Carbonell Awards Issue Revised List of Nominations for 2021-2022 Theatre Season
Miami New Drama Tops Theater List with 24 Nominations,
Area Stage’s Beauty & the Beast Scores with 14
Awards will be Presented at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center on November 7
(South Florida – October 11, 2022) After announcing this year’s list of Carbonell Award nominations last Friday, the organization quickly realized that clarifications and additions were necessary. This invariably happens with any complicated, first-time process, so the nonprofit organization ordered a recalculation of the scores in all 20 categories.
One production was omitted from the initial evaluation, and certain nominees were listed for incorrect shows or in the wrong category. In categories where the omitted show was added, or where a nomination was moved to a different category, the number of nominations increased from six to seven so that no previously announced eligible nominee would be deleted.
The Carbonell’s new system was developed by a special scoring committee made up of diverse members of the theatre community, including judges, critics, and industry leaders. It is based on a well-respected system used by a similar awards program in Arizona. Despite problems in transcription from score sheet to press release, we remain confident in the point system and the math—and we look forward to working more closely with participating theatres in finetuning the judging guidelines for each production.
Based on this weekend’s re-evaluation, following is a revised list of Carbonell Award Nominations for the 2021-2022 Theatre Season in South Florida:
Outstanding New Work, Play or Musical
+ A Wonderful World, by Aurin Squire, Annastasia Victory and Michael O. Mitchell (Miami New Drama)
+ Come Out! Come Out!, byRonnie Larsen (Ronnie Larsen Presents)
+ PapáCuatro, byJuan Souki (Miami New Drama)
+ The Code, byMichael McKeever (Ronnie Larsen Presents)
+ The Cuban Vote, byCarmen Pelaez (Miami New Drama)
+ The Duration, byBruce Graham (Palm Beach Dramaworks)
Outstanding Production, Play
+ GringoLandia (Zoetic Stage)
+ Intimate Apparel (Palm Beach Dramaworks)
+ One in Two (Island City Stage)
+ PapáCuatro (Miami New Drama)
+ The Cuban Vote (Miami New Drama)
+ The Code (Ronnie Larsen Presents)
Outstanding Direction, Play
+ Lydia Fort, The White Card(GableStage)
+ Loretta Greco, The Cuban Vote (Miami New Drama)
+ Stuart Meltzer, GringoLandia (Zoetic Stage)
+ Stuart Meltzer, The Actors(Ronnie Larsen Presents)
+ Christopher Renshaw, The Code (Ronnie Larsen Presents)
+ Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, One in Two(Island City Stage)
+ Juan Souki, Papá Cuatro (Miami New Drama)
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Male Role, Play
+ Tom Hewitt, I Hate Hamlet(Maltz Jupiter Theatre)
+ Kirk Bookman, The Duration (Palm Beach Dramaworks)
+ Kirk Bookman, The Belle of Amherst (Palm Beach Dramaworks)
+ Joe Naftal, Beauty & the Beast(Area Stage)
+ Cory Pattak, A Wonderful World(Miami New Drama)
+ Mary Ellen Stebbins, The Cuban Vote(Miami New Drama)
Outstanding Sound Design, Play or Musical
+ Javier Casas, PapáCuatro (Miami New Drama)
+ Matt Corey, Frankenstein (Zoetic Stage)
+ Matt Corey, Overactive Letdown (Theatre Lab at FAU)
+ Obadiah Eaves, The Cuban Vote(Miami New Drama)
+ Kai Harada, A Wonderful World (Miami New Drama)
+ Rob Rick, Beauty & the Beast(Area Stage)
Outstanding Costume Design, Play or Musical
+ Nicole Alcaro, Come Out! Come Out!(Ronnie Larsen Presents)
+ Ari Fulton, A Wonderful World (Miami New Drama)
+ Maria Banda-Rodaz, Beauty & the Beast(Area Stage)
+ Lenora Nikitin, Head Over Heels (Slow Burn Theatre Company)
+ Brian O’Keefe, Intimate Apparel(Palm Beach Dramaworks)
+ Ellis Tillman, Agatha Christie’sMurder on the Orient Express (Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre)
Outstanding Achievement of an Artistic Specialty
+ Steve Covey for Projection-Mapping,Side by Side by Sondheim (Zoetic Stage)
+ Yuki Isumihara for Projection Design,The Cuban Vote (Miami New Drama)
+ Fernando Mendoza for Projection Design, PapáCuatro (Miami New Drama)
+ Rebecca Pancoast for Scenic Artist,Almost Maine (Palm Beach Dramaworks)
+ Rebecca Pancoast for Scenic Artist,The Duration (Palm Beach Dramaworks)
+ Nicole Perry for Intimacy Direction, To Fall in Love (Theatre Lab at FAU)
A total of 62 productions at 21 different theatres were evaluated by a diverse group of 30 experienced judges representing all three participating counties (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach) utilizing a transparent grading process.
For participating theaters, Miami New Drama topped the list with 24 nominations; followed by Area Stage and Slow Burn TheatreCompany with 15 each; Ronnie Larsen Presents (13); Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre and Palm Beach Dramaworks (12 each), and Zoetic Stage with 10.
Area Stage’s Beauty & the Beast was the production earning the most individual nominations (14), with Miami New Drama earning nine for A Wonderful World,eightfor The Cuban Vote, and seven for Papá Cuatro. Because Papá Cuatro is described by the theatre as “a play with music,” it received nominations in both the Play and Musical categories.
The 45th Annual Carbonell Awards will be presented at an entertainment-packed ceremony on Monday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Centerat 3800 NW 11th Place, Lauderhill, FL 33311. Tickets are only $32 each (including facility fee) and are now available for purchase by calling 954.777.2055 or online at https://www.showpass.com/annual-carbonell-awards/.
Sponsors of the 45th Annual Carbonell Awards include the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Carbonell Sculptures Ltd., Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, John Knox Village, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Miami-Dade County Auditorium, The Dennis C. Moss Center (formerly The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center), Punchline Productions, South Florida Cultural Consortium, South Florida Theatre League, and Donald R. Walters, P.A.
About The Carbonell Awards
The Carbonell Awards fosters the artistic growth of professional theater in South Florida by celebrating the excellence and diversity of our theater artists, providing educational scholarships, and building audience appreciation and civic pride by highlighting achievements of our theater community. More than 20 professional theater companies in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties participate in the awards process every year. The Carbonell Awards also celebrate the accomplishments of local artistic leaders by presenting various Special Awards.
Along with New York’s Drama Desk and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Awards, the Carbonell Awards are among the nation’s oldest regional arts awards and predate others, including Washington, D.C.’s Helen Hayes Awards. The Carbonell Awards are named after the internationally renowned sculptor Manuel Carbonell, who designed the signature solid bronze and marble award given annually to Carbonell Award winners. Over the last 45 years, the Carbonell family has donated more than $250,000 in awards. For more information, please visit www.carbonellawards.org.
Carbonell Nominations by Theatre
Miami New Drama (24)
Area Stage (15)
Slow Burn Theatre Company (15)
Ronnie Larsen Presents (13)
Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre (12)
Palm Beach Dramaworks (12)
Zoetic Stage (10)
Island City Stage (5)
Maltz Jupiter Theatre (4)
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts (4)
Theatre Lab at FAU (4)
City Theatre (1)
GableStage (1)
Main Street Players (1)
New City Players (1)
West Boca Theatre Company (1)
Carbonell Nominations by Production
Beauty & the Beast (14)
A Wonderful World (9)
The Cuban Vote (8)
Intimate Apparel (7)
PapáCuatro (7)
Come Out! Come Out! (6)
GringoLandia (6)
Matilda (6)
The Code (5)
Hank Williams: Lost Highway (4)
One in Two (4)
On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan (4)
Head Over Heels (3)
I Hate Hamlet (3)
Kinky Boots (3)
Once on This Island (3)
Overactive Letdown (3)
Something Rotten (3)
The Duration (3)
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (2)
