August 24, 2015
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Steve Pacek, Justin Jain, Rachel Camp, Steven Wright, Grace Gonglewski, Melanye Finister, Jeffrey Coon, Mary Martello, Samantha Bellomo, Dito Van Reigersberg and The Barrymore Awards Band open the 2014 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, October 27, 2014.
This year's Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, essentially the Oscars of the local theater set, will be presented to the dedicated theater artists of the Greater Philadelphia area Monday, November 2 at the Merriam Theater. Monday, August 24, this year's lucky nominees were announced at the Suzanne Roberts Theater to a very excited crowd.
The 2015 Barrymore Award nominees include:
Outstanding Overall Production of a Play
Caught (InterAct Theatre Company)
The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane (InterAct Theatre Company)
In The Blood (Theatre Horizon)
To The Moon (1812 Productions)
Rapture, Blister, Burn (The Wilma Theater)
The Whale (Theatre Exile)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Exile)
Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical
Field Hockey Hot (11th Hour Theatre Company)
Herringbone (Flashpoint Theatre Company)
Into the Woods (Theatre Horizon)
Ragtime (Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play
Pearce Bunting (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Theatre Exile)
Peter DeLaurier (QED, Lantern Theater Company)
Charlie DelMarcelle (The Glass Menagerie, Act II Playhouse)
Michael Genet (Fences, People's Light)
Scott Greer (To The Moon, 1812 Productions)
Scott Greer (The Whale, Theatre Exile)
Jered McLenigan (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Wilma Theater)
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play
Carla Belver (The Glass Menagerie, Act II Playhouse)
Kim Carson (Nora, Delaware Theatre Compay)
Melanye Finister (Fences, People's Light)
Eleanor Handley (Lost in Yonkers, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Aime Donna Kelly (The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane, InterAct Theatre Company)
Mary McDonnell (The Cherry Orchard, People's Light)
Catharine Slusar (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Theatre Exile)
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical
Derrick Cobey (Ragtime, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Ben Dibble (Herringbone, Flashpoint Theatre Company)
Michael Thomas Holmes (Ragtime, Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Steve Pacek (Into the Woods, Theatre Horizon)
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical
Rachel Camp (Into the Woods, Theatre Horizon)
Kim Carson (Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon, People's Light)
Liz Filios (Passion, Arden Theatre Company)
April Woodall (Souvenir, Montgomery Theater)
A full 105 local theater productions were submitted for adjudication this year, 74 of which comprised the pool from which nominees were selected. 11th Hour Theatre Company co-founder Steve Pacek will direct this year's awards. Tickets for this year's ceremony go on sale Tuesday, August 25 at noon.
