2012 Suzi Award nominees announced | Arts & Culture

ATLANTA -- The nominees for this year's Suzi Bass Awards were announced Monday.

The Suzi Awards are among the top honors for Atlanta theater productions. This year's Suzi Nomination Party was held at the Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, which scored 18 nominations.

Aurora's world premiere production of Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale had 15 nominations -- the most of any play or musical. Second place went to Spring Awakening at Actor's Express with 10 nominations, while two shows tied for a third-place seven nominations -- Atlanta Lyric Theatre's Gypsy and Theatrical Outfit's Red.

Of the nominating theaters, Alliance Theatre led the pack with 22 nominations. Like Aurora, Atlanta Lyric Theatre had 18 nominations. Theatrical Outfit scored 12 nominations, Actor's Express had 11, and Georgia Shakespeare and Horizon Theatre each had 10.

The recently-closed Theatre in the Square also won its final nomination -- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play for Elisa Carlson's portrayal of Myra Babbage in Ghost-Writer.

The 8th annual Suzi Awards Ceremony will be held Monday, Nov. 5 at the Porter Sanford Performing Arts Center in DeKalb County. Learn more about the awards program at suziawards.org.

Some of the nominess include:

Outstanding Production of a Musical
Ain't Misbehavin', Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale, Aurora Theatre
Gypsy, Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Spring Awakening, Actor's Express
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Atlanta Lyric Theatre

Outstanding Production of a Play
Broke, Alliance Theatre
I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Alliance Theatre
Red, Theatrical Outfit
Shipwrecked: An Entertainment, Serenbe Playhouse
Tree, Horizon Theatre

Oustanding World Premiere Production
Broke, Alliance Theatre
Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale, Aurora Theatre
Sheddin', Horizon Theatre
The Green Book, Theatrical Outfit
The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered & Scattered 24/7/365, Horizon Theatre

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Ricardo Aponte, Ain't Misbehavin', Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Freddie Ashley, Spring Awakening, Actor's Express
Alexander Greenfield, Sweeney Todd, Fabrefaction Theater Company
Dustin Lewis, Gypsy, Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Lonny Price, Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale, Aurora Theatre

Outstanding Director of a Play
Lisa Adler, Tree, Horizon Theatre
Brian Clowdus, Shipwrecked: An Entertainment, Serenbe Playhouse
David de Vries, Red, Theatrical Outfit
Richard Garner, Much Ado About Nothing, Georgia Shakespeare
Jason Loewith, Broke, Alliance Theatre

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Stephen Mitchell Brown, Jane Eyre: The Musical, Legacy Theatre
Jordan Craig, Spring Awakening, Actor's Express
J.C. Long, Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale, Aurora Theatre
Michael Stiggers, Pippin, Legacy Theatre
Clint Thornton, Sweeney Todd, Fabrefaction Theatre

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical
Kylie Brown, Spring Awakening, Actor's Express
Ingrid Cole, Gypsy, Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Laura Floyd, Clyde 'n Bonnie: A Folktale, Aurora Theatre
Claci Miller-Juday, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Courtney Patterson, Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical, Georgia Shakespeare

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play
Steve Coulter, Underneath the Lintel, Aurora Theatre
David de Vries, Freud's Last Session, Theatrical Outfit
Tom Key, Red, Theatrical Outfit
Mark Kincaid, Shipwrecked: An Entertainment, Serenbe Playhouse
Mississippi Charles Level, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Alliance Theatre

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
Donna Biscoe, Tree, Horizon Theatre
Elisa Carlson, Ghost-Writer, Theatre in the Square
Tess Malis Kincaid, Broke, Alliance Theatre
Wendy Melkonian, Becky's New Car, Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Mary Lynn Owen, The Glass Menagerie, Georgia Shakespeare

Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical
Ain't Misbehavin', Atlanta Lyric Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Legacy Theatre
Motherhood the Musical, GFour Productions

Outstanding Ensemble in a Play
A Wrinkle in Time, Theatrical Outfit
Fox on the Fairway, Aurora Theatre
Lend Me a Tenor, Stage Door Players
The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Alliance Theatre
The Foreigner, Georgia Ensemble Theatre