AUDELCO
AUDELCO , the Audience Development Committee, Inc. , was established in 1973 by Vivian Robinson to honor excellence in African American theatre in New York City .
AUDELCO presents the Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards (also known as Viv awards ) annually. The awards were created to promote "recognition, understanding, and awareness of the arts in the African-American community."
The AUDELCO awards recognize the following Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway :
Productions by African-American companies
Productions written and/or directed by African-Americans
African-American actors in productions
Description
AUDELCO has an office in Harlem , and the current president is Jacqueline Jeffries.[ 1] The board of directors includes: Tony Peterson (2nd Vice-President), Ralph Carter (3rd Vice-President), Linda Armstrong (secretary), and Cherine Anderson , A. Curtis Farrow , Bambi Jones, Donna M. Mills, Mary Seymour, Dale Ricardo Shields , Terrence Spivey, and Mary B. Davis as the Chair Emeritus.[ 2] The organization has thousands of members, a newsletter, and an African-American theater collection including books, photographs, slides, and scripts, as well as an extensive clippings on file of African-American theatre.[ 3]
History
A year after its founding, the Awards were designated to more specific roles in the design and production of shows such as scenic, lighting, and costume design, choreography, acting, and directing. In 1975, the Awards moved to focus on accomplishments made in particular productions. Three years later, in 1978, the rules to be nominated for an AUDELCO Award became more concrete.[ 3]
The AUDELCO awards recognize productions by professional, not-for-profit theater organizations that have existed for at least two years and have had a minimum of 500 hours of rehearsal, performance, and/or training. Productions have to be performed over 12 times within the year (September 1 through August 31). Workshop productions and works-in-progress are not eligible for the awards.[ 3]
These guidelines are still followed today and those nominated for Awards are chosen by a committee. In order to qualify to be a committee member, one must see an average of 100 shows in a year. Once the committee is selected, only five nominations can be considered for each category of the Awards.[ 3]
AUDELCO typically hosts the award ceremony annually; however in 1996, there were no individual awards presented due to the founder Vivian Robinson passing away just a few months prior that September.[ 4]
Select awards
Previous AUDELCO awardees include: Marsha Stephanie Blake , Chadwick Boseman , Viola Davis , George Faison , André Holland , Sanaa Lathan , Barbara Montgomery , Anika Noni Rose , André De Shields , Denzel Washington , and many others.[ 5]
AUDELCO Recognition Awards (1975-1981, '83, '85, '87-'89, '95-'04, '06, '09-Present)[ 3] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24]
Name
Category
Production
Year
Sandra Ross
Lighting Design
Waiting for Mongo
1975
Joseph Gandy
Scenic Design
Cotillion
1975
Judy Dearing Parks
Costume Design
Black Picture Show, Taking of Miss Janie, and Cotillion
1975
Woodie King, Jr.
Producing
Cotillion
1975
Rod Rodgers
Producer
Prodigal Sister
1975
Bill Gunn
Playwright
Black Picture Show
1975
Robbie McCauley
Supporting Actress
Taking of Miss Janie
1975
Kirk Kirksey
Supporting Actor
Taking of Miss Janie
1975
Zaida Coles
Lead Actress
Cotillion
1975
Dick Anthony Williams
Lead Actor
Black Picture Show
1975
Sandra Ross
Lighting Design
Eden
1976
Joseph Gandy
Scenic Design
Fat Tuesday
1976
Woodie King, Jr.
Producer
for colored girls...
1976
Joseph Papp
Producer
for colored girls...
1976
Bolani
Costume Design
Soljourney into Truth
1976
Regge Life
Director
Hail, Hail the Gangs
1976
Deborah Allen
Choreography
Mondongo
1976
Ntozake Shange
Playwright
for colored girls...
1976
Barbara Montgomery
Supporting Actress
Eden
1976
Lou Meyers
Supporting Actor
Fat Tuesday
1976
Trazana Beverly
Lead Actress
for colored girls...
1976
Graham Brown
Lead Actor
Eden
1976
Shirley Prendergast
Lighting Design
Unfinished Women...
1977
Tim Phillips
Scenic Design
Winti Train
1977
Edna Watson
Costume Design
Macbeth
1977
Bill Duke
Director
Unfinished Women...
1977
Talley Beatty
Choreography
Alice
1977
Richard Wesley
Playwright
The Last Street Play
1977
Rosanna Carter
Supporting Actress
Unfinished Women...
