Nominations Announced for Jeff Awards The nominations are out for the 2022 - 2023 Equity Jeff Awards, which honor achievement Chicago's Equity theatre community. The nominees include 214 theatre artists across 32 categories of excellence in theatre production among shows from 35 companies. During the most recent season, which ran from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, Jeff Awards members attended 105 Equity productions. From these, 88 productions became "Jeff Recommended" and therefore eligible for award nominations. Goodman Theatre garnered the most honors with 32 nominations from nine productions, two of which were co-productions with other companies, followed by Paramount Theatre (18), Mercury Theater Chicago (15), and a tie between Drury Lane Productions, Marriott Theatre and Teatro Vista (13). The Dream King at Teatro Vista drew the largest number of nominations for a single production (10). Among New Work, ten world premiere plays and two new musicals are in award consideration. Scenic Design - Large Andrew Boyce, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Drury Lane Productions casaboyce, Layalina, Goodman Theatre John Culbert, Arsenic and Old Lace, Court Theatre Jeffrey D. Kmiec, Into the Woods, Paramount Theatre Jeffrey D. Kmiec, The Sound of Music, Paramount Theatre Collette Pollard, The Garbologists, Northlight Theatre Scenic Design - Midsize Bob Knuth, Clue, Mercury Theater Chicago Jack Magaw, Andy Warhol's Tomato, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Angela Weber Miller. And Neither Have I Wings to Fly, First Folio Theatre Angela Weber Miller, Jeeves Intervenes, First Folio Theatre Lauren M. Nichols, Anna in the Tropics, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Joe Schermoly, The Dream King, Teatro Vista Costume Design - Large Raquel Adorno, Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Northlight Theatre Raquel Adorno, Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical, The Hard Kill LLC Theresa Ham, Hello, Dolly!, Marriott Theatre Izumi Inaba, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, Steppenwolf Theatre Company Samantha C. Jones, Dreamgirls, Paramount Theatre Ana Kuzmanic, The Cherry Orchard, Goodman Theatre Bill Morey, Cabaret, Porchlight Music Theatre Costume Design - Midsize Gregory Graham, Anna in the Tropics, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Marquecia Jordan, Big River, Mercury Theater Chicago Marquecia Jordan, Clue, Mercury Theater Chicago Robert Kuhn, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mercury Theater Chicago Caitlin McLeod, The Dream King, Teatro Vista Alexia Rutherford, The October Storm. Raven Theatre Sound Design - Large Mikhail Fiksel and Jeffrey Levin, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Drury Lane Productions Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter, Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol, Writers Theatre and Manual Cinema Ray Nardelli, The 39 Steps, Drury Lane Productions Gareth Owen, The Who's Tommy, Goodman Theatre André Pluess, Toni Stone, Goodman Theatre Adam Rosenthal, The Sound of Music, Paramount Theatre Richard Woodbury, The Cherry Orchard, Goodman Theatre Sound Design - Midsize Matthew Chapman, The Dream King, Teatro Vista Victoria DeIorio, Motherhouse, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Willow James, How Blood Go, Congo Square Theatre Company Stefanie M. Senior, Enough to Let the Light In, Teatro Vista Kurt Snieckus, Clue, Mercury Theater Chicago Lighting Design - Large Yael Lubetzky, Once, Writers Theatre Julie Mack, A Chorus Line, Drury Lane Productions José Santiago, Into the Woods, Paramount Theatre Ben Stanton, The Notebook, Chicago Shakespeare Theater Amanda Zieve, The Who's Tommy, Goodman Theatre Lighting Design - Midsize Conchita Avitia, The Dream King, Teatro Vista Jared Gooding, Fences, American Blues Theater Gabrielle Strong, Gender Play or What You Will, About Face Theatre Eric Watkins, Routes, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Levi Wilkins, Is God Is, A Red Orchid Theatre Projection Design John Boesche, Galileo's Daughter, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Anthony Churchill, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express,, Drury Lane Productions Reese Craig and Liviu Pasare, Right to Be Forgotten, Raven Theatre Smooch Medina, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Porchlight Music Theatre Peter Nigrini, The Who's Tommy, Goodman Theatre Mike Tutaj, Andy Warhol in Iran, Northlight Theatre Artistic Specialization Drew Dir, Puppet Design, Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol, Writers Theatre and Manual Cinema Drew Dir, Storyboards, Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol, Writers Theatre and Manual Cinema Rueben D. Echoles, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design, Dreamgirls, Paramount Theatre Jyrieka Guest, Fight Choreography, Is God Is, A Red Orchid Theatre Amanda Hermann and Yu Shibagaki, Properties Design, Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon, Lookingglass Theatre Company Cookie Jordan, Hair and Wig Design, the ripple, the wave that carried me home, Goodman Theatre in association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ian Merritt, Cinematography, The Christians, Citadel Theatre Jesse Mooney-Bullock, Puppet Design, Into the Woods, Paramount Theatre Mike Oleon, Puppet Design, The Dream King, Teatro Vista Keith Ryan, Wig Design, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mercury Theater Chicago The 55th anniversary Equity Jeff Awards will take place October 2, 2023, at Drury Lane in Oakbrook, IL. More details on the program will be announced soon. For the full list of nominees, go to mailchi.mp/cb64591096da/2023-nominations-for-equity-jeff-awards. ![](/std_images/blank.gif)
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