NH Theatre Awards

 

5th Annual NH Theatre Awards Top 10 Community Finalists

Best Lighting
Aida - Peacock Players (Norm St. Germain)
Cats - Actorsingers (Dennis Schneider & Craig Brennan)
Evita - Actorsingers (Dennis Schneider & Craig Brennan)
Flowers for Algernon - Peacock Players (Norm St. Germain)
Frozen - M & D Productions (Mark Delancey)
Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players (Dave Nelson & Rick Elliot)
The New Godspell - Teen Actorsingers (Rick Brooks)
Our Town - The Winni Players (Neil Pankhurst)
Quilters - Garrison Players (Michael Turner)
The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company (Dan Merriman)

Best Set Design
Aida - Peacock Players (Keith Weirich)
Annie - RB Productions (Julie Tavares)
Cats - Actorsingers (John McAllister, Dennis Schneider & Paul Metzger)
Evita - Actorsingers (John McAllister, Michael O'Keefe & Dennis Schneider)
Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players (Jim Webber)
The King & I - Amherst PTA (Mary Prescott)
The New Godspell - Teen Actorsingers (Brandon Mallard/Rick Brooks/Jeff McAllister/Tom Ritovato)
Oliver! - Community Players of Concord (Wayland Bunnell & Lacy Long)
Quilters - Garrison Players (Francois LaMothe)
The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company (Kevin Roberge & Rick Brooks)
Run for Your Wife - New Thalian Players (Jason Plante)

Best Costumes

Annie - RB Productions (Pam Woodworth)
Cats - Actorsingers (Tracy Smith & Kathleen Goreham)
A Christmas Carol - The Leddy Center for the Arts
Evita - Actorsingers (Kathleen Gorehan & Beth Schwartz)
Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players (Terry McKay)
Into the Woods - Music and Drama Company (Wendy Melillo)
The King & I - Amherst PTA (Michelle Withers)
Our Town - The Winni Players (Lesley Pankhurst)
Quilters - Garrison Players (Barbara Rowe)
ZOMBIES:The Return of the Revenge of the Night of the Dawn of the Day in the Land of the Resurrected Living Dead (part 2) - Ghostlight Theater Company (Nikole Sefel)

Best Choreography
Liz Calabria (The King & I - Amherst PTA)
Bethany Cassidy (The New Godspell - Teen Actorsingers)
Tina Cassidy (Evita - Actorsingers)
Bridgette Doucette (Chicago - Rising Star Productions)
Beth Fenske (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)
Jule Finley (Cabaret - Franklin Footlight Theater)
Joyce Goldstein (The Fantasticks - Garrison Players)
Donna O'Bryant (Cats - Actorsingers)
Jessica Scalese (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Shaina Schwartz (Aida - Peacock Players)

Best Music Director
Paul Erwin (Chicago - Rising Star Productions)
Kathy Fink (Quilters - Garrison Players)
Judy Hayward (Cats - Actorsingers)
Steven Hemingway (Into the Woods - Music and Drama Company)
Jed Holland (Musical Mom - Pirate Stage Company)
Henry Kopczynskie (Oliver! - Community Players of Concord)
Henry Kopczynskie (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Joel Mercier (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)
Jeffrey Prescott (Evita - Actorsingers)
Frank Rene (Aida - Peacock Players)

Best Supporting Actress / Play
Jan Belmont (Bad Seed - The Winni Players)
Jan Belmont (Our Town - The Winni Players)
Carol Bense (Dearly Departed - The Village Players)
Lindsey Corsack (Bad Seed - The Winni Players)
Andrea Kalinowski (The Dining Room - Misfit Toys Players)
Mari Keegan (One Flea Spare - Ghostlight Theater Company)
Kristen Koed (Flowers for Algernon - Peacock Players)
Sally Nutt (The Dining Room - Misfit Toys Players)
Dorothy Piquado (Our Town - The Winni Players)
Renee Tyzbir (The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Milford Area Players)

Best Supporting Actress / Musical
Danica Carlson (Quilters - Garrison Players)
Cary Davis (Quilters - Garrison Players)
Jennifer Mallard (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Danielle Melillo (Into the Woods - Music and Drama Company)
Stephanie Munroe (Into the Woods - Music and Drama Company)
Elizabeth Perrin-Vigil (Cats - Actorsingers)
Jessica Scalese (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Jessica Scalese (Cats - Actorsingers)
Alexandra Socha (Aida - Peacock Players)
Melinda Wolfe (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)

Best Supporting Actor / Play
Brian Ballou (Moon Over Buffalo - Music and Drama Company)
Dylan Gamblin (Children of a Lesser God - Bedford Off-Broadway)
Erik Peter Hodges (Inherit the Wind - Community Players of Concord)
Eliot Johnston (Run for Your Wife - New Thalian Players)
Larry Lickteig (Deathtrap - Nashua Theatre Guild)
Justin Monninger (Our Town - The Winni Players)
John Piquado (Bad Seed - The Winni Players)
John Piquado (Our Town - The Winni Players)
Steven Richmond (Bad Seed - The Winni Players)
Kirk Torok (One Flea Spare - Ghostlight Theater Company)

Best Supporting Actor / Musical
David Cote (Cats - Actorsingers)
Ryan Hagen (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Peter Eisenstadter (Once Upon a Mattress - Actor's Circle Theater)
Eliot Johnston (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Craig McKerley (Chicago - Rising Star Productions)
John Piquado (My Fair Lady - Streetcar Company)
Russ Rattray (Oliver! - Community Players of Concord)
Kevin Roberge (Cats - Actorsingers)
Bruce D. Smith (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)
Jeff Weir (Annie - RB Productions)

Best Actress / Play
Gail Angellis (Jake's Women - Nashua Theatre Guild)
Gina Carballo (Children of a Lesser God - Bedford Off-Broadway)
Meggin Dail (Dearly Departed - The Village Players)
Marie Fitzgerald (She F@&%#$ Hates Me - Women in Theater)
Melissa Groff (The Dining Room - Misfit Toys Players)
Mari Keegan (The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Milford Area Players)
Judi Mitchell (Moon Over Buffalo - Music and Drama Company)
Teaghan Morin (Our Town - The Winni Players)
Diane Nickerson (Bad Seed - The Winni Players)
Bertie Payne-Strange (One Flea Spare - Ghostlight Theater Company)

Best Actress / Musical
Erin Esty (Cabaret - Franklin Footlight Theater)
Tinka Finley (Quilters - Garrison Players)
Hannah Forsley (Annie - RB Productions)
Barbara Lawler (Cats - Actorsingers)
Brady Lynch (Aida - Peacock Players)
Jenn Miller (Once Upon a Mattress - Actor's Circle Theater)
Shawna O'Brien (Evita - Actorsingers)
Mary Reilly (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Marisa Roberge (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)
Marisa Roberge (Musical Mom - Pirate Stage Company)
Sue Schott (Oliver! - Community Players of Concord)

Best Actor / Play
Neal Blaiklock (The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Milford Area Players)
John Conlon (Inherit the Wind - Community Players of Concord)
Len Deming (The Dining Room - Misfit Toys Players)
Peter Eisenstadter (Deathtrap - Actor's Circle Theater)
Anthony Jarrod Goes (Children of a Lesser God - Bedford Off-Broadway)
Brad Koed (Flowers for Algernon - Peacock Players)
Ken Martin (Frozen - M & D Productions)
Alan McPherson (Deathtrap - Nashua Theatre Guild)
Gary Noseworthy (A Christmas Carol - The Leddy Center for the Performing Arts)
Steven Richmond (Our Town - The Winni Players)

Best Actor / Musical
Dan Adams (Brigadoon - Upstage Players)
Billy Butler (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
Michael Coppola (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)
Michael Coppola (The Music Man - The Leddy Center for the Performing Arts)
Stuart Harmon (Children of Eden - Manchester Community Theater)
David Hickman (Oliver! - Community Players of Concord)
Erik Peter Hodges (Annie - RB Productions)
Brett Mallard (Cats - Actorsingers)
Daniel Pipilas (Aida - Peacock Players)
Marc Rodriguez (Into the Woods - Music and Drama Company)

Best Director / Play
Dan Barth (Deathtrap - Nashua Theatre Guild)
David Cleveland (Our Town - Sunapee-Kearsarge Intercommunity Theater--SKIT)
Bryan Halperin (Bad Seed - The Winni Players)
Bryan Halperin (Our Town - The Winni Players)
Pat Karpan (Inherit the Wind - Community Players of Concord)
Tim L'Ecuyer (Flowers for Algernon - Peacock Players)
Mary Morris (Relationships - Sunapee-Kearsarge Intercommunity Theater--SKIT)
Jason Plante (Run for Your Wife - New Thalian Players)
Kevin Riley (The Dining Room - Misfit Toys Players)
Deborah Shaw (The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Milford Area Players)

Best Director / Musical
Wayland Bunnell (Musical Mom - Pirate Stage Company)
Alexis Dascoulias (Quilters - Garrison Players)
Beth Ann O'Hara (Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players)
Clint Klose (Annie - RB Productions)
Brandon Mallard (The New Godspell - Teen Actorsingers)
Paul Metzger (Cats - Actorsingers)
Jason Plante (The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company)
John Safina (The Fantasticks - Garrison Players)
Scott Severance (Evita - Actorsingers)
Keith Weirich (Aida - Peacock Players)

Best Original Play
Deadline by Tom Anastasi - Manchester Communiy Theater
Ice Out by Monique Devine - Little Church Theater
Perfectly Good Airplanes by Stephen Laroque - Nashua Theatre Guild
She F@&%#$ Hates Me by Scarlett Ridgeway Savage - Women in Theater
ZOMBIES:The Return of the Revenge of the Night of the Dawn of the Day in the Land of the Resurrected Living Dead (part 2) by John Sefel - Ghostlight Theater Company

Best Original Musical or Revue
BROADWAY, Here We Come conceived by Marlene Latulippe - Palace Silver Stars
Moon Fever by Michael Cohen - Small Pond Productions
Musical Mom conceived by Kevin Roberge, Marisa Roberge & Wayland Bunnell - Pirate Stage Company

Best Play
Bad Seed - The Winni Players
A Christmas Carol - The Leddy Center for the Performing Arts
The Dining Room - Misfit Toys Players
Flowers for Algernon - Peacock Players
Frozen - M & D Productions
Inherit the Wind - Community Players of Concord
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Milford Area Players
Our Town - The Winni Players
Relationships - Sunapee-Kearsarge Intercommunity Theatre (SKIT)
Run For Your Wife - New Thalian Players

Best Musical
Aida - Peacock Players
Annie - RB Productions
Cats - Actorsingers
Evita - Actorsingers
The Fantasticks - Garrison Players
Hot Mikado - New Thalian Players
Musical Mom - Pirate Stage Company
The New Godspell - Teen Actorsingers
Quilters - Garrison Players
The Rocky Horror Show - Pirate Stage Company

 

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