NEWS: DG Members Nominated for AUDELCO Awards
The Audience Development Committee, Inc. has announced the nominees for the 2019-2020 Vivian Robinson AUDELCO Recognition Awards, which celebrates excellence in Black theatre. The awards, in their 48th year, will be presented virtually on November 30, 2020.
Playwright
- JEFF AUGUSTIN, The New Englanders
- IDRIS GOODWIN, Bars and Measures
- DONNETTA LAVINIA GRAYS, Where We Stand
- ZORA HOWARD, Stew
- Donja R. Love, one in two
Best Musical
- Broadbend, Arkansas by HARRISON DAVID RIVERS, ELLEN FITZHUGH, and TED SHEN (Transport Group)
- The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker book by GLYNN BORDERS, music and lyrics by Mario E. Sprouse (Sharon Fallon Productions)
- The Wrong Man book, music, and lyrics by Ross Golan (MCC Theater)
Best Revival of a Play
- American Moor by KEITH HAMILTON COBB (Red Bull Theater)
- a photograph/lovers in motion by NTOZAKE SHANGE (Negro Ensemble Company)
- Blues for an Alabama Sky by PEARL CLEAGE (Keen Company)
- for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (Public Theater)
- Sassy Mamas by CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER (Black Spectrum Theatre Company)
Best Play
- Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Atlantic Theater Company)
- Leaving the Blues by JEWELLE GOMEZ (The Other Side of Silence)
- one in two by Donja R. Love (The New Group)
- Reparations by JAMES SHELDON (Billie Holiday Theatre)
- Stew by Zora Howard (Page 73)
- The New Englanders by Jeff Augustin (Manhattan Theatre Club)
For more information, visit audelco.org.