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On Monday, August 22, this year's San Diego Playbill Awards will be presented at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla. If you are interested in attending the awards ceremony, please click here for more details and RSVP information. Everyone is invited!

Rob Hopper
San Diego Playbill

Youth Theatre Awards

And the winners are ...

Outstanding Production:
Bed and Sofa (Cygnet Theatre)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse)
Sweeney Todd (Starlight Musical Theatre)
The Waverly Gallery (New Village Arts) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical:
Eric Anderson as Kolya in Bed and Sofa (Cygnet Theatre) and Emcee in Cabaret (Moonlight Stage Productions) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical:
Melinda Gilb as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Starlight Musical Theatre)
Julie Jacobs as Ludmilla in Bed and Sofa (Cygnet Theatre) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy or Drama:
Richard Baird as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Poor Players Theatre)
Mark Broadnax as Lucius in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Lynx Performance Theatre)
Ron Choularton as Kemp in Vigil (The Fritz Theatre)
Francis Gercke as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Jeffrey Jones as Pale in Burn This (Cygnet Theatre Company) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy or Drama:
Jill Drexler as Nessa in Fit to be Tied (Diversionary Theatre)
Sandra Ellis-Troy as Gladys Green in The Waverly Gallery (New Village Arts)
Jessica John as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Jennifer Jonassen as Beatrice in The Effect of Gamma Rays… (PowPAC)
Rosina Reynolds as Esme in amy’s view (North Coast Repertory Theatre)
Katherine Sigismund as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (UCSD Theatre and Dance) 

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical:
Randall Dodge as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (Moonlight Stage Productions) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical:
Kristen Mengelkoch in Tomfoolery (Renaissance/North Coast Rep) 

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama:
Jim Chovick as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Mark E. Smith as Louis in 11 Hills of San Francisco (UCSD Theatre and Dance) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama:
Annie Katica as Miranda in Return Engagements (Scripps Ranch Theatre)
Sylvia M’Lafi Thompson as Teiresias in Antigone (6^th @ Penn Theatre) 

Visiting Dignitary Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical:
Amanda Watkins as Victoria in Palm Beach, The Screwball Musical (La Jolla Playhouse) 

Outstanding Ensemble:
A Lie of the Mind directed by Francis Gercke and Kristianne Kurner (New Village Arts/Backyard Productions)
The Pirates of Penzance directed by Don & Bonnie Ward (Moonlight Stage Productions)
Sweeney Todd directed by Brian Wells (Starlight Musical Theatre)
Viburnum directed by Katie Rodda (The Fritz Theatre)
The Waverly Gallery directed by Kristianne Kurner (New Village Arts) 

Outstanding Costume Design:
Cynthia Megill for Ask Dorothy: The Paper Doll Musical (Megill & Company)
Jeanne Reith for Metamorphoses (Lamb’s Players Theatre) 

Outstanding Lighting Design:
Jennifer Setlow for King Lear (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and Chrysalis: Rapechild (Sledgehammer Theatre)
Brian Shevelenko for Bat Boy: The Musical (San Diego State University) 

Outstanding Set Design:
Melpomene Katakalos for Marat/Sade (UCSD Theatre and Dance)
David Weiner for A Dream Play (Sledgehammer Theatre) 

Outstanding Sound Design:
Paul Peterson for Kid-Simple (Sledgehammer Theatre) 

Outstanding Choreography:
Lee Martino for Cabaret (Moonlight Stage Productions) 

Outstanding Direction:
Mike Auer for The Trial (Full Circle Theatre Company)
Kristianne Kurner for The Waverly Gallery (New Village Arts)
Sean Murray for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Mike Sears for The Corpse Bride (Actors Alliance Festival 2005)
Darko Tresnjak for La Dispute (UCSD Theatre and Dance) 

Outstanding New Play by Local Playwright:
Remains by Seema Sueko (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company) 

151 Total Shows
41 Different Theatres
45 Awards Given
35 Shows received awards (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – 5, The Waverly Gallery – 4, Bed & Sofa and Sweeney – 3)
24 Theatres received awards (Cygnet – 9, New Village Arts – 5, Moonlight and UCSD – 4) 

Shows Reviewed:  
11 Hills of San Francisco (UCSD)
42nd Street (Welk)
45 Seconds from Broadway (Lamplighters)
500 Words (UCSD)
A…My Name is Alice (Coronado Playhouse)
AASD Festival 2004 #1
AASD Festival 2004 #2
AASD Festival 2004 #3
AASD Festival 2004 #4
AASD Festival 2004 #5
AASD Festival 2004 #6
AASD Festival 2004 #7
AASD Festival 2005 #1
AASD Festival 2005 #2
AASD Festival 2005 #3
AASD Festival 2005 #4
AASD Festival 2005 #5
AASD Festival 2005 #6
AASD Festival 2005 #7
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Moonlight)
The Ally Way (6th @ Penn Theatre)
amy’s view (North Coast Rep)
Annie (La Jolla Stage Company)
Antigone (6th @ Penn Theatre)
Antony and Cleopatra (Globe)
Antony and Cleopatra (Poor Players)
Arms and the Man (Moonlight)
The As If Body Loop (UCSD)
As You Like It (La Jolla Stage Co.)
As You Like It (UCSD)
Ask Dorothy (Megill & Company)
Baby with the Bathwater (Formerly Nonsense)
Bat Boy the Musical (SDSU)
Beauty and the Beast (Moonlight)
Bed and Sofa (Cygnet Theatre Company)
Book of Days (OnStage Playhouse)
Bronze (Sledgehammer Theatre)
The Bungler (NCRT)
Burn This (Cygnet Theatre)
Burnt Out (UCSD)
Bye Bye Birdie (Welk Resort Theatre)
Cabaret (Moonlight)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cygnet Theatre)
A Christmas Carol (La Jolla Stage Co.)
A Christmas Carol (San Diego Rep)
Chrysalis: Rapechild (Sledgehammer)
Citizens of Rome (UCSD)
Cold Comfort Farm (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
Continental Divide/Mothers Against (La Jolla Playhouse)
Continental Divide/Daughters of the Revolution (La Jolla Playhouse)
Cool As We Fly (Ruff Yeager)
Crazy For You (Broadway-San Diego)
Crowns (San Diego Rep)
Current Nobody (LJP page to stage)
Damn Yankees (Starlight)
Desert Song (Welk)
Dial “M” For Murder (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Globe)
A Dream Play (Sledgehammer Theatre)
Eat Your Heart Out (Lamplighters)
The Effect of Gamma Rays (PowPAC)
An Experiment With an Air Pump (Backyard Productions)
Fate (Megill & Company/Carlsbad Community Theatre)
Festival of Christmas (Lamb’s Players)
Fit to be Tied (Diversionary Theatre)
Forever Plaid (Welk)
Fritz Blitz #1
Fritz Blitz #2
Fritz Blitz #3
Fritz Blitz #4
Fucking A (UCSD)
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (San Diego Rep)
Godspell (OnStage Playhouse)
The Goodbye Girl (Moonlight)
Grease (Christian Community Theater)
Greetings (Scripps Ranch)
Guys and Dolls (CCT)
Gypsy (Patio Playhouse)
Hairspray (Broadway-San Diego)
Hecuba (6th @ Penn)
Himself and Nora (Old Globe)
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Globe)
Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse)
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Lynx)
Kid-Simple (Sledgehammer Theatre)
King Lear (San Diego Rep)
Kiss Me, Kate (Moonlight)
La Dispute (UCSD)
The Last Five Years (North Coast Rep)
Les Miserables (Broadway-San Diego)
A Lie of the Mind (New Village Arts)
Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway-San Diego)
The Love of Three Oranges (La Jolla Playhouse)
The Male Intellect (Theatre in Old Town)
Marat/Sade (UCSD)
Maternal Spirits (Scripps Ranch Theatre)
The Merchant of Venice (Poor Players)
Metamorphoses (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Poor Players)
Miss Saigon (Broadway-San Diego)
Monstropoly (Eveoke)
Moon Over Buffalo (MiraCosta)
Move Over, Mrs. Markam (PowPac)
Movin’ Out (Broadway-San Diego)
Murder at Green Meadows (Scripps Ranch)
The Music Man (Carlsbad Community Theatre)
The Music Man (Starlight)
My One and Only (Moonlight)
Of Mice and Men (Renaissance)
Nunsense (Welk)
Oklahoma! (Broadway-San Diego)
Oliver! (Starlight)
Pageant (Cygnet Theatre)
Palm Beach, the Screwball Musical (La Jolla Playhouse)
Peter Pan (Broadway-San Diego)
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (OnStage Playhouse)
Pirates of Penzance (Moonlight)
Princess Ida (Lyric Opera of San Diego)
Private Fittings (La Jolla Playhouse)
The Producers (Broadway-San Diego)
Radio Gals (Moonlight Stage Productions)
Rapunzel (The Lost Players)
Remains (Mo’olelo)
Rent (Broadway-San Diego)
Return Engagements (Scripps Ranch Theatre)
Reverse Psychology (Diversionary Theatre)
The Roar of the Greasepaint (Starlight)
Romeo and Juliet (Poor Players)
Route 66 (La Jolla Stage Company)
Seussical the Musical (La Jolla Stage Co.)
Side by Side by Sondheim (Scripps Ranch Theatre)
Singin’ in the Rain (Christian Community Theater)
So Here’s the Thing (P33 Inc.)
A Streetcar Named Desire (UCSD)
Suitcase (La Jolla Playhouse)
Sweeney Todd (Starlight)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Broadway-San Diego)
A Thousand Clowns (North Coast Rep)
Thunder at Dawn (Lamb’s Players)
Tomfoolery (Renaissance/NCRT)
Traditions of Christmas (CCT)
The Trial (Full Circle)
Triumph of Love (Starlight)
Twelfth Night (NVA)
Two Rooms (Stone Soup)
The Vagina Monologues (Patio Playhouse)
Vigil (Fritz Theatre)
The Waverly Gallery (New Village Arts)
When the World was Green (Sledgehammer Theatre)
The Wizard of Oz (Coronado Playhouse)
Wrinkles (Diversionary Theatre)