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2001 Nominators, Judges, and Participating Theatres

On October 22, 2001, the following nominees and award recipients were honored at the Annual Barrymore Awards Ceremony, held at the Independence Seaport Museum and hosted by Tony Braithwaite.
*Award Recipient

Outstanding Overall Production of a Play

*The Laramie Project (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Book of Days (The People's Light & Theatre Company)
It's All True (InterAct Theatre Company)
The Old Settler (Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Arden Theatre Company)

Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical

*3HREE (Prince Music Theater)
The Baker's Wife (Arden Theatre Company)
Black Nativity (Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Candide (Prince Music Theater)
Singin' in the Rain (Walnut Street Theatre)

Outstanding Direction of a Play

*James J. Christy (The Laramie Project, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Abigail Adams (Book of Days, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Melia Bensussen (Hearts: The Forward Observer, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Harriet Power (Measure for Measure, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival)
Seth Rozin (It's All True, InterAct Theatre Company)

Harold Prince Award For Outstanding Direction of a Musical

*Terrence J. Nolen (The Baker's Wife, Arden Theatre Company)
Charles Abbott (Singin' in the Rain, Walnut Street Theatre)
Marion Caffey (Cookin' at the Cookery, Delaware Theatre Company)
Peter M. Donohue, OSA (Children of Eden, Villanova Theatre)
Brad Rouse (3HREE: The Mice, Prince Music Theater)

Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play

*Scott Greer (It's All True, InterAct Theatre Company)
Brandon Demery (Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Adam Grupper (Spin, The Wilma Theater)
David Howey (Twelfth Night, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival)
Frank X (King Lear, Lantern Theater Company)

Charlotte Cushman Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play

*Brenda Pressley (The Old Settler, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Nora Chester (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Delaware Theatre Company)
Oni Faida Lampley (The Dark Kalamazoo, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Jane Moore (Grace & Glorie, Act II Playhouse)
Jo Twiss (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Bristol Riverside Theatre)

Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical

*Brad Little (Evita, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Scott Greer (Lies & Legends, Act II Playhouse)
Jose Llana (Candide, Prince Music Theater)
Tom Nelis (Candide, Prince Music Theater)
Christopher Sutton (Singin' in the Rain, Walnut Street Theatre)
Tom Teti (The Baker's Wife, Arden Theatre Company)

Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical

*Debra Walton (Cookin' at the Cookery, Delaware Theatre Company)
Anna Christy (Candide, Prince Music Theater)
Ann Duquesnay (Cookin' at the Cookery, Delaware Theatre Company)
Maree Johnson (Passion, The Wilma Theater)
Jilline Ringle (Mondo Mangia, 1812 Productions)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play

*David Bardeen (It's All True, InterAct Theatre Company)
Benjamin Lloyd (Rhinoceros, Theatre Exile)
Paul McElwee (Greetings!, Westmont Theatre Company)
Ian Merrill Peakes (Romeo & Juliet, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival)
Matt Saunders (Man Measures Man, InterAct Theatre Company)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play

*Cathy Simpson (The Old Settler, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Adrienne Carter (No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Rebecca Hatcher Lisak (The Music Lesson, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Karen Hinton (It's All True, InterAct Theatre Company)
Barbara Winters (The Great Northeast, 1812 Productions)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical

*Jeffrey Coon (The Baker's Wife, Arden Theatre Company)
Ben Dibble (Lies & Legends, Act II Playhouse)
Michael Tapley (Singin' in the Rain, Walnut Street Theatre)
James Van Treuran (Evita, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Bruce Winant (Rags, Walnut Street Theatre)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical

*Lizz Fields (Sparkle: The Musical, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Beth Beyer (Singin' in the Rain, Walnut Street Theatre)
Mary Martello (The Baker's Wife, Arden Theatre Company)
Mary Kate McGrath (Rags, Walnut Street Theatre)
Connie Nelson (Rags, Walnut Street Theatre)

Outstanding Set Design

*James Kronzer (The Baker's Wife, Arden Theatre Company)
Bob Phillips (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Arden Theatre Company)
James F. Pyne, Jr. (Macbeth, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Jerome Sirlin (Candide, Prince Music Theater)
Walt Spangler (3HREE, Prince Music Theater)

Outstanding Lighting Design

*Howell Binkley (3HREE, Prince Music Theater)
Russell H. Champa (Perfect Pie, The Wilma Theater)
Jerold R. Forsyth (Passion, The Wilma Theater)
Thomas C. Hase (Macbeth, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
John Stephen Hoey (The Baker's Wife, Arden Theatre Company)

Outstanding Costume Design

*Miguel Angel Huidor (Candide, Prince Music Theater)
Andre D. Harrington (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Colleen McMillan (Singin' in the Rain, Walnut Street Theatre)
Janus Stefanowicz (Children of Eden, Villanova Theatre)
Catherine Zuber (Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Sound Design

*Jorge Cousineau (Anodyne, Pig Iron Theatre Company)
Charles T. Brastow (The Music Lesson, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Kevin Francis (Rhinoceros, Theatre Exile)
Fabian Obispo (Macbeth, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Adam Wernick (Perfect Pie, The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Original Music

*Kevin Campbell (The Dark Kalamazoo, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Fabian Obispo (A Christmas Carol, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Fabian Obispo (Macbeth, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Fabian Obispo (Romeo & Juliet, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival)
Adam Wernick (The Adventures of a Boy & His Dog on the High Seas, Mum Puppettheatre)

Outstanding Choreography

*Patricia Scott Hobbs (Black Nativity, Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Karen Getz & John Bellomo (Romeo & Juliet, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival)
Barby Hobyak (Children of Eden, Villanova Theatre)
Mary Jane Houdina (Singin' in the Rain, Walnut Street Theatre)
Whit MacLaughlin/New Paradise Laboratories (The Fab Four Reach the Pearly Gates, New Paradise Laboratories)

Outstanding New Play

*Hearts: The Forward Observer (By Willy Holtzman, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
3HREE: The Flight of the Lawnchair Man (By Peter Ullian & Robert Lindsay Nassif, Prince Music Theater)
Anodyne (By Pig Iron Theatre Company, Pig Iron Theatre Company)
Men of Stone (By Seth Rozin, Theater Catalyst)
No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs (By John Henry Redwood, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Ensemble

*The Laramie Project (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Black Nativity (Freedom Repertory Theatre)
Book of Days (The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Forever Plaid (Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Hearts: The Forward Observer (The People's Light & Theatre Company)

F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist

*Catharine K. Slusar
Scott Greer
Peter Jakubowski
Pete Pryor
Elizabeth Webster

Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News Education and Community Service Award

*Mum Puppettheatre: Project 19123
1812 Productions
AIDS Coalition of Southern New Jersey
Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival

Lifetime Achievement Honoree

*Catherine "Kaki" Marshall

Special Recognition Award

*Geraldine A. Duclow (Curator of the Theatre Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia)