The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle is pleased to announce the recipients for their 47th Excellence in Theatre Awards for 2023.
Productions that opened between January 1 and December 31, 2023 that were attended by a minimum of three SFBATCC members were eligible for nomination.
A minimum of two qualified nominees were required to activate a category.
Recipients are noted in bold color.
Congratulations to all!
Choreography | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Allison Rae Baker | Stones in His Pockets | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Katherine Cooper | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Sara K. Dean & Lysander Abadia | Elf | Los Altos Stage Company |
Marilyn Izdebski | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Christopher Childers | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
Nicole Helfer | A Chorus Line | San Francisco Playhouse |
Nicole Helfer | Guys and Dolls | San Francisco Playhouse |
Robyn Tribuzi | Anything Goes | 42nd Street Moon |
Leslie Waggoner | Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Camille A. Brown | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Emily Cornelius, Karen Miles, Ensemble | Tuck Everlasting | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Jill Jacobs | Spring Awakening | Ray of Light |
Lee Ann Payne | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Sam Pinkleton | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Costume Design | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Tammy Berlin | Mondragola | Central Works |
Jody Branham | Shakespeare in Love | Novato Theater Company |
Adriana Gutierrez | Pride and Prejudice - the Musical | Ross Valley Players |
Mara Plankers Norleen | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Tracy Bell Redig | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Ulises Alcala | Crowns | Center REP |
Brooke Jennings | Merrily We Roll Along | 42nd Street Moon |
Brooke Jennings | Hurricane Diane | Aurora Theatre Company |
Y. Sharon Peng | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
Jasmine Milan Williams | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Dede Ayite | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Cathleen Edwards | Mrs. Christie | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Courtney Flores-Kerrigan | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Amie Schow | Into the Woods | The Mountain Play |
David Zinn | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Lighting Design | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Gary Graves | Mondragola | Central Works |
Kurt Landisman | The Road to Mecca | Weathervane Productions/Z Below |
Kevin Myrick | Mahābhārata | Oakland Theater Project/Z Space |
Michele Samuels | The Glass Menagerie | Ross Valley Players |
Frank Sarubbi | Native Gardens | Ross Valley Players |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Pamila Z. Grey | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
Wen-Ling Liao | Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse |
Kevin Myrick | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Maurice Vercoutere | Satchmo at the Waldorf | San Jose Stage Company |
Yi Zhao | Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Stacey Derosier | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Pamila Z. Gray | A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Wen-Ling Liao | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Jen Schriever | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Chahine Yavroyan | Let the Right One In | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Set Design | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Carlos Aceves | Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus | Oakland Theater Project |
Erik Flatmo | The Road to Mecca | Weathervane Productions/Z Below |
John Hull | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Malcolm Rodgers | Native Gardens | Ross Valley Players |
Louis Stone-Collonge | Noises Off | Pear Theater |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Kevin Davies | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
Bill English | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Christopher Fitzer | Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre |
Heather Kenyon | Guys and Dolls | San Francisco Playhouse |
Tanya Orellana | Cashed Out | San Francisco Playhouse |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Wilson Chin | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Alexander V. Nichols | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Jason Sherwood | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Jo Winiarski | A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley/Pioneer Theatre |
David Zinn | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Sound Design | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Ray Archie | Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus | Oakland Theater Project |
Billie Cox | The Glass Menagerie | Ross Valley Players |
Gregory Sharpen | Mondragola | Central Works |
Ken Sonkin | Open | Main Stage West |
Ian Walker | The Umbrella Play | Multi-Ethnic Theatre |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Jules Indelicato | Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre |
Lana Palmer | Hurricane Diane | Aurora Theatre Company |
George Psarras | Blithe Spirit | City Lights Theater Company |
Sheraj Ragoobeer | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
Steve Schoenbeck | Grand Horizons | San Jose Stage Company |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Jonathan Deans | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Gareth Fry | Let the Right One In | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Palmer Hefferan | POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass… | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Ursula Kwong-Brown and Danny Erdberg | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Gregory Robinson | Fannie: The Music & Life of Fannie Lou Hamer | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Projection Design | ||
Spense Matubang | Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse |
Sarah Phykitt | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Alexander V. Nichols | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Aaron Rhyne | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Chris Schloemp | Tuck Everlasting | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Specialties | ||
Jeremy Chernick - Special Effects | Let the Right One In | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe - Dialect Coach | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Megan Ellis - Hair/Wig/Makeup Design | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
James Ortiz - Puppet Design/Direction | Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater |
Amanda Villalobos - Puppet Design | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Original Script | ||
Luis Alfaro | The Travelers | Magic Theatre/Campo Santo |
Kareem Fahmy | A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley/Pioneer Theatre |
Claude Jackson, Jr. | Cashed Out | San Francisco Playhouse |
Dominique Morisseau | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Marc Anthony Thompson | The Ni¿¿er Lovers | Magic Theatre |
Original Music | ||
Masi Asare | Odyssey | Marin Theatre Company |
Sebastian Gutierrez | Yerma | Shotgun Players |
Min Kahng | Cymbeline | San Francisco Shakespeare |
Marc Anthony Thompson | The Ni¿¿er Lovers | Magic Theatre |
David Warner | Twelfth Night | Marin Shakespeare Company |
Music Direction | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Rita Abrams, Jack Prendergast | Pride and Prejudice - the Musical | Ross Valley Players |
Enrico Banson | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Justin Pyne | The Great American Trailer Park Musical | Lucky Penny Productions |
Judy Wiesen | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Jad Bernardo | Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre |
Dave Dobrusky | A Chorus Line | San Francisco Playhouse |
Tania Johnson | Merrily We Roll Along | 42nd Street Moon |
Carl Pantle | Kinky Boots the Musical | 142 Throckmorton |
Rick Reynolds | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Daniel Alley | Into the Woods | The Mountain Play |
Sean Kana | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Amanda Ku | Matilda the Musical | Palo Alto Players |
William Liberatore | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
David Möschler | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Stage Direction | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
David Abrams | The Glass Menagerie | Ross Valley Players |
Enrico Banson | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Marilyn Izdebski | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
Sheri Lee Miller | Stones in His Pockets | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Timothy Near | The Road to Mecca | Weathervane Productions/Z Below |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Catherine Castellanos | The Travelers | Magic Theatre/Campo Santo |
Jaime Castaneda | Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater |
Bill English | A Chorus Line | San Francisco Playhouse |
Margo Hall | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Erica Wyman-Abrahamson | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Kamilah Forbes | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Pam MacKinnon | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Sam Pinkleton | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Taylor Reynolds | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Giovanna Sardelli | A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley/Pioneer Theatre |
Solo | ||
L. Peter Callender | Satchmo at the Waldorf | San Jose Stage Company |
Satya Chávez | Where Did We Sit on the Bus? | Marin Theatre Company |
Josh Kornbluth | Citizen Brain | The Marsh |
Sara Porkalob | Dragon Lady | Marin Theatre Company |
Ari’el Stachel | Out of Character | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Ensemble | ||
Comedy | ||
Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse | |
Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse | |
Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater | |
Twelfth Night | Marin Shakespeare Company | |
Drama | ||
Born with Teeth | Aurora Theatre Company | |
Bulrusher | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
Dinner with Friends | Sonoma Arts Live | |
Paradise Blue | Aurora Theatre Company | |
The Travelers | Magic Theatre/Campo Santo | |
Musical | ||
Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre | |
A Chorus Line | San Francisco Playhouse | |
Guys and Dolls | San Francisco Playhouse | |
The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre | |
The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater | |
Featured Performance - Comedy | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Ken Boswell | Noises Off | Pear Theater |
Thomas Gough | Picasso at the Lapin Agile | Los Altos Stage Company |
Steve Ortiz | Mondragola | Central Works |
Brandon Silberstein | Noises Off | Pear Theater |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Tanika Baptiste | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Judith Miller | Grand Horizons | San Jose Stage Company |
Sharon Shao | Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse |
Jomar Tagatac | Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater |
Ted Zoldan | Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery | Hillbarn Theatre |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Wesley Guimarães | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Steve Price | Twelfth Night | Marin Shakespeare Company |
Harold Surratt | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Featured Performance - Drama | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
LC Arisman | Silent Sky | Lucky Penny Productions |
Ixtlán | Citizen | Word for Word/Z Space |
Jesse Lumb | The Glass Menagerie | Ross Valley Players |
Anthony Rollins-Mullins | Is God Is | Oakland Theater Project |
Victor Talmadge | The Road to Mecca | Weathervane Productions/Z Below |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Linda Amayo-Hassan | Yerma | Shotgun Players |
David Bryant | 1984 | Aurora Theatre Company |
Ron Campbell | Cyrano | Aurora Theatre Company |
Judith Miller | Othello | San Jose Stage Company |
Kenny Scott | Paradise Blue | Aurora Theatre Company |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Lucinda Hitchcock Cone | Mrs. Christie | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
William Thomas Hodgson | Mrs. Christie | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Rob Kellogg | Bulrusher | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Charles Shaw Robinson | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Jomar Tagatac | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Featured Performance - Musical | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Steve Alesch | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Harrison Alter | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Julianne Bradbury | The Great American Trailer Park Musical | Lucky Penny Productions |
Kamaria McKinney | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Kayla Gold | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Benjamin Ball | Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre |
Christine Capsuto-Shulman | Merrily We Roll Along | 42nd Street Moon |
Chachi Delgado | A Chorus Line | San Francisco Playhouse |
Heather Orth | Anything Goes | 42nd Street Moon |
Keith Pinto | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
