Off-Off-Broadway IT Award Winners Announced

Last night, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced its 2007 award recipients:

Outstanding Ensemble:
Boo Killebrew, Julia Lowrie Henderson, Ryan Purcell, Max Rosenak, Phillip Taratula and Daniel Walker Stowell
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Outstanding Solo Performance:
Mike Houston
The Ledge, eavesdrop

Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role:
Joe Plummer
As You Like It, poortom Productions

Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role:
Boo Killebrew
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role:
Max Rosenak
6969, CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company Inc.

Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role:
Susan Louise O'Connor
the silent concerto, Packawallop Productions, Inc.

Outstanding Choreography/Movement:
Dan Safer
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness
Relocation

Outstanding Director:
Daniel Talbott
Rules of the Universe, Rising Phoenix Repertory

Outstanding Lighting Design:
Peter Hoerburger
The Present Perfect, The Operating Theater

Outstanding Costume Design:
David Withrow
Bug Boy Blues, The Looking Glass Theatre

Outstanding Set Design:
George Allison
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, T. Schreiber Studio

Outstanding Sound Design:
Ryan Maeker & Tim Schellenbaum
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment, La MaMa ETC in association with Witness Relocation

Outstanding Original Music:
Leanne Darling
The Landlord, Toy Box Theatre Company

Outstanding Original Full Length Script:
Saviana Stanescu
Waxing West, East Coast Artists

Outstanding Original Short Script:
Daniel Reitz
Rules of the Universe, Rising Phoenix Repertory

Outstanding Production of a Performance Art Piece:
Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment
La MaMa ETC in association with Witness Relocation

Outstanding Production of a Musical:
Urinetown The Musical, The Gallery Players

Outstanding Production of a Play:
Bouffon Glass Menajoree
Ten Directions

Of course, the definition of "Off-Broadway" (and especially "Off-Off-Broadway") has become so fluid, as amNewYork theatre critic Matt Windman points out, that the meaning of these awards has become somewhat diluted. But if anyone has seen these productions, leave a comment and let us know what you thought of them.

-- Daniel Lehman