Best Actress Play Midsize Nominee Amanda Collins and Best Supporting Actress Play Midsize Nominee Jennifer Ellis for Out of Sterno
Boston Critics Recognize Gloucester Stage Company’s 2015 Season
Non-Profit Theater Receives Nine IRNE Award Nominations
The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) recently announced the nominees for the 20th Annual IRNE Awards. Gloucester Stage Company received a total of nine nominations for the 2015 season. The IRNE Awards honor the best of the previous year’s actors, directors, designers and companies across the full spectrum of large, midsize and fringe theater companies in the New England area.
The Gloucester Stage nominations include two for Deborah Zoe Laufer’sOut of Sterno: Best Actress-Play–Midsize: Amanda Collins; and Best Supporting Actress-Play-Midsize: Jennifer Ellis; two for Israel Horovitz’sGloucester Blue: Best New Play and Best Actor-Play-Midsize: Robert Walsh; one nomination for Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom:Best Supporting Actor-Play-Midsize: Derry Woodhouse and four nominations for Annie Baker’s The Flick: Best Play-Midsize; BestLighting Design: Russ Swift, Best Actor-Play-Midsize: Nael Nacer andBest Director-Play-Midsize: Bridget Kathleen O’Leary.
The winners will be announced at the 20th Annual IRNE Awards, to be held on Monday, April 11th, at 7:30 p.m. at the 1200 Hotel Ballroom (Holiday Inn) in Brookline, MA, just outside Kenmore Square. Tickets, as always, will be free, but because of space limitations at the new venue registration is required. Attendees should go to Theater Mania athttp://www.theatermania.com/…/20th-annual-irne-awards_3136…/ to reserve free tickets.
The Gloucester Stage 2016 season opens on May 19 with Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage featuring Academy Award nominee and IRNE Award winner Lindsay Crouse. For information about Gloucester Stage, or to purchase single tickets or Flex Passes, call the Box Office at 978-281-4433 or visit www.gloucesterstage.com.
L to R: Lewis Wheeler and Best Actor Play Midsize Nominee Robert Walsh in Gloucester Blue
Nael Nacer, Nominee for Best Actor Play Midsize for The Flick
Derry Woodhouse, Best Supporting Actor Play Midsize for The New Electric Ballroom
All Photos by Gary Ng
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