Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2024 Theatre Season Award Recipients

[NoHo Arts District, CA] – The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC), Southern California’s pre-eminent organization of professional theatre critics and journalists, is pleased to announce its 2024 Theatre Season Award recipients, and to invite Award recipients, nominees, and the greater Los Angeles professional theatre community to join us for a live reception event on Monday, April 21 sponsored by the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station Arts complex. 

The April 21 Reception marks LADCC’s first in-person event since the COVID-19 pandemic. In a departure from traditional award ceremony formats, the reception is a party to provide opportunity for theatre artists to freely mingle, network, and enjoy each other’s company, with no formal ceremony or speeches. For more information on the reception event, see the RSVP information below.

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2024 THEATRE SEASON AWARD WINNERS

From our previously announced category finalists, the Award Recipients in each category are:

• BEST PRODUCTION: Reefer Madness: The Musical; independently produced at The Whitley 
• McCULLOH AWARD FOR BEST REVIVAL: The Piano Lesson; A Noise Within 
• DIRECTION: Abigail Deser; Dido of Idaho; Echo Theater Company
• LEAD PERFORMANCE: Ann Noble; Crevasse; Son of Semele and Victory Theatre Center
• FEATURED PERFORMANCE: Nicole DuPort; Dido of Idaho; Echo Theater Company
• SOLO PERFORMANCE: Kate Berlant; Kate; Pasadena Playhouse
• ENSEMBLE: Cast of Reefer Madness: The Musical; independently produced at The Whitley
• WRITING-ORIGINAL: Abby Rosebrock; Dido of Idaho; Echo Theater Company
• WRITING-ADAPTATION:
• David Lindsay-Abaire; Kimberly Akimbo; Hollywood Pantages Theatre
• James Ijames; Fat Ham; Geffen Playhouse
• MUSIC & LYRICS: Jeanine Tesori & David Lindsay-Abaire; Kimberly Akimbo; Hollywood Pantages Theatre

• ORCHESTRATION & MUSIC DIRECTION: 
• David Lamoureux; Reefer Madness: The Musical; independently produced at The Whitley
• Marc Macalintal; Pacific Overtures; East West Players
• CHOREOGRAPHY: Spencer Liff & Max Reed; Reefer Madness: The Musical; independently produced at the Whitley
• LIGHTING DESIGN: Azra King-Abadi; Crevasse; Son of Semele and Victory Theatre Center
• SCENIC DESIGN: Katrina Coulourides; Mercury; The Road Theatre
• COSTUME DESIGN: Naomi Yoshida; Pacific Overtures; East West Players
• SOUND DESIGN:  Robert Oriol; The Skin of Our Teeth; A Noise Within
• VISUAL EFFECTS DESIGN 
• Nicholas Santiago; Crevasse; Son of Semele and Victory Theatre Center
• Skylar Fox; Fat Ham; Geffen Playhouse

The above 2024 category winners join our previously announced SPECIAL AWARD HONOREES:

• POLLY WARFIELD AWARD for outstanding 2024 season: The Road Theatre Company
• GORDON DAVIDSON AWARD for distinguished contribution to L.A. theatre: John Perrin Flynn
• JOEL HIRSCHHORN AWARD for outstanding achievement in Musical Theatre: East West Players
• MILTON KATSELAS AWARD for career achievement in Direction: Stephen Sachs
• MARGARET HARFORD AWARD for sustained excellence in theatre arts: Marilyn Fox
• TED SCHMITT AWARD for outstanding World Premiere playscript: Tom Jacobson
• TECHNICAL DESIGN AWARD for career excellence in sound design: John Zalewski
• LADCC COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD: special award to the Hollywood Fringe Festival

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2024 Theatre Season Award Recipients Reception:

Where:

William Turner Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. E-1, Santa Monica, CA 90404

When:

Monday, 21 April 2025
Arrive anytime between 6:30 – 8:30 pm

What:

A party to celebrate L.A. theatre and socialize with colleagues without formal ceremony or speeches. Wine bar and light hors d’oeuvres. Award plaques will be available for recipient pick up.

Cost:

No admission fee; donations are welcome and appreciated at:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=R68RJ4Q39Y5Q4

RSVP Requested

For headcount estimating purposes, please RSVP with number of attendees at 

Special thanks to our Reception event sponsor: William Turner Gallery

Congratulations to all the 2024 Award Recipients and Special Award Honorees—and to the entire Los Angeles Theatre Community!

About Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC)

Founded in 1969, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle is a nonprofit association of professional journalists dedicated to excellence in theatrical criticism and to the encouragement and support of theatre arts in Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties (“Greater Los Angeles”).

Current officers consist of President Terry Morgan, Vice President Dana Martin, Treasurer Hoyt Hilsman, Co-Secretaries Martίn Hernández and Anita W. Harris, Website/Social Media Chair Patrick Chavis, Fundraising Chair Katie Buenneke, and Awards Co-Chairs Philip Brandes and Tracey Paleo. 

The current 2025 membership of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (in alphabetical order): Philip Brandes (Stage Raw), Katie Buenneke (Stage Raw, TheaterDigest.substack.com), Amanda Callas (BroadwayWorld, Discover Hollywood Magazine), Patrick Chavis (LA Theatre Bites, The Orange Curtain Review), F. Kathleen Foley (Stage Raw),  Anita W. Harris (LATheatrix.com), Martίn Hernández (Stage Raw), Hoyt Hilsman (Cultural Daily), Travis Michael Holder (TicketHoldersLA.com), Edward Hong (The Nerds of Color), Deborah Klugman (Stage Raw), Harker Jones (BroadwayWorld), Dana Martin (Stage Raw), Myron Meisel (Stage Raw), Terry Morgan (ArtsBeatLA), Honorary Member Steven Leigh Morris (Stage Raw), Tracey Paleo (Gia On the Move, BroadwayWorld), Melinda Schupmann (ShowMag.com, ArtsInLA.com), Jonas Schwartz-Owen (Theatermania, BroadwayWorld), Don Shirley (Angeles Stage on Substack), and Socks Whitmore (Stage Raw).

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