2019 – 2020 Theatre Season
“The VIV” WINNERS and HONOREES
LIGHTING DESIGN
Alan C. Edwards (The New Englanders
SET DESIGN
Isabel Curley-Clay & Moriah Curley-Clay (Reparations)
COSTUME DESIGN
Toni-Leslie James (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf)
SOUND DESIGN
David D. Wright (Reparations)
DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Michele Shay (Reparations)
DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Tai Thompson (The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker)
CHOREOGRAPHER
Leslie Dockery (a photograph / lovers in motion)
PLAYWRIGHT
Donja R. Love (One in Two)
FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Benjamin Mapp (Leaving the Blues)
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Lisa Arrindell (Reparations)
LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Joshua Henry (The Wrong Man)
LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Iris Beaumier (The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker)
FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
James A. Pierce III (The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker)
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Mario E. Sprouse (The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker)
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL COMPOSER
Martha Redbone (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf)
BEST MUSICAL
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker (Glynn Borders and La Mama ETC)
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE (TIE)
One in Two (The New Group)
Sassy Mamas (Black Spectrum Theatre Company)
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Douglas Wade (Thurgood)
LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY (TIE)
Kamal Bolden (Reparations)
Teagle F. Bougere (The New Englanders)
LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY (TIE)
Rosalind Brown (Leaving the Blues)
Liza Colon-Zayas (Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven)
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (The Public Theater)
BEST PLAY
Reparations (Billie Holiday Theatre)
LEGACY AWARD
Vinie Burrows
Robert Hooks
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Voza Rivers
André De Shields
PIONEER AWARD
Oz Scott
Vivian Reed
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Blair Underwood
Tina Fabrique
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Kara Young