Awards & Honors

72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2020

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Reality, or Competition Series Eugene Lee’86 Winner, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ’15 Winner, Watchmen

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series Tom Broecker ’92 (Producer) Winner, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Mamoudou Athie ’14 Nominee, Oh Jerome, No

Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program Tom Broecker ’92 Nominee, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series James Burrows ’65 Nominee, Will & Grace

Outstanding Drama Series Miki Johnson ’05 (Supervising Producer) Nominee, Ozark

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Angela Bassett ’83, HON ’18, YC ’80 Nominee, A Black Lady Sketch Show

Outstanding Narrator Angela Bassett ’83, HON ’18, YC ’80 Nominee, The Imagineering Story Lupita Nyong’o ’12 Nominee, Serengeti Outstanding Period Costumes Donna Zakowska ’83 Nominee, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Tony Shalhoub ’80 Nominee, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Meryl Streep ’75, HON ’83 Nominee, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Miki Johnson’05 Nominee, Ozark

Outstanding Variety Special (Live) James Burrows ’65 (Executive Producer) Winner, Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: “All In The Family” And “Good Times”

93rd Annual Academy Awards 2021

Actress in a Leading Role Frances McDormand ’82 Winner, Nomadland

Best Picture Frances McDormand ’82 (Actor) Winner, Nomadland

77th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2020

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Meryl Streep’75, HON’83 Nominee, Big Little Lies Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Henry Winkler ’70 Nominee, Barry

26th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2020

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Lupita Nyong’o ’12 Nominee, Us

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Meryl Streep ’75, HON ’83 Nominee, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series LeRoy McClain ’04 and Tony Shalhoub ’80 Winner, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Henry Winkler ’70 Nominee, Barry

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Tony Shalhoub ’80 Winner, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

36th Annual Helen Hayes Awards 2020

Outstanding Costume Design – Hayes Production Wade Laboissonniere ’03 Winner, Into the Woods

Outstanding Set Design – Hayes Production Debra Booth ’91 Nominee, Richard the Third Wilson Chin ’03 Nominee, Cabaret

Outstanding Set Design – Helen Production Nephelie Andonyadis ’90 Winner, Topdog/Underdog Outstanding Ensemble in a Play – Hayes Josiah Bania ’13 and Franchelle Stewart Dorn ’75 Nominee, The Oresteia

Outstanding Performer – Visiting Production Jayne Atkinson ’85 Nominee, Ann

35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards 2020

Outstanding Play Brad Heberlee ’02 (Creator) Nominee, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie

Outstanding Musical David Henry Hwang ’83 (Play and Lyrics) Nominee, Soft Power Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Book) Nominee, The Secret Life of Bees

Outstanding Revival Leah C. Gardiner ’96 (Director) Winner, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Outstanding Solo Show Tamilla Woodard ’02 (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Where We Stand

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play Edmund Donovan ’17 Winner, Greater Clements

Outstanding Scenic Design Timothy R. Mackabee ’09 Nominee, Seared

Outstanding Costume Design Toni-Leslie James (Faculty) Winner, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Dede M. Ayite ’11 Nominee, BLKS

Awards & Honors

Montana Levi Blanco ’15 Nominee, A Strange Loop Oana Botez (Faculty) Nominee, In the Green

Outstanding Lighting Design Alan C. Edwards ’11 (Faculty) Nominee, Fires in the Mirror

Outstanding Sound Design Nicholas Pope ’08 Nominee, In the Green

Outstanding Projection Design Hannah Wasileski ’13 Nominee, Anatomy of a Suicide Nominee, Fires in the Mirror

74th Annual Tony Awards 2020

Best Play Bess Wohl’02, ART ’99 (Playwright) Nominee, Grand Horizons Jeremy O. Harris ’19 (Playwright) Nominee, Slave Play

Best Original Score (Music and/ or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Fitz Patton ’01 and Jason Michael Webb Nominee, The Rose Tattoo

Best Direction of a Play Robert O’Hara (Faculty) Nominee, Slave Play

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Andrew Burnap ’16 Nominee, The Inheritance

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Ato Blankson-Wood ’15 Nominee, Slave Play James Cusati-Moyer ’15 Nominee, Slave Play David AlanGrier ’81 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play Chalia La Tour ’16 Nominee, Slave Play

Best Scenic Design of a Play Derek McLane ’84 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play

Best Scenic Design of a Musical Derek McLane ’84 Nominee, Moulin Rouge! The Musical Riccardo Hernández ’92 (Faculty) and Lucy Mackinnon Nominee, Jagged Little Pill

Best Costume Design of a Play Dede M. Ayite ’11 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play Nominee, Slave Play

Best Costume Design of a Musical Emily Rebholz ’06 Nominee, Jagged Little Pill Catherine Zuber ’84 Nominee, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Best Lighting Design of a Play Jiyoun Chang ’08 Nominee, Slave Play

65th Annual Drama Desk Awards 2020

Outstanding Musical Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Book) Nominee, The Secret Life of Bees David Henry Hwang ’83 (Play and Lyrics) Nominee, Soft Power

Outstanding Actor in a Play Edmund Donovan ’17 Winner, Greater Clements

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play David Alan Grier ’81 Nominee, A Soldier's Play Outstanding Book of a Musical David Henry Hwang ’83 Nominee, Soft Power Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) Nominee, The Secret Life of Bees

Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play Adam Rigg ’13 Nominee, Fefu and Her Friends

Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical Derek McLane ’84 Winner, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Outstanding Costume Design for a Play Asa Benally ’16 Nominee, Blues for an Alabama Sky Montana Levi Blanco ’15 Nominee, Fefu and Her Friends Toni-Leslie James (Faculty) Nominee, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical Catherine Zuber ’84 Winner, Moulin Rouge! The Musical Anita Yavich ’95 Nominee, Soft Power

Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play Yi Zhao ’12 Nominee, Greater Clements

Outstanding Projection Design Hannah Wasileski ’13 Nominee, Fires in the Mirror

Outstanding Sound Design for a Play Palmer Hefferan ’13 Nominee, Fefu and Her Friends 86th Annual Drama League Awards 2020

Outstanding Production of Broadway or Off-Broadway Play Bess Wohl ’02, ART ’99 (Playwright) Nominee, Grand Horizons Richard Nelson (Former Faculty) (Playwright and Director) Nominee, The Michaels Trip Cullman ’02, YC ’97 (Director) Nominee, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Jeremy O. Harris’19 (Playwright) and Robert O’Hara (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Slave Play

Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Book) Nominee, The Secret Life of Bees Rebecca Taichman ’00 (Director) Nominee, Sing Street David Henry Hwang ’83 (Play and Lyrics) Nominee, Soft Power

Outstanding Revival of a Play Leah C. Gardiner ’96 (Director) Nominee, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Arin Arbus (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Trip Cullman ’02, YC ’97 (Director) Nominee, The Rose Tattoo

Awards & Honors

Distinguished Performance Award Ato Blankson-Wood ’15 Nominee, The Rolling Stone and Slave Play Edmund Donovan’17 Nominee, Greater Clements David Alan Grier ’81 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play Galen Ryan Kane ’16 Nominee, Native Son

70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards 2019-20

Outstanding New Broadway Play Bess Wohl ’02, ART ’99 (Playwright) Honoree, Grand Horizons

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Book) Honoree, The Secret Life of Bees David Henry Hwang ’83 (Play and Lyrics) Honoree, Soft Power

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Bess Wohl ’02, ART ’99 (Playwright) Honoree, Make Believe

Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) Honoree, The Secret Life of Bees David Henry Hwang ’83 Honoree, Soft Power

Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) David Henry Hwang ’83 and Jeanine Testori Honoree, Soft Power

Outstanding Actor in a Play Edmund Donovan’17 Honoree, Greater Clements Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play David Alan Grier ’81 Honoree, A Soldier’s Play

Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical) Timothy R. Mackabee ’09 Honoree, Seared Derek McLane ’84 Honoree, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) Catherine Zuber ’84 Honoree, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical) Hannah Wasileski ’13 Honoree, Fires in the Mirror

52nd Annual Jeff Equity Awards 2020

Ensemble – Play Anna Crivelli ’17 Nominee, How to Defend Yourself (Victory Gardens Theater) Sebastian Arboleda ’17 Nominee, The Leopard Play, or Sad Songs for Lost Boys (Steep Theatre Company)

Scenic Design – Large Takeshi Kata ’01 Winner, Bug (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Scenic Design – Midsize Kurtis Boetcher ’15 Nominee, Grey House (A Red Orchid Theatre)

Original Music in a Play Pornchanok Kanchanabanca ’16 Nominee, The Great Leap (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) 31st Annual Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards 2020

Best Season A Noise Within Michael Bateman ’13 (Managing Director) Nominee, Frankenstein, Gem of the Ocean, Buried Child, The Winter’s Tale

Acting Ensemble of a Musical Erron Crawford ’19 Winner, Rockwell Musical Parodies Presents: Stephen King’s IT (Rockwell Table & Stage)

Direction of a Musical Marya Mazor ’92 Nominee, Fun Home (Chance Theater)

Lead Actor in a Play Michael Manuel ’92 Nominee, Frankenstein (A Noise Within)

Lead Actress in a Play Tessa Auberjonois ’98 Winner, Eight Nights (Antaeus Theatre Company)

Scenic Design (Large Theatre) John Lee Beatty ’73 Winner, Key Largo (Geffen Playhouse)

Costume Design (Large Theatre) Linda Cho ’98 Nominee, Key Largo (Geffen Playhouse)

65th Annual Obie Awards 2020

Performance Edmund Donovan ’17 Greater Clements Special Citation Montana Levi Blanco ’15 (Costume Design) Creative Team and Ensemble of A Strange Loop Michael Feingold ’72 Extraordinary Service to the Theater Pun Bandhu ’01 and Peter Y. Kim ’04 AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition) For advocacy in the field of equity, diversity, and inclusion

Institutional Recognition Michael Walkup ’06, DFA ’11 (Artistic Director) and Kari Olmon ’18 (Associate Producer) Page 73 For Providing Extraordinary Support for Early Career Playwrights

The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes

Drama David Henry Hwang ’83 and Jeanine Tesori Finalist, Soft Power

Inaugural Antonyo Awards 2020

Best Musical Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Book) Nominee, The Secret Life of Bees

Best Featured Actor in a Play Off-Broadway Leland Fowler ’17 Nominee, One in Two

Best Featured Actor in a Play on Broadway Chalia La Tour ’16 Winner, Slave Play David Alan Grier ’81 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play Ato Blankson-Wood ’15 Nominee, Slave Play

Awards & Honors

Best Director Lileana Blain-Cruz ’12 (Faculty) Winner, Anatomy of a Suicide Robert O’Hara (Faculty) Nominee, BLKS

Best Lighting Design Alan C. Edwards ’11 (Faculty) Nominee, The Hot Wing King

Best Costumes Toni Leslie-James (Faculty) Winner, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Dede M. Ayite ’11 Nominee, BLKS

Best Book Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) Nominee, The Secret Life of Bees

Best Actor in a Play OffBroadway Ato Blankson-Wood ’15 Nominee, The Rolling Stone

Friends of AUDELCO 2019 — 2020 Theatre Season “The VIV” NOMINEES

Lighting Design Alan C. Edwards ’11 (Faculty) Winner, The New Englanders Nominee, Fires in the Mirror

Costume Design Toni-Leslie James (Faculty) Winner, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Asa Benally ’16 Nominee, Blues for an Alabama Sky Sound Design Palmer Hefferan ’13 Nominee, The New Englanders Mikaal Sulaiman (Faculty) Nominee, Fires in the Mirror

Director of a Play Tamilla Woodard ’02 (Faculty) Nominee, Where We Stand

Connecticut Critics Circle Awards 2019-2020

Projections Yana Birÿkova ’17 Winner, Mlima’s Tale

Direction Mark Lamos (Faculty) Winner, Mlima’s Tale

Production Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Playwright) Winner, Mlima’s Tale

The Kilroys 2020 List

Caroline V. McGraw ’12 I Get Restless Kara-Lynn VaeniL ’04 Shape Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Libretto) and Ricky Ian Gordon (Music) Intimate Apparel Martyna Majok ’12 Sanctuary City Miranda Rose Hall ’17 Plot Points in Our Sexual Development Sarah B. Mantell ’17 Everything That Never Happened Wendy MacLeod ’87 The Laugh Track USITT Awards 2020

Herbert D. Greggs Award John Huntington’90, Merit Sandra Goldmark ’04, Merit

Bernhard R. Works, Frederick A. Buerki Scenic Technology Award Irene Yaro Yarashevich ’20

The KM Fabrics, Inc. Technical Production Award Dashiell Menard ’19

USITT Award Susan Hilferty ’80

2020 Henr Hewes Design Awards

Scenic Design Derek McLane ’84 Nominee, Moulin Rouge! The Musical John Lee Beatty ’73 Nominee, Long Lost Kristen Robinson ’13 Nominee, In the Green Riccardo Hernández ’92 (Faculty) Nominee, Toni Stone Timothy R. Mackabee ’09 Nominee, Seared

Costume Design Anita Yavich ’95 Honoree, Soft Power Montana Levi Blanco ’15 Nominee, A Strange Loop Nominee, Fefu and Her Friends Toni-Leslie James (Faculty) Nominee, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Asa Benally ’16 Nominee, Blues for an Alabama Sky Catherine Zuber ’84 Nominee, Moulin Rouge! The Musical Linda Cho ’98 Nominee, Cambodian Rock Band Lighting Design Les Dickert ’97 Nominee, The Crucible Alan C. Edwards ’11 (Faculty) Nominee, Fires in the Mirror

Sound Design Fitz Patton ’01 Nominee, The Rose Tattoo Nicholas Pope ’08 Nominee, In the Green Palmer Hefferan ’13 Nominee, Fefu and Her Friends

Media Design Hannah Wasileski ’13 Honoree, Fires in the Mirror Johnny Moreno ’18 Nominee, for all the women who thought they were Mad

Special Citation Design Team (Fefu and Her Friends, Theatre for a New Audience) Adam Rigg ’13, Scenic Design Montana Levi Blanco ’15, Costume Design Palmer Hefferan ’13, Sound Design