ATLANTA- On Monday, November 5th, the Atlanta theatre community celebrated the 8th Annual Suzi Bass Awards. The awards recognized the best of Atlanta's professional theatre scene, and Broadway World Atlanta will be updating the results live throughout the evening.
The biggest winners of the evening were the Alliance and Aurora Theatres. The Alliance took home seven awards, highlighted by Tess Malis Kincaid's third straight Suzi for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play (Broke) and Outstanding Ensemble in a Play (The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls). The Aurora, who also took home seven awards, including six for their Outstanding World Premiere-winner Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale; (Outstanding Director in a Musical, Outstanding Featured Actress and Actor, Outstanding Music-Direction, and Outstanding Sound in a Musical).The Aurora also took home the Audience Choice Award.
Other highlights included Mark Kincaid's win for Outstanding Actor in a Play (Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse) just moments after his wife Tess won for Lead Actress. Ingrid Cole also won for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Gypsy at the Atlanta Lyric Theatre).
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2012 Suzi Bass Award Winners
Outstanding Production of a Musical
Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Alexander Greenfield for Sweeney Todd at Fabrefaction Theatre
Dustin Lewis for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Freddie Ashley for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Lonny Price for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Ricardo Aponte for Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical
Claci Miller-Juday for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Courtney Patterson for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare
Ingrid Cole for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Kylie Brown for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Laura Floyd for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Clint Thornton for Sweeney Todd at Fabrefaction Theatre
J.C. Long for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Jordan Craig for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Michael Stiggers for Pippin at Legacy Theatre
Stephen Mitchell Brown for Jane Eyre: The Musical at Legacy Theatre
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Anna Kimmell for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare
Caitlin Smith for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Jill Ginsberg for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Karen Howell for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Marcie Millard for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Alan Kilpatrick for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Bart Hansard for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Bryant Smith for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Greg Bosworth for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Travis Smith for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical
Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Kayce Grogan-Wallace, Kenya Hamilton, Eric Moore, Jevares C. Myrick, and D. Woods
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Legacy Theatre
Amy Alford, Mac Clark, Eean Cochran, Clint Diaz, Dave Dorrell, Patrick Dyer, Michael Ferraro, Alejandro Gutierrez, Dylan Hauek, Jeremiah Hobbs, Taylor Hunt, Danielle Johnson, Nathan Lubeck, Mandy Mitchell, Victoria Norman, Allysa O'Donnell, Rachel Shaw, Mark Smith, Justin Thompson, Kyle Whitaker, Kyle Williams
Motherhood the Musical at GFour Productions
Ingrid Cole, Mary Kathryn Kaye, Jewel Lucien, and Lisa Manuli
Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical
Erik Teague for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Joanna Schmink for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Lex Liang for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre
Lindsey G. Paris for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Patricia M. Wesp for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical
Bradley Bergeron for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Jeff Martin for Sweeney Todd at Fabrefaction Theatre
Joseph P. Monaghan, III for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Ken Yunker for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre
Robert Wierzel and Adam Larsen for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical
J. David Blatt for Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical at Georgia Shakespeare
Phillip Male for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Seamus M. Bourne for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Todd Rosenthal for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre
Todd Rosenthal for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical
Bobby Johnston for Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Bobby Johnston for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Bobby Johnston for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Clay Benning for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at Alliance Theatre
Clay Benning for Into the Woods at Alliance Theatre
Outstanding Music Direction of a Musical
Ann-Carol Pence for A Chorus Line at Aurora Theatre
Ann-Carol Pence for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Brandt Blocker for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Michael Fauss for Gypsy at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Seth Davis for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Outstanding Choreography of a Musical
Bethany Hayes-Smith for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Legacy Theatre
Josh Rhodes for Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Karen Hebert for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Ricardo Aponte for Ain't Misbehavin' at Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Sarah Turner for Spring Awakening at Actor's Express
Outstanding Production of a Play
Broke at Alliance Theatre
I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre
Red at Theatrical Outfit
Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse
Tree at Horizon Theatre
Outstanding Director of a Play
Brian Clowdus for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse
David de Vries for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Jason Loewith for Broke at Alliance Theatre
Lisa Adler for Tree at Horizon Theatre
Richard Garner for Much Ado About Nothing at Georgia Shakespeare
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
Donna Biscoe for Tree at Horizon Theatre
Elisa Carlson for Ghost-Writer at Theatre in the Square
Mary Lynn Owen for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare
Tess Malis Kincaid for Broke at Alliance Theatre
Wendy Melkonian for Becky's New Car at Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play
David de Vries for Freud's Last Session at Theatrical Outfit
Mark Kincaid for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse
Mississippi Charles Level for I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre
Steve Coulter for Underneath the Lintel at Aurora Theatre
Tom Key for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Andrea Frye for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? at Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company
Bethany Anne Lind for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? at Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company
Bethany Anne Lind for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare
Elisabeth Omilami for Broke at Alliance Theatre
Minka Wiltz for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Barry Stewart Mann for The Green Book at Theatrical Outfit
Dieterich Gray for I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre
Jimi Kocina for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Luis R. Hernandez for The Motherfucker with the Hat at Actor's Express
Theo Harness for Faith Healer at JibJam Productions
Outstanding Ensemble in a Play
A Wrinkle in Time at Theatrical Outfit
Lowrey Brown, Mark Cabus, Andrew Crigler, Kate Donadio, Marianne Fraulo and Emma Jackson
Outstanding Costume Design of a Play
Christine Turbitt for The Importance of Being Earnest at Georgia Shakespeare
Isabel A. Curley-Clay and Moriah Curley-Clay for The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered atHorizon Theatre
Ivan Ingermann for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre
Jim Alford for Lend Me a Tenor at Stage Door Players
Jonida Beqo for In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play at Synchronicity
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play
Andrew Carson for Shipwrecked: An Entertainment at Serenbe Playhouse
Chris Whittle for A Wrinkle in Time at Theatrical Outfit
Howell Binkley for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre
Joseph A. Futral for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Mike Post for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play
Collette Pollard for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre
Isabel A. Curley-Clay and Moriah Curley-Clay for The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered at Horizon Theatre
Isabel A. Curley-Clay and Moriah Curley-Clay for Tree at Horizon Theatre
Kat Conley for The Glass Menagerie at Georgia Shakespeare
Lee Maples for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Outstanding Sound Design of a Play
Clay Benning for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Alliance Theatre
Kendall Simpson for Red at Theatrical Outfit
Kendall Simpson & Adair Mallory for I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Alliance Theatre
Thom Jenkins for Sheddin' at Horizon Theatre
Thom Jenkins for Tree at Horizon Theatre
Outstanding World Premiere Production
Broke at Alliance Theatre
Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre
Sheddin' at Horizon Theatre
The Green Book at Theatrical Outfit
The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered at Horizon Theatre
Audience Choice Award
Aurora Theatre
For more information, visit the SuziAwards.org
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