| Best Production of a Musical | Best Production of a Musical |
Spring Awakening – Deaf West Theatre
Scary Musical the Musical – Noho Arts Center Ensemble* The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Actors Co-Op* Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co. | Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Carrie: The Musical – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre |
| Best Production of a Play | Best Production of a Play |
| Trevor –Circle X Theatre* A Permanent Image – Rogue Machine Theatre* The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Los Angeles LGBT Center* Failure: A Love Story – Coeurage Theatre Company* Proof – Moth Theatre Company* The Day Shall Declare It – Los Angeles Performance Practice* The Temptation of St. Antony – Four Larks | Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* August: Osage County – Theatricum Botanicum* Bad Jews – Geffen Playhouse* Last Train To Nibroc – Rubicon Theatre Company* Trying – International City Theater |
| Lead Actor in a Musical | Lead Actress in a Musical |
| Todd Adamson as Huey – Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* Leigh Wakeford as Bert – Mary Poppins – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Gary Patent as Tateh – Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* Austin P. McKenzie as Melchior – Spring Awakening – Deaf West Theatre* Hugo Armstrong as John Broadus Watson – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Ellis Hall as Singer Oedipus – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Roger Robinson as Preacher Oedipus – The Gospel at Colonus –Ebony Repertory Theatre | Christanna Rowader as Mother – Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* Cori Cable Kidder as Patsy – Always…Patsy Cline – Sierra Madre Playhouse* Vicki Lewis as Mrs. Wilkinson – Billy Elliot the Musical – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Misty Cotton as Margaret – Carrie: The Musical – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Emily Lopez as Carrie – Carrie: The Musical – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Sandra Frank as Wendla – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Kim Staunton as Evangelist Antigone – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre |
| Lead Actor in a Play | Lead Actress in a Play |
| Jimmi Simpson as Trevor – Trevor – Circle X Theatre* John Prosky as Botvinnik – A Walk in the Woods – Sierra Madre Playhouse* Leon Russom as Dodge – Buried Child – Whitefire Theatre* Paul Witten as Martin – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Los Angeles LGBT Center* Michael A. Shepperd as Troy – Fences – International City Theater* Stephen Caffrey as Falstaff – Henry IV: Part One – The Antaeus Company* Dave Buzzotta as The Criminal – Tiger By The Tail – The Group Rep At The Lonny Chapman Theatre | Laurie Metcalf as Sandra – Trevor – Circle X Theatre* Anne Gee Byrd as Carol – A Permanent Image – Rogue Machine Theatre* Lily Knight as Emily – A Small Fire – The Echo Theater Company* Ellen Geer as Violet – August: Osage County – Theatricum Botanicum* Elyse Mirto as Leigh Hodges – Conviction – Rubicon Theatre Company* Ann Noble as Stevie – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Los Angeles LGBT Center* Paige Lindsey White as Sarah Schorr – Trying – International City Theater |
| Featured Actor in a Musical | Featured Actress in a Musical |
| Samuel Butler as Balladeer – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Jeff Skowron as Mr. Collins – Pride and Prejudice – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Andy Mientus as Hanschen – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* LaVan Davis as Choragos – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* J.A. Preston as Deacon Creon – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Hector Quintana as The Monster – Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co.* John Quale as Snow Queen – The Snow Queen – Falcon Theatre | Nicoe Potts as Soloist – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Joanna A. Jones as Lois/Bianca – Kiss Me, Kate – Pasadena Playhouse* Krysta Rodriguez as Ilse – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Gina D‘Acciaro as Miss Angela Prysock & The Princess Puffer – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Actors Co-Op* Michelle Holmes as Frau Blucher – Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co.* Toni Smith as Elizabeth Benning – Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co.* Beth Kennedy as Old Woman/Robber Girl – The Snow Queen – Falcon Theatre |
| Featured Actor in a Play | Featured Actress in a Play |
| Alan Mandell as Gregory Solomon – The Price – Center Theatre Group* Stephen O‘Mahoney as Billy – A Small Fire – The Echo Theater Company* Darrett Sanders as Billy – A Small Fire – The Echo Theater Company* Andrew Connolly as John Keating – Corktown ’57 – Theatre Planners* Matt Orduña as Gabriel – Fences – International City Theater* Tony Shalhoub as Willie – Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – The Theatre @ Boston Court* Stephen Kearin as Company Member – The Western Unscripted – Impro Theatre | Rebecca Mozo as W – Cock –Rogue Machine Theatre* Melora Marshall as Mattie Fae Aiken – August: Osage County – Theatricum Botanicum* Sophina Brown as Kate – Good People – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Peggy Ann Blow as Lula – Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story In Black And White – The Antaeus Company* Anne Gee Byrd as Herman’s Mother – Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story In Black And White – The Antaeus Company* Saundra McClain as Lula – Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story In Black And White – The Antaeus Company* Lynn Milgrim as Herman’s Mother – Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story In Black And White – The Antaeus Company |
| Acting Ensemble of a Musical | Acting Ensemble for a Play |
| The cast of Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* The cast of Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* The cast of Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* The cast of The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* The cast of The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre | The cast of The Temptation of St. Antony – Four Larks* The cast of A Permanent Image – Rogue Machine Theatre* The cast of Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* The cast of Failure: A Love Story – Coeurage Theatre Company* The cast of Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Big Shot – Bootleg Theater & Theatre Movement Bazaar* The cast of Trevor – Circle X Theatre* The cast of What Of The Night? – The Vagrancy |
| Director of a Musical | Director of a Play |
| Michael Arden – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Brady Schwind – Carrie: The Musical – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Robert Schneider – Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* T.J. Dawson – Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* Ken Roht & Matt Almos – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Andi Chapman – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Marco Gomez – Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co. | Michael Matthews – Failure: A Love Story – Coeurage Theatre Company* John Perrin Flynn – A Permanent Image – Rogue Machine Theatre* Mary Jo Duprey – August: Osage County – Theatricum Botanicum* Lisa Peterson – Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* Ken Sawyer – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Los Angeles LGBT Center* Mat Sweeney & Sebastian Peters-Lazaro – The Temptation of St. Antony – Four Larks* Stella Powell-Jones – Trevor –Circle X Theatre |
| Music Direction | Choreography |
| Abdul Hamid Royal – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Gerald Sternbach – Love, Noël: The Letters And Songs Of Noël Coward – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Cassie Nickols – Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* Julie Lamoureux – Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* Jared Stein – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* John Ballinger – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Brent Crayon – The Last Five Years – Rubicon Theatre Company | Spencer Liff – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Kenna Morris Garcia – Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* John Charron – Oklahoma! – Cabrillo Music Theatre* Dana Solimando – Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* Sophie Bortolussi – The Day Shall Declare It – Los Angeles Performance Practice* Sebastian Peters-Lazaro & Mat Sweeney – The Temptation of St. Antony – Four Larks* Tina Kronis – Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Big Shot – Bootleg Theater & Theatre Movement Bazaar |
| Book for an Original Musical | Lyrics/Music for an Original Musical |
| Carolyn Almos, Matt Almos, Jon Beauregard & Albert Dayan – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Matt Donnelly & Jamelle Dolphin – Recorded in Hollywood – Theatre Planners* Madeline Sunshine – Serrano, the Musical – Serrano New York, LLC | Brendan Milburn, Matt Almos & Burglars of Hamm – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Andy Cooper – Recorded in Hollywood – Theatre Planners* Richard Hochberg & Michael Paternostro – Scary Musical the Musical – Noho Arts Center Ensemble |
| Playwrighting For An Original Play | Best Season |
