THE 2016 TBA AWARDS CELEBRATION FULL FINALIST ROSTER CREATIVE SPECIALTIES Joan Jeanrenaud for Second Time Around: A Duet for Cello and Storyteller at The Marsh Kendra Johnson for The Greatest Monkey Show On Earth at Antic in a Drain David Murakami for Valley of the Heart at San Jose Stage Company Jesse Mooney-Bullock for The Oldest Boy at Marin Theatre Company Matt Stines, et all for Hamlet at Shotgun Players
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY Staci Arriaga for Rock of Ages at Center Repertory Company Tsering D. Bawa for The Oldest Boy at Marin Theatre Company CJ Blankenship & Brett Blankenship for The Wild Party at San Jose Stage Company Erika Chong Shuch for The Unfortunates at American Conservatory Theater Nicole Helfer for West Side Story at Mountain Play Association Sam Pinkleton for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre I Hannah Dworkin for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Alex Hsu for Sweet Charity at Hillbarn Theatre Matthew McCoy for Peter Pan at Berkeley Playhouse Randee Paufve for A Dreamplay at The Cutting Ball Theater Janie Scott for Chicago at Palo Alto Players II Staci Arriaga for The Who's: Tommy at "OMG, I Love That Show!" Productions Bobby Bryce for The Rocky Horror Show at Ray of Light Theatre Margery Fairchild for The Awakening at The Breadbox Matthew McCoy for Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse Alex Rodriguez for The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre Gary Stanford Jr. for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN Fumiko Bielefeldt for The Oldest Boy at Marin Theatre Company Fumiko Bielefeldt for Cyrano at TheatreWorks Victoria Livingston-Hall for Born Yesterday at Center Repertory Company Rebecca Ann Valentino for Rock of Ages at Center Repertory Company David Zinn for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre I Tammy Berlin for The Taming at Marin Shakespeare Company Amy Bobeda for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Courtney Flores for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Douglas Morrisson Theatre Miriam Lewis for The (new) Mikado at Lamplighters Music Theatre Mae Heagerty-Matos for A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum at Hillbarn Theatre II Michael Berg for The Ladies of the Camellias at Ross Valley Players Hope Birdwell for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Lisa Danz for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Pamela Enz for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Spreckels Theatre Company Kim Haugen for The Greatest Monkey Show On Earth at Antic in a Drain Glenn Krumbholz for The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett at Thrillpeddlers
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL Michael Berresse for The Last Five Years at American Conservatory Theater Robert Kelley for Jane Austen's Emma at TheatreWorks Pam MacKinnon for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Dyan McBride for Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon Dyan McBride for Rock of Ages at Center Repertory Company I Ellen Brooks for The (new) Mikado at Lamplighters Music Theatre Danny Cozart for Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse Jane Erwin Hammett for Ruddygore at Lamplighters Music Theatre Nina Meehan for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Linda Piccone for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hillbarn Theatre II Gene Abravaya for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Spreckels Theatre Company Jenn BeVard for The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre Russell Blackwood for The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett at Thrillpeddlers Ryan Cowles for The Who's: Tommy at OMG! I Love That Show! Productions Clay David for Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse Stewart Lyle for The Light in the Piazza at Altarena Playhouse
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY Jason Eagan for A House Tour at Z Space Ron Lagomarsino for Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater Timothy Near for Born Yesterday at Center Repertory Company Timothy Near for "Master Harold"... and the Boys at Aurora Theatre Company Jessica Thebus for The Oldest Boy at Marin Theatre Company I Evren Odcikin for I Call My Brothers at Crowded Fire Theater Company Noelle G. Gibbs for I and You at City Lights Theater Company Rebecca Longworth for Buyer and Cellar at New Conservatory Theatre Center Marilee Talkington for Truck Stop at Crowded Fire Theater Company Mark Phillips for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at City Lights Theater Company II Ariel Craft for The Awakening at The Breadbox Melissa Hillman for The Comedy of Errors at Impact Theatre Søren Oliver for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Argo Thompson for Good People at Left Edge Theatre Charlie Varon for The Real Americans at The Marsh Emilie Whelan and Michael Socrates Moran for Waiting for Lefty at Ubuntu Theater Project
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A MUSICAL The Boys From Syracuse at 42nd Street Moon Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon The Unfortunates at American Conservatory Theater Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Jane Austen's Emma at TheatreWorks I Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hillbarn Theatre The (new) Mikado at Lamplighters Music Theatre Schooled at San Francisco Mime Troupe II The Light in the Piazza at Altarena Playhouse Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse La Cage aux Folles at Bay Area Musicals The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY Between Riverside and Crazy at American Conservatory Theater "Master Harold"... and the Boys at Aurora Theatre Company Fences at California Shakespeare Theater The 39 Steps at San Jose Stage Company Hamlet at Shotgun Players I Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at City Lights Theater Company Handle with Care at City Lights Theater Company Truck Stop at Crowded Fire Theater Company The Taming at Marin Shakespeare Company Clybourne Park at Palo Alto Players II The Awakening at The Breadbox Ada and the Memory Engine at Central Works Good People at Left Edge Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Waiting for Lefty at Ubuntu Theater Project
OUTSTANDING FEMALE ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL Nicole Frydman for The Most Happy Fella at 42nd Street Moon Heather Orth for The Boys From Syracuse at 42nd Street Moon Melissa Reinertson for Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon Sharon Rietkerk for Jane Austen's Emma at TheatreWorks Elise Youssef for Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon I Chloe Angst for The Secret Garden at Contra Costa Civic Theatre Samantha Cardenas for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hillbarn Theatre Jamella Cross for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Courtney Hatcher for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hillbarn Theatre Isabel To for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre II Crystal Brown for Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse Jessica Coker for LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre Karen DeHart for Gypsy at South Bay Musical Theatre Taylor Iman Jones for LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre Melissa Reinertson for LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre Pamela Rosen for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre CC Sheldon for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre
OUTSTANDING FEMALE ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY Catherine Castellanos for Between Riverside and Crazy at American Conservatory Theater Khalia Davis for You Never Can Tell at California Shakespeare Theater Sarah Nina Hayon for Swimmers at Marin Theatre Company Omoze Idehenre for Gem of the Ocean at Marin Theatre Company Katie Rubin for The Heir Apparent at Aurora Theatre Company I Tamar Cohn for A Song at Twilight at Theatre Rhinoceros Laura Espino for The Clean House at Contra Costa Civic Theatre Shani Harris-Bagwell for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Douglas Morrisson Theatre Denmo Ibrahim for I Call My Brothers at Crowded Fire Theater Company Lucy Littlewood for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at City Lights Theater Company II Sandra Ish for Good People at Left Edge Theatre Halili Knox for The Gospel of Lovingkindness at Ubuntu Theater Project Shay Oglesby-Smith for The First Supper at Altarena Playhouse Genevieve Perdue for The Awakening at The Breadbox Ginny Wehrmeister for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Emilie Whelan for Waiting for Lefty at Ubuntu Theater Project
OUTSTANDING FEMALE ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A MUSICAL Samantha Barks for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Caitlin Brooke for Dogfight at San Francisco Playhouse Leigh Ann Larkin for Jane Austen's Emma at TheatreWorks Allison F. Rich for Sail Away at 42nd Street Moon Margo Seibert for The Last Five Years at American Conservatory Theater I Tielle Baker for The Addams Family at Berkeley Playhouse Claire Buchignani for Shrek the Musical at Woodminster Summer Musicals Jessica Coker for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Berkeley Playhouse Andrea Dennison-Laufer for Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse Megan Gallup for Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA at Woodminster Summer Musicals II Dani Beem for Into the Woods at Novato Theater Company Madison Genovese for The Light in the Piazza at Altarena Playhouse Sarah Griner for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre Suzanne Ochs for Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse Jocelyn Pickett for The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre Julianne Bretan for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Spreckels Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING FEMALE ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A PLAY Margo Hall for Fences at California Shakespeare Theater Carrie L.Paff for Stage Kiss at San Francisco Playhouse Lisa Anne Porter for Bright Half Life at Magic Theatre Sharon Rietkerk for Born Yesterday at Center Repertory Company Katherine R. Turner for Sojourners at Magic Theatre I Jessica Lynn Caroll for Truck Stop at Crowded Fire Theater Company Tristan Cunningham for The Taming at Marin Shakespeare Company Leontyne Mbele-Mbong for Antony and Cleopatra at African-American Shakespeare Company Roneet Aliza Rahamim for Handle with Care at City Lights Theater Company Kelly Strickland for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Douglas Morrisson Theatre II Melanie Dupuy for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Maria Giere Marquis for The Awakening at The Breadbox Jasmine Hughes for Hurt Village at Ubuntu Theater Project Kimberly Kalember for Good People at Left Edge Theatre Stacy Ross for The Thrush & the Woodpecker at Custom Made Theatre Co. Chaz Shermil for Hurt Village at Ubuntu Theater Project Kathryn Zdan for Ada and the Memory Engine at Central Works
OUTSTANDING GUEST PRODUCTION Campo Maldito at EXIT Theatre Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin at TheatreWorks The Hypocrites' Pirates of Penzance at Berkeley Repertory Theatre The Lion at American Conservatory Theater
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN Kevin Adams for Satchmo at The Waldorf at American Conservatory Theater Robert Hand for Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater York Kennedy for The Invisible Hand at Marin Theatre Company Kurt Landisman for Art at Center Repertory Company Allen Willner for Eurydice at Shotgun Players I Nick Kumamoto for The Elephant Man at City Lights Theater Company Nick Kumamoto for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at City Lights Theater Company Kevin A. Landesman for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Andrew Lu for Truck Stop at Crowded Fire Theater Company Mike Oesch for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Douglas Morrisson Theatre II Joe D'Emilio for The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre Joe D'Emilio for LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre April George for Good People at Left Edge Theatre Maxx Kurzunski for Maggie's Riff at FaultLine Theater Darsen Long for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Christian Mejia for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL Adam Chanler-Berat for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ryan Drummond for Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon Tyce Green for Rock of Ages at Center Repertory Company Eddie Lopez for The Unfortunates at American Conservatory Theater Robbie Rescigno for The Most Happy Fella at 42nd Street Moon I Isaiah Boyd for Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse John Brown for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Berkeley Playhouse Edward Hightower for Shrek the Musical at Woodminster Summer Musicals Joey McDaniel for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hillbarn Theatre Brian Palac for Miss Saigon at Broadway by the Bay II DerekTravis Collard for The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Town Hall Theatre Company Ryan Cowles for The Rocky Horror Show at Ray of Light Theatre Jeremy B. Gotch for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Spreckels Theatre Company Paul Hovannes for The Rocky Horror Show at Ray of Light Theatre William Lipton for The Who's: Tommy at OMG! I Love That Show! Productions Sven Schultz for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre Dedrick Weathersby for Rent at Sunnyvale Community Players
OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY L. Peter Callender for Swimmers at Marin Theatre Company James Carpenter for Eurydice at Shotgun Players Kevin Clarke for Grand Concourse at Shotgun Players Tyrone Mitchell Henderson for Aubergine at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Adrian Roberts for "Master Harold"... and the Boys at Aurora Theatre Company I Shane Fahy for For the Love of Comrades at New Conservatory Theatre Center Carl Holvick for A Dreamplay at Cutting Ball Theater Paul Rodrigues for For the Love of Comrades at New Conservatory Theatre Center Josh Schell for A Dreamplay at Cutting Ball Theater Benjamin Stowe for One Man, Two Guvnors at 6th Street Playhouse II Christian Haines for Value Over Replacement at PlayGround Michael Socrates Moran for Waiting for Lefty at Ubuntu Theater Project Jerry Motta for Angels In America: Perestroika at Town Hall Theatre Company Daniel Redmond Davies for The First Supper at Altarena Playhouse LaMont Ridgell for Angels In America: Perestroika at Town Hall Theatre Company Josh Schell for Ada and the Memory Engine at Central Works
OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A MUSICAL Martin Rojas Dietrich for The Most Happy Fella at 42nd Street Moon Jason Graae for Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon Paul Rescigno for The Boys From Syracuse at 42nd Street Moon Robbie Rescigno for The Boys From Syracuse at 42nd Street Moon Zak Resnick for The Last Five Years at American Conservatory Theater I Lawrence F. Ewing for The (new) Mikado at Lamplighters Music Theatre Joey Pisacane for Green Day's American Idiot at City Lights Theater Company Antonio Rodriguez for Miss Saigon at Broadway by the Bay Kevin Singer for Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse Brian Watson for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Berkeley Playhouse II Michael RJ Campbell for La Cage aux Folles at Bay Area Musicals Clay David for La Cage aux Folles at Bay Area Musicals Ron Houk for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre Kyle Stoner for The Light in the Piazza at Altarena Playhouse Dedrick Weathersby for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre Dedrick Weathersby for Dreamgirls at Stage 1 Theatre
OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A PLAY L. Peter Callender for "Master Harold"... and the boys at Aurora Theatre Company Dan Clegg for Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater Carl Lumbly for Between Riverside and Crazy at American Conservatory Theater Danny Scheie for A House Tour at Z Space David Strathairn for Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater I L. Peter Callender for Antony and Cleopatra at African-American Shakespeare Company J. Conrad Frank for Buyer and Cellar at New Conservatory Theatre Center Craig Miller for One Man, Two Guvnors at 6th Street Playhouse Max Tachis for Handle with Care at City Lights Theater Company Todd Wright for Clybourne Park at Palo Alto Players II Rob August for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Brendan Averett for Sam and Dede or My Dinner with Andre the Giant at The Custom Made Theatre Co Miyaka Cochrane for The Comedy of Errors at Impact Theatre Alan Coyne for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Brian Herndon for Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde at Central Works Tim Holt Jones for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Jerry Motta for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTOR Matt Castle for The Last Five Years at American Conservatory Theater Dave Dobrusky for The Most Happy Fella at 42nd Street Moon Dave Dobrusky for The Boys From Syracuse at 42nd Street Moon Kimberly Grigsby for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre William Liberatore for Jane Austen's Emma at TheatreWorks I Michael Patrick Wiles for Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse Baker Peeples for Ruddygore at Lamplighters Music Theatre Baker Peeples for The (new) Mikado at Lamplighters Music Theatre Grace Renaud for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Kevin Roland for The Secret Garden at Contra Costa Civic Theatre II Matthew Bourne for Dreamgirls at Stage 1 Theatre Matthew Bourne for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre David Brown for The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre Scrumbly Koldewyn for The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett at Thrillpeddlers Tina Lloyd Meals for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Spreckels Theatre Company David Möschler for LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Jane Austen's Emma at TheatreWorks Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon The Last Five Years at American Conservatory Theater The Most Happy Fella at 42nd Street Moon I Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Ruddygore at Lamplighters Music Theatre The (new) Mikado at Lamplighters Music Theatre The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hillbarn Theatre II Disney's The Little Mermaid at Spreckels Theatre Company LIZZIE at Ray of Light Theatre Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre The Light in the Piazza at Altarena Playhouse The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY "Master Harold"... and the Boys at Aurora Theatre Company A House Tour at Z Space Born Yesterday at Center Repertory Company Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater The Oldest Boy at Marin Theatre Company I Buyer and Cellar at New Conservatory Theatre Center Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at City Lights Theater Company Handle with Care at City Lights Theater Company I and You at City Lights Theater Company Truck Stop at Crowded Fire Theater Company II A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Ada and the Memory Engine at Central Works Good People at Left Edge Theatre Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company The Awakening at The Breadbox Waiting for Lefty at Ubuntu Theater Project
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF AN ANTHOLOGY Pear Slices 2016 at Pear Theatre Best of PlayGround 20 at PlayGround San Francisco, Here I Come at Left Coast Theatre Co. Screaming Queens at Left Coast Theatre Co. Sheherezade's Last Tales at Playwrights' Center of San Francisco Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra at Thrillpeddlers OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A SOLO SHOW Lorri Holt for Colette Uncensored at The Marsh Don Reed for East 14th at The Marsh Ann Randolph for Loveland at The Marsh John Douglas Thompson for Satchmo at The Waldorf at American Conservatory Theater Dan Hoyle for The Real Americans at The Marsh
OUTSTANDING PROPERTIES DESIGN Devon LaBelle for Hamlet at Shotgun Players Devon LaBelle for Grand Concourse at Shotgun Players Devon LaBelle for "Master Harold"... and the Boys at Aurora Theatre Company Devon LaBelle for Eurydice at Shotgun Players Lizabeth Stanley for A House Tour at Z Space I Joan Howard for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre Kirsten Royston for The Addams Family at Berkeley Playhouse Debbie Shelley for Disney's The Little Mermaid at Berkeley Playhouse Debbie Shelley for Avenue Q at Berkeley Playhouse Miranda Whipple for I and You at City Lights Theater Company II Clay David for Nunsense at Altarena Playhouse Justin DuPuis for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Florence McCafferty for Whale's Wake at Ragged Wing Ensemble Debbie Shelley for Ada and the Memory Engine at Central Works Debbie Shelley for Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde at Central Works Darcia Tipton for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Patricia Tyler for The Mountaintop at Pear Theatre
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN Nina Ball for The Nether at San Francisco Playhouse Nina Ball for Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater John Lee Beatty for Disgraced at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sean Riley for A House Tour at Z Space David Zinn for Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre I Andrea Bechert for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Douglas Morrisson Theatre Ron Gasparinetti for I and You at City Lights Theater Company Kuo-Hao Lo for A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum at Hillbarn Theatre Kuo-Hao Lo for Mothers and Sons at New Conservatory Theatre Center Liliana D. Piñeiro for Book of Days at Douglas Morrisson Theatre II Kate Boyd for The Most Dangerous Highway in the World at Golden Thread Productions Kuo-Hao Lo for La Cage aux Folles at Bay Area Musicals Erik LaDue for The Wild Party at Ray of Light Theatre Fred Alim for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre Michael R. Cook for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble Brian Watson for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN Brendan Aanes for Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater Chris Houston for The Invisible Hand at Marin Theatre Company Madeleine Oldham for A House Tour at Z Space Matt Stines for Hamlet at Shotgun Players Matt Stines for Eurydice at Shotgun Players I Brendan Aanes for Truck Stop at Crowded Fire Theater Company Cliff Caruthers for A Dreamplay at Cutting Ball Theater Cliff Caruthers for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Douglas Morrisson Theatre George Psarras for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at City Lights Theater Company Sandy Small for Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre II Nicolas Brenni for Play It Again, Sam at Town Hall Theatre Company Adam W. Gistarb for A Streetcar Named Desire at Role Players Ensemble David L. Hobbs & Jeff Stevens for Ragtime at Stage 1 Theatre Hussein Sami for Whale's Wake at Ragged Wing Ensemble Gregory Scharpen for Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde at Central Works Argo Thompson for Good People at Left Edge Theatre
OUTSTANDING WORLD PREMIER MUSICAL Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen) Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, the Musical at Bay Area Children's Theatre (Austin Zumbro) Scrooge in Love! at 42nd Street Moon (Kellen Blair, Larry Grossman and Duane Poole) The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett at Thrillpeddlers (Scrumbly Koldewyn) Tinderella, The Modern Musical at FaultLine Theater (Rose Oser, Christian B. Schmidt and Weston Scott) OUTSTANDING WORLD PREMIER PLAY A House Tour at Z Space (Peter Sinn Nachtrieb) Aubergine at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Julia Cho) Chester Bailey at American Conservatory Theater (Joseph Dougherty) Swimmers at Marin Theatre Company (Rachel Bonds) The Awakening at The Breadbox (Oren Stevens)