1977
Leonard Jackson
Supporting Actor
Macbeth
1977
Brenda Brown
Lead Musical Actress
Young, Gifted, & Broke
1977
Mikell Pinkney
Lead Musical Actor
Young, Gifted, & Broke
1977
Gloria Foster
Lead Actress
Agamemnon
1977
Richard Gant
Lead Actor
Soledad Tetrad
1977
Sandra Ross
Lighting Design
The Amen Corner
1978
Ronald Walker
Scenic Design
The River Niger
1978
Karen Perry
Costume Design
Birdland
1978
Richard Gant
Play Director
The Island
1978
Glenda Dickerson
Musical Director
Magic & Lions
1978
Otis A. Salid
Choreography
High John de Conquer
1978
Ivey McCray
Playwright
Run'ners
1978
Pamela Poitier
Supporting Actress
Run'ners
1978
Flo Wiley
Supporting Actress
Sandra Lane
1978
Charles Brown
Supporting Actor
Cockfight
1978
Suavae Mitchell
Supporting Actor
The River Niger
1978
Celestine DeSaussure
Lead Musical Actress
High John de Conquer
1978
Reginald VelJohnson
Lead Musical Actor
Birdland
1978
Marc Primus
Musical Creator
High John de Conquer
1978
Frances Foster
Lead Actress
Do Lord Remember Me
1978
Helmar Augustus Cooper
Lead Actor
The River Niger
1978
Tim Phillips
Lighting Design
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers
1979
Felix E. Cochren
Scenic Design
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers
1979
Felix E. Cochren
Costume Design
The Vampire and the Dentist
1979
Mikell Pinkney
Play Director
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers
1979
Mical Whitaker
Musical Director
Simply Heavenly
1979
Dianne McIntyre
Choreography
spell #7
1979
A. Marcus Hemphill
Playwright
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers
1979
Mary Alice
Supporting Actress
Second Thoughts
1979
Robert Christian
Supporting Actor
Coriolanus
1979
Noble Lee Lester
Lead Musical Actor
Simply Heavenly
1979
Grenoldo Frazier
Musical Creator
Them Niggars Went Thataway
1979
Warren Burdine
Musical Creator
Them Niggars Went Thataway
1979
Starletta DuPois
Lead Actress
Mary Goldstein and the Author
1979
Barbara Montgomery
Lead Actress
Nevis Mountain Dew
1979
Glynn Turman
Lead Actor
Raisin in the Sun
1979
Marvin Watkins
Lighting Design
On Midnight, Friday the 13th
1980
Roger Furman
Scenic Design
On Midnight, Friday the 13th
1980
Bernard Johnson
Costume Design
The More You Get The More You Want
1980
Dean Irby
Play Director
Home
1980
Ron Stacker Thompson
Musical Director
Dunbar
1980
Otis A. Salid
Choreography
The More You Get The More You Want
1980
Samm-Art Williams
Playwright
Home
1980
Brenda Denmark
Supporting Actress
Miss Ann Don't Cry No More
1980
Adolph Caesar
Supporting Actor
La Grima Del Diablo
1980
Dyane Harvey
Lead Musical Actress
Dunbar
1980
Jeffery V. Thompson
Lead Musical Actor
The More You Get The More You Want
1980
Ayanna
Musical Creator
Dunbar
1980
Ron Stacker Thompson
Musical Creator
Dunbar
1980
Quitman Fludd III
Musical Creator
Dunbar
1980
Lonnie Hewitt
Musical Creator
Dunbar
1980
Paul E. Smith
Musical Creator
Dunbar
1980
Gloria Foster
Lead Actress
Mother Courage and Her Children
1980
Clarence Williams III
Lead Actor
Suspenders
1980
Melody Beal
Lighting Design
Rashomon
1981
Robert Edmonds
Scenic Design
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
1981
Judy Dearing
Costume Design
Steal Away
1981
Allie Woods
Play Director
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
1981
Charles Turner
Musical Director
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
1981
Charles Moore
Choreography
Black Nativity
1981
Charles Fuller
Playwright
Zooman and the Sign
1981
Laurence Holder
Playwright
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
1981
Carol Mitchell-Smith
Supporting Actress
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
1981
Herb Downer
Supporting Actor
The Trial of Dr. Beck
1981
Ebony Jo-Ann
Lead Musical Actress
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
1981
Paul Carter Harrison
Musical Creator
Tabernacle
1981
Thom Foster
Musical Creator
Tabernacle
1981
Ernie McClintlock
Musical Creator
Tabernacle
1981
Phylicia Ayers-Allen
Lead Actress
Zora
1981
Denzel Washington
Lead Actor
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
1981
Lee Chamberlin
Lead Actress
Hospice
1983
Timothy Simonson
Lead Actor
The Trial of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
1983
Ruth Brown
Lead Musical Actress
Champeen
1983
Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Lead Musical Actress
Champeen
1983
Melvin Van Peebles
Musical Creator
Champeen
1983
Melvin Van Peebles
Musical Director
Champeen
1983
Bruce Hawkins
Lead Musical Actor
Champeen
1983
Louis Johnson
Choreography
Champeen
1983
Pearl Cleage
Playwright
Hospice
1983
Frances Foster
Play Director
Hospice
1983
Bette Howard
Play Director
Parting
1983
Llewellyn Harrison
Scenic Design
Hospice
1983
Zebedee Collins
Lighting Design
Jesse and the Games
1983
Tim Phillips
Lighting Design
The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Brown
1983
Garland Lee Thompson Jr.
Sound Design
Jesse and the Games
1983
Felix E. Cochren
Costume Design
The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Brown
1983
P.J. Gibson
Playwright
Long Time Since Yesterday
1985
Bette Howard
Play Director
Long Time Since Yesterday
1985
Sheryle R. Jones
Choreography
Flat Street Sa'day Nite
1985
Lenga Tooks
Musical Creator
Flat Street Sa'day Nite
1985
Patricia A. Clement
Lead Musical Actress
Flat Street Sa'day Nite
1985
Steve Beckham
Lead Musical Actor
Flat Street Sa'day Nite
1985
Antonio Fargas
Lead Actor
Toussaint: Angel-Warrior in Haiti
1985
Anthony F. Chase
Supporting Actor
Toussaint: Angel-Warrior in Haiti
1985
Ira L. Jeffries
Playwright
Odessa
1985
Cherron Hoye
Lead Actress
Odessa
1985
Betty Vaughn
Supporting Actress
Odessa
1985
Shauneille Perry
Musical Director
Celebration
1985
Cheryl Hilliard-Hewitt
Lead Musical Actress
The Legacy
1987
Tunde Samuel
Lead Musical Actor
The Legacy
1987
David D. Wright
Musical Director
The Legacy
1987
Essene R
Lead Actress
Black Medea
1987
Mari Nobles Da Silva
Choreography
Black Medea
1987
Bonnie Devlin
Musical Creator
Black Medea
1987
A. Dean Irby
Musical Director
Boogie Woogie and Booker T
1987
LaTanya Richardson
Supporting Actress
Boogie Woogie and Booker T
1987
Judy Dearing
Costume Design
Boogie Woogie and Booker T
1987
Charles McClennahan
Scenic Design
Boogie Woogie and Booker T
1987
George C. Wolfe
Playwright
The Colored Museum
1987
Dick Anthony Williams
Lead Actor
The Meeting
1987
Lee Chamberlain
Musical Creator
Struttin'
1988
Lee Chamberlain
Musical Director
Struttin'
1988
Jillian C. Hamilton
Lead Musical Actress
Struttin'
1988
Roumel Reaux
Lead Musical Actor
Struttin'
1988
Clarice Laverne Thompson
Musical Director
Crescent Tales
1988
Elmo Terry Morgan
Play Director
The Fruits of Miss Morning
1988
Donald Lee Taylor
Lead Actor
Boogie Woogie and Booker T
1988
Brenda Denmark
Lead Actress
From the Mississippi Delta
1988
LaTanya Richardson
Lead Actress
From the Mississippi Delta
1988
Marsha Z. West
Supporting Actress
The Fruits of Miss Morning
1988
Maurice Carlton
Supporting Actor
Reunion in Bartersville
1988
M. Neema Barnette
Play Director
The Talented Tenth
1989
Richard Wesley
Playwright
The Talented Tenth
1989
Marie Thomas
Lead Actress
The Talented Tenth
1989
LaTanya Richardson
Supporting Actress
The Talented Tenth
1989
Elmo Terry Morgan
Musical Creator
Song of Sheba
1989
Clarice Laverne Thompson
Musical Creator
Song of Sheba
1989
Clarice Laverne Thompson
Musical Director
Song of Sheba
1989
Elmo Terry Morgan
Musical Director
Song of Sheba
1989
Anthony Cooper
Lead Musical Actor
Song of Sheba
1989
Johanna Daughtery
Musical Performance
Song of Sheba
1989
Judith Samuel
Choreography
Song of Sheba
1989
Melody Beal
Lighting Design
Song of Sheba
1989
Akili Prince
Lead Actor
The Forbidden City
1989
Frankie Faison
Supporting Actor
The Forbidden City
1989
Loren Sherman
Scenic Design
The Forbidden City
1989
Judy Dearing
Costume Design
The Forbidden City
1989
Janice Jenkins
Solo Performance
In Pursuit of Justice
1995
Bruce Edwin Jenkins
Play Director
In Pursuit of Justice
1995
George C. Wolfe
Play Director
Blade to the Heat
1995
Ntozake Shange
Ensemble Director
for colored girls...
1995
Herman Lavern Jones
Musical Director
Shoehorn!
1995
Marjorie Johnson
Lead Actress
M The Mandela Saga
1995
Paul Calderon
Lead Actor
Blade to the Heat
1995
Mickey Davidson
Choreography
for colored girls...
1995
Laurence Holder
Playwright
M The Mandela Saga
1995
Johnnie Mae
Supporting Actress
Why Old Ladies Cry at Weddings
1995
Chuck Patterson
Supporting Actor
Blade to the Heat
1995
Idris Ackamoor
Lead Musical Actor
Shoehorn!
1995
Craig Harris
Musical Creator
for colored girls
1995
Paul Gallo
Lighting Design
Blade to the Heat
1995
Riccardo Hernandez
Scenic Design
Blade to the Heat
1995
Ka-Ran Bridges
Costume Design
In Pursuit of Justice
1995
Geno Brantley
Sound Design
In Pursuit of Justice
1995
Dan Moses Schreier
Sound Design
Blade to the Heat
1995
Roger Guenveur Smith
Solo Performance
A Huey P. Newton Story
1997
Woodie King Jr.
Musical Director
A Trip to Nowhere
1997
Fulton Hodges
Musical Director
A Trip to Nowhere
1997
Janice Jenkins
Lead Actress
Bolt for the Blue
1998
Gregor Manns
Lead Actor
Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
1998
Michael Broughton
Solo Performance
Jim Beckworth
1998
Jimmy Miller
Musical Director
Satan Never Sleeps
1998
Jerome Shavers
Lead Musical Actor
Satan Never Sleeps
1998
Adrianne Lenox
Lead Musical Actress
Dinah Was
1998
Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Lead Musical Actress
Rollin' on the T.O.B.A.
1998
Kimberly Purneli
Supporting Actress
Glady's Dilemma
1998
Fulton Hedges
Supporting Actor
Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
1998
Lillie Marie Redwood
Playwright
Imperfection Flawed
1998
George Faison
Choreography
Dinah Was
1998
Ronald Wyche
Musical Director
Satan Never Sleeps
1998
Wynn Handman
Ensemble Director
Fly
1998
Gertrude Jeannette
Play Director
Bolt from the Blue
1998
David Wright
Sound Design
Fly
1998
Marcel Christian
Costume Design
Julius Caesar Set in Africa
1998
Steve Walker
Scenic Design
Bolt from the Blue
1998
Christophe Pierre
Lighting Design
Nzinga's Children
1998
Leslie Uggams
Lead Actress
The Old Settler
1999
Adam Wade
Lead Actor
Still Such a Thing as Love
1999
Vinie Burrows
Solo Performance
Rose McClendon: Harlem's Gift to Broadway
1999
Viola Davis
Supporting Actress
Everybody's Ruby
1999
Godfrey L. Simmons
Supporting Actor
The Old Settler
1999
Marcia L. Leslie
Playwright
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae
1999
Paul Carter Harrison
Play Director
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae
1999
Nik Chamberlin
Sound Design
The American Jesus Christ
1999
Helen L. Simmons
Costume Design
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae
1999
Felix E. Cochren
Scenic Design
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae
1999
Frances Aronson
Lighting Design
The Old Settler
1999
August Wilson
Playwright
Jitney
2000
Arthur French
Supporting Actor
Romeo and Juliet
2000
Phyllis Bash
Supporting Actress
Grace in the Light
2000
Roz Davis
Lead Musical Actress
Damn Yankees
2000
Robert Turner
Lead Musical Actor
Damn Yankees
2000
Fred Carl
Musical Director
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
2000
Kirsten Childs
Musical Creator
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
2000
Rome Neal
Solo Performance
Monk
2000
Arthur French
Lead Actor
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
2000
Christine Campbell
Lead Actress
Indigo Blues
2000
Wendi Joy Franklin
Lead Actress
Grace in the Light
2000
Donald Holder
Lighting Design
Jitney
2000
Shirley Prendergast
Lighting Design
The Dance on Widow's Row
2000
David Gallo
Scenic Design
Jitney
2000
Susan Hilferty
Costume Design
Jitney
2000
Rob Milburn
Sound Design
Jitney
2000
Marion McClinton
Play Director
Jitney
2000
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
Musical Director
Damn Yankees
2000
George Faison
Choreography
for colored girls...
2000
Ah-Keisha McCants
Rising Star
Cafe Millennium
2000
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
Musical Director
Jamaica
2001
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
Choreography
Jamaica
2001
Charles Randolph-Wright
Choreography
Blue
2001
Al Freeman Jr.
Supporting Actor
Conflict of Interest
2001
Beatrice Winde
Supporting Actress
A Lesson Before Dying
2001
Aixa Kendricks
Lead Musical Actress
OYA
2001
Tobias Truvillan
Lead Musical Actor
OYA
2001
Vanessa A. Wright
Musical Director
OYA
2001
Stephanie Berry
Solo Performance
Shaneequa Chronicles
2001
Rubin Santiago Hudson
Solo Performance
Lackawanna Blues
2001
Willis Burks II
Lead Actor
Saint Lucy's Eyes
2001
Ruby Dee
Lead Actress
Saint Lucy's Eyes
2001
Michael Gilliam
Lighting Design
Blue
2001
Jane Reisman
Lighting Design
Saint Lucy's Eyes
2001
James Leonard Joy
Scenic Design
Blue
2001
Debra Bauer
Costume Design
Blue
2001
Kurt Eric Fischer
Sound Design
Blue
2001
Sheldon Epps
Play Director
Blue
2001
Chadwick Boseman
Supporting Actor
Urban Transitions: Loose Blossoms
2002
Mzuri Moyo[ 25]
Solo Performance
Fannie Lou Hammer Story
2002
Don Glenn[ 26]
Playwright
American King Umps
2002
Robert Perry
Lighting Design
Crowns
2003
ESosa
Costume Design
Crowns
2003
Regina Taylor
Musical Director
Crowns
2003
Linda Twine
Musical Director
Crowns
2003
Ronald K. Brown
Choreography
Crowns
2003
Viola Davis
Lead Actress
Intimate Apparel
2004
Lynda Gravatt
Supporting Actress
Intimate Apparel
2004
Lynn Nottage
Playwright
Intimate Apparel
2004
Catherine Zuber
Costume Design
Intimate Apparel
2004
Derek MeLane
Scenic Design
Intimate Apparel
2004
George C. Wolfe
Musical Director
Caroline, or Change
2004
Linda Twine
Musical Director
Caroline, or Change
2004
Tonya Pinkins
Lead Musical Actress
Caroline, or Change
2004
Chuck Cooper
Lead Musical Actor
Caroline, or Change
2004
Jan Weston
Sound Design
Caroline, or Change
2004
Andre De Shields
Lead Actor
Dream on Monkey Mountain
2004
Kim Sullivan
Supporting Actor
Dream on Monkey Mountain
2004
Aaron Black
Lighting Design
Dream on Monkey Mountain
2004
Dyane Harvey
Choreography
Great Men of Gospel
2004
Joyce Sylvester
Play Director
Freeda Peoples
2004
Sarah Jones
Solo Performance
Bridges and Tunnels
2004
Zora Jhade Howard
Rising Star
Trojan Women
2004
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Play Director
Seven Guitars
2006
Charles Weldon
Supporting Actor
Seven Guitars
2006
Karen Perry
Costume Design
Seven Guitars
2006
Darron L. West
Sound Design
Seven Guitars
2006
Cassandra Medley
Playwright
Relativity
2006
Baraka De Soliel
Choreography
SANGO, Lord of Thunder
2006
Todd Davis
Lead Actor
Kingfish, Amos n' Andy
2006
Yaa Asantewe
Lead Actress
Otis and Zora
2006
Kevin Maynor
Solo Performance
Paul Robeson
2006
Marjorie Johnson
Supporting Actress
Hoodoo Love
2006
Harlan Penn
Scenic Design
Kingfish, Amos n' Andy
2006
AVAN
Lighting Design
Storm Stories
2006
Lynn Nottage
Playwright
Ruined
2009
Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Lead Actress
Ruined
2009
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Supporting Actress
Ruined
2009
Russell G. Jones
Supporting Actor
Ruined
2009
Paul Tazewell
Costume Design
Ruined
2009
Derek McLane
Scenic Design
Ruined
2009
André De Shields
Lead Musical Actor
Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
2009
Kim Brockington
Lead Musical Actress
Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
2009
Kelvyn Bell
Musical Director
Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
2009
Marion McClinton
Play Director
Pure Confidence
2009
Gavin Lawrence
Lead Actor
Pure Confidence
2009
Khalil Ashanti
Solo Performance
Basic Training
2009
Andrew C. Mayer
Sound Design
Pure Confidence
2009
Matthew Frey
Lighting Design
Zooman and the Sign
2009
James Carter
Lighting Design
Pecong
2010
Patrice Davidson
Scenic Design
What Would Jesus Do?
2010
David Withrow
Costume Design
Pecong
2010
David D. Wright
Sound Design
Oshun
2010
Imani
Play Director
Dr. May Edward Chinn
2010
Akin Babatunde
Musical Director
Blind Lemon Blues
2010
Byron Easley
Choreography
Langston in Harlem
2010
Yvette Heyliger
Playwright
What Would Jesus Do?
2010
Johnnie Mae
Supporting Actress
What Would Jesus Do?
2010
Jamil A.C. Mangan
Supporting Actor
What Would Jesus Do?
2010
Glenn Turner
Lead Musical Actor
Langston in Harlem
2010
Kenita Miller
Lead Musical Actress
Langston in Harlem
2010
Daniel Beaty
Solo Performance
Through the Night
2010
Jerome Preston Bates
Lead Actor
What Would Jesus Do?
2010
Yvonne Farrow
Lead Actress
What Would Jesus Do?
2010
André De Shields
Lead Actor
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Marie Thomas
Supporting Actress
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Charles Smith
Playwright
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Chuck Smith
Play Director
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Shirley Prendergast
Lighting Design
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Ali Turns
Costume Design
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Anthony Davis
Scenic Design
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Bill Toles
Sound Design
Knock Me A Kiss
2011
Tracy Jack
Choreography
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
2011
Lee Kirk
Musical Director
The Widow and Miss Mamie
2011
Stephanie Berry
Solo Performance
The Shaneequa Chronicles
2011
Ron Granger
Musical Director
The Widow and Miss Mamie
2011
Toni Seawright
Lead Musical Actress
The Widow and Miss Mamie
2011
Tommi Thompson
Lead Musical Actor
The Widow and Miss Mamie
2011
André Holland
Supporting Actor
The Whipping Man
2011
Kimberlee Monroe
Lead Actress
Nobody Knew Where They Was
2011
Sanaa Latham
Lead Actress
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
2011
Eden Sanaa Duncan Smith
Rising Star
Fences ; Lion King
2011
Jeffrey Sweet
Playwright
Court-Martial at Fort Devens
2012
Mary Beth Easley
Play Director
Court-Martial at Fort Devens
2012
Mark Bruckner
Sound Design
Court-Martial at Fort Devens
2012
Ali Turns
Costume Design
Court-Martial at Fort Devens
2012
Michael Walsh
Musical Director
Sally and Tom: The American Way
2012
Brian D. Hills
Lead Musical Actor
Sally and Tom: The American Way
2012
Ava Jenkins
Lead Musical Actress
Sally and Tom: The American Way
2012
Gabrielle L. Kurlander
Musical Director
Sally and Tom: The American Way
2012
Johnnie Mae
Lead Actress
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2012
Reginald L. Wilson
Lead Actor
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2012
Peter Jay Fernandez
Supporting Actor
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2012
Thurston Reyes
Lighting Design
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2012
Kimberlee Monroe
Solo Performance
Arye
2012
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Supporting Actress
Hurt Village
2012
David Gallo
Scenic Design
Hurt Village
2012
Lainie Munro
Choreography
Sweet Charity
2012
Rui Rita
Lighting Design
The Piano Lesson
2013
Michael Carnahan
Scenic Design
The Piano Lesson
2013
Karen Perry
Costume Design
The Piano Lesson
2013
David D. Wright
Sound Design
The Importance of Being Earnest
2013
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Play Director
The Piano Lesson
2013
Keith Lee Grant
Musical Director
Dreamgirls
2013
Mercedes Elington
Choreography
Storyville
2013
Colman Domingo
Playwright
Wild With Happy
2013
Chuck Cooper
Supporting Actor
The Piano Lesson
2013
Sharon Washington
Supporting Actress
Wild With Happy
2013
Dion Millington
Lead Musical Actress
Dreamgirls
2013
Michael Leonard
Lead Musical Actor
Storyville
2013
Ryan Touhey
Musical Director
Dreamgirls
2013
Jeannette Bayardelle
Solo Performance
Shida
2013
Brandon J. Dirden
Lead Actor
The Piano Lesson
2013
Rosalyn Coleman
Lead Actress
Breakfast with Mugabe
2013
Thom Weaver
Lighting Design
August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
2014
Patrice Andrew Davidson
Scenic Design
Maid's Door
2014
Ali Turns
Costume Design
The Fabulous Miss Marie
2014
Jackie Alexander
Play Director
Maid's Door
2014
Cheryl L. Davis
Playwright
Maid's Door
2014
Nate James
Supporting Actor
Maid's Door
2014
Dee Bridgewater
Lead Musical Actress
Lady Day
2014
Derrick Baskin
Lead Musical Actor
Piece of My Heart
2014
Leslie Dockery
Choreography
Ugly Is A Hard Pill
2014
Roscoe Ormond
Lead Actor
The Fabulous Miss Marie
2014
Scottie Mills
Lead Actress
Maid's Door
2014
Helena D. Lewis
Solo Performance
Call Me Crazy
2014
Antoinette Tynes
Lighting Design
Dutchman
2015
Chris Cumberbatch
Scenic Design
Black Wall Street
2015
Emily Rebholz
Costume Design
Our Lady of Kibeho
2015
Matt Tierney
Sound Design
Our Lady of Kibeho
2015
Jo Bonney
Play Director
Father Come Home from the Wars
2015
Lawrence Floyd
Musical Director
Flambeaux
2015
Katori Hall
Playwright
Our Lady of Kibeho
2015
Kevin Mambo
Supporting Actor
Brothers From the Bottom
2015
Toccarra Cash
Supporting Actress
Brothers From the Bottom
2015
Althea Alexis
Lead Musical Actress
Flambeaux
2015
J. Bernard Calloway
Lead Musical Actor
Flambeaux
2015
Juson Williams
Choreography
Flambeaux
2015
Jeff Bolding
Musical Director
Flambeaux
2015
John Douglas Thompson
Lead Actor
Tamburlaine, Parts I and II
2015
S. Epatha Merkeson
Lead Actress
While I Yet Live
2015
Keith Hamilton Cobb
Solo Performance
American Moor
2015
Alan C. Edwards
Lighting Design
Macbeth
2016
G.W. Mercier
Scenic Design
Head of Passes
2016
Rachel Dozier-Ezell
Costume Design
Macbeth
2016
Obadiah Eaves
Sound Design
The Total Bent
2016
Sten Severson
Sound Design
The Total Bent
2016
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Play Director
Skeleton Crew
2016
Jeff Calhoun
Musical Director
Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life
2016
Dominique Morisseau
Playwright
Skeleton Crew
2016
Kim Sullivan
Supporting Actor
The Piano Lesson
2016
Alana Arenas
Supporting Actress
Head of Passes
2016
Tina Fabrique
Lead Musical Actress
The First Noel
2016
Maurice Hines
Lead Musical Actor
Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life
2016
Maurice Hines
Choreography
Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life
2016
Reginald L. Wilson
Solo Performance
Sugar Ray
2016
Joe Morton
Lead Actor
Turn Me Loose
2016
Marjorie Johnson
Lead Actress
Dot
2016
Kate Bashore
Lighting Design
The Three Musketeers
2017
Christopher Swader
Scenic Design
The Three Musketeers
2017
Justin Swader
Scenic Design
The Three Musketeers
2017
Rachel Dozier-Ezell
Costume Design
The Three Musketeers
2017
Luqman Brown
Sound Design
The Three Musketeers
2017
Walter Dallas
Play Director
Autumn
2017
Robert O'Hara
Musical Director
Bella: An American Tall Tale
2017
Richard Wesley
Playwright
Autumn
2017
Count Stovall
Supporting Actor
Autumn
2017
Paulette Washington
Supporting Actress
Autumn
2017
NaTasha Yvette Williams
Lead Musical Actress
Bella: An American Tall Tale
2017
Norm Lewis
Lead Musical Actor
Sweeney Todd
2017
Darius Smith
Musical Director
Raisin
2017
Camille A. Brown
Choreography
Bella: An American Tall Tale
2017
Jerome Preston Bates
Lead Actor
Autumn
2017
Elizabeth Van Dyke
Lead Actress
Zora Neale Hurston
2017
Timothy Simonson
Solo Performance
Adam
2017
Adam Honore
Lighting Design
Carmen Jones
2018
Chris Cumberbatch
Scenic Design
Harriet's Return
2018
Ali Turns
Costume Design
A Soldier's Play
2018
Luqman Brown
Sound Design
The Peculiar Patriot
2018
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Play Director
Paradise Blue
2018
Lee Summers
Musical Director
On Kentucky Avenue
2018
Dominique Morisseau
Playwright
Paradise Blue
2018
Gil Tucker
Supporting Actor
A Soldier's Play
2018
Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Supporting Actress
The House That Will Not Stand
2018
Ty Stephens
Lead Musical Actor
On Kentucky Avenue
2018
Anika Noni Rose
Lead Musical Actress
Carmen Jones
2018
Count Stovall
Supporting Musical Actor
On Kentucky Avenue
2018
Andricka Hall
Supporting Musical Actress
On Kentucky Avenue
2018
Shelton Becton
Musical Director
Carmen Jones
2018
Richard Cummings Jr.
Musical Director
On Kentucky Avenue
2018
Bill T. Jones
Choreography
Carmen Jones
2018
Sharon Washington
Solo Performance
Feeding the Dragon
2018
David Roberts
Lead Actor
The Black Babe Ruth
2018
Harriett D. Foy
Lead Actress
The House That Will Not Stand
2018
Antoinette Tynes
Lighting Design
Looking for Leroy
2019
Chris Cumberbatch
Scenic Design
Looking for Leroy
2019
Carolyn Adams
Costume Design
The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda
2019
Justin Ellington
Sound Design
Fireflies
2019
David Wright
Sound Design
The Savage Queen
2019
Petronia Paley
Play Director
Looking for Leroy
2019
Larry Muhammad
Playwright
Looking for Leroy
2019
Kenny Leon
Musical Director
Much Ado About Nothing
2019
Robert Turner
Supporting Actor
The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda
2019
Roz Fox
Supporting Actress
The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda
2019
Grantham Coleman
Lead Musical Actor
Much Ado About Nothing
2019
Danielle Brooks
Lead Musical Actress
Much Ado About Nothing
2019
LaChanze
Lead Musical Actress
The Secret Life of Bees
2019
Chuck Cooper
Supporting Musical Actor
Much Ado About Nothing
2019
Eisa Davis
Supporting Musical Actress
The Secret Life of Bees
2019
Jason Hart
Musical Director
The Secret Life of Bees
2019
Camille A. Brown
Choreography
Much Ado About Nothing
2019
Richarda Abrams
Solo Performance
First by Faith: The Life of Macy McLeod Bethune
2019
Keith Randolph Smith
Lead Actor
Lockdown
2019
Jessica Frances Dukes
Lead Actress
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
2019
Alan C. Edwards
Lighting Design
The New Englanders
2020
Isabel Curley-Clay
Scenic Design
Reparations
2020
Moriah Curley-Clay
Scenic Design
Reparations
2020
Toni-Leslie James
Costume Design
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
2020
David D. Wright
Sound Design
Reparations
2020
Michele Shay
Play Director
Reparations
2020
Tai Thompson
Musical Director
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker
2020
Leslie Dockery
Choreography
a photograph/lovers in motion
2020
Donja R. Love
Playwright
One in Two
2020
Benjamin Mapp
Supporting Actor
Leaving the Blues
2020
Lisa Arrindell
Supporting Actress
Reparations
2020
Joshua Henry
Lead Musical Actor
The Wrong Man
2020
Iris Beaumier
Lead Musical Actress
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker
2020
James A. Pierce III
Supporting Musical Actor
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker
2020
Mario E. Sprouse
Musical Director
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker
2020
Martha Redbone
Musical Composer
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
2020
Douglas Wade
Solo Performance
Thurgood
2020
Kamal Bolden
Lead Actor
Reparations
2020
Teagle F. Bougere
Lead Actor
The New Englanders
2020
Rosalind Brown
Lead Actress
Leaving the Blues
2020
Liza Colon-Zayaz
Lead Actress
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
2020
The Production of the Year AUDELCO Awards (1975-1981, '83, '85, '87-'89, '95-'01, '03-'04, '06, '09-Present)[ 3] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24]
Production
Category
Year
Black Picture Show
Best Play
1975
Eden
Best Play
1976
Young, Gifted, & Broke
Best Musical
1977
The Last Street Play
Best Play
1977
Unfinished Women...
Best Play
1977
High John de Conquer
Best Musical
1978
The River Niger
Best Play
1978
Them Niggars Went Thataway
Best Musical
1979
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers
Best Play
1979
Dunbar
Best Musical
1980
Home
Best Play
1980
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Best Play
1981
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
Best Musical
1981
Hospice
Best Play
1983
Champeen
Best Musical
1983
Long Time Since Yesterday
Best Play
1985
Flat Street Sa'day Nite
Best Musical
1985
The Legacy
Best Musical
1987
Black Medea
Best Play
1987
Struttin'
Best Musical
1988
The Fruits of Miss Morning
Best Play
1988
The Talented Tenth
Best Play
1989
Song of Sheba
Best Musical
1989
Blade to the Heat
Best Play
1995
Shoehorn!
Best Musical
1995
for colored girls...
Best Ensemble Production
1995
Joe Turner Has Come and Gone
Best Play
1997
Bolt from the Blue
Best Play
1998
Fly
Best Ensemble Production
1998
Satan Never Sleeps
Best Musical
1998
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae
Best Play
1999
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae
Best Ensemble Production
1999
Jitney
Best Play
2000
Jitney
Best Ensemble Production
2000
Damn Yankees
Best Musical
2000
Blue
Best Ensemble Production
2001
Blue
Best Play
2001
OYA
Best Musical
2001
Crowns
Best Musical
2003
Crowns
Best Ensemble Production
2003
Intimate Apparel
Best Play
2004
Caroline, or Change
Best Musical
2004
Great Men of Gospel
Best Ensemble Production
2004
Seven Guitars
Best Play
2006
Real Black Men Don't Sit Cross-Legged
Best Ensemble Production
2006
Ruined
Best Play
2009
Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
Best Musical
2009
Zooman and the Sign
Best Play Revival
2009
Home
Best Ensemble Production
2009
What Would Jesus Do?
Best Play
2010
Langston in Harlem
Best Musical
2010
August Wilson's Women
Best Ensemble Production
2010
Pecong
Best Play Revival
2010
Knock Me A Kiss
Best Play
2011
The Widow and Miss Mamie
Best Musical
2011
Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
Best Musical
2011
Court-Martial at Fort Devens
Best Ensemble Production
2012
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Revival
2012
Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale
Best Ensemble Production
2012
Sally and Tom: The American Way
Best Musical
2012
Dreamgirls
Best Musical
2013
Choir Boy
Best Ensemble Production
2013
Wild With Happy
Best Play
2013
The Piano Lesson
Best Revival
2013
The Old Settler
Best Revival
2014
Sassy Mamas
Best Ensemble Production
2014
Maid's Door
Best Play
2014
Ain't Misbehavin'
Best Revival
2015
Fences
Best Revival
2015
Carnaval
Best Ensemble Production
2015
Our Lady of Kibeho
Best Play
2015
Flambeaux
Best Musical
2015
Dead and Breathing
Best Ensemble Production
2016
In White America
Best Revival
2016
Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life
Best Musical
2016
Skeleton Crew
Best Play
2016
Daughters of the Mock
Best Ensemble Production
2017
Autumn
Best Play
2017
Bella: An American Tall Tale
Best Musical
2017
Two Trains Running
Best Revival
2017
Paradise Blue
Best Ensemble Production
2018
Sugar in Our Woods
Best Ensemble Production
2018
Carmen Jones
Best Musical Revival
2018
A Soldier's Play
Best Play Revival
2018
The Old Settler
Best Play Revival
2018
On Kentucky Avenue
Best Musical
2018
A Small Oak Tree Runs Red
Best Play
2018
The House That Will Not Stand
Best Play
2018
Looking for Leroy
Best Ensemble Production
2019
Caroline, or Change
Best Musical Revival
2019
Reunion in Bartersville
Best Play Revival
2019
The Secret Life of Bees
Best Musical
2019
Looking for Leroy
Best Play
2019
Native Son
Best Play
2019
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker
Best Musical
2020
One in Two
Best Ensemble Production
2020
Sassy Mamas
Best Ensemble Production
2020
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Best Play Revival
2020
Reparations
Best Play
2020
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