| Nick Jones – Trevor – Circle X Theatre* Samuel Hunter – A Permanent Image – Rogue Machine Theatre* Adam Bock – A Small Fire – The Echo Theater Company* Carey Crim – Conviction – Rubicon Theatre Company* Ron Klier – Gus’s Fashions & Shoes – Vs. Theatre Company* Bekah Brunstetter – Hey Brother – Fresh Produce‘d LA* Jessica Dickey – Row After Row – The Echo Theater Company | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* Los Angeles LGBT Center* Rubicon Theatre Company* The Theatre @ Boston Court |
| Lighting Design | Lighting Design |
| Jared Sayeg – Picnic – The Antaeus Company* Tom Ontiveros – Completeness – Vs. Theatre Company & Firefly Theater & Films* Travis Hagenbuch – Spring Awakening – Deaf West Theatre* Jaymi Smith – The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll – The Theatre @ Boston Court* Jean-Yves Tessier – Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co.* Brandon Baruch – The Temptation of St. Antony – Four Larks* Matthew Richter – What of the Night? – The Vagrancy | Ben Stanton – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Justin Townsend – Bent – Center Theatre Group* José López – Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* Ken Booth – Julius Caesar – A Noise Within* Jean-Yves Tessier – Ragtime – 3-D Theatricals* Karyn Lawrence – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Ken Billington – Waterfall: A New Musical – Pasadena Playhouse |
| Scenic Design | Scenic Design |
| Darcy Scanlin – Completeness – Vs. Theatre Company & Firefly Theater & Films* Andrew Hammer – Broomstick – Fountain Theatre* Robert Selander – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Los Angeles LGBT Center* Danny Cistone – Gus’s Fashions & Shoes – Vs. Theatre Company* Robert Selander – Picnic – The Antaeus Company* Joel Daavid – The Glass Menagerie – Greenway Arts Alliance* Sebastian Peters-Lazaro & Regan Baumgarten – The Temptation of St. Antony –Four Larks | Tom Buderwitz – The Whipping Man – Pasadena Playhouse* Beowulf Boritt – Bent – Center Theatre Group* Stephen Gifford – Carrie: The Musical – La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts* John Iocavelli – Immediate Family – Center Theatre Group* Dane Laffrey – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Anthony Fanning – Switzerland – Geffen Playhouse* Sasavat Busayabandh – Waterfall: A New Musical – Pasadena Playhouse |
| Sound Design | Sound Design |
| John Zalewski – Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – The Los Angeles Theatre Center * Joseph Slawinski – Flare Path – Theatre 40* John Zalewski – My Barking Dog – The Theatre @ Boston Court* Jeff Gardner – Picnic – The Antaeus Company* Philip Allen – Spring Awakening – Deaf West Theatre* John Zalewski – The Day Shall Declare It – Los Angeles Performance Practice* Martin Carrillo – What of the Night – The Vagrancy | Drew Dalzell & Noelle Hoffman – Wicked Lit 2014 – Unbound Productions* Cricket S. Myers – Bent – Center Theatre Group* Paul James Prendergast – Chavez Ravine: an L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* Robert Oriol – Julius Caesar – A Noise Within* Philip Allen – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Jonathan Burke – The Last Five Years – Rubicon Theatre Company* Michael Roth – The Whipping Man – Pasadena Playhouse |
| Costume Design | Costume Design |
| Vicki Conrad – The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Actors Co-Op* Kimberly Freed – Entropy – Theatre Of Note* Michael Mullen – Fugue – The Echo Theater Company* Terri Lewis – Picnic – The Antaeus Company* Ann Closs-Farley – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Garry Lennon – The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll – The Theatre @ Boston Court* Brandy Jacobs – Young Frankenstein – DOMA Theatre Co. | Christopher Acebo – Chavez Ravine: an L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* Marcy Froehlich – Last Train to Nibroc – Rubicon Theatre Company* Mela Hoyt-Heydon – Memphis – Cabrillo Music Theatre* Naila Sanders – The Gospel at Colonus – Ebony Repertory Theatre* Sharon McGunigle – The Snow Queen – Falcon Theatre* Angela Calin – The Threepenny Opera – A Noise Within* Wade Laboissionniere – Waterfall A New Musical – Pasadena Playhouse |
| Video/Projection Design | Presented Production |
| Jason Thompson – Chavez Ravine: an L.A. Revival – Center Theatre Group* Nick Santiago – A Permanent Image – Rogue Machine Theatre* Anthony Backman & Jim Pierce – Astro Boy and the God of Comics – Sacred Fools Theater Company* Lucy Mackinnon – Spring Awakening – Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts* Jason Thompson – The Behavior of Broadus – Sacred Fools Theater Company | Luna Gale – Center Theatre Group* Andre & Dorine – The Los Angeles Theatre Center * The Trip To Bountiful – Center Theatre Group |