Here’s NOW’s annual list of the best of the fest.
OUTSTANDING NEW PLAYS:
Even Darkness Is Made Of Light Me Happy Post Eden
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS:
Anatomy Of A Broken Love Affair Bliss The Hanging Of Françoise Laurent Iphigenia At Aulis Miss Caledonia Post Eden Redheaded Stepchild Ride The Cyclone The Witch Of Edmonton
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES:
Edwige Jean-Pierre (Even Darkness Is Made of Light) d’bi.young (Word! Sound! Powah!) Ted Witzel (The Witch Of Edmonton) Melody A.Johnson (Miss Caledonia) Amy Rutherford and Lynne Griffin (Aftershock) Johnnie Walker (Redheaded Stepchild) Falen Johnson (Invisible Toronto) Lwam Ghebrehariat and Shannon Perreault (Homegrown) Ted Dykstra (The Kreutzer Sonata) Andrew Moodie and Hugh Portman (The Return Of Corporal Mazanet)
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLES:
Anatomy Of A Broken Love Affair Biographies Of The Dead & Dying Bliss The Emotionalists Foster Child Play Haunted Hillbilly Kayak Me Happy Or, Ride The Cyclone Theory Post Eden The Sad & Cautionary Tale Of Smackheaded Peter
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION:
Patrick Conner (Even Darkness Is Made of Light) Alan Dilworth (Iphigenia At Aulis) Rick Roberts/Aaron Willis (Miss Caledonia) Rae Ellen Bodie (Anatomy Of A Broken Love Affair) Rose Plotek (Me Happy) Amiel Gladstone (Biographies Of The Dead & Dying) Steven McCarthy (Bliss) Eli Ham (The Emotionalists) Philip McKee (Foster Child Play) David Jansen (The Return Of Corporal Mazanet) Beatriz Pizano (Homegrown) Britt Small and Jacob Richmond (Ride The Cyclone) Kate Cayley (The Hanging Of Françoise Laurent) Jordan Tannahill (Post Eden)
OUTSTANDING DESIGN:
Bliss (James Lavoie and Rachel Dawn Woods) The Hanging Of Françoise Laurent (the company) Iphigenia At Aulis (Jung-Hye Kim, Kimberly Purtell and Thomas Ryder Payne) Ixok (Trevor Schwellnus and Andjelia Djuric) Ride The Cyclone (Hank Pine, James Insell, Ingrid Hansen, Michael Franzmann and Britt Small) Theory (Camellia Koo, Allie Marshall and Kristina McNamee)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC
The Hanging Of Françoise Laurent (Sarah Cormier and Kiersten Tough) Haunted Hillbilly (Matthew Barber) Ride The Cyclone (Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond) Word! Sound! Powah! (the company)
For a full list of reviews, see here.
