2017 Nominees

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2016 – 2017 Theatre Season

LIGHTING DESIGN
Kate Bashore (The Three Musketeers)
Marcus Doshi (Party People)
Alan C. Edwards (Kill Move Paradise)
Matt Frey (Everybody)
Brian Tovar (And She Would Stand Like This)

SET DESIGN
Patrice Andrew Davidson (Rosalee Pritchett & The Perry’s Mission)
Maruti Evans (Kill Move Paradise)
Ricardo Hernandez (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Clint Ramos (Bella:  An American Tall Tale)
Christopher & Justin Swader (The Three Musketeers)

COSTUME DESIGN
Dede M. Ayite (Bella:  An American Tall Tale)
Montana Blanco (The Death of the Last Black Man…)
Rachel Dozier-Ezell (The Three Musketeers)
Sidney Fortner (On Strivers Row)
Emilio Sosa (Venus)

SOUND DESIGN
Luqman Brown (The Three Musketeers)
David Ferdinand (Othello The Remix)
Palmer Hefferan (Kill Move Paradise)
Lindsay Jones (Bella:  American Tall Tale)
Brandon Wolcott (Everybody)

DIRECTOR/DRAMATIC PRODUCTION
Jenny Bennett (The Three Musketeers)
Lileana Blain-Cruz (Pipeline)
Walter Dallas (Autumn)
Timothy Johnson (On Strivers Row)
Raelle Myrick-Hodges (Sweet)

DIRECTOR/MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Gerard Alessandrini (Spamilton)
Dev Bondanin (Raisin)
Scott Ebersold (The View Upstairs)
GQ & JQ (Othello The Remix)
Robert O’Hara (Bella:  An American Tall Tale)

PLAYWRIGHT
Kirsten Childs (Bella: An American Tall Tale)
Dominique Morrisseau (Pipeline)
Lynn Nottage (Sweat)
Harrison David Rivers (Sweet)
Richard Wesley (Autumn)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Leon Addison Brown (Master Harold…and the Boys)
R.J. Foster (The Three Musketeers)
Jamil A. Mangan (Martin Luther on Trial)
Jaime Lincoln Smith (Pipeline)
Count Stovall (Autumn)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jocelyn Bioh (Everybody)
Nana Mensah (Man from Nebraska)
Heather Velazquez (Pipeline)
Pernell Walker (Dolphins and Sharks)
Pauletta Washington (Autumn)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL – FEMALE
Asmeret Ghebremichael (Sweet Charity)
Angela Grovey (Finian’s Rainbow)
Ashley D. Kelley (Bella:  An American Tall Tale)
Ebony Marshall-Oliver (Raisin)
Renee Steadman (Ragtime)
Na Tasha Yvette Williams (Bella:  An American Tall Tale)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL – MALE
Jelani Alladin (Sweetee)
Nathan Lee Graham (The View Upstairs)
Marcus A. Jordon (Ragtime)
Norm Lewis (Sweeney Todd)
Warren Nolan, Jr. (Raisin)
Larry Owens (Cabaret)

CHOREOGRAPHY
Camille A. Brown (Bella: An American Tall Tale)
Millicent Johnnie (Party People)
Kia LaBeija (And She Would Stand Like This)
Darell G. Moultrie (Kill Move Paradise)
Tiffany Rea-Fisher (The Three Musketeers)

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Daughters of the Mock (Negro Ensemble Company)
Kill move Paradise (National Black Theater)
Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic Theatre Company)
Sweat (The Public Theater)
Sweet (National Black Theatre)

SOLO PERFORMANCE
Ingrid Griffith (Demerara Gold)
Sarah Jones (Sell/Buy/Date)
Timothy Simonson (Adam)
Anna Deavere Smith (Notes from the Field)
Malik Work (Verses at Work)

LEAD ACTOR
Obi Abili (The Emperor Jones)
Jerome Preston Bates (Autumn)
Dion Johnstone (Coriolanus)
David Oyelowo (Othello)
Justice Smith (Yen)
Victor Williams (Cost of Living)

LEAD ACTRESS
Miriam Hyman (The Three Musketeers)
Zainab Jah (Venus)
Kecia Lewis (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Karen Pittman (Pipeline)
Elizabeth Van Dyke (Zora Neale Hurston)
Kim Yancey-Moore (On Strivers Row)

BEST REVIVAL
A Raisin in the Sun (Harlem Repertory Theatre)
Daughters of the Mock (Negro Ensemble Company)
On Strivers Row (Metropolitan Playhouse)
Two Trains Running (Black Spectrum Theatre Company)
Zora Neale Hurston (New Federal Theatre)

MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons)
Othello the Remix (John Leguizamo et al)
Raisin (Astoria Performing Arts Center)
Spamilton (Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre)
The View Upstairs (Invisible Wall Productions)

DRAMATIC PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
Autumn (Billie Holiday Theatre)
Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater)
Sweat (The Public Theater)
Sweet (National Black Theatre)
The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem)