UPDATED: Nominations: The 2012 Wilde Awards

Best Comedy

• The Dead Guy, Williamston Theatre; Tony Caselli, director
  
• Escanaba in da Moonlight, The Purple Rose Theatre Company; Guy Sanville, director
  
• The Love List, Tipping Point Theatre; Lynn Lammers, director
  
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Tipping Point Theatre; Julia Glander, director
  
• Tartuffe, Michigan Shakespeare Festival; Robert Kauzlaric, director

Best Drama

• Next Fall, Performance Network Theatre; Ray Schultz, director
  
• Red, Performance Network Theatre; Carla Milarch, director
  
• The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Planet Ant Theatre; Annette Madias, director
  
• A Stone Carver, The Purple Rose Theatre Company; Rhiannon Ragland, director
  
• The Whipping Man, The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company & Plowshares Theatre Company; Gary Anderson, director

Best Musical or Opera

• Chicago the Musical, Mason Street Warehouse; Kurt Stamm, director
  
• From My Hometown, Meadow Brook Theatre; Travis W. Walter, director
  
• I Pagliacci, Michigan Opera Theatre; Bernard Uzan, director
  
• The Light in the Piazza, The Encore Musical Theatre; Steve DeBruyne, director
  
• Sunset Boulevard, Barn Theatre; Hans Friedrichs, director
  
• Urinetown, Farmers Alley Theatre; Laurel Scheidt, director

Best Original One-Act Comedy

• M 5, Planet Ant Theatre; Sara Wolf Molnar, director
  
• iMerica - Brand That i Love, Go Comedy! Improv Theater; Tommy LeRoy, director
  
• Montag and Marbles, Go Comedy! Improv Theater; Pete Jacokes, director
  
• The Tim Machine, Go Comedy! Improv Theater; Nancy Edwards, director
  
• Wirelessless, Go Comedy! Improv Theater; Bryan Lark, director

Best of The Bard

• Cymbeline, Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company; Bob Jones, director
  
• Much Ado About Nothing, Hilberry Theatre; Matthew Earnest, director
  
• The Tempest, Park Bar; Jerry Belanger, director
  
• The Tempest, Water Works Theatre; Jeff Thomakos, director
  
• The Winter's Tale, Michigan Shakespeare Festival; Janice Blixt, director

Best Touring Production

• Blue Man Group, Broadway in Detroit
  
• A Christmas Story - The Musical, Broadway in Detroit
  
• Rock of Ages, Broadway in Detroit

Best New Script

• Scott Burkell & Paul Loesel, The Extraordinary Ordinary, Farmers Alley Theatre
  
• David MacGregor, Consider the Oyster, The Purple Rose Theatre Company
  
• Sean May & Ryan Parmenter, RoGoCop! The Musical, Go Comedy! Improv Theater
  
• Linda Ramsay-Detherage, The Sunday Punch, Planet Ant Theatre
  
• Joseph Zettelmaier, And The Creek Don't Rise, Williamston Theatre
  
• Joseph Zettelmaier, Dead Man's Shoes, Williamston Theatre & Performance Network Theatre

Best Performance, Actress – Comedy

• Janet Haley, Tartuffe, Michigan Shakespeare Festival
  
• Terry Heck, The Importance of Being Earnest, Tipping Point Theatre
  
• Robin Lewis-Bedz, The Dead Guy, Williamston Theatre
  
• Kate Peckham, And The Creek Don't Rise, Williamston Theatre
  
• Mary Robin Roth, Spreading It Around, Meadow Brook Theatre

Best Performance, Actress – Drama

• Penelope Alex, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barn Theatre
  
• Barbara Coven, Next Fall, Performance Network Theatre
  
• Hayley Galbraith, I Remember Mama, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre
  
• Julia Glander, Mary Stuart, Meadow Brook Theatre
  
• Linda Ramsay, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Planet Ant Theatre

Best Performance, Actress – Musical or Opera

• Robyn Hurder, Chicago the Musical, Mason Street Warehouse
  
• Melissa Parks, The Marriage of Figaro, Michigan Opera Theatre
  
• Ashlyn Nicole Shawver, The Last Five Years, What A Do Theatre
  
• Annie Wessendarp, Cinderella, Barn Theatre
  
• Kim Zimmer, Sunset Boulevard, Barn Theatre

Best Performance, Actress – Original One-Act Comedy or Solo Performance

• Suzan M. Jacokes, iMerica - Brand That i Love, Go Comedy! Improv Theater
  
• Cara Trautman, Seance 4, Planet Ant Theatre

Best Performance – The Bard

• Janet Haley, The Winter's Tale, Michigan Shakespeare Festival
  
• Kat Hermes, Henry IV, Part 1,Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company
  
• Paul Hopper, The Tempest, Water Works Theatre Company
  
• Dave Toomey, Much Ado About Nothing, Hilberry Theatre

Best Performance, Actor - Comedy

• Buz Davis, Tartuffe, Michigan Shakespeare Festival
  
• Paul Hopper, Dead Man's Shoes, Williamston Theatre & Performance Network Theatre
  
• Chris Korte, The Dead Guy, Williamston Theatre
  
• Joel Mitchell, Dogman's Last Stand, UDM Theatre Company
  
• David Spencer, The 39 Steps, Mason Street Warehouse

Best Performance, Actor - Drama

• Council Cargle, The Whipping Man, The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company & Plowshares Theatre Company
  
• Robert Grossman, Imagining Madoff, The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company
  
• Eric Parker, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barn Theatre
  
• Guy Sanville, A Stone Carver, The Purple Rose Theatre Company
  
• Curt I. Tofteland, I Remember Mama, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre

Best Performance, Actor – Musical or Opera

• Bernard Balbot, Blood Brothers, Farmers Alley Theatre
  
• Vince Kelley, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Ringwald
  
• Corey McKern, The Marriage of Figaro, Michigan Opera Theatre
  
• Antonello Palombi, I Pagliacci, Michigan Opera Theatre
  
• Eric Parker, Sunset Boulevard, Barn Theatre
  
• Jack Sweeney, The Extraordinary Ordinary, Farmers Alley Theatre

Best Performance, Actor - Original One-Act Comedy or Solo Performance

• Chris DiAngelo, iMerica - Brand That i Love, Go Comedy! Improv Theater
  
• Joe Hingelberg, Wirelessless, Go Comedy! Improv Theater
  
• Tim Kay, The Tim Machine, Go Comedy! Improv Theater
  
• Peter Prouty, Oh, Hell! , The Abreact

Best Teamwork

• Josh Campos & Brian Papandrea, Montag and Marbles, Go Comedy! Improv Theater
  
• Miriam Henkel-Moellmann & Natalie Sparbeck, Cinderella, Barn Theatre
  
• Yana Levovna & Lisa Lauren Smith, Looking for the Pony, Detroit Repertory Theatre
  
• Caitlyn Macuga, Brian P. Sage, Natividad Salgado, Katie Terpstra, & Kevin Young; The Mystery of Irma Vep, Tipping Point Theatre
  
• Ian Page, Chris Purchis & Michelle Serje, The Dead Guy, Williamston Theatre

Best Ensemble

• Dax Anderson, Sarah Galloway, Charles Reynolds & David Schoen, Endgame, The Abreact
  
• Liza Bielby, Steven DeWater, Richard Newman, Dave Sanders & Eleni Zaharopolous, Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle) , The Hinterlands
  
• Dave Davies, Tina Gloss-Finnell & Wayne David Parker, Love List, Tipping Point Theatre
  
• Alexander Elisa, Will Lee Williams & Tyrick Wiltez Jones, From My Hometown, Meadow Brook Theatre
  
• Mark Rademacher & Kevin Young, Red, Performance Network Theatre

Best Choreography

• Jill Dion, A Day in Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, Hilberry Theatre
  
• Angie Kane Ferrante, Spring Awakening, The AKT Theatre Project
  
• Hans Friedrichs, The Great Big Bar Show, Barn Theatre
  
• Jennifer George-Consiglio, From My Hometown, Meadow Brook Theatre
  
• Kathryn S. Williams, Urinetown, Farmers Alley Theatre

Best Music Direction

• Catherine Walker Adams, Urinetown, Farmers Alley Theatre
  
• Brian E. Buckner, Godspell, The Encore Musical Theatre
  
• Brian E. Buckner, The Last Five Years, The Encore Musical Theatre
  
• Daniel Feyer, From My Hometown, Meadow Brook Theatre
  
• Bill Meyer, A Jazzy Christmas, Plowshares Theatre Company

Best Design - Sets

• Monika Essen, Red, Performance Network Theatre
  
• Joseph P. Flauto, I Remember Mama, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre
  
• Elisa Limberg, Unlocking Desire, Khoros Inc.
  
• Daniel C. Walker, A Stone Carver, The Purple Rose Theatre Company
  
• Daniel C. Walker, The Usual: A Musical Love Story, Williamston Theatre

Best Design - Lights

• Genesis Garza, The Dead Guy, Williamston Theatre
  
• Ted Hatton, A Few Good Men, What A Do Theatre
  
• Ted Hatton, The Last Five Years, What A Do Theatre
  
• Brian Scruggs, The Winter's Tale, Michigan Shakespeare Festival
  
• Dana White, A Stone Carver, The Purple Rose Theatre Company

Best Design - Sound

• Ken Faulk, Next Fall, Performance Network Theatre
  
• Quintessa Gallinat, Escanaba in da Moonlight, The Purple Rose Theatre Company
  
• Kate Hopgood, Much Ado About Nothing, Michigan Shakespeare Festival
  
• Kate Hopgood, The Winter's Tale, Michigan Shakespeare Festival
  
• John Purchase, A Few Good Men, What A Do Theatre

Best Design - Props

• Beth C. Duey, Crimes of the Heart, Tipping Point Theatre
  
• Amy Harpenau, Cinderella, Barn Theatre
  
• Mark Konwinski, Avenue Q, The Box Theater
  
• Diane E. Ulseth, The Whipping Man, The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company & Plowshares Theatre Company
  
• Barbie Amann Weisserman, Same Time, Next Year, Two Muses Theatre

Best Design - Costumes

• Nina Barlow and Megan Johnson, The Tempest, Water Works Theatre Company
  
• Jerry Belanger and Cal Schwartz, The Tempest, Park Bar
  
• Melanie Schuessler, Tartuffe, Michigan Shakespeare Festival

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