The complete list, announced by WBFO/WNED on Facebook Live
2019-2020 Artie Award Nominations
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
Kiss of the Spider Woman, New Phoenix Theatre
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare in Delaware Park
Pipeline, Ujima Theatre Company
Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Irish Classical Theatre Company
To Kill a Mockingbird, Kavinoky Theatre
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
Fun Home, MusicalFare
Hairspray, Kavinoky Theatre
Nine, Second Generation Theatre
Passing Strange, Ujima Theatre Company
Toxic Avenger, Second Generation Theatre
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Michael Doben, Mercury Fur, Subversive Theatre Collective
Lorna C. Hill, Pipeline, Ujima Theatre Company
Kyle LoConti, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kavinoky Theatre
Victoria Perez, Kiss of the Spider Woman, New Phoenix Theatre
Fortunato Pezzimenti, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Irish Classical Theatre
Carly Weiser, Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, BUA
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Susan Drozd, Fun Home, MusicalFare
Lorna C. Hill, Passing Strange, Ujima Theatre Company
Carlos Jones, Hairspray, Kavinoky Theatre
Loraine O’Donnell, The Bridges of Madison County, Kavinoky Theatre
Victoria Perez, Nine, Second Generation Theatre
Doug Weyand, Toxic Avenger, Second Generation Theatre
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Naila Ansari, Passing Strange, Ujima Theatre Company
Bobby Cooke and Nancy Hughes, West Side Story, MusicalFare Theatre Company
Carlos Jones, Hairspray, Kavinoky Theatre
Michael Walline, Elf the Musical, MusicalFare
Doug Weyand, Toxic Avenger Second Generation Theatre
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF A PLAY
Antipodes, Road Less Traveled Theatre
El Coqui Espectacular, RAICES
Mercury Fur, Subversive Theatre
She Kills Monsters, Subversive
Two Trains Running, Paul Robeson Theatre
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF A MUSICAL
Fun Home, MusicalFare
Izzy, New Phoenix Theatre
Miss Nelson is Missing, Theatre of Youth
Passing Strange, Ujima Theatre Company
Toxic Avenger, Second Generation
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Chris Avery, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kavinoky Theatre
James Cichocki, Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, BUA
Rick Lattimer, Kiss of the Spider Woman, New Phoenix Theatre
Roosevelt Tidwell, Two Trains Running, Paul Robeson Theatre
Dan Urtz, Hand to God, Road Less Traveled Theatre
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Chris Avery, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kavinoky Theatre
James Cichocki, Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, BUA
Rick Lattimer, Kiss of the Spider Woman, New Phoenix Theatre
Roosevelt Tidwell, Two Trains Running, Paul Robeson Theatre
Dan Urtz, Hand to God, Road Less Traveled Theatre
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Kelli Bocock-Natale, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Irish Classical Theatre
Lissette de Jesus, El Coqui Espectacular, Raíces Theatre Company
Diane Di Bernardo, Lost in Yonkers, Desiderio’s Dinner Theatre
Josie DiVincenzo, What I Thought I Knew, Jewish Repertory Theatre
Shantinna Moore, Pipeline, Ujima Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Lucas Colon, Mercury Fur
Rolando Martin Gómez, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Patrick Moltane, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ricky Needham, The Boys Upstairs
Tom Owen, Navigators
Johnny Rowe, Pipeline
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Cassie Cameron, The Antipodes
Ellen Horst, Lost in Yonkers
Kristen Tripp Kelley, The Antipodes
Aleks Malejs, Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Shantinna Moore, To Kill a Mockingbird
Emily Yancey, Factory for Murderers
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Brian Brown, Passing Strange
Steve Copps, The Bridges of Madison County
Preach Freedom, Passing Strange
Chris Handley, Fun Home
Ben Michael Moran, Nine
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Bethany Burrows, The Toxic Avenger
Robyn Lee Horn, Fun Home
Maeghan McDonald, Hairspray
Michele Marie Roberts, The Bridges of Madison County
Zoe Scruggs, Cookin’ at the Cookery
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Jacob Albarella, Miss Nelson is Missing
Alejandro Gabriél Gómez, West Side Story
John Kreuzer, Young Frankenstein
Nick Lama, Elf the Musical
Raphael A. Santos, The Toxic Avenger
Dylan Zalikowski, The Toxic Avenger
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jenn Stafford, The Toxic Avenger
Pamela Rose Mangus, Young Frankenstein
Blaise Mercedes, West Side Story
Ember Tate, Cookin’ at the Cookery
Kelly Copps, Nine
Renee Landrigan, Izzy!
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE
Ann DeFazio, Hairspray
Chris J. Handley, The Tempest
Peter Horn, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Lorenzo Shawn Parnell, Hairspray
Marc Sacco, Hairspray
Norm Sham, Love’s Labour’s Lost
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Paul Bostaph, Hairspray, Kavinoky Theatre
Dyan Burlingame, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Road Less Traveled Theatre
Chris Cavanagh, Toxic Avenger, Second Generation Theatre
David King, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kavinoky Theatre
Neal Radice, Navigators, Alleyway Theatre
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ELEMENT
Chris Cavanagh, Lighting design, Toxic Avenger, Second Generation
Adam Kreutinger, Puppets, Hand to God, Road Less Traveled Theatre
Tom Makar, Sound design and score, The Tempest, Shakespeare in Delaware Park
Katie Menke, Sound design, Antipodes, Road Less Traveled Theatre
John Rickus, Lighting Design, Antipodes, Road Less Traveled Theatre
Roy Walker, Props, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Irish Classical Theatre
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Jenna Damberger, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Road Less Traveled Theatre
Kari Drozd, Elf the Musical, MusicalFare
Lindsay Salamone, Toxic Avenger, Second Generation Theatre
Kenneth Shaw, The Tempest, Shakespeare in Delaware Park
Jessica Wegrzyn, Indecent, Kavinoky Theatre
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Neal Radice