The Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, honoring theatre in that state, were announced, with the Long Wharf Theatre production of Wintertime winning in two of four categories: Lighting designer Robert Wierzel and costume designer Christal Weatherly. Jeff Cowie took the set design award for the Hartford Stage revival of The Night of the Iguana and sound designer Christopher A. Granger won for the Stamford Theatre Works production of A Kiss Before Dying.
A full list of winners follows:
Play:
Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Yale Repertory Theatre
Musical:
Me and My Girl, Goodspeed Musicals
Actress/Play:
Annalee Jefferies, The Night of the Iguana, Hartford Stage
Actor/Play:
Leon Addison Brown, Master Harold" . . . and the boys, Westport Country Playhouse); James Colby, The Night of the Iguana, Hartford Stage
Actress/Musical:
Josie de Guzman, The King and I, Downtown Cabaret Theatre
Actor/Musical:
Hunter Bell, Me and My Girl, Goodspeed Musicals
Director/Play:
Bill Rauch and Tracy Young, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Yale Repertory Theatre
Director/Musical:
Scott Schwartz, Me and My Girl, Goodspeed Musicals
Choreography:
Lisa and Gary McIntyre, Swing, Downtown Cabaret Theatre
Set Design:
Jeff Cowie, The Night of the Iguana, Hartford Stage
Costume Design:
Christal Weatherly, Wintertime, Long Wharf Theatre
Lighting Design:
Robert Wierzel, Wintertime, Long Wharf Theatre
Sound Design:
Christopher A. Granger, A Lesson Before Dying, Stamford Theatre Works)
Ensemble:
James Alexander, Rosena M. Hill, Danette E. Sheppard, Charles E. Wallace, and Carla Woods, Ain't Misbehavin', Playhouse on the Green
Roadshow:
bobrauschenbergamerica, Stamford Center for the Arts
Debut:
Royce Johnson, A Lesson Before Dying, Stamford Theatre Works
Tom Killen Memorial Award:
Governor John G. Rowland
Special Achievement:
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, writer-performer, Lackawanna Blues, Long Wharf Theatre