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2007 Nominators, Judges, and Participating Theatres

On October 1, 2007, the following nominees and award recipients were honored at the Annual Barrymore Awards Ceremony, held at the Crystal Tea Room and hosted by Chris Faith and Greg Wood.

* Award Recipient

Outstanding Overall Production of a Play

*Of Mice and Men (Walnut Street Theatre)
The Four of Us (1812 Productions)
Master Harold...and the boys (Lantern Theater Company)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Theatre Exile)
The Pillowman (The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical

*Caroline, or Change (Arden Theatre Company)
The Bomb-itty of Errors (11th Hour Theatre Company)
The Fantasticks (Mum Puppettheatre)
Nerds://A Musical Software Satire (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
42nd Street (Walnut Street Theatre)

Harmelin Media Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play

*Mark Clements (Of Mice and Men, Walnut Street Theatre)
Terrence J. Nolen (A Prayer for Owen Meany, Arden Theatre Company)
David O'Connor (Master Harold...and the boys, Lantern Theater Company)
Matt Pfeiffer (Glengarry Glen Ross, Theatre Exile)
Jiri Zizka (The Pillowman, The Wilma Theater)

Harold Prince Award For Outstanding Direction of a Musical

*Charles Abbott (42nd Street, Walnut Street Theatre)
Aaron Cromie (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)
Philip Wm. McKinley (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Terrence J. Nolen (Caroline, or Change, Arden Theatre Company)
Megan Nicole O'Brien (The Bomb-itty of Errors, 11th Hour Theatre Company)

Outstanding Musical Direction

*Mat Wright & Aaron Cromie (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)
Thomas DelPizzo, Rob McClure, Michael Philip O'Brien, Steve Pacek & Mark Valenzuela (The Bomb-itty of Errors, 11th Hour Theatre Company)
Eric Ebbenga (Caroline, or Change, Arden Theatre Company)
Douglass G. Lutz (Carousel, Walnut Street Theatre)
Mark Yurkanin (Side by Side by Sondheim, Walnut Street Theatre, Independence Studio 3)

Ark Media Award for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play

*John Campion as Galileo (The Life of Galileo, The Wilma Theater)
Scott Greer as Lennie (Of Mice and Men, Walnut Street Theatre)
Brent Harris as Larry Olivier (Orson's Shadow, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Matt Pfeiffer as Matt (Red Light Winter, Theatre Exile)
Frank X as Sam ("Master Harold"...and the boys, Lantern Theater Company)

Charlotte Cushman Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play

*Susan Riley Stevens as Haley Walker (Bad Dates, Act II Playhouse)
Louisa Flaningam as Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy, Delaware Theatre Company)
Erin Clare Hurley as Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Christie Parker as Desdemona (Othello, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival)
Eunice Wong as Hope (Infinite Ache, Walnut Street Theatre, Independence Studio 3)

Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical

*Rob McClure as Antipholus of Syracuse (The Bomb-itty of Errors, 11th Hour Theatre Company)
Bev Appleton (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)
Jeffrey Coon as Billy Bigelow (Carousel, Walnut Street Theatre)
Mark Jacoby as Julian Marsh (42nd Street, Walnut Street Theatre)
Jim Poulos as Gates (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical

*Joilet F. Harris as Caroline Thibodeaux (Caroline, or Change, Arden Theatre Company)
Demetria Joyce Bailey as Ethel Waters (Ethel Waters, His Eye is On the Sparrow, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Kim Carson (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)
Cara Cooper as Peggy Sawyer (42nd Street, Walnut Street Theatre)
Leslie Uggams as Lena Horne (Stormy Weather, Imagining Lena Horne, Prince Music Theater)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play

*Harry Philibosian as Shelly Levine (Glengarry Glen Ross, Theatre Exile)
Jeb Kreager as Ellard Simms (The Foreigner, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Christopher Patrick Mullen as Pap, Mrs. Loftus, Tom Sawyer, Ensemble (Splittin' the Raft, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Ian Merrill Peakes as Davis (Red Light Winter, Theatre Exile)
Pete Pryor as Michal (The Pillowman, The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play

*Charlotte Northeast as Ida (Skin in Flames, InterAct Theatre Company)
Rachel Botchan as Joan Plowright (Orson's Shadow, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Charlotte Ford as Christina (Red Light Winter, Theatre Exile)
Meghan Heimbecker as Isabel Dyson (My Children! My Africa!, The Wilma Theater)
Susan Wilder as Vivien Leigh (Orson's Shadow, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical

*Dave Jadico as as Henry, Mortimer and The Mute (The Fantasticks, Mum Puppettheatre)
Thomas DelPizzo as Dromio of Ephesus (The Bomb-itty of Errors, 11th Hour Theatre Company)
Christopher Patrick Mullen as Midge, the Miller (Robin Hood, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Patrick O'Hara as Amos Hart (Chicago, The New Candlelight Theatre)
David Rossmer as Woz (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical

*Dee Hoty as Kay Thompson (Stormy Weather, Imagining Lena Horne, Prince Music Theater)
Susan Cella as Dorothy Brock (42nd Street, Walnut Street Theatre)
Sherri L. Edelen as Rose Stopnick Gellman (Caroline, or Change, Arden Theatre Company)
Kelly J. Rucker as Dotty Moffett (Caroline, or Change, Arden Theatre Company)
Chandra Lee Schwartz as Sally (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Set Design, sponsored by KieranTimberlake Associates

*Jorge Cousineau (The Four of Us, 1812 Productions)
Todd Edward Ivins (Of Mice and Men, Walnut Street Theatre)
Mimi Lien (The Life of Galileo, The Wilma Theater)
Arthur R. Rotch (Splittin' the Raft, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
James Wolk (Dex and Julie Sittin' in a Tree, Arden Theatre Company)

PECO Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

*Shelley Hicklin (Of Mice and Men, Walnut Street Theatre)
Jerold R. Forsyth (Dex and Julie Sittin' in a Tree, Arden Theatre Company)
Jerold R. Forsyth (The Pillowman, The Wilma Theater)
Tyler Micoleau (The Life of Galileo, The Wilma Theater)
Kenton Yeager (A Prayer for Owen Meany, Arden Theatre Company)

Earl Girls Award for Outstanding Costume Design

*Rosemarie E. McKelvey (Caroline, or Change, Arden Theatre Company)
Millie Hiibel (La Ronde, Lantern Theater Company)
Janus Stefanowicz (The Tempest, Villanova Theatre)
Janus Stefanowicz (The Life of Galileo, The Wilma Theater)
Ellis Tillman (Enchanted April, Walnut Street Theatre)

Clear Sound Award for Outstanding Sound Design

*Jorge Cousineau (The Giver, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Troy Herion (The Life of Galileo, The Wilma Theater)
Nick Kourtides (Chekhov Lizardbrain, Pig Iron Theatre Company)
Bill Moriarty (The Pillowman, The Wilma Theater)
Fitz Patton (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Outstanding Original Music

*Hal Goldberg (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Jorge Cousineau (The Giver, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
Ben Edwards with Aaron Cromie, Madi Distefano, and Bradford Trojan (EYE-95 Retarred, Brat Productions)
Tony Macaulay (Windy City, Walnut Street Theatre)
Jim Ryan (This Is The Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays, 1812 Productions)

Outstanding Choreography/Movement

*Karen Getz (Hair, Prince Music Theater)
Michelle Gaudette (Carousel, Walnut Street Theatre)
Mary Jane Houdina (42nd Street, Walnut Street Theatre)
Jody Anderson Miller (Chicago, The New Candlelight Theatre)
Samuel Antonio Reyes (The Bomb-itty of Errors, 11th Hour Theatre Company)

Independence Foundation Award for Outstanding New Play

*Nerds://A Musical Software Satire (Book & Lyrics by Jordan Allen-Dutton & Erik Weiner, Music by Hal Goldberg, Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Anne of Green Gables (Adapted by Peter DeLaurier, from the novel by L.M. Montgomery, The People's Light & Theatre Company)
A House with No Walls (By Thomas Gibbons, InterAct Theatre Company)
Dex and Julie Sittin' in a Tree (By Bruce Graham, Arden Theatre Company)
Windy City (Music by Tony Macaulay, Book & Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh with additional material by Tony Macaulay, Walnut Street Theatre)

City Paper Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play

*Glengarry Glen Ross (Theatre Exile)
Spring Awakening (EgoPo Productions)
"Master Harold"...and the boys (Lantern Theater Company)
Of Mice and Men (Walnut Street Theatre)
The Pillowman (The Wilma Theater)

Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical

*The Bomb-itty of Errors (11th Hour Theatre Company)
Caroline, or Change (Arden Theatre Company)
The Fantasticks (Mum Puppettheatre)
Nerds://A Musical Software Satire (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
42nd Street (Walnut Street Theatre)

F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist

*Matt Saunders
Lee Ann Etzold
Millie Hiibel
Jeb Kreager
Matt Pfeiffer

Actors' Equity Award for Excellence in Theatre Education and Community Service Award, co-sponsored by the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund

*Adopt-A-School (Walnut Street Theatre)
1812 Outreach (1812 Productions)
Illumination (Lantern Theater Company)
My Philly Reality (Philadelphia Theatre Company)

Lifetime Achievement Honoree

*Carole Haas Gravagno

Ted & Stevie Wolf Award for New Approaches to Collaborations

*Brat Productions & the rock bands: Toothless George, Allison Polans, Danny Mackane, Devin Greenwood & Franzschubert (Three Chord Fiction)
InterAct Theatre Company, Mural Arts Program & Art-Reach (The Norris Square Project)
The Vagabond Acting Troupe & University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (The Trial of Akhenaten)

Suzanne Roberts Theatre Alliance College Scholarship Award

*Caitlin Reed

The Joseph Cairns, Jr. and Ernestine Bacon Cairns Memorial Scholarship

*Shoshana Katz