2010 HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARDS

HONOREES ANNOUNCED

 

46th Annual Ceremony Slated for Fall

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 19, 2010                                        

CONTACT: Jeffrey Eric Jenkins (718-789-5553)

 

Nine theater artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the presentation of its 46th Annual Awards in a luncheon ceremony this fall. Eighty-one theater artists were nominated for outstanding artistry in 46 productions presented during the 2009-2010 New York theater season. (A complete list of nominees follows this awards announcement.)

 

These annual awards honor designers for work in venues on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway, recognizing not only the traditional categories of scenic design, costume design and lighting design, but also "Notable Effects," which encompass sound, music, video, puppetry and other creative elements. All nominated designs must have originated in United States productions. The Hewes Awards Committee considered more than 200 productions when making its nominations.

 

Veteran designers John Lee Beatty, Santo Loquasto and David Zinn led all nominees with three nominations each. Ten other designers received two nominations for their work during the 2009-2010 season. Signature Theatre Company's production of The Orphans' Home Cycle received four distinct nominations to lead all other contenders. Broadway productions of American Idiot, Memphis and Sondheim on Sondheim received three nominations each, as did the Public Theater's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Second Stage Theatre's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and Classic Stage Company's The Forest. Another 12 productions on, Off and Off Off Broadway each received two nominations.

 

The HHDA Committee named honorees in four categories: Scenic Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design and Notable Effects. As of the 2010 awards, the Committee has bestowed 272 honors on 170 artists representing 187 productions.

 

Originally known as the Maharam Awards at their inception in 1965, the Hewes Awards were later known as the American Theatre Wing Design Awards in honor of the Wing’s generous sponsorship. They were renamed in 1999 for noted critic Henry Hewes, who created the awards and served as a board member of the American Theatre Wing until his death in 2006 at age 89.

 

The Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee includes theater critics Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, chair; Dan Bacalzo; David Barbour; David Cote; Glenda Frank; Mario Fratti; and Joan Ungaro.

2010 HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARDS HONOREES

Scenic Design

Donyale Werle

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public)

 

Costume Design

Martin Pakledinaz

Lend Me a Tenor (Broadway)

 

Lighting Design

Kevin Adams

American Idiot (Broadway)

 

Notable Effects

(Production Design)

Jeff Cowie and

David M. Barber (scenery)

The Orphans' Home Cycle (Signature)

David C. Woolard (costumes)

 

Rui Rita (lighting)

 

Jan Hartley (projections)

 

John Gromada (sound)

 

 

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2010 HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARDS NOMINEES

                                                                

SCENIC DESIGN NOMINEES

Allen Moyer and Warren Karp

Passion Play                                 

Beowulf Boritt

Sondheim on Sondheim

Brian Sidney Bembridge

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Charlie Corcoran

The Emperor Jones

Christine Jones

American Idiot

David Evans Morris

Lear

David Gallo

Memphis

David Korins

When the Rain Stops Falling

David Zinn                     

Circle Mirror Transformation      

Derek McLane

A Lie of the Mind

Derek McLane

Ragtime

Donyale Werle

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Jeff Cowie and David M. Barber

The Orphans' Home Cycle

John Lee Beatty

A View from the Bridge

John Lee Beatty

The Royal Family

John Lee Beatty

Twelfth Night

Lauren Helpern

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Peter Ksander

The Archery Contest

Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch

The Addams Family

Santo Loquasto

Collected Stories

Santo Loquasto

Fences

Santo Loquasto

The Forest

Scott Pask

A Steady Rain

Takeshi Kata

Dusk Rings a Bell

 

COSTUME DESIGN NOMINEES

Anita Yavich

Coraline

Anita Yavich

Venus in Fur

Bobby Frederick Tilley II

Lizzie Borden

Catherine Zuber

The Royal Family

Clint Ramos

So Help Me God!  

David Zinn

Circle Mirror Transformation

David Zinn

In the Next Room

Emily Rebholz

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Gabriel Berry and Antonia Ford-Roberts

Passion Play                                  

Ilona Somogyi               

Clybourne Park                             

Jessica Pabst

The Metal Children

Katherine Roth

Come Fly Away

Machine Dazzle

The Lily's Revenge

Marco Piemontese

The Forest

Martin Pakledinaz

Lend Me a Tenor

Paul Tazewell

Memphis

Roxana Ramseur

Lear

Toni-Leslie James

The Scottsboro Boys

 

LIGHTING DESIGN NOMINEES

Brian MacDevitt

Fences

Chris Lee

The Burnt Part Boys

Clifton Taylor

White Woman Street

Dane Laffrey

The Boys in the Band

Howell Binkley

Memphis

Hugh Vanstone

A Steady Rain

Jason Lyons

The Duchess of Malfi

Jennifer Tipton

The Glass Menagerie

Jesse Klug

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Justin Townsend

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Ken Billington

Sondheim on Sondheim

Kevin Adams

American Idiot

Natasha Katz

Collected Stories

Peter Kaczorowski

The Brother/Sister Plays

Peter Kaczorowski

The Forest

Rui Rita

The Orphans' Home Cycle

Tyler Micoleau

When the Rain Stops Falling

 

 

NOTABLE EFFECTS NOMINEES

Brian Sidney Bembridge, scenery

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Christine Pascual, costumes

(Production Design)

Jesse Klug, lighting

 

Mikhail Fiksel, sound

 

Peter Nigrini, projections

 

@radical.media, video

 

 

 

Jeff Cowie and David M. Barber, scenery

The Orphan’s Home Cycle

David C. Woolard, costumes

(Production Design)

Rui Rita, lighting

 

Jan Hartley, projections

 

John Gromada, sound

 

 

 

Nick Vaughan, scenery

The Lily's Revenge

Machine Dazzle, costumes

(Production Design)

Seth Reiser, lighting

 

Matthew Tennie, sound

 

Derrick Little, makeup

 

Emily Decola, puppets

 

Aaron Rhyne, video

 

 

 

Robert Andrew Kovach, scenery

John Tartaglia's Imaginocean

The Puppet Kitchen, puppets

(Production Design)

Matthias Winter, sound

 

 

 

Alex Koch, video

ReEntry

Alexander V. Nichols, scenery and video

Wishful Drinking

Basil Twist, puppets

The Addams Family

C. Andrew Bauer, projections

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Darrel Maloney, video and projections

American Idiot

Jan Hartley, projections

The Orphan’s Home Cycle

 

 

Jeff Sugg, video and projections

The Book of Grace

Jean Kalman, lighting

 

 

 

Lindsay Jones, sound

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon

Jamie McElhinney, sound

Papers

 

 

Peter Flaherty, video

Sondheim on Sondheim

Peter Hylenski, sound

The Scottsboro Boys

 

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