat Boy! has choreographed tick, tick…BOOM! Silence! The Musical and the New York Musical Festival production of Tom Jones, the Musical. The former resident choreographer for "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," he was also co-director for the Actors' Fund benefit concert of Hair! He recently choreographed the upcoming Christopher Durang/Peter Melnick musical Adrift in Macao as well as Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh at the Beacon Theatre this December. 

The Callaway Committee chose the following ten finalists for 2005 – seven directors and three choreographers from the hundreds of eligible artists:

Directors:

Stafford Arima, Altar Boyz, producers: Ken Davenport & Robyn Goodman (Dodger Stages)  

Michael Bogdanov, Lonestar Love, producer: AMAS Musical Theatre (John Houseman Theatre)    

Nick Corley, Flight, producer: Melting Pot Theatre (Lucille Lortel Theatre) 

David Cromer, Orson's Shadow, producer: Planetearth Partners & Scott Morfee (Barrow St. Theatre) 

Graciela Daniele, Dessa Rose, producer: Lincoln Center Theater (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
Doug Hughes, Doubt, producer: Manhattan Theatre Club at MTC/City Center Stage I

and The Paris Letter producer: Roundabout Theatre (Laura Pels Theatre at the Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre)

Joanna Settle, Nine Parts of Desire, produced by/at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre

Sandy Shinner, Trying, producer: Michael Leavitt, Maidstone Productions, Libby Adler Mages, Mari Stuart, Tony D'Angelo, Steve Dahl, Maria Cozzi (Promenade Theatre)

Choreographers:

Martha Clarke, Belle Epoque, producer: Lincoln Center Theater (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
Christopher Gattelli, Altar Boyz, producer: Ken Davenport & Robyn Goodman (Dodger Stages)

Randy Skinner, Lonestar Love, producer: AMAS Musical Theatre (John Houseman Theatre)