VIDEO: TINA, A STRANGE LOOP, Audra McDonald, LaChanze and More Take Home 2020 Antonyo Awards!
By: Nicole Rosky Jun. 19, 2020
Broadway Black, the multimedia organization highlighting the achievements of Black theatre artists presented the inaugural Antonyo Awards, a celebration of the Black Broadway and Off-Broadway community.
Watch the full show here and see the full list of winners and nominees below!
THE ANTONYO AWARD NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS
Best Featured Actor in a Play Off-Broadway
- Leland Fowler - One in Two
- Nicco Annan - The Hot Wing King
- Crystal Lucas Perry - A Bright Room Called Day
- John Andrew Morrison - Blues for an Alabama Sky
- Latoya Edwards - The Rolling Stone
- Okwui Okpokwasili - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf **Winner**
Best Featured Actor in a Play on Broadway
- David Alan Grier - A Soldier's Play
- Ato Blankson - Wood Slave Play
- Chalia La Tour - Slave Play **Winner**
- Zawe Ashton - Betrayal
- Grantham Coleman - The Great Society
- Jordan Barbour - The Inheritance
Best Featured Actor in a Musical Off-Broadway
- John Andrew Morrison - A Strange Loop
- Starr Busby - Octet
- Jasmine Cephas Jones - Cyrano **Winner**
- Saycon Sengbloh - The Secret Life of Bees
- L Morgan Lee - A Strange Loop
- Taylor Iman Jones - Scotland, PA
Best Featured Actor in a Musical on Broadway
- Sahr Ngaujah - Moulin Rouge
- Celia Rose Gooding - Jagged Little Pill **Winner**
- Jeanette Bayardelle - Girl From the North Country
- Dharon E. Jones - West Side Story
Best Director
- Stevie Walker Webb - One In Two
- Robert O'Hara - BLKS
- Whitney White - Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
- Colette Robert - STEW
- Raja Feather Kelly - We're Gonna Die
- Lileana Blain-Cruz - Anatomy of A Suicide **Winner**
Best Choreography
- Raja Feather Kelly - A Strange Loop
- Camille A. Brown - for For Colored Girls Who Have Committed Suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, **Winner**
- Edisa Weeks - Novenas For a Lost Hospital
- Adesola Osakalumi - Coal Country
- Byron Easley - Slave Play
- nicHi Douglas - Skinfolk: An American Show
Best Quarantine Content
- Daniel J. Watts - The Jam IG Live **Winner**
- Eddie Marwere - #BroadwayRemixChallenge
- Drew Shade - Inside The Mind, a Mental Wellness series
- Jordan E. Cooper - Mama Got A Cough
- Sis - Living with Sis IG Series
- Camille A. Brown - Social Dance for Social Distance
Best Lighting Design
- Allen Lee Hughes - Toni Stone **Winner**
- Alan C. Edwards - The Hot Wing King
- Stacey Derosier - Novenas For A Lost Hospital
- Allen Lee Hughes - A Soldiers Play
Best Scenic Design
- Lawrence E. Moten III - Native Son **Winner**
Best Sound
- Justin Ellington - One in Two
- Rucyl Frison - Anatomy of a Suicide **Winner**
- Luqman Brown - The Hot Wing King
Best Costumes
- Toni Leslie James - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when the rainbow is enuf **Winner**
- Dede Ayite - BLKS
- Andy Jean for One in Two
- Karen Perry- runboyrun/ In Old Age
- Sarita P Fellows for Native Son
- Ari Fulton for Novenas For a Lost Hospital
Best Hair & Wig Design
- Cookie Jordan - Toni Stone
- Nikiya Mathis - STEW
- Greg Cooper Spencer - A Soldier's Play
- Nikiya Mathis - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when the rainbow is enuf **Winner**
- Cookie Jordan - A Strange Loop
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Chuck Cooper **Winner**
Best Orchestrations
- The Secret of Life Bees
- A Strange Loop
- Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
- We're Gonna Die
- The Wrong Man
- Skinfolk: An American Show **Winner**
Best Original Score
- The Secret of Life Bees **Winner**
- A Strange Loop
- Broadbend, Arkansas
- We're Gonna Die
- The Wrong Man
Best Book
- Michael R. Jackson - A Strange Loop **Winner**
- Lynn Nottage - The Secret Life of Bees
- Katori Hall - Tina: A Tina Turner Musical
- Harrison David Rivers - Broadbend, Arkansas
Best Solo Performance
- Donnetta Lavinia Grays - Where We Stand
- Michael Benjamin Washington - Fires in the Mirror **Winner**
- Dierdra McDowell - Down to Eartha
Best Actor in a Play Off-Broadway
- Kara Young - All The Natalie Portmans
- Portia - STEW
- April Mathis - Toni Stone
- Kristolyn Lloyd - Little Women
- Ato Blankson Wood - The Rolling Stone
- Danielle Brooks - Much Ado About Nothing **Winner**
Best Actor in a Play on Broadway
- Audra McDonald - Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune **Winner**
- LaChanze - A Christmas Carol
- Joaquina Kalukango - Slave Play
- Blair Underwood - A Soldier's Play
Best Actor in a Musical Off-Broadway
- Ciara Renee - The Wrong Man
- Larry Owens - A Strange Loop
- Janelle McDermoth - We're Gonna Die
- Danyel Fulton - Broadbend, Arkansas
- Joshua Henry - The Wrong Man
- LaChanze - The Secret Life of Bees **Winner**
Best Actor in a Musical on Broadway
- Kimber Elayne Sprawl - Girl From North Country
- Adrienne Warren - Tina: The Tina Turner Musical **Winner**
- Isaac Cole Powell - West Side Story
- Daniel J. Watts - Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
- Shereen Pimental - West Side Story
Best Revival
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when the rainbow is enuf **Winner**
- West Side Story
- Native Son
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Fires in the Mirror
- Two Can Play
Best Play
- One in Two by Donja R. Love
- Toni Stone by Lydia R. Diamond
- All The Natalie Portmans by C.A. Johnson
- STEW by Zora Howard
- BLKS by Aziza Barnes **Winner**
- Paris by Eboni Booth
Best Musical
- The Secret Life of Bees
- A Strange Loop
- Tina: The Tina Turner Musical **Winner**
- The Wrong Man
- Girl From North Country
- Jagged Little Pill
Lorraine Hansberry Award
- Playwright, Loy A. Webb **Winner**
Langston Hughes Award
- Playwright, Donja R. Love **Winner**
The Welcome Award
- Dharon E. Jones **Winner**
The Doors of the Theatre Are Open Award
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The National Black Theatre **Winner**
Drew Shade, founder of Broadway Black and the companion podcast, Off Book, is Executive Producer of the Antonyos. Shade has gathered a team of creatives that include Catherine Caldwell, Darius Barnes, Kim Exum, Neville Braithwaite, Zhailon Levingston, Elijah Lewis, Allen Louis, Eric Lockley, Edward Mawere, Emma Claye, Ianne Fields Stewart, and The Press Room, who are donating their time and talents to beautifully recognize Black theatre in NYC. All found this endeavor especially important given the shortened show season due to COVID-19.
"In our first meeting we decided on Juneteenth for the awards, as it is a more accurate date of freedom from slavery for Black Americans," says Shade. "The Antonyos honor contributors to Black theatre from actors to stage and company managers, administrators and designers. Everyone in our community deserves to be acknowledged in what we hope will be a funny, authentic, celebratory event that is for us, by us."
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