LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award Nominees Announced

The 2007 LA Stage Alliance Ovation nominees have been announced.  Celebrating excellence in Los Angeles Theatre, the awards will be presented on November 12 at 7:30PM at The Orpheum Theatre (842 S. Broadway, Downtown LA)

LA Stage Alliance, founded in 1975, is dedicated to building awareness, appreciation and support for the performing arts in Greater Los Angeles. LA Stage Alliance accomplishes its mission through community building, collaborative marketing, advocacy, audience development, professional development and strengthening operations for members. LA Stage Alliance serves over 325 organizational members annually in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura and individual members comprised of local, regional, national and international performing arts patrons.

The 2007 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Nominations are:

Featured Actor in a Play
Richard Tatum as Krogstad
A Doll's House
Ark Theatre Company

Laurence Cohen as Willie Crum
Bad Hurt on Cedar Street
Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney

Hugo Armstrong as Jim The Hanger
Bleed Rail
The Theatre @ Boston Court

Orlando Jones as Gabriel
Fences
Pasadena Playhouse

Wendell Pierce as Jim Bono
Fences
Pasadena Playhouse

Matt Foyer as Fouquet
Power
Theatre Banshee

Dan Alemshah as Claudia Vestibule
The Fat of the Land
The New Theatre, Don Cummings, Dan Alemshah & Mary McBride

Featured Actress in a Play
 Deborah Strang as Nora Melody
A Touch of the Poet
A Noise Within

Iris Gilad as Phoebe
Bad Hurt on Cedar Street
Greenway Arts Alliance, Molly Miles & John C. Mooney

Lily Holleman as Jewel
Bleed Rail
The Theatre @ Boston Court

Sharon Johnston as Debra
Kimberly Akimbo
The Victory Theatre Center, Tom Ormeny & Maria Gobetti

Judy Moreland as Christine
Miss Julie
Fountain Theatre

Peggy Goss as Susan
Safety
Closet Space Theatre

Bonnie Bailey-Reed as Mrs. Brummond
See Rock City
Actors Co-op/Crossley Theatre

Costume Design in an Intimate Theatre
Leonard Ogden
Film Chinois
Grove Theatre Center, Kevin Cochran & Charles Johanson

Rudy Dillon
Hogan's Goat
Pacific Resident Theatre, Alley Mills, Jake Arnette & Dan Kozlowski

Nanci Martin
Jitney
Executive Producer - Stagewalker Productions, Producer – Alan Naggar

JoAnna Jocelyn
Les Liaisons Dangeureses
Ark Theatre Company

Soojin Lee
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
The Theatre @ Boston Court

A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
Travesties
Open Fist Theatre Company

Audrey Fisher
Tryst
Black Dahlia Theatre

Costume Design in a Large Theatre
Randy Gardell
Can-Can
Pasadena Playhouse

Linda Fisher
Greater Tuna
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

Marcy Froehlich
Hamlet
Rubicon Theatre Company

Marcy Froehlich
Man of La Mancha
Rubicon Theatre Company

Bob Mackie & Joe McFate
No Strings
Reprise! Broadway's Best

Tracy Christensen
Souvenir
Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
Trying
The Colony Theatre Company

Touring Production
Doubt
Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

In The Continuum
Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre, Primary Stages and Perry Street Theatre

Jersey Boys
Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

Twelve Angry Men
Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson Theatre

Lead Actor in a Play
Eddie Jones as Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman
Miss O Productions, Coleen Kolbacher

Laurence Fishburne as Troy Maxson
Fences
Pasadena Playhouse

Joe Sears as Thurston Wheelis, et al
Greater Tuna
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

Jaston Williams as Arles Struvie, et al
Greater Tuna
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

Tim Sullens
Taking Care
The Victory Theatre Center, Tom Ormeny

Dan Lauria as Leo Gershen
The Value of Names
Falcon Theatre

Alan Mandell
Trying
The Colony Theatre Company

Lead Actress in a Play
Yeardley Smith as Beth Washburn
Balancing Act
Falcon Theatre

Anne Gee Byrd as Linda
Death of a Salesman
Miss O Productions, Coleen Kolbacher

Anna Khaja as Nehrjas
Palace of the End
49th Parallel Theatre

Judy Kaye as Florence Foster Jenkins
Souvenir
Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

Anne Gee Byrd as Valentina
The Bay at Nice
Andak Stage Company

Rebecca Mozo as Sarah Schorr
Trying
The Colony Theatre Company

Deborah Puette as Adelaide
Tryst
Black Dahlia Theatre

Direction of a Play
Michael Matthews
Beautiful Thing
Celebration Theatre

Claude Purdy
Jitney
Executive Producer - Stagewalker Productions, Producer – Alan Naggar

Vivian Matalon
Souvenir
Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

Michael Matthews
The Bacchae
Celebration Theatre

Stuart Rogers
The Long Christmas Ride Home
Theatre Tribe

Cameron Watson
Trying
The Colony Theatre Company

Robin Larsen
Tryst
Black Dahlia Theatre

Ray Stricklyn Memorial Award for Solo Performance
Lynn Redgrave
Nightingale
Center Theatre Group: Mark Taper Forum

Jodi Long
Surfing DNA
East West Players

Dael Orlandersmith
The Gimmick
Fountain Theatre, Simon Levy

Keo Woolford
I Land
East West Players, Co-commissioned by the Asia Society and the Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City

Fritz Coleman
Tonight at 11!
Falcon Theatre & Steven Ullman

Sound Design in an Intimate Theatre
John Zalewski
Bleed Rail
The Theatre @ Boston Court

Robbin E. Broad
Eurydice
Circle X Theatre Company

John Zalewski
Melancholia
Latino Theater Company

Richard Alger & Tina Kronis
Monster of Happiness
24th St. Theatre

John Zalewski
No Mercy
24th St. Theatre

Martin Carillo
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
The Theatre @ Boston Court

Cricket Myers
The Bacchae
Celebration Theatre

Sound Design in a Large Theatre
Francois Bergeron
Can-Can
Pasadena Playhouse

Ken Huncovsky
Greater Tuna
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts & McCoy Rigby Entertainment

Jon Gottlieb
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone
Geffen Playhouse, Hershey Felder/Eighty-Eight Productions

Eric Snodgrass
Sleeping Beauty Wakes
Center Theatre Group: Kirk Douglas Theatre

David Budries
Souvenir
Richmark Entertainment & Janice Montana

John Zalewski
The Thousandth Night
The Colony Theatre Company

Cricket Myers
Trying
The Colony Theatre Company

Choreography
Lee Martino
Beehive, The 60s Musical
Valley Musical Theatre, Ronn Goswick, Executive Director

Patti Colombo
Can-Can
Pasadena Playhouse

Cheryl Baxter
Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, James A. Blackman, III

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