AUDELCO in association with TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER presented the 46th Annual Vivian Robinson AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre at Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York on November 19. Pauletta Pearson Washington, Roscoe Orman and Kimberly Orman served as honorary co-chairs of the event.
City College Center For the Arts’ production of On Kentucky Avenue, a new original musical created by Jeree Wade and written by Adam Wade and Ty Stephens, was nominated for 10 AUDELCO Awards, taking home a total of six, the highest number of wins for the evening, including for “Best Musical.”
Classic Stage’s revival of Carmen Jones also took 5 awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, and a lead actress award for the play’s star, Anika Noni Rose.
New York Theatre Workshop’s production of Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand won 3 awards including Best Play for Marcus Gardley (tie with A Small Oak Tree Runs Red by LeKethia Dalcoe), Lead Actress in a Play for Harriett D. Foy and Best Featured Actress in a Play for Joniece Abbott-Pratt.
AUDELCO was established and incorporated in 1973 to generate more recognition, understanding and awareness of the arts in African-American communities; to provide better public relations and to build new audiences for non-profit theatre and dance companies.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Adam Honore (Carmen Jones)
SET DESIGN
Chris Cumberbatch (Harriet’s Return)
COSTUME DESIGN
Carolyn Adams (Two Trains Running)
SOUND DESIGN
Luqman Brown (The Peculiar Patriot)
DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Paradise Blue)
DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Lee Summers (On Kentucky Avenue)
PLAYWRIGHT
Dominique Morisseau (Paradise Blue)
FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Gil Tucker (A Soldier’s Play)
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Joniece Abbott-Pratt (The House That Will Not Stand)
LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Ty Stephens (On Kentucky Avenue)
LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Anika Noni Rose (Carmen Jones)
FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Count Stovall (On Kentucky Avenue)
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Andricka Hall (On Kentucky Avenue)
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTOR (TIE)
Shelton Becton (Carmen Jones)
Richard Cummings, Jr. (On Kentucky Avenue)
CHOREOGRAPHY
Bill T. Jones (Carmen Jones)
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE (TIE)
Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre Company)
Sugar in Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club)
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Sharon Washington (Feeding the Dragon)
LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY
David Roberts (Josh: The Black Babe Ruth)
LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Harriett D. Foy (The House That Will Not Stand)
Harriett D. Foy and Michelle Wilson. Photo by Joan Marcus
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Carmen Jones (Classic Stage Company)
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY (TIE)
A Soldier’s Play (Negro Ensemble Company)
The Old Settler (Billie Holiday Theatre)
BEST MUSICAL
On Kentucky Avenue (Wade & Wade Productions/City College Center for the Arts)
BEST PLAY (TIE)
A Small Oak Tree Runs Red (Billie Holiday Theatre)
The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop)
GRACE JONES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Arthur French
Melba Moore
SPECIAL PIONEER AWARD
Irene Gandy
Cheryl Wills
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Savion Glover
Timothy D. Stickney
BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD
Tad Schnugg
Gertrude Jeannette
RISING STAR AWARD
Chinua Baraka Payne
AUDELCO SPECIAL HONOR
CELEBRATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.
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