BEST PLAYWRIGHT
Samuel D. Hunter, Clarkston, Echo Theater Company
Will Power, Memnon, Getty Villa Museum Classical Theatre / Classical Theatre of Harlem
RUNNERS-UP: Boni B. Alvarez, Mix-Mix, Playwrights’ Arena/Latino Theater Co; Kate Berlant, Kate, Pasadena Playhouse; Shem Bitterman, The Civil Twilight, Broadwater; John Ross Bowie, Brushstroke, Odyssey; Ben Decter and Kristin Haangi, It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, Hudson Backstage; Jay Paul Deratany, The Civility of Albert Cashier, Colony; Hershey Felder, Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, Broad Stage; Selina Fillinger, POTUS, Geffen Playhouse; Tony Foster, Medea Comes to Our Town, Lightning Rod; Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop, CTG/Ahmanson; Tom Jacobson, Crevasse, Victory; John Klein, Faithless, Victory; Sam Morrison, Sugar Daddy, Wallis; Eric Pfeffinger, Human Error, Rogue Machine; Tim Robbins, Topsy Turvy, Actors’ Gang; Laura Stribling, SINGULARITIES or the Computers of Venus, Road; Steve Yockey, Mercury, Road
BEST ADAPTATION OR TRANSLATION
David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo, Pantages Theatre
James Ijames, Fat Ham, Geffen Playhouse
RUNNERS-UP: Geoff Elliott, A Christmas Carol, ANW; Larissa Fasthorse, Peter Pan, Pantages; Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pantages; Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Amy Sherman-Palladino, Once Upon a Mattress, CTG/Ahmanson; Sandy Rustin, Hunter Foster, and Eric Price, Clue, CTG/Ahmanson; Stephen Sachs, Fatherland, Fountain; Abby Rosebrock, Dido of Idaho, Echo; Nick Salamone, Three, Playwrights’ Arena / LA LGBT Center; Matt Walker, DuranDurAntony & Cleopatra, Troubies
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Jon Lawrence Rivera, Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy, Playwrights’ Arena / Latino Theater Company
Jon Lawrence Rivera, Three, Playwrights’ Arena / LA LGBT Center
RUNNERS-UP: Saheem Ali and Sideeq Heard, Fat Ham, Geffen; Barbara Bain and Katelyn Ann Clark, Gruesome Playground Injuries, LA LGBT Center; Stephen Brackett, Sugar Daddy, Wallis; Bo Burnham, Kate, Pasadena Playhouse; Gregg T. Daniel, Kill Move Paradise, Odyssey; Tom DeTrinis and Ryan Bergmann, Psycho Beach Party, Matrix; Abigail Deser, Dido of Idaho, Echo; Chris Fields, Clarkston, Echo; Maria Gobetti, Faithless, Victory; Casey Hushion, Clue, CTG/Ahmanson; Matthew McCray, Crevasse, Victory; Jaime Robledo, Medea Comes to Our Town, Lightning Rod; Stephen Sachs, Fatherland, Fountain; Laura Stribling, SINGULARITIES or the Computers of Venus, Road; Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, The Civil Twilight, Broadwater; Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, Mercury, Road; Pat Towne, A Froggy Becomes, Open Fist
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Stephen Brackett, A Strange Loop, Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Lear deBessonet, Once Upon a Mattress, CTG/Ahmanson; Snehal Desai, American Idiot, CTG/Taper; Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, A Christmas Carol, ANW; Marianne Elliott, Clue, Pantages; Kristin Haangi, It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, Hudson Backstage; Trevor Hay, Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, Broad Stage; Richard Israel, The Civility of Albert Cashier, Colony; Spencer Liff, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Michael Mayer, Funny Girl, CTG/Ahmanson; Conor McPherson, Girl from North Country, Pantages; Lonny Price, Peter Pan, Pantages; Tim Robbins, Topsy Turvy, Actors’ Gang; Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo, Pantages
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo, Pantages Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Terry Davies, based on the original score by Sergei Prokofiev, Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, CTG/Ahmanson; Ben Decter, It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, Hudson Backstage; Green Day, American Idiot, CTG/Taper; Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop, CTG/Ahmanson; Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pantages; Ellen Mandel, Nora, Antaeus; Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Robert Oriol, A Christmas Carol, ANW; Tim Robbins, Topsy Turvy, Actors’ Gang; Carey Sharpe, Dru DeCaro, Erin Boehme, Adam “Snake” Kobylarz, Blood/Love, The Crimson; Coyote Joe Stevens, Keaton Wooden, and Jay Paul Deratany, The Civility of Albert Cashier, Colony
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
David O, American Idiot, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
RUNNERS-UP: Charlie Alterman, Clue, Pantages; Rod Bagheri, Sweeney Todd, ANW; James Conlon, La Traviata, LA Opera; Alex Lacamoire, Message in a Bottle, Pantages; David Lamoureux, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Jonathan Marro, Peter Pan, Pantages; Timothy Splain, Girl from North Country, Pantages
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Jennifer Weber, American Idiot, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
RUNNERS-UP: Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, CTG/Ahmanson; Lucy Hind, Girl from North Country, Pantages; Raja Feather Kelly, A Strange Loop, CTG/Ahmanson; Lorin Latarro, Once Upon a Mattress, CTG/Ahmanson; Lorin Latarro, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pantages; Spencer Liff, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Reggie Lee, Mix-Mix, Playwrights’ Arena/Latino Theater Co; Toran Xavier Moore, Kill Move Paradise, Odyssey; Jonathan and Oksana Platero, Blood/Love, The Crimson; Kate Prince, Message in a Bottle, Pantages; Ellenore Scott and Ayodele Casel, Funny Girl, CTG/Ahmanson
BEST SET DESIGN
David Hockney, Turnadot, Los Angeles Opera
RUNNERS-UP: Brett J. Banakis, POTUS, Geffen; Lez Brotherston, Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, CTG/Ahmanson; Bunny Christie, Clue, Pantages; Katrina Coulourides, Mercury, Road; Joel Daavid, Fatherland, Fountain; Maruti Evans, Fat Ham, Geffen; Ralph Funicello, The Dwarf, LA Opera; David Goldstein, It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, Hudson Backstage; Robert Innes Hopkins, La Traviata, LA Opera; Takeshi Kata, American Idiot, CTG/Taper; Anna Louizos, Peter Pan, Pantages; Arnulfo Maldonado, A Strange Loop, CTG/Ahmanson; Danny Mefford, Kimberly Akimbo, Pantages; Christopher Scott Murillo, Mix-Mix, Playwrights’ Arena/Latino Theater Co; Jeanine A. Ringer, A Christmas Carol, ANW; Ben Stones, Message in a Bottle, Pantages
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ian Falconer, Turnadot, Los Angeles Opera
RUNNERS-UP: Jenna Bergstraesser, SINGULARITIES or the Computers of Venus, Road; Angela Balogh Calin, A Christmas Carol, ANW; Angela Balogh Calin, Sweeney Todd, ANW; Anna Fleischle, Message in a Bottle, Pantages; Susan Hilferty, Funny Girl, CTG/Ahmanson; Robert Innes Hopkins, La Traviata, LA Opera; Montana Levi Blanco, A Strange Loop, CTG/Ahmanson; Terri A. Lewis, Nora, Antaeus; Michael Mullen, Crevasse, Victory; Jaymee Ngernwichit, Unbroken Blossoms, East West Players; Michael Ngo, Blood/Love, The Crimson; Pinwheel Pinwheel, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Lena Sands, American Idiot, CTG/Taper
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Donny Jackson, Kill Move Paradise, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
RUNNERS-UP: Neil Austin, Clue, Pantages; Alison Brummer, Fatherland, Fountain; Ken Booth, A Christmas Carol, ANW; Amith Chandrashaker, Kate, Pasadena Playhouse; Natasha Chivers, Message in a Bottle, Pantages; Benedict Conran, The Body’s Midnight, Boston Court/IAMA; Paule Constable, Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, CTG/Ahmanson; Azra King-Abadi, Mix-Mix, Playwrights’ Arena/Latino Theater Co; Bradley King, Fat Ham, Geffen; Karyn D. Lawrence, American Idiot, CTG/Taper; Derrick McDaniel, Mercury, Road; Matt Richter, Reefer Madness: The Musical, The Whitley; Andrew Schmedake, The Civility of Albert Cashier, Colony; Jen Schriever, A Strange Loop, CTG/Ahmanson; Tom Sutherland, Blood/Love, The Crimson
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Cricket S. Myers, American Idiot, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
John Zalewski, The Body’s Midnight, Boston Court Performing Arts Center / IAMA Theatre Company
RUNNERS-UP: Alysha Bermudez, Dido of Idaho, Echo; Jeff Gardner, Nora, Antaeus; Jeff Gardner, Sweeney Todd, ANW; David Gonzalez, Kill Move Paradise, Odyssey; Paul Groothuis, Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, CTG/Ahmanson; Jesse Mandapat, Mix-Mix, Playwrights’ Arena/Latino Theater Co; David B. Marling, Mercury, Road; David B. Marling, SINGULARITIES or the Computers of Venus, Road; David McEwan, Message in a Bottle, Pantages; Marc Antonio Pritchett, Brushstroke, Odyssey; John Zalewski; Crevasse, Victory
BEST STUNT / FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Brown, Memnon, Getty Villa Museum Classical Theatre / Classical Theatre of Harlem
RUNNERS-UP: Ahmed Best, Dido of Idaho, Echo; Lisa Kopitsky, Fat Ham, Geffen; Rick Sordelet and Christian Kelly-Sordelet, Peter Pan, Pantages
BEST CGI / VIDEO DESIGN
Andrzej Goulding, Message in a Bottle, Pantages Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Rick Batalla, Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, Troubies; David Bengali, Peter Pan, Pantages; Stefano deCarli, Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, Broad Stage; Kristin Campbell, A Christmas Carol, ANW; David Murikami, American Idiot, CTG/Taper; David Murakami, The Body’s Midnight, Boston Court/IAMA; Ben Rock, SINGULARITIES or the Computers of Venus, Road; Nicholas Santiago, Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy, Playwrights’ Arena / Latino Theater Company
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS