BEST PLAYWRIGHT
John Kolvenbach, Reel to Reel, Rogue Machine
RUNNERS-UP: David Adjmi, Stereophonic, Pantages; Will Arbery, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Rogue Machine; Jocelyn Bioh, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, CTG/Taper; Jake Brasch, The Reservoir, Geffen Playhouse; Jake Broder, UnRavelled, Wallis; John Fazakerley, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine; Philip Kan Gotanda, Yankee Dawg You Die, East West Players; Lauren Gunderson, Anthropology, Rogue Machine; Lucas Hnath, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Pasadena Playhouse; Tom Jacobson, Tasty Little Rabbit, Moving Arts; Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gorlich, Here There Are Blueberries, Wallis; Roger Q. Mason, Hide and Hide, Skylight; David West Read, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Jonathan Spector, Eureka Day, Pasadena Playhouse; Sophie Swithinbank, Bacon, Rogue Machine; Shaina Taub, Suffs, Pantages; Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Alfred Uhry, Parade, CTG /Ahmanson; Tim Venable, Adolescent Salvation, Rogue Machine; Lauren Yee, Cambodian Rock Band, East West Players; Steve Yockey, Sleeping Giant, Road
BEST ADAPTATION OR TRANSLATION
Terrence McNally, A Man of No Importance, A Noise Within
RUNNERS-UP: Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; Robert O’Hara, Hamlet, CTG/Taper; Tracy Young and Lisa Wolpe, The Winter’s Tale, Skylight
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Matthew McCray, Reel to Reel, Rogue Machine
Anna D. Shapiro, Noises Off, Geffen Playhouse
RUNNERS-UP: George Bamber, Tasty Little Rabbit, Moving Arts; Shelley Butler, The Reservoir, Geffen; Jennifer Chang, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Pasadena Playhouse; Jennifer Chang, Yankee Dawg You Die, East West Players; Guillermo Ciegfuegos, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Rogue Machine; Chris Fields, One Jewish Boy, Echo; John Perrin Flynn, Anthropology, Rogue Machine; Jessica Hanna, Hide and Hide, Skylight; Moises Kaufman, Here There Are Blueberries, Wallis; Jessica Kubzansky, The Night of the Iguana, Boston Court; Michael Matthews, Bacon, Rogue Machine; Carolyn Ratteray, The Glass Menagerie, Antaeus; Jon Lawrence Rivera, Swipe, Playwrights’ Arena; Steven Robman, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine; John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, Sleeping Giant, Road; Max Webster and Ashley Brooke Monroe, Life of Pi, CTG/Ahmanson and Segerstrom Center; Cameron Watson, Heisenberg, Skylight; Whitney White, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, CTG/Taper
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Chay Yew, Cambodian Rock Band, East West Players
RUNNERS-UP: Michael Arden, Parade, CTG/Ahmanson; Daniel Aukin, Stereophonic, Pantages; James Bonas, UnRavelled, Wallis; Matthew Bourne with Julia McKenzie, Old Friends, CTG /Ahmanson; Michael Donovan, The Wedding Singer, Colony; Michael Mayer, A Beautiful Noise, Pantages; Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, A Man of No Importance, ANW; Luke Sheppard, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Leigh Silverman, Suffs, Pantages; Pat Towne, Bat Boy: The Musical, Open Fist
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Shaina Taub, Suffs, Pantages Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Jason Robert Brown, Parade, CTG /Ahmanson; Will Butler, Stereophonic, Pantages; Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, A Man of No Importance, ANW; Imogen Heap, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Ethan Holtzman, Zac Holtzman, Chhom Nimol, Lindsay Jones, Hamlet, CTG/Taper; Max Martin, & Juliet, Ahmanson; David Radicke, Paul Smith (aka Dengue Fever), Cambodian Rock Band, East West Players; Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, The Wedding Singer, Colony
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
Charlie Alterman, Parade, Center Theatre Group /Ahmanson Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Rod Bagheri, A Man of No Importance, ANW; Mark Binns, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; Andre Cerullo, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Brent Crayon, The Wedding Singer, Colony; Annbrit duChateau, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Dani Lee Hutch, Imogen Heap, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Aron Kallay, UnRavelled, Wallis
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Casey Nickolaw, Some Like It Hot, Pantages Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Michelle Elkin, The Wedding Singer, Colony; Steven Hoggett, A Beautiful Noise, Pantages; Steven Hoggett, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Jennifer Maples, Bat Boy: The Musical, Open Fist; Stephen Mear, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Jennifer Weber, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant, Parade, CTG /Ahmanson
BEST SET DESIGN
Todd Rosenthal, Noises Off, Geffen Playhouse
RUNNERS-UP: Evan A. Bartoletti, Reel to Reel, Rogue Machine; Angela Balogh Calin, The Glass Menagerie, Antaeus; Joel Daavid, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Hudson Backstage; Soutra Gilmour, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Tim Hatley, Life of Pi, CTG/Ahmanson and Segerstrom Center; Justin Huen, One Jewish Boy, Echo; Christine Jones, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Takeshi Kata, The Reservoir, Geffen; Matt Kinley, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Mark Mendelson, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine; Mark Mendelson, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Rogue Machine; Mark Mendelson, Tasty Little Rabbit, Moving Arts; Tesshi Nakagawa, Heisenberg, Skylight; Tesshi Nakagawa, The Night of the Iguana, Boston Court; Scott Pask, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; David Rockwell, A Beautiful Noise, Pantages; Stephanie Kerley Schwartz, Anthropology, Rogue Machine
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Kate Bergh, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine
Paul Tazewell, Suffs, Pantages
RUNNERS-UP: Gregg Barnes, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; Jenna Bergstrasser, The Wedding Singer, Colony; Denitsa Bliznakova, The Night of the Iguana, Boston Court; Beryl Brachman, The Glass Menagerie, Antaeus; Enver Chakartash, Stereophonic, Pantages; Linda Cho, Cambodian Rock Band, East West Players; Susan Hilferty and Mark Koss, Parade, CTG/Ahmanson; Izumi Inaba, Noises Off, Geffen Playhouse; Tim Hatley, Life of Pi, CTG/Ahmanson and Segerstrom Center; Garry Lennon, Tasty Little Rabbit, Moving Arts; Katrina Lindsay, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Jill Parker, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Paloma Young, & Juliet, Ahmanson
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Tim Lutkin and Tim Deiling, Life of Pi, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Kevin Adams, A Beautiful Noise, Pantages; Neil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Brandon Baruch, Hide and Hide, Skylight; Ken Booth, Heisenberg, Skylight; Alison Brummer, Alabaster, Fountain; Lap Chi Chu, Hamlet, CTG/Taper; Heather Gilbert, Parade, CTG/Ahmanson; Howard Hudson, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Natasha Katz, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; David Lander, Here There Are Blueberries, Wallis; Karyn Lawrence, The Glass Menagerie, Antaeus; Warren Letton, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Jeanette Oi-Suk-Yew, The Reservoir, Geffen Playhouse; Kaitlin Trimble, The Night of the Iguana, Boston Court; Dan Weingarten, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Rogue Machine; Dan Weingarten, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine; Dan Weingarten, Tasty Little Rabbit, Rogue Machine
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Jason Crystal, Suffs, Pantages Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: Andrea Allmond, Alabaster, Fountain; Carolyn Downing, Life of Pi, CTG/Ahmanson and Segerstrom Center; Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages; Gareth Fry, Paranormal Activity, CTG/Ahmanson; Jeff Gardner, The Glass Menagerie, Antaeus; Jeff Gardner, Heisenberg, Skylight; Jeff Gardner, Reel to Reel, Rogue Machine; Lindsay Jones, Hamlet, CTG/Taper; Megumi Katayama and Mikhail Fiskel, Cambodian Rock Band, East West Players; David B. Marling, Sleeping Giant, Road; Christopher Moscatiello, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Rogue Machine; Christopher Moscatiello, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine; Cricket S. Myers, Noises Off, Geffen Playhouse; Gareth Owen, & Juliet, Ahmanson; Jessica Paz, A Beautiful Noise, Pantages; Mick Potter, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Brian Ronan, Some Like It Hot, Pantages; Ryan Rumery, Stereophonic, Pantages; Jon Weston, Parade, CTG/Ahmanson; John Zalweski, The Night of the Iguana, Boston Court; John Zalewski, Tasty Little Rabbit, Moving Arts
BEST STUNT / FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
Jen Albert, Bacon, Rogue Machine
Ned Mochel, Corktown ’39, Rogue Machine
BEST CGI / VIDEO DESIGN
Fritz Davis, Anthropology, Rogue Machine
Finn Ross and Ash J. Woodward, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pantages Theatre
RUNNERS-UP: David Bengali, Here There Are Blueberries, Wallis; Andrzei Goulding, Life of Pi, CTG/Ahmanson and Segerstrom Center; Michelle Hanzelova-Bierbauer, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Rogue Machine;Yee Eun Nam, Hamlet, CTG/Taper; Andrzei Goulding, & Juliet, Ahmanson; George Reeve, Old Friends, CTG/Ahmanson; Ben Rock, Sleeping Giant, Road; Nicholas Santiago, Tasty Little Rabbit, Moving Arts; Jason H. Thompson, Cambodian Rock Band, East West Players
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS