Awards

Due to our involvement in "Free Night of Theatre 2006" We did not have our annual benefit and awards celebration. Look for this program to resume in late summer of 2007

In 2005, The Cleveland Theater Collective asked Northeast Ohio's theater critic's to nominate and vote for achievement awards in 7 categories. The categories are, Best Local Musical Production, Best Local Non-Musical Production, Best Touring Show, Best Performance by an Actor, Best Performance by an Actress, Best Direction, and Best Design. We also asked our membership to select award winners for outstanding contributions to Northeast Ohio Theater. All winners were announced at CTC's annual benefit which was held on August 22nd, 2005 at the Cleveland Play House.

Please join CTC in congratulating the winners:

Honored with Members’ Choice Awards, nominated and voted by CTC membership, were:

• Dorothy and Reuben Silver for a lifetime of achievement in Cleveland Theater.
• To Charles Fee and the staff for reviving Great Lakes Theater Festival as a repertory company featuring local actors. 
• To Bad Epitaph Theatre Company for a five-year run of producing challenging classic theater in an urban landscape.
• Seth Gordon for his persistent promotion of new work, both as literary manager (now associate artistic director) of the Cleveland Play House and as a free-lance director.

Honored with Critics’ Choice Awards, nominated and voted by 7 northeast Ohio theater critics, were:

• Wayne Turney - Best Actor for his performance in “Give Em Hell Harry” at Actors Summit
• Nina Domingue - Best Actress for her performance in “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is  Enuf” at Karamu House
• Tony Straiges -  Best Design for “Enchanted April” at the Cleveland Play House
• “Movin Out”,  produced at Playhouse Square, for Best Touring Production
• “Hot ‘n Throbbing”, produced by convergence-continuum, for best local production
• “Ragtime”, produced by the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, for best local musical production
• Fred Sternfeld - Best Director for “Ragtime” at the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland