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DIRECTOR RESUME & AWARDS
REPRESENTATION New York:
Ron Gwiazda
ABRAMS ARTISTS AGENCY
275 Seventh Avenue / 26th Floor
New York, NY 10001
T: 646-461-9325
Ron.Gwiazda@abramsart.com London: Jean Diamond DIAMOND MANAGEMENT31 Percy Street London W1T 2DD T: 0207-631-0400 F: 0207-631-0500 cp@diman.co.uk
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DIRECTOR
(selected credits): Winner of
the 2011 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's Milton Katselas Career Achievement Award in Directing.
CYRANO
- April 2012 - Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles CRITIC'S CHOICE, Los Angeles Times CRITIC'S PICK, Back Stage GO!, LA Weekly 5 STARS, Examiner.com
Awards: Los
Angeles Drama Critics Circle's Polly Warfield Award for Best Season 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards:
Best Production, Best Adaptation (Stephen Sachs), Best Director (Simon Levy), Best Actor (Troy Kotsur)
LA Stage Times: Highlights of 2012 Theater
Back Stage: Standout Theater Performances of 2012
(Troy Kotsur)
2012 Ticketholder Awards: Top 10 Play Productions
2012 Ticketholder Awards (Runners-Up): Best Actor
(Troy Kotsur), Best Supporting Actor (Paul Raci), Best Adaptation (Stephen Sachs), Best Direction (Simon Levy), Best Video
Design (Jeffrey Elias Teeter)
Nominations:
OVATION
Award Nominations: Best New Play (Stephen Sachs) and Lead Male Performance (Troy Kotsur)
A
HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND - March 2011 - Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles Over a dozen rave reviews:
CRITIC'S PICK, Back Stage CRITIC'S PICK - 5 Stars - BroadwayWorld.com 5 STARS - Examiner.com Awards: 2011 StageSceneLA.com
Awards: Outstanding Production/Comedy; Outstanding Direction of a Comedy; Outstanding Ensemble Cast/Comedy;
Best Performance by a Featured Actress/Comedy; Lighting Designer of the Year; Set Designer of the Year; Best Costume Design;
Best Sound Design; Outstanding Projection Design Huffington
Post: Top L.A. Theater Productions 2011 2011 BroadwayWorld.com Awards:
Best Actress (Sandy Martin), Best Featured Actress (Virginia Newcomb & Lisa Richards) Don Grigware Talks Theatre Best of 2011: Best Actress (Sandy Martin), Best Featured Actress (Virginia Newcomb & Lisa Richards) 2011 Ticketholder Awards (Runners-Up): Best Production, Best Direction (Simon
Levy), Best Actor (Alan Blumenfeld), Best Actress (Sandy Martin), Best Supporting Actor (Dan Billet), Best Supporting Actress
(Virginia Newcomb), Best Set Design (Jeff McLaughlin), Best Lighting Design (Ken Booth), Best Sound Design (Peter Bayne).
Nominations: OVATION Awards: Best Overall
Season, Best Leading Actress in a Play, Best Set Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design L.A.
Weekly Awards: Revival Production of the Year, Lead Female Performance, Supporting Female Performance, Production Design,
Set Design, Sound Design, Projection Design OPUS -
June 2010 - Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles CRITIC'S CHOICE, Los Angeles Times CRITIC'S
PICK , Back Stage GO!, L.A. Weekly Awards: 2010 OVATION
Awards for Best Season and Best Sound 2010 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Ensemble, Best Writing, Best
Sound 2010 LA Weekly Award for Best Director 2010 Back Stage Garland Award for Best Production and Best Director
2010 Don Grigware Blog: Best Production 2010 StageSceneLA.com Awards: Best Production Comedy-Drama; Best Director
Comedy-Drama; Best Ensemble Comedy-Drama; Featured Actor Comedy-Drama; Costume Designer of the Year; Lighting Designer
of the Year; Best Sound Design Nominations: OVATION Awards: Best Overall Season, Best
Production Intimate Theatre, Best Ensemble, Sound Design Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle Awards: Best Production, Best
Play, Best Ensemble, Best Sound LA Weekly Theater Awards: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting
Actor PHOTOGRAPH 51
- March 2009 - Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles PICK OF THE WEEK, L.A. Weekly Awards: 2009 StageSceneLA.com Awards: Production, Direction, Lead Actress and Actor, Featured Actor Park
LaBrea/Beverly Press "Maddy" Awards: Director
Back Stage Critic's List: Best Production, Playwriting, Direction,
Lead Performance Nominations: 2009
OVATION Awards: Best Season, Best Production, Lead Actress 2009 L.A. Weekly Awards: Ensemble, Leading
Female Performance, Lighting Design
THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE
- September 2007 - Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles CRITIC'S CHOICE, Back
Stage West GO!, L.A. Weekly Awards: 2008 Back Stage West Garland Award for Direction Best Costume Design, 2008 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. Nominations: 2
L.A. Weeky Noms: Lead Actress and Costumes. Recipient of 9 Back Stage
West Critics List Honorable Mentions: Production, Lead Performance, 2 Supporting Performance, Ensemble
Performance, Lighting Design, Sound Design, and Costume Design. MASTER
CLASS - January 2007 - Santa Barbara Theatre at the Lobero Theatre THE
GIMMICK - September, 2006 - Fountain Theatre, L.A. - CRITIC'S CHOICE, Los Angeles Times
Awards:
2007 L.A. OVATION Award Best Solo Performance
5 Back Stage West 2006 Critics' List Honorable Mentions: Direction (twice),
Performance and Writing
ReviewPlays.com: Runner-Up: Best Director and Best Actress
WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ (A Cry for 5 Voices)
- September, 2005 - Fountain Theatre, L.A. - RECOMMENDED, Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly
Awards:
Nominated for Best Adaptation, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle;
3 Back Stage West 2006 Critics' List Honorable Mentions:
Adaptation (twice) and Sound Design;
2005 reviewplays.com (Cynthia Citron): Best Director; Runner-Up: Best Ensemble;
2005 Entertainment Today Ticketholder Awards and reviewplays.com, Runners-Up: Top Plays of 2005, Best Ensemble, Best Direction,
Best Adaptation, and Best Sound Design. (An Electronic Published Version of the play is available for $10.00
at http://fountaintheatre.com/buytickets.html.) ACCOMPLICE - February/March, 2005
- Colony Theatre, Burbank
CRITIC'S PICK, Back Stage West
Awards:
4 Back Stage
West 2006 Critics List Honorable Mentions: Production, Direction, Performance, Set Design. GOING TO ST. IVES - August, 2004 - Edinburgh Fringe Festival
AWAKE AND SING - June, 2004 - RECOMMENDED,
Los Angeles Times; CRITIC'S PICK, Back Stage West - International City Theatre, Long Beach
Nomination:
2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards: Revival of the Year DAISY IN THE DREAMTIME
- March, 2004 - CRITICS' CHOICE, Los Angeles Times; CRITIC'S PICK, Back Stage West - A Fountain Theatre production at INside
the Ford at the Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles.
Awards:
2004 BACK STAGE WEST BEST OF
CRITICS’ LIST: Best Production, Direction, Lead Performance, Lighting Design, Costume Design, Prop Design, Musical Accompaniment
ENTERTAINMENT TODAY TICKETHOLDER AWARDS: Runner-up: Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best
Set Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design,
Best Sound Design, Special Achievement (Multimedia), Special Achievement
(Didjeridu)
BEVERLY HILLS OUTLOOK THEATRE AWARDS: Top 5 Productions of 2004; Top 5 Directors of 2004.
NOHO/LA BEST
OF THE YEAR: Top 15 Performances of 2004
2004 PARK LA BREA NEWS "MADDIE" AWARD: Sound Design
Nominations:
THEATRE L.A. OVATION AWARD: Set Design
2004 NAACP Theater Awards: Best Actor, Set Design, Lighting Design, Costume
Design, Best Producer MASTER CLASS - November,
2003-July, 2004 - Winner of the 2004 L.A. OVATION Award for: Best Production - Fountain Theatre and Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles.
