The 45th Annual AUDELCO Awards were held Monday, November 20th, at Symphony Space on 95th Street and Broadway.
Scroll down for the winners of Black Theatre's most prestigious awards!
The AUDELCO "VIV" AWARD WINNERS:
LIGHTING DESIGN
Kate Bashore (The Three Musketeers)
SET DESIGN
Christopher & Justin Swader (The Three Musketeers)
COSTUME DESIGN
Rachel Dozier-Ezell (The Three Musketeers)
DIRECTOR/DRAMATIC PRODUCTION
Walter Dallas (Autumn)
DIRECTOR/MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Robert O'Hara (Bella: An American Tall Tale)
PLAYWRIGHT
Richard Wesley (Autumn)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Count Stovall (Autumn)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Pauletta Washington (Autumn)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL - FEMALE
NaTasha Yvette Williams (Bella: An American Tall Tale)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL - MALE
Norm Lewis (Sweeney Todd)
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Darius Smith (Raisin)
CHOREOGRAPHY
Camille A. Brown (Bella: An American Tall Tale)
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Daughters of the Mock (Negro Ensemble Company)
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Timothy Simonson (Adam)
LEAD ACTOR
Jerome Preston Bates (Autumn)
LEAD ACTRESS
Elizabeth Van Dyke (Zora Neale Hurston)
BEST REVIVAL
Two Trains Running (Black Spectrum Theatre Company)
MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons)
DRAMATIC PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
Autumn (Billie Holiday Theatre)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A. Curtis Farrow & Dale Ricardo Shields
RISING STAR AWARD
SPECIAL PIONEER AWARD
Thelma Pollard and Ishmael Reed
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dominique Morisseau and Lynn Nottage
BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD
Camille Billops - James Hatch and John D. Smith
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
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