Our
Past
Recipients
The New York Innovative Theatre Awards has celebrated New York City's independent theatre artists for more than 15 years, by honoring those who have achieved artistic excellence in the Off-Off Broadway/Indie theatre realm.
Here are some of those recipients!
2019 Recipients
HONORARY AWARD RECIPIENTS
Artistic Achievement Award
Magie Dominic
Ellen Stewart Award
Nicky Paraiso
Caffe Cino Fellowship Award
TOSOS – The Other Side of Silence
Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award
Barbara Kahn
PRODUCTION AWARD RECIPIENTS
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE: Alex & Eugene
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Aja Downing, Reggie Herold, Katherine Leidlein, Joseph M. Mace, Rori Nogee, Noah Pyzik, Jae Shin, Anna Stefanic, Brittany Zeinstra
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE: Kim Katzberg
Dad in a Box
Eat a Radish Productions
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE: Federico Mallet
Eight Tales of Pedro
The Secret Theatre
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE: Meghan E. Jones
Mary, Mary
Retro Productions
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE: Harrison Bryan
Spring Awakening
Gallery Players
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE: Lori Elizabeth Parquet
Operating Systems
Flux Theatre Ensemble
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT: Yoshiko Usami
Shinka
Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR: Sara Thigpen
Twelfth Night
Boomerang Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN: Kia Rogers
Real
Rodrigo Nogueira in association with The Tank
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN: Michelle Beshaw
Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story
GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN: Gabriel Firestone
Whirlwind
Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN: Aj Surasky-Ysasi
Worse Than Tigers
The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN:
Hao Bai, Eric Marciano & Ildiko Nemeth – for Projection Design
Electronic City, The New Stage Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC: Luis D’Elias
Eight Tales of Pedro
The Secret Theatre
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT: Teresa Lotz
She Calls Me Firefly
Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT: Madhuri Shekar
Queen
Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION: Electronic City
The New Stage Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL: Spring Awakening
Gallery Players
OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY: Shinka
Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY: Stupid Fucking Bird
Stripped Scripts
2018 Recipients
HONORARY AWARDS
CAFFÉ CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD
Peculiar Works Project
ELLEN STEWART AWARD
Fractured Atlas
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Mia Katigbak
DORIC WILSON INDEPENDENT PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD
Gina Femia
OUTSTANDING STAGE MANAGER
Amy Marin
PRODUCTION AWARDS
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE: Follies
Astoria Performing Arts Center
Denali Bennett, Victoria Bundonis, LaDonna Burns, Denise DeMars, Tia DeShazor, Susan Cohen DeStefano, Christine Donnelly, Andrea Dotto, Dan Entriken, Jonathan Fluck, Spencer Hansen, James Harter, Marcie Henderson, Greg Horton, Kathleen LaMagna, Andrea McCullough, Sharae Moultrie, Ben Northrup, Rusty Riegelman, Bruce Sabath, Carolyn Seiff, Cliff Sellers, Lauren Alice Smith, Lucy Sorlucco, Tina Stafford, Noah Virgile, Mandarin Wu
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE: Valerie Redd
You / Emma, Wandering Bark Theatre Company in association with IRT Theater
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE: Todd Ritch
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 5th Floor Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE: LaDonna Burns
Follies, Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE: Ryan McCurdy
Greencard Wedding, Goode Productions
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE: Maggie Low
Chickens in the Yard, Adjusted Realists
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT: Sara Brians
Follies, Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR: Mark Lewis
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Sea Dog Theater
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN: Stacey Boggs
AMP, Goode Productions
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN: Jennifer A. Jacob
Follies, Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN: Maruti Evans
Precious Little Talent, Shea Delves Productions
OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN: Lisa Renkel - for Projection Design
Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home, Poetic Theater Productions
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC: Julian Kytasty, Serhiy Zhadan, & The Dogs
1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs, Yara Arts Group in association with La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT: Joseph Hefner
Agency, The Company Ink in association with Michael Johnson
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT: Eric Avilés
Where You From? What You Be About?, Liberation Arts Collective
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION: Soot and Spit
Our Voices Theater in association with New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
1917-2017:Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs
Yara Arts Group in association with LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club
OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY: The Snow Queen
Blessed Unrest in association with New Ohio Theater
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Sea Dog Theater
2017 Recipients
HONORARY AWARDS
CAFFÉ CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD
Retro Productions
ELLEN STEWART AWARD
Crystal Field
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Lois Weaver & Peggy Shaw Split Britches
DORIC WILSON INDEPENDENT PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD
J.Stephen Brantley
OUTSTANDING STAGE MANAGER
Elizabeth Ramsey
PRODUCTION AWARDS
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE: Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time
New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium
Brittany Allen, Vinie Burrows, Ugo Chukwu, Constance Cooper, Milo Cramer, Fernando Gonzalez, Jonathan Gordon, David Greenspan, Tommy Heleringer, Chris Henry, Veronica Hunsinger-Loe, Hannah Mitchell, Caitlin Morris, Craig Mungavin, Jeanna Phillips, Madeline Wise
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE: William DeMeritt
Origin Story, Old Sound Room
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE: Nico Grelli
The Jamb, Hard Sparks
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE: Moira Stone
Three Sisters, Obvious Volcano in association with Maggie Cino
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE: Zack Krajnyak
Sweeney Todd, Theater 2020
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE: Ivanna Cullinan
Three Sisters, Obvious Volcano in association with Maggie Cino
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY / MOVEMENT: Tamrin Goldberg
Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR: Morgan Green
Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time
New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN: Kate Jaworski
The Woman Who Was Me, Convergences Theatre Collective
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN: Izzy Fields
Anais Nin Goes to Hell, Manhattan Theatre Works (MTWorks) in association with Goode Productions
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN: Frank Oliva
#liberated, The Living Room
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN: Aidan Meyer
The Red Room, The Shelter
OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN
David Bengali, John Erickson, Reid Farrington, Jorge Garcia-Spitz, David Mauro, Dan Monceaux, Leegrid Stevens - for Video Design & Animation
The Dudleys!, Loading Dock Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC: Melody Bates & Rebecca Hart
The Cabaret At The End Of The World, Hard Sparks
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT: Charlie O’Leary
Precious Body a part of Landmarks & TRANSformations, Project Y Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT: Aditya Rawal
The Queen, Aman Soni in association with Juggernaut Theatre Co. and Theater for the New City
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION: The Infinite Wrench
New York Neo-Futurists
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL: Raisin
Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY: The Tempest
Smith Street Stage
OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time
New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium
2016 Recipients
HONORARY AWARDS
2016 Artistic Achievement Award
Carmelita Tropicana
2016 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award
New Stage Theatre Company
2016 Ellen Stewart Award
The Fringe NYC
Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award
Victoria Libertore
Outstanding Stage Manager
Jaclyn Biskup
PRODUCTION AWARDS
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
- The Golfer
Gemini CollisionWorks
Fred Backus, Broderick Ballantyne, Rebecca Gray Davis, Lex Friedman, Ian W. Hill, Bob Laine, Matthew Napoli, Timothy McCown Reynolds, Alyssa Simon, Anna Stefanic
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE - Siobhan O'Loughlin
Broken Bone Bathtub, Elephant Run District
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE
- Timothy McCown Reynolds
The Golfer, Gemini CollisionWorks
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE -
Midori Francis
Connected, Project Y Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
- Fred Backus
The Golfer, Gemini CollisionWorks
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE - Maeve Yore
Harper Regan, T. Schreiber Studio
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT -
Becky Baumwoll
Above Below, Broken Box Mime Theater
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR -
Fritz Brekeller
Composure, WorkShop Theater Company
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN - Aaron Gonzalez
Wait Until Dark, Variations Theatre Group
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
- Kaitlyn Elizabeth Day
The Golfer, Gemini CollisionWorks
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
- George Allison
Hot L Baltimore, T. Schreiber Studio
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
- Joe Jung & KJ Sanchez
Unity (1918), Project: Theater
Outstanding Innovative Design - Berit Johnson (Props Design)
The Golfer, Gemini CollisionWorks
Outstanding Original Music - Matt Sherwin
Gluten!, Adjusted Realists
Outstanding Original Short Script - Kim Katzberg
Strays, Kim Katzberg in collaboration with Nora Woolley and Raquel Cion
Outstanding Original Full-Length Script - Scott C. Sickles
Composure, WorkShop Theater Company
Outstanding Performance Art Production - Above Below
Broken Box Mime Theater
Outstanding Production Of A Musical - Steve: A Docu-Musical
New York Neo-Futurists
Outstanding Premiere Production Of A Play - Utility
The Amoralists
Outstanding Revival Of A Play - Street Theater
TOSOS
2015 Recipients
HONORARY AWARDS
ELLEN STEWART AWARD
Here Arts
CAFFE CINO AWARD
Theatre 167
DORIC WILSON INDEPENDENT PLAYWRIGHT AWARD
Andrea Alton
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
Marshall W. Mason
OUTSTANDING STAGE MANAGER
Juni Li
PRODUCTION AWARDS
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
Much Ado About Nothing - Smith Street Stage, Inc.
Olivia Caputo, Michael Vincent Carrera, Mary Cavett, John Patrick Doherty, Austin Durant, Maxwell Eddy, Patrick Harvey, Alexandra Henrikson, Jonathan Hopkins, David Pegram, Lauren Pennline, Georgina Richardson, Sam Rosenberg, Will Sarratt, Kim Taff, Sophia Tupy, Corey Whelihan
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE - Sylvia Milo
The Other Mozart, Little Matchstick Factory
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE - Dan McVey
Pretty Babies, Elsinore County
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE - Mel House
In The Bones, Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE - Matthew Trumbull
The Temple, or Lebensraum, Tin Drum Productions in Association with MozzleStead
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE - Emily Koch
In
The Bones, Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT - Isaac Bush
The Mountain, The Circle Theater of New York
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR - Isaac Byrne
In Vestments, Theatre 4the People
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN - Nicole Pearce
The Law of Return, Newsom Zipoy Productions
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN - Debbi Hobson
Unmentionables, Nylon Fusion Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN - Carolyn Mraz
The Twelfth Labor, Loading Dock Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN - Jeanne Travis
The Temple, or Lebensraum, Tin Drum Productions in Association with MozzleStead
OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN - Stephanie Cox-Williams (Gore & Blood Effects)
R & J & Z, Hard Sparks
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC - Phyllis Chen & Nathan Davis
The Other Mozart, Little Matchstick Factory
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT - Lisa Bruna
Invasion from Estrogenius: Andi’s Night, manhattan theatre source
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT - Micheline Auger
Donkey Punch, Ivy Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION - Night
The New Stage Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL - Merrily We Roll Along
Astoria Performing Arts Center
OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY - In Vestments
Theatre 4 the People
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY - Much Ado About Nothing
Smith Street Stage, Inc.
2014 Recipients
HONORARY AWARDS
Artistic Achievement Award
Dan Bianchi (RadioTheatre)
Ellen Stewart Award
Woodie King, Jr. (New Federal Theatre)
Caffe Cino Fellowship Award
Blessed Unrest
Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award
Kevin R. Free
Outstanding Stage Manager
Haejin Han
PRODUCTION AWARDS
Outstanding Ensemble - At First Sight (and Other Stories),
Broken Box Mime Theater
Becky Baumwoll, Dinah Berkeley, Seikai Ishizuka, David Jenkins, Meera Kumbhani, Tasha Milkman, Marissa Molnar, Dan Reckart, Joe Tuttle, Leah Wagner
Outstanding Solo Performance - Sandy Moore
The Simple Stories, WorkShop Theater Company
Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role - Noel Joseph Allain
Luft
Gangster, Nylon Fusion Collective
Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role - Jenny Seastone
The Gin Baby, Kid Brooklyn Productions and Mermaid Sands Productions
Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role - Jason O'Connell
Don Juan In Hell, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role - Heather E. Cunningham
An Appeal to the Woman of the House, Retro Productions
Outstanding Choreography/Movement - Carlos Neto
Gymnos: A Geek's Tragedy, Ticket 2 Eternity Productions
Outstanding Director DeLisa M. White
Lights Narrow, Teatro Oscuro
Outstanding Lighting Design - Kia Rogers
Jane the Plain, Flux Theatre Ensemble
Outstanding Costume Design - Gail Cooper-Hecht
The Importance of Being Earnest, Take Wing And Soar Productions, Inc.
Outstanding Set Design - Travis McHale
Rubber Ducks and Sunsets, Ground Up Productions
Outstanding Sound Design - Christian Frederickson
The Awake, kef theatrical productions
Outstanding Innovative Design - Nicole Hill, For Puppet Design
Mute, New York Neo-Futurists
Outstanding Original Music - Scott Munson
Sawbones & the Diamond Eater, Days of the Giants LLC
Outstanding Original Short Script - Lenore Wolf
April March, Fragments from an Unintegrated Life from East Side Stories: Movers,
Metropolitan Playhouse
Outstanding Original Full-Length Script - David Stallings
Dark Water, Manhattan Theatre Works (MTWorks)
Outstanding Performance Art Production - The God Projekt
La MaMa in association with Lone Wolf Tribe
Outstanding Production of a Musical
- Allegro
Astoria Performing Arts Center
Outstanding Premiere Production of A Play - Pirira
Theatre 167
Outstanding Revival of A Play
- Don Juan In Hell
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
2013 Recipients
HONORARY AWARDS
Artistic Achievement Award
Richard Foreman
Ellen Stewart Award
The Dramatists Guild Fund
Caffe Cino Fellowship Award
terraNOVA Collective
Outstanding Stage Manager Award
Abbey Bay
Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award
Mariah MacCarthy
PRODUCTION AWARDS
Outstanding Ensemble The Window:4 ALICE
PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Inés Garcia, Robin Johnson, Nick Smerkanich
Outstanding Solo Performance - Erin Treadway
Spaceman, Loading Dock Theatre Company
Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role - Justin Danforth
The Thirteenth Commandment, Libra Theater Company
Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role - Lauren Pennline
The Thirteenth Commandment, Libra Theater Company
Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role - Nick Smerkanich
The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role - Amara Haaksman
That Lady from Maxim’s, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Outstanding Choreography/Movement - Jessica Burr and Sonia Vilani
Eurydice’s Dream, Blessed Unrest in association with The Interart Theatre
Outstanding Director - Padraic Lillis
The Rise And Fall Of A Teenage Cyberqueen, LabRats Theatre Company
Outstanding Lighting Design - Maruti Evans
Will Elliott’s The Pilo Family Circus, Godlight Theatre Company
Outstanding Costume Design - Daniela Codarcea Kamiliotis
The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Outstanding Set Design - Daniela Codarcea Kamiliotis
The Window:4 ALICE, PopUp Theatrics in association with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Outstanding Sound Design - Leegrid Stevens
Spaceman, Loading Dock Theatre Company
Outstanding Innovative Design - Lynda White for Mask Design & Construction
Oedipus Rex XX/XY, The Faux-Real Theatre Company
Outstanding Original Music - Bryan Williams
That Lady from Maxim’s, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Outstanding Original Short Script - Jonathan Draxton
Soldier, The Plowmen
Outstanding Original Full-length Script - Bryan Williams
That Lady from Maxim’s, Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Outstanding Performance Art Production - Doctor Faustus
Lights the Lights, Production Workshop in association with Kickstarter Backers
Outstanding Production of a Musical - That Lady from Maxim’s
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc
Outstanding Premiere Production of A Play - The Rise And Fall Of A Teenage Cyberqueen
LabRats Theatre Company
Outstanding Revival of A Play - Macbeth
The Crook Theater Company
