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Jim Yost — 1963

Joanna Gerdy — Wiley & The Hairy Man

Lon Bumgarner — Lobby Hero, Take Me Out

Matt Cosper — The Lesson

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

Barbara Berry — Lonely Planet

Eric Winkenwerder — Oedipus Rex, Madeline, Art, Cabaret, Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy

Hallie Gray — Bat Boy: The Musical, Wonder of the World, Take Me Out, Bright Ideas

John Hartness — Unidentified Human Remains

John Hartness and Emily Eudy — Pageant

Michael Simmons — A Tree With Arms

Rita AmirAhmadi — Play About the Baby, Boy Gets Girl, Collected Stories, Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Todd O. Wren — I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!

BEST SET DESIGNER

Brian Ruggaber — Cyrano de Bergerac, Collected Stories

Chip Decker — Take Me Out, Bright Ideas

George Gray — 1963

Heather Mitchell and Michael R. Simmons — The Faculty Room

Jim Gloster — Over the River and Through the Woods

Joe Gardner — Barefoot in the Park

Kevin Raper — Madeline

Peter Smeal — Lonely Planet

BEST SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER

Alan Kaufman — Collected Stories

Anthony Proctor — Scratchy Scratcherton's Revenge

Dean Kluesner/Michael Eld — The Faculty Room

Gary Sivak — Oedipus Rex, Hansel & Gretel, Wiley & The Hairy Man, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Jeff Murdock — A Streetcar Named Desire

Mons Venera — Lenny's Back

T.J. Derham/Michael Simmons — Laughing Wild

The Aqualads — Psycho Beach Party

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Andy Boswell — Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano Prosthetics)

Drew Allison — Hansel & Gretel (Puppet Design)

James Dracy — Omega (Soma Sheep)

Johann Stegmeir & Kimberly Ashton — Oedipus Rex (Bleeding Walls)

Johann Stegmeir & Peter Smeal — Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy (The Horse)

Michael Simmons — Bat Boy: The Musical (Make-Up)

Mike Snow and Chris Brown — Wonder of the World (Helicopter Platform)

Stephen Clifford — Bat Boy: The Musical (The Puppet)

Stuart Williams — Pageant (Make-Up)

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Amy Akerblom — The Lesson

Annie-Laurie Wheat — Bat Boy: The Musical, Take Me Out

Bob Croghan — Hansel & Gretel, A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

Courtney Scott — Madeline, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Emily Stephens and Jamey Varnadore — Honk, Jr.

Johann Stegmeir — Oedipus Rex

Rebecca Cairns — Cabaret, Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Stuart Williams, Paul Snatic, and Mardi Gras Costumes — Pageant

Suzy Hartness — Our Country's Good, A Streetcar Named Desire

BEST ORIGINAL SHOW

Scratchy Scratcherton's Revenge by Stan Peal

Omega by Tony Wright

1963 by Judy Simpson Cook

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

Austin Herring — Take Me Out (Shane Mungitt)

Brett Gentile — Lobby Hero (Bill), Betty's Summer Vacation (Keith), Bright Ideas (Ross, Coach Angus, etc.)

Emily Hudson — A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

Jeremy Davis — Take Me Out (Darren Lemming)

Joe Rux — Scratchy Scratcherton's Revenge (Sticks Pickerwick), Take Me Out (Mason Marzak), Lifegame

Kathryn Stamas — Cabaret (Fraulein Kost)

Lamont Cullen Hulley — Pageant (Miss Industrial Northeast)

Laurie Riffe — A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche DuBois)

Sierra Santana — Psycho Beach Party (Bettina Barnes)

BEST MUSICAL

Bat Boy: The Musical — Actor's Theatre of Charlotte

Cabaret — Theatre Charlotte

Honk, Jr. — CPCC Summer Theatre

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! — Charlotte Rep

Pageant — Off—Tryon Theatre Company

Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy — Children's Theatre

The Last Five Years — CPCC Summer Theatre

BEST COMEDY

Bright Ideas — Actor's Theatre of Charlotte

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie — Children's Theatre of Charlotte

Laughing Wild — Carolina Actors Studio Theatre

Over the River and Through the Woods — Charlotte Repertory Theatre

Play About the Baby — BareBones Theatre Group

Psycho Beach Party — BareBones Theatre Group

Wonder of the World — Actor's Theatre of Charlotte

BEST DRAMA

A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas — Children's Theatre

Art — Charlotte Repertory Theatre

Lobby Hero — Actor's Theatre

Lonely Planet — BareBones Theatre Group

Mud — The Farm Theatre

Oedipus Rex — Children's Theatre

Take Me Out — Actor's Theatre

The Lesson — The Farm Theatre

THEATERPERSON OF THE YEAR

Anne Lambert, Chip Decker, Dennis Delamar, Douglas Welton, Jill Bloede, Joanna Gerdy, Keith Martin, Laura Depta, Lon Bumgarner, Matt Cosper, Michael Simmons, Nicia Carla, Pamela Nichols Galle, Peter Smeal, Tom Gabbard