2011 Henry Hewes Design Awards Honorees Announced

Six theatre artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the presentation of its 47th annual awards in a luncheon ceremony this winter. Eighty-six theatre artists were nominated for outstanding work in 61 productions presented during the 2010-2011 New York season.

The winners are: John Lee Beatty, for the scenic design of The Whipping Man, at Manhattan Theatre Club; William Ivey Long, for the costume design of The School for Lies, at Classic Stage Company; Jeff Croiter for the lighting design of Peter and the Starcatcher, at New York Theatre Workshop; and, in the category of notable effects, David Rockwell and Batwin + Robin (Linda Batwin and Robin Silvestri) for the combined scenic and projection concept of The Normal Heart, revived on Broadway last spring.

The Hewes Awards honor designers for work in venues on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off Off Broadway, recognizing not only the traditional categories of scenic design, costume design, and lighting design, but also "notable effects," which encompass sound, music, video, puppetry, and other creative elements. All nominated designs must have originated in United States productions. The Hewes Awards Committee considered more than 200 productions when making its nominations.

Theatre for a New Audience's production of Notes From Underground and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's production of The Hallway Trilogy each received four distinct nominations to lead all other contenders. Broadway productions of Anything Goes, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Good People received three nominations each, as did the Signature Theatre Company's Angels in America, New York Theatre Workshop's Peter and the Starcatcher and Three Pianos, the Public Theater's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures and Manhattan Theatre Club's The Whipping Man. Another 10 productions on, Off and Off Off Broadway each received two nominations.

Originally known as the Maharam Awards at their inception in 1965, the Hewes Awards were later known as the American Theatre Wing Design Awards in honor of the Wing's generous sponsorship. They were renamed in 1999 for noted critic Henry Hewes, who created the awards and served as a board member of the American Theatre Wing until his death in 2006 at age 89. The Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee includes theatre critics Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, chair; Dan Bacalzo; David Barbour; David Cote; Glenda Frank; Mario Fratti; Helen Shaw,; and Joan Ungaro.

A full list of nominees follows.

Scenic Design
Andreea Mincic, Three Pianos
Andromache Chalfant, Edgewise
Beowulf Borritt, The Hallway Trilogy
David Birn, The Tempest
David L. Arsenault, First Prize
David Rockwell, A Free Man of Color
David Rockwell, The Normal Heart
David Zinn, Middletown
David Zinn, Notes From Underground
Derek McLane, Anything Goes
Derek McLane, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Desmond Heeley, The Importance of Being Earnest
Donyale Werle, Peter and the Starcatcher
Jan Versweyveld, The Little Foxes
John Lee Beatty, Good People
John Lee Beatty, Other Desert Cities
John Lee Beatty, The Whipping Man
Laura Jellinek, Buddy Cop 2
Mark Wendland, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures
Mark Wendland, The Merchant of Venice
Paul Steinberg, Kin
Peter Ksander, Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie By Nicholas Ray in Which a Man's Illness Provides an Escape from the Pain, Pressure and Loneliness of Trying to be the Ultimate American Father, Only to Drive Him Further Into the More Thrilling Though Possibly Lonelier Roles of Addict and Misunderstood Visionary
Roger Hanna What the Public Wants
Scott Pask, The Book of Mormon
Todd Rosenthal, The Motherf**ker With the Hat

Costume Design
Anita Yavich, Orlando
Ann Hould-Ward, A Free Man of Color
Catherine Zuber, Born Yesterday
Catherine Zuber, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Catherine Zuber, The Whipping Man
Clint Ramos, Angels in America
Clint Ramos, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures
David C. Woolard, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
David Zinn, Good People
ESosa, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Fabio Toblini, The Divine Sister
Gabriel Berry, The Coward
Jessica Pabst, The Hallway Trilogy
Lizz Wolf, Baby, It's You
Martha Hally, Wife to James Whelan
Martin Pakledinaz, Anything Goes
Moria Sine Clinton, Notes From Underground
Paloma Young, Peter and the Starcatcher
Sydney Maresca, Buddy Cop 2
William Ivey Long, Catch Me If You Can
William Ivey Long, Lucky Guy
William Ivey Long, The School for Lies

Lighting Design
Austin Smith, Three Pianos
Ben Stanton, Angels in America
Ben Stanton, The Coward
Ben Stanton, The Whipping Man
Brian MacDevitt, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
David Lander, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Donald Holder, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
Herrick Goldman, Falling for Eve
Jan Versweyveld, The Little Foxes
Jeff Croiter, Peter and the Starcatcher
Jennifer Tipton, Vieux Carré
Kate Ashton, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Kenneth Posner, A Life in the Theatre
Kenneth Posner, The Merchant of Venice
Kevin Adams, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures
Mark Barton Notes From Underground
Michael Chybowski, Born Bad
Michael Chybowski, Compulsion
Miranda k Hardy, Murder in the Cathedral
Nicole Pearce, Edgewise
Tyler Micoleau, The Hallway Trilogy

Notable Effects
Acme Sound Partners/Cricket S. Myers (Sound Design), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Basil Twist (Puppet Design), The Pee-Wee Herman Show
Batwin+Robin (Projection Design), David Rockwell (Scene Design), The Normal Heart
Brian Ronan (Sound Design), Anything Goes
Bryan Collier (Projections and Art), Tearing Down the Walls
Darron L. West (Sound Design), Radio Macbeth
Dave Malloy and Matt Hubbs (Sound Design), Dave Malloy (Video Design), Three Pianos
Eric Shimelonis (Sound Design), The Hallway Trilogy
Jeremy Chernick (Special Effects), Blood from a Stone
Jill BC DuBoff (Sound Design), Good People
Jill BC DuBoff (Sound Design), When I Come to Die
John Kelly and Jeff Morey (Video Design), The Escape Artist
Johnny Thompson, Thom Rubino (Magic Design), Play Dead
Kara Walker (Art), Jeremiah Thies (Projections), On the Levee
Louisa Thompson, Colleen Werthmann, Mark Barton, Ben Williams (Production Design), Gatz
Matt Acheson (Puppet Design), Compulsion
Michael Rasbury (Sound Design), Hello Again
Peter Nigrini (Projection Design), Notes From Underground
Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith, Seth Reiser, Jessica Pabst (Production Design), Radio Play
Ryan Holsopple (Sound Design), Here at Home
Sam Deutsch (Puppetry), Mistakes Were Made
Sven Ortel (Projection Design), Wonderland
Tony Gerber (Film Design), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Wendall K. Harrington (Projections), Angels in America
Will Pickens (Sound Designer), Benefactors