El Beh | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Sidney DuPont | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Darryl V. Jones | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Cathleen Riddley | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Chase Thompson | Tuck Everlasting | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Principal Performance - Comedy | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Ellen Brooks | Native Gardens | Ross Valley Players |
Janelly Calmell | Native Gardens | Ross Valley Players |
Sam Coughlin | Stones in His Pockets | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Jimmy Gagarin | Stones in His Pockets | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Steve Price | Native Gardens | Ross Valley Players |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Angel Adedokun | Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse |
Michael Barrett Austin | Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse |
Lucinda Hitchcock Cone | Grand Horizons | San Jose Stage Company |
Jenny Nguyen Nelson | Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater |
Nicole Tung | Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Cyndii Johnson | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Charisse Loriaux | Twelfth Night | Marin Shakespeare Company |
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
April Nixon | Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Jasmine Milan Williams | Steel Magnolias | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Principal Performance - Drama | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Tamar Cohn | The Glass Menagerie | Ross Valley Players |
Devin A. Cunningham | we are continuous | New Conservatory Theatre Center |
Wendy vanden Heuvel | The Road to Mecca | Weathervane Productions/Z Below |
Sierra Marcks | The Dignity Circle | Central Works |
Charles Shaw Robinson | Poetic Justice | The Marsh |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Aldo Billingslea | Othello | San Jose Stage Company |
Dean Linnard | Born with Teeth | Aurora Theatre Company |
Brady Morales-Woolery | Born with Teeth | Aurora Theatre Company |
Regina Morones | Yerma | Shotgun Players |
Anna Marie Sharpe | Paradise Blue | Aurora Theatre Company |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Daniel Allitt | A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Noah Lamanna | Let the Right One In | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Diego Lucano | Let the Right One In | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
Carrie Paff | A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Phil Wong | The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater |
Principal Performance - Musical | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Nelson Brown | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
HarriettePearl Fugitt | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
Shay Oglesby-Smith | The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse |
Jill Wagoner | Pride and Prejudice, the Musical | Ross Valley Players |
Bruce Vieira | The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Andre Amarotico | Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre |
David Toshiro Crane | Guys and Dolls | San Francisco Playhouse |
Edward Hightower | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
James M. Jones | The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre |
Jenny Veilleux | Guys and Dolls | Sonoma Arts Live |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Molly Bell | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |
Quentin Earl Darrington | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Molly Belle Hart | Tuck Everlasting | Spreckels Theatre Company |
Amber Iman | Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater |
Chanel Tilghman | The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater |
Entire Production - EB | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Citizen Brain | The Marsh | |
The Dignity Circle | Central Works | |
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus | Oakland Theater Project | |
Is God Is | Oakland Theater Project | |
The People vs. Mona | Masquers Playhouse | |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Born with Teeth | Aurora Theatre Company | |
Hurricane Diane | Aurora Theatre Company | |
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley | Altarena Playhouse | |
Paradise Blue | Aurora Theatre Company | |
The Triumph of Love | Shotgun Players | |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
Bulrusher | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
Clyde's | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
Let the Right One In | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
Out of Character | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass… | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | |
Entire Production - NB | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy | Novato Theater Company | |
The Glass Menagerie | Ross Valley Players | |
It's a Wonderful Life - A Live Radio Play | Ross Valley Players | |
Native Gardens | Ross Valley Players | |
Stones in His Pockets | Spreckels Theatre Company | |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Dragon Lady | Marin Theatre Company | |
Kinky Boots the Musical | 142 Throckmorton | |
Side by Side by Sondheim | Sonoma Arts Live | |
Something Rotten! | 6th Street Playhouse | |
Where Did We Sit on the Bus? | Marin Theatre Company | |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
The Beat Goes On | Transcendence Theatre Company | |
Into the Woods | The Mountain Play | |
A Little Night Music | Spreckels Theatre Company | |
Tuck Everlasting | Spreckels Theatre Company | |
Twelfth Night | Marin Shakespeare Company | |
Entire Production - SF | ||
in a house with fewer than 100 seats | ||
Citizen | Word for Word | |
Poetic Justice | The Marsh | |
The Road to Mecca | Weathervane Productions/Z Below | |
we are continuous | New Conservatory Theatre Center | |
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
A Chorus Line | San Francisco Playhouse | |
Chinglish | San Francisco Playhouse | |
Nollywood Dreams | San Francisco Playhouse | |
Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 | American Conservatory Theater | |
The Travelers | Magic Theatre | |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
The Headlands | American Conservatory Theater | |
Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical | American Conservatory Theater | |
The Wizard of Oz | American Conservatory Theater | |
Entire Production - SP | ||
in a house with 100 to 300 seats | ||
Assassins | Hillbarn Theatre | |
Blithe Spirit | City Lights Theater Company | |
Grand Horizons | San Jose Stage Company | |
Kinky Boots | City Lights Theater Company | |
The Producers | Hillbarn Theatre | |
in a house with more than 300 seats | ||
A Distinct Society | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | |
Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | |
The Play That Goes Wrong | Palo Alto Players | |
Steel Magnolias | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley |