Awards for New Jewish Theatre
2022 Circle Awards: 10 Nominations
Outstanding Production of a Comedy: Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Outstanding Performer in a Comedy, Female or Non-Binary Role: Molly Burris – Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Outstanding Performer in a Comedy, Male or Non-Binary Role: Ryan Lawson-Maeske – Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Outstanding Sound Design: Amanda Werre – Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Dunsi Dai – Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy: Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Michele Friedman Siler – Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Outstanding Director of a Comedy: Eddie Coffield – Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Drama, Female or Non-Binary Role: Riley Carter Adams – The Bee Play
Outstanding Musical Director: Cullen Curth – Jerry’s Girls
2020 Circle Awards: 21 Nominations & 6 Awards
Outstanding Actor in a Drama: Gary Wayne Barker – District Merchants (Win)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama: J. Samuel Davis – District Merchants (Win)
Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Felia Davenport – District Merchants (Win)
Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Peter & Margery Spack – Brighton Beach Memoirs (Win)
Outstanding Production of a Comedy: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Win)
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy: Will Bonfiglio – Fully Committed (Win)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Laurie McConnell – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy: Chuck Brinkley – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy: Jane Paradise – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy: Jacob Flekier – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Director of a Comedy: Alan Knoll – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Michele Friedman Siler – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Director of a Drama: Jacqueline Thompson – District Merchants
Outstanding Set Design in a Play: David Blake – District Merchants
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play: Sean M. Savoie – District Merchants
Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy: District Merchants
Outstanding Production of a Comedy: District Merchants
Outstanding Director of a Comedy: Ellie Schwetye – Fully Committed
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Kareem Deanes – Fully Committed
Outstanding Production of a Comedy: Fully Committed
2019 Circle Awards: 11 Nominations & 1 Award
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Katy Keating – Life Sucks (Win)
2017 Circle Awards: 8 Nominations & 3 Awards
Outstanding Actress in a Drama: Jacqueline Thompson – Intimate Apparel (Win)
Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama: Intimate Apparel (Win)
Outstanding Scenic Design in a Play: Peter & Margery Spack – Intimate Apparel (Win)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama: Chauncy Thomas – Intimate Apparel
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama: Linda Kennedy – Intimate Apparel
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama: Andrea Purnell – Intimate Apparel
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play: Sean Savoie – Intimate Apparel
2016 Circle Awards: 9 Nominations & 2 Awards
Outstanding Production of a Drama: Old Wicked Songs (Win)
Outstanding Actress in a Drama: Lavonne Byers – Golda’s Balcony (Win)
Outstanding Actor in a Drama: J. Samuel Davis – Driving Miss Daisy
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama: Eric Dean White – Driving Miss Daisy
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama: Will Bonfiglio – Old Wicked Songs
Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Shanara Gabrielle – Yentl
Outstanding Director of a Drama: Tim Ocel – Old Wicked Songs
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Drama: Peter & Margery Spack – Golda’s Balcony
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical: Peter & Margery Spack – Yentl
2015 Circle Awards: 8 Nominations
2014 Circle Awards: 12 Nominations
2013 Circle Awards: 10 Nominations
2012 Circle Awards: 11 Nominations & 5 Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy: Meghan Maguire, “Talley’s Folly”
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Comedy: Nathan Schroeder, “Talley’s Folly”
Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy: “Jacob and Jack”
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Drama: Michael Sullivan, “Way to Heaven”
Outstanding Sound Design in a Drama: Robin Weatherall, “Way to Heaven”
2011 Kevin Kline Awards: 14 Nominations and 6 Awards
Outstanding Production of a Play: “Awake and Sing!” and “The Immigrant”
Outstanding Ensemble Play: “The Immigrant”
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play:Bob Thibaut: “The Immigrant”
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Peggy Billo: “The Immigrant”
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play: Gary Wayne Barker: “The Immigrant”
Outstanding Set Design: Scott C. Neale: “Awake and Sing!”
Previous Kevin Kline Awards
2007: Outstanding Ensemble: “Kindertransport”
2007: Outstanding Ensemble: “Women’s Minyan”
2007: Outstanding Supporting Actor: John Kinney, “What’s Wrong with This Picture?”
2007: Outstanding Director: Doug Finlayson, “Kindertransport”
2006: Outstanding Actress: Donna Weinsting, “From Door to Door”
2005: Outstanding Supporting Actor: Gary Wayne Barker, “Driving Miss Daisy”
2007 St. Louis Magazine A-List Award: Best Theatre Company
Accolades for New Jewish Theatre
Chris Gibson’s Best of 2015
Best Musicals: “My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding”
Best Dramas: “Imagining Madoff”
Best Comedies: “The Sunshine Boys” & “Bad Jews”
Best Actor in a Drama: Jerry Vogel, “Imagining Madoff”
Best Actress in a Comedy: Em Piro, “Bad Jews”
Best Actor in a Comedy: Peter Mayer, “The Sunshine Boys”
2015 Broadwayworld.com Annual Voting
The New Jewish Theatre’s 2014 production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” won five awards
Best Drama – additional award recipients were:
Best Director, Gary Barker
Best Actress Sam Moyer
Best Supporting Actor Terry Meddows
Best Supporting Actress Amy Loui
Mark Bretz Best of 2015
In His 10 Best Productions of 2015:
#5: “Sight Unseen” at New Jewish Theatre. Playwright Donald Margulies knows how to dig into the marrow of relationships, something he does in “Sight Unseen” with pinpoint precision. New Jewish Theatre’s production about a successful artist’s meeting with his former lover and her husband was a moving, melancholy account of how relationships change with the sifting sands of time, sometimes not pleasantly so. Under Bobby Miller’s incisive direction, a quartet of players — Aaron Orion Baker, Emily Baker, David Wassilak and Em Piro — in this achingly effective drama led their audience along the myriad paths of their characters’ complicated hearts. Sight Unseen cleverly depicted how art can imitate life but not always atone for it.
Additionally, Mr. Bretz singled out for Honorable Mention:
New Jewish Theatre offered one of the most arresting works of the year with a riveting presentation of “Bad Jews,” a searing, seething, knock-down battle of wits and withering verbal attacks between twenty-something cousins that left a tiny but sterile apartment a war zone strewn with emotions laid raw like so many bayonet wounds. Sydnie Grosberg Ronga’s full-force direction guided a superior cast consisting of Antonio Rodriguez, Em Piro, Pete Winfrey and Taylor Steward.
Judith Newmark’s annual “Judy Awards” for 2015
Best villain: Bobby Miller, “Imagining Madoff,” New Jewish Theatre
Best supporting actress: Em Piro, “Sight Unseen,” New Jewish Theatre