2014 ArtsImpulse Awards

Best Costume Design

Elisabetta Polito - Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Cotton Talbot-Minkin - Lovers’ Quarrels (imaginary beasts)

Suttirat Larlarb - Finding Neverland (American Repertory Theatre)

Kurt Alger - The Little Mermaid (North Shore Music Theatre)

Charles Schoonmaker - Far From Heaven (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Elisabetta Polito – Into the Woods (The

Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Best Lighting Design

Kevin Dean Parker - Urinetown (Burlington Players)

Karen Perlow - Far From Heaven (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

David Wilson - Singin’ in the Rain (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

P.J. Strachman - Translations (Bad Habit Productions)

Scott Clyve - Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Christopher Akerlind - The Tempest (American Repertory Theatre)

Daniel H. Jentzen - Merrily We Roll Along (The Boston Conservatory)

Scott Clyve – Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage

Company of Boston)

Best Sound Design

Chris Larson (with original compositions by Sam Beebe) - Bully Dance (Argos Productions)

Deirdre Benson – Baby with the Bathwater (Happy Medium Theatre Company)

J. Mark Baumhardt - Rabbit Hole(Hovey Players)

Darron L. West – Venus in Fur (The Huntington Theatre Company)

Matthew Gray – The Elephant Man (Stoneham Theatre)

Chris Larson (with original compositions

by Sam Beebe) – Bully Dance (Argos Productions)

Best Set Design

Tom Powers – Rabbit Hole (Hovey Players)

Ralph Funicello - The Seagull (The Huntington Theatre Company)

Julia Noulin-Mérat – The Rape of Lucretia (The Boston Conservatory)

Ghazal Hassani - columbinus (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

Brian Boruta – Angels in America, Part II – Perestroika (The Umbrella)

Jenna McFarland Lord – The Color Purple (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Julia Noulin-Mérat – The Rape of Lucretia (The

Boston Conservatory)

Best Student Actor

Trevor Mulchay as Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Community Players)

Evan Gambardella as Eric Harris/Freak in columbinus (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

Connor Baty as Charley Kringas in Merrily We Roll Along (The Boston Conservatory)

Ben Salus as Tom Whitmore in The Whitmores (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

Zachary Jones as Chip in On the Town (The Boston Conservatory)

Evan Gambardella as Eric Harris/Freak in columbinus (Boston

University CFA)

Best Student Actress

Paige Berkovitz as Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along (The Boston Conservatory)

Fabiana Cabral as King Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (Boston University Shakespeare Society)

MiMi Scardulla as Hildy Esterhazy in On the Town (The Boston Conservatory)

Barbara Woodall as Rachel in The Dream of the Burning Boy (The Boston Teen Acting Troupe)

Nora Iammarino as Eva in But the Giraffe! (Central Square Theatre/Underground Railway Theatre)

MiMi Scardulla as Hildy Esterhazy in On the

Town (The Boston Conservatory)

Best Supporting Actor in a Play

Alex Mugnaioni as Edgar/Duke of Cornwall/Duke of Burgundy in King Lear(ArtsEmerson)

Thomas Derrah as Greer in Necessary Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Kelby T. Akin as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Brendan Mulhern as Actor #3 in The Haberdasher! A Tale of Derring-Do (Argos Productions)

Thomas Derrah as Greer in Necessary

Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Best Supporting Actress

in a Play

Nicole Howard as Nanny in Baby with the Bathwater (Happy Medium Theatre Company)

Celeste Oliva as Maggie in Rich Girl (The Lyric Stage Company of Greater Boston)

Jennifer Shea as Harper Pitt in Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches (The Umbrella)

Amy Meyer as Gros-René in Lovers’ Quarrels (imaginary beasts)

Mara Sidmore as Celia in As You Like It (Actors’ Shakespeare Project)

Jennifer Shea as Harper Pitt in Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches

(The Umbrella)

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical or Opera

Devon Stone as The Hon. Gerald Bolingbroke in Me and My Girl (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

Jonathan Nussman as Sid in Albert Herring (Boston Opera Collaborative)

Sam Simahk as Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Justin Budinoff as Count Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music (Arlington Friends of the Drama)

Jonathan Nussman as Sid in Albert Herring (Boston Opera Collaborative)

Best Supporting Actress

in a Musical or Opera

Tess Primack as Martha in The Secret Garden (Stoneham Theatre)

Crystin Gilmore as Shug Avery in The Color Purple (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Jennifer Beth Glick as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Sadie Gregg as Ottavia in L’Incoronazione Di Poppea (New England Conservatory)

Meredith Stypinski as Abby in Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)(Moonbox Productions)

Lea Madda as Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate! (The Longwood Players)

Crystin Gilmore as Shug Avery in The Color Purple

(SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Best Leading Actor in a Musical or Opera

Joshua Holden as Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

John Ambrosino as The Baker in Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Greater Boston)

Bruce Landry as Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid (North Shore Music Theatre)

Andrew Giordano as Inspector Javert in Les Misérables (The Company Theatre)

Jeremy Jordan as J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland (American Repertory Theatre)

Joshua Holden as Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl (Reagle Music Theatre of

Greater Boston)

Best Leading Actress in a Musical or Opera

Jennifer Ellis as Cathy Whitaker in Far From Heaven (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Gillian Mariner Gordon as Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

Kathy St. George in Closer Than Ever (New Repertory Theatre)

Aimee Doherty as The Witch in Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Greater Boston)

Danette Holden as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes(North Shore Music Theatre)

Aliana de la Guardia as The Shopper in Gallo (Guerilla Opera)

Jennifer Ellis as Cathy Whitaker in Far From

Heaven (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Best Leading Actor in a Play

Peyton Pugmire as Prior Walter in Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches (The Umbrella)

David Berti as Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches (The Umbrella)

Victor L. Shopov as Liam in Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Marc St. Pierre as John Merrick in The Elephant Man (Salem Theatre Company)

Ken Baltin as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Ken Baltin as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman

(The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Best Leading Actress in a Play

Paula Plum as Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman (The Lyric Stage Company of Greater Boston)

Sasha Castroverde as Claudine in Rich Girl (The Lyric Stage Company of Greater Boston)

Kate Burton as Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina in The Seagull (The Huntington Theatre Company)

Kippy Goldfarb as Helen in Absence (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)

Katie Gluck as Becca Corbett in Rabbit Hole (Hovey Players)

Laura Latreille as Elizabeth Bishop in Dear Elizabeth (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Katie Gluck as Becca Corbett in Rabbit Hole

(Hovey Players)

Best Choreographer

Kirby Ward - Singin’ in the Rain (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

Michael Lichtefeld – Anything Goes (North Shore Music Theatre)

Michelle Chassé – On the Town (The Boston Conservatory)

Darrell Grand Moultrie - Witness Uganda (American Repertory Theatre)

Laurel Conrad - Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Rachel Bertone – Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) (Moonbox Productions)

Michelle Chassé – On the Town (The Boston

Conservatory)

Best Musical Director

Catherine Stornetta - Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Jonathan Goldberg - Sweeney Todd (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Jim Rice - Closer Than Ever (New Repertory Theatre)

Matthew Stern - Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Chris Holownia - West Side Story (Woodland Theatre Company)

Jonathan Goldberg - Sweeney Todd (The Lyric

Stage Company of Boston)

Best Director of a Play

Nancy Curran Willis - Angels in America, Part I & II – Millennium Approaches & Perestroika (The Umbrella)

Megan Sandberg-Zakian - Sila (Central Square Theatre/Underground Railway Theatre)

Sarah Gazdowicz - Bully Dance (Argos Productions)

Lizette M. Morris - Baby with the Bathwater (Happy Medium Theatre)

Rebecca Bradshaw - Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Theatre Company)

Michelle Aguillon - Rabbit Hole (Hovey Players)

Nancy Curran Willis - Angels in America, Part I & II – Millennium Approaches

& Perestroika (The Umbrella)

Best Director of a Musical or Opera

Leigh Barrett - Closer Than Ever (New Repertory Theatre)

Spiro Veloudos - Into the Woods (Lyric Stage Company of Greater Boston)

Paul Daigneault - Merrily We Roll Along (The Boston Conservatory)

Diane Paulus - Finding Neverland (American Repertory Theatre)

Nathan Troup & Andrew Altenbach - The Rape of Lucretia (The Boston Conservatory)

Ilyse Robbins - The Little Prince (New Repertory Theatre)

Spiro Veloudos - Into the Woods (Lyric Stage Company of Greater

Boston)

Best Specialty Ensemblein a Play

The Students - The Dream of the Burning Boy (The Boston Teen Acting Troupe)

The Corbett Family - Rabbit Hole(Hovey Players)

The Weird Sisters - Rumpelstiltskin, Or All That Glitters (imaginary beasts)

The Widows - Bully Dance(Argos Productions)

The Corbett Family – Rabbit Hole(Hovey

Players)

Best Specialty Ensemble in a Musical

or Opera

The Nicest Kids in Town - Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Franklin Shepard, Mary Flynn & Charley Kringas – Merrily We Roll Along (The Boston Conservatory)

Don Lockwood, Kathy Sheldon & Cosmo Brown – Singin’ in the Rain (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

The Three Children – Albert Herring (Boston Opera Collaborative)

The Davies Boys – Finding Neverland (American Repertory Theatre)

The Nicest Kids in Town - Hairspray (Wheelock

Family Theatre)

Best Ensemble in a Play

Rumpelstiltskin, Or All That Glitters (imaginary beasts)

columbinus (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Necessary Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Astroboy and The God of Comics (Company One)

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] (Hub Theatre Company)

Rumpelstiltskin, Or All That Glitters (imaginary beasts)

Best Ensemble in a Musical

Me and My Girl (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Witness Uganda (American Repertory Theatre)

Hairspray (Wheelock Family Theatre)

Anything Goes (North Shore Music Theatre)

Sweeney Todd (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Best New Work

Creative License by Kevin Cirone

The Whitmores by Ben Ducoff (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

The Haberdasher! A Tale of Derring-Do by Walt McGough (Argos Productions)

Witness Uganda by Matt Gould & Griffin Matthews (American Repertory Theatre)

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The Whitmores by Ben Ducoff (Boston University

CFA)

Best Play

Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage Company)

Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches (The Umbrella)

columbinus (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

Death of a Salesman (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Rabbit Hole (Hovey Players)

Baby with the Bathwater (Happy Medium Theatre Company)

Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage

Company)

Best Opera

Gallo (Guerilla Opera)

The Magic Flute (The Boston Conservatory)

Sumeida’s Song (Boston Opera Collaborative)

Florencia en el Amazonas (Boston University College of Fine Arts)

Hansel & Gretel (MetroWest Opera)

Gallo (Guerilla Opera)

Best Musical

Singin’ in the Rain (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston)

Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)

Merrily We Roll Along (The Boston Conservatory)

Anything Goes (North Shore Music Theatre)

Les Misérables (The Company Theatre)

On the Town (The Boston Conservatory)

Into the Woods (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston)