S. Florida's Carbonell Award Winners Announced

32RD ANNUAL CARBONELL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Honoring South Florida's finest shows, performances and career achievement

There were no sweeps as the 32nd annual Carbonell Awards. South Florida's oldest and most prestigious arts honors, were bestowed in a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in a benefit performance which raised scholarship money for South Florida arts students. 

Touring productions of Monty Python's Spamalot and Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady evenly split eight of the 10 Stock Road Show Awards with Chita Rivera - The Dancer's Life and Camelot taking home one each.

Six companies nabbed all the awards with Maltz Jupiter Theatre leading with six followed by Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, GablesStage and Mosaic Theatre with four each, and solo wins for New Theatre and New Vista Theatre Company. Of the ten productions honored, four had three award wins each to tie for the leader's spot: The Boy Friend and Man of La Mancha atMaltz Jupiter Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore at GableStage; and Urinetown at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre.

Two-time Tony nominee and cabaret star Christine Andreas hosted the event which included performances by Irene Adjan, this year's Carbonell winner for Best Actress in a Musical, and Gina Kreiezmar currently starring in the touring company of Forbidden Broadway. Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz shared the stage with event presenter Jay Harris to close out the event with presentations for Best Production of A Play and Best Production of a Musical. The awards are named after sculptor Manuel Carbonell who designed and donated the statuettes. 

Stock/Road Show Awards (Touring, Independent Productions, Plays and Musicals Combined)

Best Production: Monty Python's Spamalot, Broadway Across America

Best Director: Mike Nichols, Monty Python's Spamalot, Broadway Across America

Choreography/Musical: Graciela Daniele, Chita Rivera - The Dancer's Life, Broadway Across America

Best Actor: Michael Siberry, Monty Python's Spamalot (in the role of Arthur), Broadway Across America

Best Actress:  Rachel York, Camelot (in the role of Guinevere), Broadway Across America

Best Supporting Actor: Tim Jerome, Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady (in the role of Alfred P. Doolittle), Broadway Across America

Best Supporting Actress: Sally Ann Howes, Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady (in the role of Mrs. Higgins), Broadway Across America                                

Best Scenic Design: Anthony Ward, Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, Broadway Across America

Best Lighting Design: Hugh Vanstone, Monty Python's Spamalot, Broadway Across America

Best Costume Design: Anthony Ward, Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, Broadway Across America

COMBINED (plays & musicals)

Best New Work (award to author): Michael McKeever, Melt, New Theatre

Best Ensemble Production: (award to producing organization): Glengarry Glen Ross, Mosaic Theatre   

PLAYS

Best Production of a Play (award to producing organization): The Lieutenant of Inishmore, GableStage

Best Director/Play: Joseph Adler, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, GableStage   

Best Actor/Play: Paul Tei, Talk Radio, Mosaic Theatre.   

Best Actress/Play: Lela Elam, In the Continuum, GableStage   

Best Supporting Actor/Play: Paul Tei, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mosaic Theatre. 

Best Supporting Actress/Play: Kim Morgan, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, GableStage

MUSICALS

Best Production of a Musical: Man of La Mancha, Maltz Jupiter Theatre

Best Director/Musical: Peter Flynn, Man of La Mancha, Maltz Jupiter Theatre

Best Actor/Musical: Gary Marachek, La Cage aux Folles, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre  

Best Actress/Musical: Irene Adjan, Funny Girl, New Vista Theatre Company  

Best Supporting Actor/Musical: Jim Ballard, Urinetown, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre 

Best Supporting Actress/Musical: Rachel Jones, Urinetown, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre 

Musical Direction/Musical: David Nagy, Urinetown, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. 

Choreography/Musical: Denis Jones, The Boy Friend, Maltz Jupiter Theatre.

DESIGN (plays & musicals)

Best Scenic Design: Dan Kuchar, The Boy Friend, Maltz Jupiter Theatre

Best Lighting Design: Donald Edmund Thomas, Man of La Mancha, Maltz Jupiter Theatre.

Best Costume Design: Jose M. Rivera, The Boy Friend, Maltz Jupiter Theatre

Best Sound Design: Matt Corey, Talk Radio, Mosaic Theatre

SPECIAL AWARDS*

*The Fred Diekmann Emerging Artist Award was not bestowed this year.

The Bill Von Maurer Award for Theatrical Excellence: Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre

Established in 1988 by Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein and Founding Chairman of the Board Dr. Lawrence E. Stein, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre has garnered more than 230 Carbonell Award nominations and taken home the award more than 50 times. The non-profit company's annual season of six mainstage and five children's theater productions are attended by more than 175,000 people. The company offers professional training, an Annual National Children's Theatre Festival now in its 13th year, educational programming and its Musical Theatre for Young Audiences series serves more than 50,000 children each year. In 1999, the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce presented the company its Diamond Award for business development in the community. Now in its second year, The Bill Von Maurer Award for Theatrical Excellence is given to the theater company that exemplifies excellence for the totality of its programming: productions, educational outreach, developmental programs and audiences served.

Previously Announced

The George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts: Jack Zink

For the first time, the annual award for significant contributions to the artistic and cultural development of the region has been bestowed upon a previous winner: Carbonell Awards co-founder and South Florida Sun-Sentinel entertainment writer Jack Zink first won the award in 1989 and has been recognized again for his continuing role of encouraging growth and excellence in the South Florida arts industry.

The Howard Kleinberg Award: Theatre League of South Florida

Given in special recognition for contributions to the health and development of the arts in South Florida, the award goes to the non-profit alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry. In recent years, the League has embarked on a series of region-wide marketing and promotional initiatives including an annual spring theater festival, theater directory program stuffers, unified auditions, published talent directory and health insurance for its members.

The Ruth Foreman Award: Michael Hall

Caldwell Theatre Company's Artistic and Managing Director Michael Hall is a previous George Abbott Award recipient and is recognized for the 2007 opening of the 30,000 square-foot Count de Hoernle Theatre which provides the region's oldest continuously operating resident professional company with a new home offering 333 seats, a proscenium stage and leading technology. Hall co-founded the Boca Raton-based company 33 years ago with Frank Bennett and has won six Best Director Carbonell Awards. The Ruth Foreman Award honors those in the South Florida theater community who have made significant contributions to the development of theater.

The Bill Hindman Award: Rafael de Acha

The recipient of the award recognizing significant long-term contributions to the region's cultural life, Rafael de Acha founded the New Theatre in Coral Gables with his wife Kimberly Daniel and served as its artistic director for two decades. In that time, the New Theatre produced classics, modern drama by new and established playwrights and new works including the commissioning and staging of the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz. De Acha is launching a new venture, Theater by the Book, dedicated to staged readings of American and English classics and musicals later this month in Coral Gables.

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