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1996 Nominators and Participating Theatres

On October 21, 1996, the following nominees and award recipients were honored at the Annual Barrymore Awards Ceremony, held at the Zellerbach Theatre at the Annenberg Center and hosted by Grace Gonglewski and Johnnie Hobbs, Jr.
*Award Recipient

Outstanding Overall Production of a Play

*Love! Valour! Compassion! (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Dancing at Lughnasa (Villanova Theatre)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3)
I Am A Man (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
My Mother Said I Never Should... (The People's Light & Theatre Company)

Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical

*Cabaret (Walnut Street Theatre)
Black Nativity (Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Falsettos (Arden Theatre Company)
Nightclub Confidential (Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre)
Purlie (Freedom Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Direction of a Play

*Charles Karchmer (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Abigail Adams (My Mother Said I Never Should..., The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Dugald MacArthur (The Lower Depths, Temple Theaters & Venture Theatre)
Ken Marini (Kindertransport, Cheltenham Center for the Arts)
Mary B. Robinson (Three Viewings, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Harold Prince Award For Outstanding Direction of a Musical

*Bruce Lumpkin (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
Clinton Turner Davis (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Peter M. Donohue, OSA (Evita, Villanova Theatre)
Paul Frederick (Nightclub Confidential, Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre)
Terrence J. Nolen (Falsettos, Arden Theatre Company)

Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play

*Frank X (Lonely Planet, InterAct Theatre Company)
Ivar Brogger (Three Viewings, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
David Disbrow (The Pitchfork Disney, Site Installation Theatre Ensemble)
Edmond Genest (Broken Glass, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Vince Williams (I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play

*Scotty Bloch (Three Viewings, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
*Kathleen Doyle (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3)
Janis Dardaris (Escape From Happiness, The Wilma Theater)
Sally Mercer (Kindertransport, Cheltenham Center for the Arts)
Heather Stuart (Kindertransport, Cheltenham Center for the Arts)

Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical

*Charles Abbott (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
Jeffrey Coon (Falsettos, Arden Theatre Company)
Stephen Hope (My One and Only, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Victor Mack (Purlie, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Greg Wood (Falsettos, Arden Theatre Company)

Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical

*Deborah Jean Templin (Nightclub Confidential, Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre)
Denise Connolly (Falsettos, Arden Theatre Company)
Alice Playten (Punch & Judy, American Music Theater Festival)
Lorraine Serabian (Zorba, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Lisa D. White (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play

*Edward Hibbert (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Robert Christophe (I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Johnnie Hobbs, Jr. (I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Paul Meshejian (Broken Glass, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Andrew Polk (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play

*Jennifer Childs (Escape From Happiness, The Wilma Theater)
Susan McKey (Henry V, Arden Theatre Company)
Susan McKey (My Mother Said I Never Should..., The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Ana Ortiz (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3)
Ceal Phelan (My Mother Said I Never Should..., The People's Light & Theatre Company)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical

*Stephen DeRose (Falsettos, Arden Theatre Company)
Robert Christophe (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Tom Fagan (Purlie, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Wil Love (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
Scott Wagner (Nightclub Confidential, Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical

*Taina Elg (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
CeCelia Ann Birt (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
CeCelia Ann Birt (Purlie, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Mollie Hall (Falsettos, Arden Theatre Company)
Meredith Patterson (Nightclub Confidential, Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre)

Outstanding Set Design

*James F. Pyne, Jr. (The Life of Galileo, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
David P. Gordon (Rendezvous With Reality, The Wilma Theater)
David P. Gordon (Vilna's Got A Golem, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays)
Charles Kading (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
James Kronzer (Quartet, The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Lighting Design

*Jeff Davis (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Frances Aronson (I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
John Hoey (Quartet, The Wilma Theater)
Jeff Koger (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
James F. Pyne, Jr. (Grimm Tales, The People's Light & Theatre Company)

Outstanding Costume Design

*Michael Bottari & Ronald Case (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
Sarah Jane Burch (The Lower Depths, Temple Theater/Venture Theatre)
Rodney Ford (She Stoops to Conquer, Walnut Street Theatre)
Jose M. Rivera (My One and Only, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Janus Stefanowicz (Evita, Villanova Theatre)

Outstanding Sound Design

*Adam Wernick (From the Ashes, Mum Puppettheatre)
Elizabeth Fuller (Dividing Lines, The Independent Eye)
Scott Smith (Blood Money, Walnut Street Theatre)
Eileen Tague (Rendezvous With Reality, The Wilma Theater)
Darron L. West (I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Original Music

*Adam Wernick (From the Ashes, Mum Puppettheatre)
Olu Dara (I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Deborah Drattell (Broken Glass, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Toshi Makihara (Henry V, Arden Theatre Company)
Adam Wernick (Quartet, The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Choreography

*Robert Smythe (From the Ashes, Mum Puppettheatre)
Patricia Scott Hobbs (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Susan Streater (My One and Only, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Bonnie Walker (Cabaret, Walnut Street Theatre)
Lisa D. White (Purlie, Freedom Repertory Theatre)

Advanta Award for Outstanding New Play

*Vilna's Got A Golem (By Ernest Joselovitz, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays)
Bart & Fay (By Michael Bamberger, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3)
Frank Lloyd Wright (By Will Stutts, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3)
Incorruptible (By Michael Hollinger, Arden Theatre Company)
Rendezvous With Reality (By Murphy Guyer, The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Ensemble

*Vilna's Got a Golem (Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays)
Dancing at Lughnasa (Villanova Theatre)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
The Lower Depths (Temple Theaters & Venture Theatre)
My Mother Said I Never Should... (The People's Light & Theatre Company)

F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist

*Michael Hollinger
Jennifer Childs
Robert Christophe
Susan McKey
Adam Wernick

Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News Award for Excellence in Theatre Education

*Theatre for Learning (Venture Theatre)
Rainbow Connection (American Music Theater Festival)
Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival

CoreStates Community Service Award

*Point Breeze Performing Arts Center
InterAction (InterAct Theatre Company)
Collaboration with Coatesville Community (The People's Light & Theatre Company)

Lifetime Achievement Honoree

*Katherine "Kitty" Minehart