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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


2 0 0 4 © M A R K A . P E T E R S E N<br />

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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