Mays and Spamalot Among Elliot Norton Award Winners

Jefferson Mays was among the winners of the 24th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, celebrating achievement in Boston-area theatre. The ceremony--which featured an appearance by Tony Award-winning 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee composer/lyricist William Finn took place on May 22nd at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Finn served as the Guest of Honor and was toasted for having "for a quarter century has powerfully extended the musical theater into new realms."

Spiro Veloudos of the Lyric Stage Company and the Publick Theatre received the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. A Special Citation "for training musical theatre stars of tomorrow" went to the Boston Conservatory. Among the honored theatres were The American Repertory Theatre, the Trinity Repertory Company and the SpeakEasy Stage Company, while Spamalot was named Outstanding Visiting Production.

A list of Elliot Norton Awards winners (bolded) follows:

Outstanding Actor, Large Company
Bill Camp, Olly's Prison (American Repertory Theatre)
Jeremiah Kissel, Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The Sisters Rosensweig (Huntington Theatre Company)
Will Lyman, Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company)

Outstanding Actress, Large Company
Leslie Lyles, The Hopper Collection (Huntington Theatre Company)
Karen McDonald, Olly's Prison; No Exit (American Repertory Theatre)
Molly Ward, Three Sisters (American Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Actor, Midsized Company
Allyn Burrows, The Homecoming (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), King Lear (Actors' Shakespeare Project), Five by Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Alvin Epstein, King Lear (Actors' Shakespeare Project)
Jonathan Epstein & Tony Molina, Othello (Boston Theatre Works)

Outstanding Actress, Midsized Company
Veronica J. Kuehn, Into the Woods (New Repertory Theatre), Urinetown (Lyric Stage Company)
Paula Plum, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Lyric Stage Company)
Sandra Shipley, Long Day's Journey Into Night (Gloucester Stage Company)

Outstanding Solo Performance
Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays (Broadway in Boston)
Aidan Dooley, Tom Cream, Antarctic Explorer (Súgán Theatre Company)
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife (Broadway in Boston)

Outstanding Production by a Local Fringe Company
My Heart and My Flesh (Coyote Theatre)
P.S. Page Me Later (Alarm Clock Theatre Company)
The Possibilities (Whistler in the Dark)

Outstanding Production by a Large Resident Company
Hamlet (Trinity Repertory Company)
No Exit (American Repertory Theatre)
Olly's Prison (American Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Production by a Midsized Resident Company
Five By Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Lyric Stage Company)
King Lear (Actors' Shakespeare Project)

Outstanding Production by a Small Resident Company
Arcadia (Publick Theatre)
Gargarin Way (Súgán Theatre Company)
Othello (Boston Theatre Works)

Outstanding Visiting Production
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit (Huntington Theatre Company)
Monty Python's Spamalot (Broadway in Boston)
700 Sundays (Broadway in Boston)

Outstanding Musical Production
Falsettos (Huntington Theatre Company)
On the Twentieth Century (Overture Productions)
Urinetown (Lyric Stage Company)

Outstanding Director, Large Company
Brian McEleney, Hamlet (Trinity Repertory Company)
Jerry Mouawad, No Exit (American Repertory Theatre)
RoBert Woodruff, Olly's Prison (American Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Director, Small/Midsized Company
Diego Arciniegas, Arcadia (Publick Theatre)
Scott Edmiston, Five by Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Spiro Veloudos, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?; A Number; Urinetown (Lyric Stage Company)

Outstanding Design
Janie E. Howland, Urinetown and Talley's Folly (Lyric Stage Company), True West (New Repertory Theatre), Five By Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage Company)
Eric Levenson, Take Me Out (SpeakEasy and Boston Theatre Works)
Adam Stockhausen, The Hopper Collection (Huntington Theatre Company)