Long Wharf Theatre has been nominated for 14 Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, tying Yale Rep for most nominations this year. Goodspeed received 11 nominations and Westport and Hartford each received 9 nominations. The Train Driver was nominated for Best Play. Gordon Edelstein and Eric Ting were nominated for best director (The Train Driver and Agnes Under the Big Top, respectively). Francesca Choy-Kee, Laura Esterman and Judy Ivey were nominated for best actress, while Anthony Chisholm, Harry Groener and Brian Murray were nominated as best actor. Frank Alberino was nominated twice in the category of best set design, for Agnes and Shirley. Eugene Lee was also nominated in that category. Chris Akerlund and Katie Down were recognized for best light and sound. Eshan Bay was nominated for best debut.
Winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 31. CCC awards ceremony is Sunday, June 12, 5:00 p.m., Ivoryton Playhouse.
Here are the complete nominations:
PLAY
The Diary of Anne Frank (Westport)
Gem of the Ocean (Hartford)
The Piano Lesson (Yale)
A Steady Rain (TheaterWorks)
The Train Driver (Long Wharf Theatre)
MUSICAL
The Buddy Holly Story (Ivoryton)
Everything the Traffic Will Allow (MTC)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Goodspeed)
I Do! I Do! (Westport)
My One and Only (Goodspeed)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Yale)
ACTRESS/PLAY
Francesca Choy-Kee (Agnes Under the Big Top, Long Wharf)
Eisa Davies (Piano Lesson)
Laura Esterman (Agnes Under the Big Top, Long Wharf)
Dana Ivey (Happy Days, Westport)
Judith Ivey (Shirley Valentine (Long Wharf)
Novella Nelson (Gem of the Ocean)
ACTOR/PLAY
Anthony Chisholm (Train Driver)
Harry Groener (Train Driver)
Edward Hermann (Delicate Balance, Yale)
LeRoy McCain (Piano Lesson)
Brian Murray (Old Masters, Long Wharf)
Roger Robinson (Gem of the Ocean)
ACTRESS/MUSICAL
Kate Baldwin (I Do! I Do!)
Khea Blackhurst (Everything the Traffic Will Allow)
Jenn Gambatese (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
Jodi Langel (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Downtown Cabaret)
Alexandra Socha (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
ACTOR/MUSICAL
Richard Todd Adams (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
Lewis Cleale (I Do! I Do!)
Brian Sears (How to Succeed)
Kris Stock (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Tony Yazbeck (My One and Only)
DIRECTOR/PLAY
Gordon Edelstein (Train Driver)
Gerald Freedman (Diary of Anne Frank)
Peter Lockyear (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ivoryton)
Eric Ting (Agnes Under the Big Top)
Liesl Tommy (Piano Lesson)
DIRECTOR/MUSICAL
Greg Ganakas (How to Succeed)
Jacqui Hubbard (The Buddy Holly Story)
Anne Kauffman (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
Ray Roderick (My One and Only)
Scott Thompson (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Darko Tresnjak (Carnival, Goodspeed)
CHOREOGRAPHY
Kelli Barclay (How to Succeed)
Kelli Barclay (My One and Only)
Peggy Hickey (Carnival)
SET DESIGN
Frank Alberino (Agnes Under the Big Top)
Frank Alberino (Shirley Valentine)
Scott Bradley (Gem of the Ocean)
John Ezell (Diary of Anne Frank)
Eugene Lee (Train Driver)
Chien Yu-Peng (Delicate Balance)
LIGHTING
Christopher Akerlind (Train Driver)
Travis McHale (Diary of Anne Frank)
Stephen Strawbridge (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
Jennifer Tipton (Autumn Sonata, Yale)
COSTUMES
Elicia Lord (Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Conn. Rep)
Robin L. McGee (My One and Only)
Devon Painter (I Do! I Do!)
Ilona Somogyi (Gem of the Ocean)
David C. Woolard (Divine Rivalry, Hartford)
SOUND
Broken Chord (Gem of the Ocean)
Katie Down (Agnes Under the Big Top)
Chad Raines (Autumn Sonata)
ENSEMBLE
God of Carnage (TheaterWorks)
Divine Rivalry
39 Steps (Hartford)
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Downtown Cabaret)
DEBUT
Eshan Bay (Agnes Under the Big Top)
Evan Jonigkeit (High, TheaterWorks)
Aaron Moss (Winter’s Tale, Elm Shakespeare)