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Awards and Nominations

Helen Hayes Awards - 2013 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerSide Man

Helen Hayes Awards - 2006 - Outstanding Director, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerAfter Ashley

Helen Hayes Awards - 2003 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerTaste of Fire


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2001 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerA House in The Country


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerA House in The Country

Helen Hayes Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerStanley

Helen Hayes Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Director, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerGoodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Helen Hayes Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerPatient A

Helen Hayes Awards - 1993 - Outstanding Director, Resident Play

Lee Mikeska GardnerLife During Wartime

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WAM Theatre Announces Collaboration With Central Square Theater On GALILEO'S SQUARE

Artistic Director Genée Coreno and Managing Director Molly Merrihew have announced that WAM Theatre's Fall production of Galileo's Daughter by Jessica Dickey (The Amish Project, The Rembrandt, Row After Row) will be a co-production with Central Square Theater.
SDCF Reveals 2023 Barbara Whitman Award Recipient and Finalists

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation has announced the recipient and five finalists for the 2023 Barbara Whitman Award. Established by theatrical producer Barbara Whitman in 2021, the award recognizes a female, trans, or non-binary early-career director who has demonstrated a unique vision in their work with an unrestricted $10,000 cash prize.
Hangar Theatre's Outdoor Production of QUEENS GIRL IN THE WORLD Opens Next Week

In this dynamic solo show, Jasmine M. Rush (she/her) plays Jacqueline Marie Butler, a Black teenager coming of age in the 1960s, whose joys, challenges, and heartbreak play out against the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
SIX, AMERICAN UTOPIA, Rachel Chavkin, Ben Levi Ross, and Billy Porter-Directed THE PURISTS Take Home Elliot Norton Awards

Among tonight's winners was the pre-Broadway engagement of Six the Musical. which took home Outstanding Visiting Production for its run at ART, while David Byrne's American Utopia was honored with Best Visiting Performance, Musical.
38th Annual Elliot Norton Award Nominations Announced - MOBY-DICK, Billy Porter's THE PURISTS, and More!

Two dozen nominations of outstanding actors, directors, designers and ensembles were announced today by The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) for the 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards.
Mosaic Theater Company Of DC Turns 5 This Fall And Celebrates Historic Year

Mosaic Theater Company of DC launches its 5th season this month with the DC premiere of Lynn Nottage's Fabulation, Or The Re-Education of Undine, previewing August 21 (see our August 1 Fabulation press release for opening night information, and our March 29 a?oe#Wokeseason5a?? release for full season line-up), exactly one month after the close of the most successful show in Mosaic's history, the co-production of Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, which sold out its last week of performances, playing to record crowds and box office, providing the capstone to a season of transformative artistic and fundraising achievements. 
Tickets For WAM Fall MainStage Show PIPELINE Now On Sale

WAM Theatre has announced that tickets go on sale Tuesday, July 16, for their fall Mainstage production of PIPELINE by Obie Award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau and directed by Dawn Meredith Simmons. The production will run October 24-November 9, 2019, at Shakespeare & Company's Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre in Lenox, MA.
Mosaic Theater Company Of DC Announces 5th Anniversary #WOKESEASON5

From Founding Artistic Director, Ari Roth: 'The eight amazing plays in Mosaic's 5th Anniversary Season offer up Stages of Awakening-urgent, exhilarating and humble-that hurtle our characters, and by extension, us, forward to new levels of awareness, puncturing bubbles of pretension along the way. To be 'woke' is to be no longer in the dark about what's happening around us; about the systems of oppression and persistence of racism that permeate daily life. But it can be tricky terrain, these states of 'wokeness,' leading to pats-on-the-back of self- congratulations and new forms of denial. Our extraordinary playwrights are hip to our follies and foibles, just as they're poised to wake us up to the realities of our moment and the relevance of history still knocking on our door.
WAM Theatre Makes Record Donation To Two Non-Profit Beneficiaries

Every year, WAM Theatre donates a portion of the box office proceeds from their fall Main Stage production to agencies that benefit women and girls locally, nationally, or internationally. The success of ANN enabled the company to present their largest donation ever - $15,000 split evenly between its 14th and 15th beneficiaries, The Denise Kaley Fund and the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts' 2018 Leadership Institute for Political and Public Impact (LIPPI). Each organization will receive $7,500.
TNC Presents The MARQUIS DU CHATELET & LAWS OF ATTRACTION

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival 2018 presents the World Premiere of 'MOVING  BODIES'
Theater For The New City's Dream Up Festival 2018 Presents The World Premiere Of MOVING BODIES

Theater For The New City's Dream Up Festival 2018 Presents The World Premiere Of MOVING  BODIES' La Marquise du Chatelet and Voltaire's Laws of Attraction Written by Lorraine Liscio Directed by Myriam Cyr August 26-September 16  How Newton got it wrong and how a woman came to fix it.
BWW Review: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES: Bring on the Men

Artistic Director Lee Mikeska Gardner embraces the mission of The Nora Theatre Company to "promote the feminine voice" with an all-male production of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, Christopher Hampton's 1985 adaptation from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos. Perhaps best known from the 1988 film DANGEROUS LIAISONS, which starred Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer, the pre-French revolution era story is decadent, delicious, overflowing with sexual intrigue, and populated with characters who mostly get what they deserve. In Gardner's retelling, the audience gets what it deserves, a thoroughly entertaining, albeit mildly risque, evening at the theater.
BWW Review: THE REVOLUTIONISTS: Make Art, Not War

The Nora Theatre Company presents Lauren Gunderson's THE REVOLUTIONISTS, a play which loudly and proudly shows the contribution of four badass women to the story of the French Revolution. The play is set in 1793, but these themes echo too loudly in 2017, reminding us that women must persist to resist, to claim their due.
Second Chances Take Center Stage at the Black Box Lab at Stage 284

The Black Box Lab at Stage 284 is proud to present two new works that look at what happens when you seize a second chance at happiness, September 21 - 24.
BWW Review: Rah Rah for THE MIDVALE HIGH SCHOOL FIFTIETH REUNION

The Nora Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Alan Brody's THE MIDVALE HIGH SCHOOL FIFTIETH REUNION, a light-hearted, evocative trip down Memory Lane with the Class of 1954. Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner, Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp and Underground Railway Theater Artistic Director Debra Wise portray two classmates returning to their alma mater for the first time. Neither is sure of what they're looking for, but they hope they'll recognize it if they find it.
Emmy Winner Gordon Clapp to Lead Nora Theatre's THE MIDVALE HIGH SCHOOL FIFTIETH REUNION World Premiere

The Nora Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Alan Brody's The Midvale High School Fiftieth Reunion from June 1 - July 2, 2017. The Midvale High School Fiftieth Reunion is directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner. The press performance is Monday, June 5 at 7:30PM.
Tony Kushner's HOMEBODY to Play Central Square Theater

Underground Railway Theater will present Tony Kushner's Homebody from April 20 - May 7, 2017. Homebody is directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner. The press performance is Saturday, April 22 at 8PM.
BWW Review: PRECIOUS LITTLE at Nora Theatre Company

Nora Theatre Company presents Madeleine George's PRECIOUS LITTLE, raising many big questions. A research linguist tries to preserve a dying language, even as she faces a crucial decision about her unborn child. Three actresses play eight characters, most of whom are women, and one very smart gorilla.
The Nora Theatre Company to present PRECIOUS LITTLE

The Nora Theatre Company is proud to Madeleine George's Precious Little from March 2 - 26, 2017.Precious Little  is directed by Melia Bensussen . The press performance is Monday, March 6 at 7:30PM. Precious Little is a A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production.
WAM Theatre Announces 2017 Season

WAM Theatre's Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven announced plans for the company's 2017 season today. The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Lee Mikeska Gardner been nominated for?

Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Side Man, Outstanding Director, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for After Ashley, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Taste of Fire, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for A House in The Country, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for A House in The Country, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Stanley , Outstanding Director, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Patient A and Outstanding Director, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Life During Wartime.

What awards has Lee Mikeska Gardner won?

Lee Mikeska Gardner has won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Play award at the Helen Hayes Awards for her performance in A House in The Country.

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