Awards:
2003 Back Stage West Garland Awards: Best Direction, Best Actress, Best Sound
Design
Back Stage West Best of 2003 Critics' List: Best Production
2003 Maddy Awards:Best Production, Best Direction,
Best Actress and Best Sound Design
Entertainment Today Ticketholder Awardss: Runner-up Best Production, Best Direction,
Best Actress
2003 Easy Reader: Best Production and Best Actress
ReviewPlays.com & NoHo LA: Top Ten Best Productions
and Best Performances, 2003
Nominations:
2004 L.A. OVATION Awards: Best Production,
Director, Lead Actress
GOING TO ST. IVES - February, 2003
- CRITIC'S CHOICE, Los Angeles Times - Fountain Theatre
Awards:
2003 BACK STAGE WEST
“GARLAND” AWARDS: Best Actress
BACK STAGE WEST BEST OF 2003 CRITICS’ LIST: Best Direction, Lighting,
and Costumes
2003 MADDY AWARDS: Best Production and Best Actress
ENTERTAINMENT TODAY TICKETHOLDER AWARDS: Best Actress;
Runner-up Best Production, Best Playwright, Best Costume Design
BEVERLY HILLS OUTLOOK BEST IN THEATRE 2003 AWARDS:
Best Actress; Runner-up Best Actress and Best Production
L.A. WEEKLY: Leading Female Performance
Nominations:
2004 NAACP THEATER AWARDS: Best Production, Actress, Playwright, Set, Costumes
UNCLE VANYA - April, 2003 - CRITIC'S CHOICE, Los Angeles Times - Actors Co-op
Awards:
Back Stage West Best of 2003 Critics' List: Best Actor, Best Ensemble
Nominations:
L.A. WEEKLY: Leading Male Performance
PRAIRIE FIRE - October, 2002
- Interact Theatre's Interactivity Festival, Los Angeles (now known as WILDFIRE, and still in preparation for national productions).
GLASS MOUNTAIN - 2001 - Ojai Playwrights
Conference
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
- 2000/2001 - The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles: Awards:
ENTERTAINMENT TODAY: “Top Productions of 2001”;
3 BACK STAGE WEST “GARLAND”
AWARDS: Performance, Set & Light Design;
L.A WEEKLY: Production Design of the Year;
Nominations: THEATRE L.A.
OVATION AWARD: Set Design
SUMMER AND SMOKE
- 1999 - The Fountain Theatre Awards:
3 THEATRE L.A. OVATION Awards: Best Production, Best Actress, Lights
4 BACK STAGE WEST/DRAMA-LOGUE “Garland”
Awards: Best Production, Direction, Actress, Lights
2 BACK STAGE WEST “Honorable Mentions”: Costumes &
Sound
L.A. TIMES: “Top Ten 1999”
NEW TIMES L.A.: “Top Ten 1999”
3 BEVERLY PRESS “Maddies”:
Direction, Actress, Set
L.A. DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE Award for Best Actress
Nominations: 2 SHOWCASE MAGAZINE
“Robbie” Awards
THE LAST TYCOON
(Writer/Director) - 1998 - The Fountain Theatre Awards:
5 BACK STAGE WEST/DRAMA-LOGUE Awards: Best Adaptation, Direction, Set, Lights, Costumes
BEVERLY PRESS: “Best of 1998”
FRONTIERS MAG: “Best of 1998”
L.A. WEEKLY 1998 PRODUCTION
DESIGN OF YEAR
ENTERTAINMENT TODAY: Runner-up Best Adaptation
Nominated for the LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE
“TED SCHMITT” AWARD FOR ORIGINAL PLAY
ORPHEUS
DESCENDING - 1996 - The Fountain Theatre Awards:
6 DRAMA-LOGUE: including Best Director, Production and Direction
BACK STAGE WEST:
“Garland” Best Production
Nominations: 4 Theatre L.A. OVATION Awards
5 L.A. WEEKLY Awards
TENDER IS THE NIGHT (Writer/Co-Director) - 1995
- The Fountain Theatre Awards:
PEN West Literary Award in Drama
7 DRAMA-LOGUE Awards, including Best Production and Direction
BACK STAGE WEST:
“Garland” Best Production
L.A. VIEW: “Best of 7 Productions in Los Angeles, 1995
Nominations:
2 Theatre L.A. OVATION Awards
3 SHOWCASE MAGAZINE “Robby” Awards
Info prior to 1995 is available upon request
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