ACT Theatre Celebrates Ambitious, Award-Winning 2014-15 Season

Seattle media have honored ACT's ambitious 2014-15 season with a number of awards. Details below!

2014 Mainstage Awards:

Composite Glance at 2014 Year End Lists: The Seattle Times Footlight Awards, Gregory Awards, Broadway World Critics' Choice Awards, Seattle Weekly Favorite Arts Moments, and Gypsy Rose Lee Awards

Little Shop of Horrors (Co-production with The 5th Avenue Theatre)

· Best Actor in a Musical, Gregory Award: Joshua Carter

· Best Supporting Actor, Gregory Award: Eric Esteb & Ekello Harrid Jr.

· Great Performance, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Jessica Skerritt

· Marvelous Musical, The Seattle Times Footlight Award

· Favorite Theatre Moment, Seattle Weekly

· Excellence in Direction of a Musical, Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Bill Berry

· Excellence in Performance as a Lead Actor in a Musical (Male), Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Joshua Carter

· Excellence in Performance as a Lead Actor in a Musical (Female), Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Jessica Skerritt

The Price

· Top Mainstage Play, The Seattle Times Footlight Award

· Great Performance, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Charles Leggett and Peter Silbert

· Favorite Theatre Moment, Seattle Weekly

The Invisible Hand

· Top Mainstage Play, The Seattle Times Footlight Award

· Great Performance, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Elijah Alexander

· Best Play, Broadway World Critics' Choice Award : Ayad Akhtar

· Best Leading Actor in a Play (Local), Broadway World Critics' Choice Award: Elijah Alexander

· Excellence in Production of a Play (Larger Theater), Gypsy Rose Lee Award: ACT Theatre

· Excellence in Sound Design (Larger Theater), Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Brendan Patrick Hogan

Theatre of the Year (Local), Broadway World Critics' Choice Awards: ACT Theatre

2014 Awards for ACTLab and Partners:
(formerly the Central Heating Lab)

Tails of Wasps (New Century Theatre Company)

· Great Performance, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Betsy Schwartz

· Excellence in Performance as a Supporting Actor in a Play (Female), Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Betsy Schwartz

· Excellence in Local Playwriting, Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Stephanie Timm

· Top World Premiere Runner-Up The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Stephanie Timm

Seattle Vice (Marxiano Productions)

· Excellence in Local Composing, Gypsy Rose Lee Award: Mark Siano and Opal Peachey

Passing Strange (Sidecountry Productions)

· Best Acting Debut, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: LeRoy Bell

· Marvelous Musical, The Seattle Times Footlight Award

Hold These Truths (ACTLab)

· Esteemed Visitor, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Joel de la Fuente

The Beauty of Noh (Japan Arts Connection Lab)

· Esteemed Visitor, The Seattle Times Footlight Award: Munenori Takeda

Other notable accomplishments:

2014 also featured acclaim and honorable mentions for incoming new Artistic Director John Langs. Mr. Langs, who will lead ACT as Artistic Director in 2016, received several awards and garnered national attention for his directing.

The Wall Street Journal called John Langs' production of The Seagull, at American Players Theatre, the "Best Classical Production of 2014". Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal proclaimed it as "the best Seagull I've ever seen." Broadway World honored An Iliad, at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre directed by John Langs, with "Best Play." This epic production, set in a war-torn 700-seat Quadracci Powerhouse Theatre, also earned lead actor James DeVita "Best Actor," and contributed to Milwaukee Repertory Theatre winning "Best Theatre" of 2014.

Locally Mr. Langs' work on Bethany at ACT was nominated for "Excellence in Direction" and the Broadway World Critics' Choice Awards gave him the honor of "Best Direction of a Play" for Mary's Wedding with New Century Theatre Company.

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