Theater Award Winners

Motif seeks to recognize the excellence in local theater at many different levels. We polled the critics and the theater companies themselves – about their own best work, and the best work they saw – and then over 2,500 of you, our theater-going readers, voted for your favorites. The results were announced at our awards show on August 25 at Fete in Providence. A few hundred of RI theater’s brightest stars celebrated, with food from Sammy’s Kitchen and Gotta Q.
Thanks to all who turned out, and all of you who voted!

Youth Production of the Year
Little Mermaid Jr. – Academy Players
Community
Female Lead
Cathy Fox – Arsenic & Old Lace – The Community Players
Male Lead
John Sheppard – Plaza Suite – Academy Players
Supporting Female
Karen Kessler – Fiddler on the Roof – The Community Players
Supporting Male
Greg Bonin – Les Misérables – The Encore Repertory Co.
Set Design
Vic Turenne – Arsenic and Old Lace – The Community Players
Best Costuming
Laurea Osborne – Sweet Charity – The Community Players
Lighting Design
Ruth Fagan – Woman in Mind – The Players at the Barker Playhouse
Sound Design
JC Wallace – A Christmas Carol – Courthouse Center for the Arts
Best Direction
Greg Geer – Sweet Charity – The Community Players
Production of the Year
Sweet Charity – The Community Players
College/University
Collegiate Female Performance
Marina Tejada – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – CCRI
Collegiate Male Performance
Jeff Ararat – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – CCRI
Collegiate Set Design
Luke Sutherland – Spitfire Grill – CCRI
Collegiate Costuming
Leslie Ford and Brandy Lee Silva – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – CCRI

Best Collegiate Direction
Theodore R. Clement – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – CCRI
Best Collegiate Production
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – CCRI
Best Summer Stock Production
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – The RI Shakespeare Theater
Dance
Best Production
Peter Pan – Festival Ballet Providence
Principal Dancer of the Year
Brooke DiFrancesco – Island Moving Co.
Best Improv / Audience Participation
Providence Improv Guild
semi-pro
(non-union)
Female Lead
Lara Hakeem – Sylvia – 2nd Story Theatre
Male Lead
Michael Puppi – Angels in America – Epic Theatre Co.
Supporting Female
Valerie Remillard Myette – Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Counter Productions Theatre Co.
Supporting Male
Kevin Broccoli – The Lyons – 2nd Story Theatre
Set Design
Ted Clement – Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Counter-Productions Theatre Co.
Best Costuming
Big Nazo – A Christmas Carol – Courthouse Center for the Arts
Lighting Design
Michael Commendatore & Adam O’Brien – A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant – Wilbury Group
Sound Design
Terry Shea – Angels in America – Epic Theatre Co.
Best Direction
Kevin Broccoli & Jill Jones – Angels in America – Epic Theatre Co.
Best New Work
Nico was a Fashion Model – J. Julian Christopher – Counter-Productions Theatre Co.
Production of the Year
Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Counter-Productions Theatre Co.
Best Female in a Musical
Alyssa Gorgone – Les Misérables – Ocean State Theatre
Best Male in a Musical
Fred Scheff – Les Misérables – Ocean State Theatre
Musical of the Year
Les Misérables – Ocean State Theatre Co.
Professional theater
Female Lead
Anne Scurria – The Grapes of Wrath – Trinity Repertory Co.
Male Lead
Stephen Thorne – The Grapes of Wrath – Trinity Repertory Co.
Supporting Female
Karen Gail Kessler – The Diary of Anne Frank – Ocean State Theatre Co.
Supporting Male
Steve Kidd – Macbeth – Gamm Theatre
Set Design
Bert Scott – La Cage Aux Folles – Theatre by the Sea
Best Costuming
Marcia Zammarelli – La Cage Aux Folles – Theatre by the Sea
Lighting Design
David Roy – Macbeth – Gamm Theatre
Sound Design
Charles Cofone – A Number & Far Away – Gamm Theatre
Best Direction
Amiee Turner – Les Misérables – Ocean State Theatre Co.
Best New Work
A Brief History of The Earth and Everything in It – Elemental Theatre Co.
Production of the Year
Laughter on the 23rd Floor – Ocean State Theatre Co.