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portland drama awards<br />
June 13, 2005
WELCOME<br />
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. But tonight we make the<br />
best of <strong>it</strong> all. Having marked our first quarter-century last year, the <strong>Drammy</strong><br />
Comm<strong>it</strong>tee is pleased to inaugurate the second this evening, and who better<br />
to observe the occasion w<strong>it</strong>h than you?<br />
This year, the comm<strong>it</strong>tee has seen 124 plays and lived to tell the tale. But<br />
deep w<strong>it</strong>hin those 124 productions could be found some excellent, often<br />
unforgettable work. Our purpose this evening, as <strong>it</strong> has been for the past<br />
twenty-five years, is to honor that good work, which we hope (always and,<br />
sometimes we fear, foolishly) will set the proverbial bar that much higher. We<br />
think you’ll <strong>find</strong> the achievements recognized tonight to be of the highest<br />
caliber…not just by Portland standards, but by universal ones.<br />
So to the recipients of tonight’s awards (and even to those nameless few,<br />
whom we argued over b<strong>it</strong>terly for hours, but still did not get for them the<br />
needed votes), congratulations. To all else, have the time of your life!<br />
THE DRAMMY COMMITTEE<br />
Julie Akers, Christine Calfas, Isabella Chappell, Darr Durham, Bill Dobson,<br />
Michael Griggs, Katherine King, Timothy Krause, Victoria Parker, Jen Raynak,<br />
Kristan Seemel, Steffen Silvis, Steve Sm<strong>it</strong>h, Richard Wattenberg<br />
www.drammy.info
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HOMAGE TO HAVEN<br />
Theater entertains and enlightens, but <strong>it</strong><br />
can also enter the life of a commun<strong>it</strong>y in<br />
more tangible ways. Under the spir<strong>it</strong>ed<br />
leadership of founder and artistic director<br />
Gretchen Corbett, the Haven Project has<br />
had a major impact on Portland. For over<br />
ten years, the Haven Project, modeled<br />
on New York C<strong>it</strong>y’s 52nd Street Project,<br />
has brought professional <strong>theater</strong> artists<br />
and kids together to create exc<strong>it</strong>ing,<br />
collaborative <strong>theater</strong> experiences.<br />
Haven began w<strong>it</strong>h after-school classes<br />
in acting and playwr<strong>it</strong>ing for disadvantaged<br />
youths in the back room of a small<br />
Methodist church. Powered by Corbett’s<br />
passion, discipline, and integr<strong>it</strong>y, Haven<br />
has grown to include three different<br />
programs: Spotlight, TEAM, and Afield.<br />
Each provides one-to-one mentorships, as<br />
well as residencies w<strong>it</strong>h young people in<br />
residential treatment programs, alternative<br />
schools, and/or rural commun<strong>it</strong>ies.<br />
The Haven Project has not only offered<br />
scores of young people the opportun<strong>it</strong>y<br />
to learn about <strong>theater</strong>, but <strong>it</strong> has given<br />
these young people the tools to express<br />
themselves and the assurance that<br />
they are being heard. Triston Dallas, a<br />
participating youth for ten years, asserts<br />
that “working w<strong>it</strong>h this group, working<br />
w<strong>it</strong>h all the other youths and the staff that<br />
was a part of Haven Project, was like a<br />
dream come true. It was perfect.”
Mentoring and inspiring has not been a<br />
one-way affair. The professional artists<br />
engaged in Haven have been profoundly<br />
affected by their experiences as is evinced<br />
by the following comments:<br />
“A lifetime mission of mine is to prove<br />
that <strong>theater</strong> heals, and so many young<br />
people I worked w<strong>it</strong>h, and a surprising<br />
number of artists who worked [w<strong>it</strong>h<br />
Haven], were renewed. For the adult<br />
artists, <strong>it</strong> was an education every day.<br />
That’s one of the reasons you’ll hear over<br />
and over again from the artists that <strong>it</strong> was<br />
a real “haven” for them as well. We were<br />
put through incredible challenges that<br />
taught us so much about ourselves and<br />
Haven camp 2004<br />
Camp Caldera near Sisters, Oregon. Thespians closed<br />
a series of one-act plays w<strong>it</strong>h a group song (pictured<br />
above). They returned to Portland for another week of<br />
rehearsal before performing the plays for the public.<br />
about our sense of what true theatre is.”<br />
Victoria Parker, actor and director<br />
“I was amazed at these kids and how<br />
they were able to accomplish what adult<br />
artists often <strong>find</strong> pretty daunting—creating<br />
something. These kids didn’t know that<br />
<strong>it</strong> was hard. They were asked to do<br />
something, and they just did <strong>it</strong>. It’s amazing<br />
to watch these kids work through issues.<br />
These plays are metaphors for their lives.”<br />
Tim True, actor<br />
“I enjoyed the freshness, the directness, of<br />
their voices unencumbered by adult rules<br />
about how they were supposed to wr<strong>it</strong>e.<br />
Their voices came through, and these
were pure voices whether they were<br />
pained, or hurt, or overjoyed—you heard<br />
their voices, and that was exc<strong>it</strong>ing.”<br />
Karin Magaldi, dramaturg and director<br />
“I’ve been w<strong>it</strong>h the program for 7 or 8<br />
years and have seen some of the kids that<br />
came in shut down and angry evolve into<br />
incredible teenagers, who have confidence<br />
and a sense of ethics.”<br />
Sue Mach, playwright<br />
“The value of Haven was and will continue<br />
to be that <strong>it</strong> reached out to so many kids,<br />
and gave them a sense of self-esteem and<br />
instilled in them a sense that they had<br />
something to say. It allowed so many kids<br />
to experience their voices, to share their<br />
voices, and I think <strong>it</strong> similarly allowed so<br />
many actors and wr<strong>it</strong>ers to share their<br />
voices in a unique, nurturing way.”<br />
Luisa Sermol, actor<br />
Scenes from Just Askin, a series of plays<br />
wr<strong>it</strong>ten by children and performed at the<br />
Haven Summer Camp<br />
Sermol and Portland actor Bruce<br />
Burkh<strong>arts</strong>meier both entered masters<br />
programs of education as a result of their<br />
experience w<strong>it</strong>h Haven. “My involvement<br />
w<strong>it</strong>h the kids in the Haven Project,<br />
working w<strong>it</strong>h them one-on-one and seeing<br />
the benef<strong>it</strong>s of what we could do, started<br />
me on this road.”Burkh<strong>arts</strong>meier says.<br />
The Haven Project has truly left <strong>it</strong>s stamp<br />
on all involved, but now, after ten years,<br />
the project as an independent organization<br />
is coming to an end. The good news is that<br />
most of <strong>it</strong>s programs will be picked up by<br />
ART and Sojourn Theatre, so the Haven<br />
spir<strong>it</strong> will live on.<br />
—Richard Wattenberg
TONIGHT’S AWARDS<br />
IN ORDER OF PRESENTATION<br />
Young Wr<strong>it</strong>er (1)<br />
Young Performer (1)<br />
Projection Design (1)<br />
Sound Design (4)<br />
Supporting Actor (3)<br />
Light Design (4)<br />
Special Achievement - The Haven Project<br />
Musical Ensemble (1)<br />
Supporting Actress (1)<br />
Scenic Design (1)<br />
Costume Design (1)<br />
Ensemble Acting (1)<br />
Production Design (1)<br />
Actress in a Lead Role (2)<br />
Actor in a Lead Role (2)<br />
Director (2)<br />
Original Script (1)<br />
Outstanding Production (2)
PRODUCTIONS CONSIDERED FOR<br />
THE 2004-2005 DRAMMYS<br />
10 Naked Men Triangle<br />
1945 Christmas from Home Tapestry<br />
A Bright Room Called Day Theatre Vertigo<br />
A Devil Inside Theatre Vertigo<br />
A Grimm Look Portland World Theatre<br />
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
A Murder of Crows defunkt<br />
A Perfect Fool Sylvia’s<br />
Adventures in Ill Care Bump in the Road<br />
Amadeus Lakewood<br />
AmBushed! BroadArts<br />
Anna in the Tropics Portland Center Stage<br />
Bad Dates Triangle<br />
Beams Are Creaking West End<br />
Beginnings Tribe<br />
Below the Belt Tribe<br />
Blue/Orange Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
Boston Marriage CoHo<br />
Boy Gets Girl CoHo<br />
Break then Open Tribe<br />
Bridge of the Gods Tears of Joy<br />
Bunnicula Northwest Children’s Theater<br />
Carver Country Verb/L<strong>it</strong>erary Arts<br />
Cheaper by the Dozen Northwest Children’s Theater<br />
Cold Comedy Concoction Stark Raving<br />
Composers in Skirts Lakewood<br />
Cornered in the Dark Insight Out<br />
Crazy for You Northwest Children’s Theater<br />
Cuentame Coyote Miracle Theatre<br />
Da Lakewood<br />
Death and the Maiden Theatre Vertigo<br />
Death of a Salesman Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
Debbie Does Dallas Triangle<br />
Dia de los Muertos Miracle Theatre<br />
Duck Variations L<strong>it</strong>tle Bro Big Sista<br />
Earth Stories Verb/L<strong>it</strong>erary Arts<br />
Face Reader Quintessence<br />
Flipside Metropol<strong>it</strong>an Commun<strong>it</strong>y Church<br />
Flyin’ West PassinArt
Fuente Ovejuna Miracle Theatre<br />
Glengarry Glen Ross Cygnet<br />
Good News Lakewood<br />
Gross Generalizations Toad C<strong>it</strong>y<br />
Hors d’Oeuvres Stark Raving<br />
Humble Boy Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
Iron Anthem<br />
It’s Only a Play Profile<br />
Italian American Reconciliation Lakewood<br />
Jekyll and Hyde Broadway Rose<br />
Jesus Christ Superstar Radiant<br />
Jimmy Blue Hand2Mouth<br />
Julius Caesar Northwest Classical<br />
Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool, Dry Place Sowelu<br />
King Lear Portland Center Stage<br />
King Lear J. Stallings<br />
Kiss <strong>it</strong>! Stark Raving<br />
Like a Five-Wheeled Bicycle Fever Theater<br />
Lisbon Traviata Profile<br />
L<strong>it</strong>tle One Inch Tears of Joy<br />
Live at the Rose Garden Insight Out<br />
Lorca in a Green Dress Miracle Theatre<br />
Love’s Labour’s Lost Portland Actors Ensemble<br />
Macbeth Quintessence<br />
Man of La Mancha Lakewood<br />
Marie and Bruce New House<br />
Measure 4 Measure 2 Boards<br />
Misf<strong>it</strong>s First Light<br />
Monky Business Sylvia’s<br />
Mrs. Bob Cratch<strong>it</strong>’s Wild Christmas Binge Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
My Fair Lady Portland Center Stage<br />
My Way Broadway Rose<br />
Mysteries of the Heart Hand2Mouth<br />
Narnia Northwest Children’sTheatre<br />
No Ex<strong>it</strong> Imago<br />
O Lovely Glowworm Portland Center Stage<br />
On the Verge Insight Out<br />
Pageant Triangle<br />
Patience Mock’s Crest<br />
Picnic on the Battlefield Sowelu<br />
Pool’s Paradise Sylvia’s<br />
Prometheus Bound Classic Greek<br />
Pure Gold Baby Seers Network<br />
Ramona Quimby Oregon Children’s Theater
Recent Tragic Events Third Rail/CoHo<br />
Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope La Resistance<br />
Sordid Lives Triangle<br />
Soup de Jour Sylvia’s<br />
Sylvia Magdelyn<br />
Tales of Canterbury Ensemble Loupan<br />
Talking Heads II Triangle<br />
Tape At the Back Door<br />
The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! Miracle Theatre<br />
The Big Friendly Giant Oregon Children’s Theater<br />
The Christmas Revels Portland Revels<br />
The Foreigner West End<br />
The Former One-on-One<br />
Basketball Champion Oregon Children’s Theater<br />
The Freak Show Tribe<br />
The Heiress Triangle<br />
The Killing Game defunkt<br />
The Legend of Redwall Abbey Northwest Children’s Theater<br />
The Mercy Seat Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
The Most Happy Fella Lakewood<br />
The Reluctant Dragon Tears of Joy<br />
The Resurrectory Liminal<br />
The Stendhal Syndrome Profile<br />
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Northwest Children’s Theater<br />
The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico Miracle Theatre<br />
The Vespiary Stark Raving<br />
The Vis<strong>it</strong> Sojourn<br />
The Wa<strong>it</strong>ing Room Bump in the Road<br />
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Tears of Joy<br />
They’re Playing Our Song Broadway Rose<br />
Things of Dry Hours Portland Center Stage<br />
Tone Clusters Upstart<br />
Toxic Avenger: The Musikill Troma & MOP Head<br />
Twelfth Night Northwest Classical Theater<br />
Uncle Vanya Imago<br />
Van<strong>it</strong>ies Mt. Hood Repertory<br />
V<strong>it</strong>riol and Violets Lakewood/Cygnet<br />
W! The Musical Triangle<br />
Winnie-the-Pooh Oregon Children’s Theatre<br />
W<strong>it</strong>ness Our Schools Sojourn<br />
Wonder of the World Jakers<br />
You Can’t Take It W<strong>it</strong>h You Mt. Hood Repertory
DRAMMY AWARD WINNERS<br />
2003-2004<br />
Outstanding Production<br />
The Lion, the W<strong>it</strong>ch and the Wardrobe<br />
Oregon Children’s Theatre<br />
Ensemble Performance<br />
The Wild Child<br />
Hand2Mouth Theatre and Signal Light<br />
Puppet Theatre<br />
Actress in a Lead Role<br />
Helena de Crespo<br />
Talking Heads Triangle Productions<br />
Quigley Provost-Landrum<br />
Medea<br />
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon<br />
Saren Nofs-Snyder<br />
Once in a Lifetime<br />
Lakewood Theatre Company<br />
Actor in a Lead Role<br />
William Hurt<br />
The Drawer Boy<br />
Artists Repertory Theatre<br />
Ted Rosium<br />
Klonsky and Schwartz<br />
Profile Theatre Project<br />
Musical Performer in a Lead Role<br />
Jay Horenstein<br />
Peter Pan<br />
Pixie Dust Productions<br />
Tony James<br />
Judy’s Scary L<strong>it</strong>tle Christmas<br />
Triangle Productions<br />
Wade McCollum<br />
Bat Boy: The Musical<br />
Portland Center Stage<br />
Portland Civic Theatre Guild<br />
Fellowship Awards<br />
Leslie O. Fulton $10,000 fellowship<br />
Barry Hunt<br />
For study and training w<strong>it</strong>h View Points<br />
Workshop, Cr<strong>it</strong>ical Mass, and at the<br />
Network of Ensemble Theaters Festival<br />
Emerging <strong>theater</strong> artist $1,500<br />
award<br />
Francesca Sanders<br />
For travel to New York for readings of<br />
her play I Become a Gu<strong>it</strong>ar<br />
Director<br />
Greg Tamblyn<br />
The Lion, the W<strong>it</strong>ch and the Wardrobe<br />
Oregon Children’s Theatre<br />
Musical Director<br />
Jon Newton<br />
Peter Pan Pixie Dust Productions<br />
Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
Jack Featheringill<br />
Scene Design<br />
Mark Loring<br />
Yemaya’s Belly<br />
Miracle Theatre Group<br />
Torry Bend<br />
Brilliant Traces<br />
e3 Productions<br />
The Bald Soprano and The Lesson<br />
WillieWorks
Actress in a Supporting Role<br />
Debera Lund<br />
Once in a Lifetime<br />
Lakewood Theatre Company<br />
Karen Boettcher-Tate<br />
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife<br />
Triangle Productions<br />
Costume Design<br />
Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad<br />
Bigl<strong>it</strong>tlethings Imago Theatre<br />
Margaret Chapman and Elizabeth Wright<br />
The Women<br />
Triangle Productions<br />
Sue Bonde<br />
Iolanthe Mock’s Crest Productions<br />
Portland Civic Theatre Guild Mary<br />
Brand Award, $500 each<br />
Portland Actors Conservatory to expand<br />
Web s<strong>it</strong>e for marketing and fund raising<br />
Hand2Mouth Theatre for a mobile<br />
lighting system for touring<br />
Mask Design<br />
Alyssa Ravenwood<br />
Scapin Radiant Theatre<br />
Acting Ensemble<br />
ElectroPuss Stark Raving Theatre<br />
Projection Design<br />
Mona Huneidi<br />
Missing Mona Imago Theatre<br />
Actor in a Supporting Role<br />
David Burnett<br />
Once in a Lifetime<br />
Lakewood Theatre Company<br />
Doug Mace<br />
A Moon for the Misbegotten<br />
CoHo Productions<br />
Peter Buonincontro<br />
Cloud 9 defunkt theatre<br />
Original Music<br />
Katie Griesar<br />
Bigl<strong>it</strong>tlethings Imago Theatre<br />
Original Compos<strong>it</strong>ion<br />
Peter Musselman<br />
The Wild Child<br />
Hand2Mouth Theatre and Signal Light<br />
Puppet Theatre<br />
Sound Design/Musical Direction<br />
John Berendzen<br />
Faust (Faust) Liminal Theatre<br />
Sound Design<br />
Jen Raynak<br />
Fully Comm<strong>it</strong>ted Portland Center Stage<br />
Portland Area Theatre Alliance<br />
Recogn<strong>it</strong>ion<br />
Julie Stewart<br />
Musical Performer in a<br />
Supporting Role<br />
Jim Caputo<br />
Peter Pan Pixie Dust Productions<br />
Lighting design<br />
Diane Ferry Williams<br />
Bat Boy: The Musical<br />
Portland Center Stage<br />
Gene Dent<br />
The Lion, the W<strong>it</strong>ch and the Wardrobe<br />
Oregon Children’s Theatre<br />
Peter West<br />
Barrio Hollywood Miracle Theatre Group<br />
Band<br />
The Sp<strong>it</strong>fire Grill Lakewood Theatre<br />
Company<br />
Young Performer<br />
David Cole<br />
The Velveteen Rabb<strong>it</strong><br />
Oregon Children’s Theatre<br />
Matt Callahan and Roman Kolyvanov<br />
Landscape W<strong>it</strong>h Stick Figures<br />
Stark Raving Theatre
Robert H. Adkins died February 2, 2005<br />
at age 72. In add<strong>it</strong>ion to his television<br />
career as KPTV’s beloved “Addie Bobkins,”<br />
Bob performed leading roles in 23 shows<br />
at Portland Civic Theatre, among them<br />
Harold Hill in The Music Man, Hal in Picnic<br />
and Herman in Most Happy Fella.<br />
Dennis Bigelow died March 29, 2005 at<br />
age 52. Dennis was the first producer<br />
and frequent director at Portland Center<br />
Stage, when still part of the Oregon<br />
Shakespeare Festival, and later became the<br />
artistic director of Portland Repertory<br />
Theatre. Afterwards, Bigelow freelanced<br />
around town at Triangle, Profile, Artists<br />
Repertory Theatre, and the Haven Project.<br />
Recent directing cred<strong>it</strong>s include ART’s<br />
Misanthrope, for which he received a 2000<br />
<strong>Drammy</strong> Award.<br />
Janne Black died September 11, 2004 at<br />
age 54. She attended Portland Actors<br />
Conservatory in the 1990s and developed<br />
a natural style that colleagues described<br />
as “pure, unadorned and untheatrical.”<br />
Over the years she performed in Cyrano<br />
de Bergerac, Picnic, Getting Out, Top Girls and<br />
Spinning into Butter.<br />
Dennis Clancy died August 15, 2004 at age<br />
60. Portland native Dennis was a unique<br />
character actor who first appeared in<br />
Portland Civic Theatre’s 1974 What the<br />
Butler Saw. He created over 60 roles,<br />
many at North End Players and Lakewood<br />
Theatre Company, most recently in Once<br />
in a Lifetime.<br />
James N. Erickson died Tuesday, December<br />
14, 2004 at age 67. In add<strong>it</strong>ion to teaching<br />
and directing hundreds of lavish Beaverton<br />
High School <strong>music</strong>als, James’ 54-year<br />
theatrical career included directing<br />
for Musical Theater Company, Sylvia’s,<br />
OBITUARIES<br />
Lakewood, Portland Civic Theatre, and 40<br />
years of “Breakfast w<strong>it</strong>h Santa” for Meier<br />
and Frank.<br />
James Robbins “Bob” Gardiner died<br />
April 21, 2005 at age 54. Bob won a 1974<br />
Academy Award for the clay animated<br />
short Closed Mondays. In add<strong>it</strong>ion to his<br />
<strong>music</strong> shows, wr<strong>it</strong>ing and animation, he<br />
is also remembered for the murals he<br />
painted in the Crystal Ballroom and for<br />
the front of the now-demolished Portland<br />
Civic Theatre.<br />
Ed<strong>it</strong>h M. Gunnar died August 21, 2004 at<br />
age 77. A Lake Oswego <strong>music</strong> teacher,<br />
Edie is remembered for roles such as Aunt<br />
Eller in SRO Productions of Oklahoma and<br />
Joanne in Company.<br />
Kay Lee died January 16, 2005 at age 90.<br />
Kay was a leading figure in local children’s<br />
theatre, having founded the improvisational<br />
Playbox Players that evolved into what is<br />
known to kids today as Ladybug Theater.<br />
Kay also appeared in the 1975 movie One<br />
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.<br />
Margo Skinner died April 11, 2005 at age<br />
55. She passed away while appearing in the<br />
Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of<br />
Moonlight and Magnolias in New York. In<br />
Portland she was recently seen as Goneril<br />
in Portland Center Stage’s 2004 King Lear,<br />
and as Martha in PCS’ Who’s Afraid of<br />
Virginia Woolf?, for which she won a 2004<br />
<strong>Drammy</strong> for an Outstanding Performance<br />
by a Lead Actress.<br />
John Quentin Welch died September 1,<br />
2004 at age 75. “Tin,” as he was known,<br />
was a Portland native who directed and<br />
produced for Slabtown Stop Theatre, an<br />
alternative theatre that Welch founded and<br />
co-owned w<strong>it</strong>h his wife.
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