The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their Best of 2014: Best Performances in Plays in Professional Theatres go to:
BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY
Josh Adams as Billy Craven in The Cripple of Inishmaan at 1st Stage
Matthew Amendt as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Ro Boddie as Floyd Baron in Seven Guitars at No Rules Theatre Company
Clinton Brandhagen as Harry in The Understudy at Everyman Theatre
Ben Calman as Joey in A Steady Rain at The Capital City Players
Carlos Castillo as Vicente in Cancun at GALA Hispanic Theatre
James Caverly as Billy in Tribes at The Studio Theatre
Ben Cole as John in Cock at The Studio Theatre
Kim Curtis as Argan in The Imaginary Invalid at Annapolis Shakespeare Company
Michael Kevin Darnall as Mortimer Mortimer in Failure: A Love Story at The Hub Theatre
Geraint Wyn Davies as Prospero in The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sun King Davis as Killer Joe in Killer Joe at SeeNoSun Onstage
Nello DeBlasio as Titus in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Michael J. Dombroski as Doel in 84, Charing Cross Road at Off the Quill
Clifton Duncan as Caliban in The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Maboud Ebrahimzadeh as Judas in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre
Conrad Feininger as Sir Joseph Duveen in The Old Masters at Washington Stage Guild
Joe Feldman as Jamie in Virus Attacks Heart at Venus Theatre
Zachary Fernebok as Salavador Dali in Lobster Alice at Flying V
Philip Fletcher as Orsino in Twelfth Night at Synetic Theater
Rick Foucheux as Freud in Freud’s Last Session at Theater J
Rick Foucheux as Jacob in Awake and Sing at Olney Theatre Center
Danny Gavigan as Giora in The Admission at Theater J
Danny Gavigan as Jake in The Understudy at Everyman Theatre
Edward Gero as King Henry IV in Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
David Nate Goldman as Sebastian, in Moth at The Studio Theatre’s 2ndStage
Jonas David Grey as Richard II at Richard II at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Christopher Henley as Frank in Faith Healer at Quotidian Theatre Company
Christopher Herring as The Red Knight in The Ballad of the Red Knight at Port City Playhouse
Eddie Ray Jackson as Muhammad Ali in Fetch Clay, Make Man at Round House Theatre
Stan Kang as DHH in Yellow Face at Theater J
Elliott Kashner as Edgar Allan Poe in Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe at Molotov Theatre Group
Stacy Keach as Falstaff in Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Patrick Kilpatrick as Bolingbroke in Richard II at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Jacob H. Knoll as Zack in Belleville at The Studio Theatre
Doug Krehbel as He in Happily Ever After at Ambassador Theater
Nick Kowalczyk as Bernard in Boeing Boeing at No Rules Theatre Company
Manu Kumasi as Hank in How We Got On at Forum Theatre
Marcus Kyd as Guy de Bonheur in The Thousandth Night at MetroStage
Marty Lodge as Leonard in Seminar at Round House Theatre
Alex Mandell as Liam in Bad Jews at The Studio Theatre
Scott McCormick as Yusef El-Fayoumy in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre
Brian McDermott as George Tesman in Hedda Gabler at Quotidian Theatre Company
Brian McDermott as Justus Wehner in Normal at Molotov Theatre Group
Kiernan McGowan as Ian in Not Enuf Lifetimes at The Welders
Tanner Medding as Canvas in Bareback Ink at Iron Crow Theatre Company
Thony Mena as Julian in How We Got On at Forum Theatre
Craig Miller as Judge Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg at The American Century Theater
Paul Morella as The Librarian in Underneath The Lintel at MetroStage
Paul Morella as Scrooge and more in A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas at Olney Theatre Center
Brendan Murray as Howie Corbett in Rabbit Hole at Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions
Edward Nagel as The Yellow Knight in The Ballad of the Red Knight at Port City Playhouse/Red Knight Productions
Edward Nagel as Tom in Handbag at Scena Theatre
Stanton Nash as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus at CENTERSTAGE
Bruce Randolph Nelson as Salieri in Amadeus at CENTERSTAGE
Lee Ordeman as Ian in Shining City at Scena Theatre
Roscoe Orman as Stepin Fetchit in Fetch Clay, Make Man at Round House Theatre
Bill Pullman as a Surgeon in Healing Wars at Arena Stage
KenYatta Rogers as Coach in Colossal at Olney Theatre Center
Jefferson A. Russell as Memphis in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Steve Satta as Artists Bareback Ink at Iron Crow Theatre Company
Todd Scofield as Lewis in Freud’s Last Session at Theater J
Michael Sharon as Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Ethan Sinnott as Richard III in Richard III at NextStop Theatre Company
Roger Guenveur Smith Performing Rodney King at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Jamie Smithson as Robert in Boeing Boeing at No Rules Theatre Company
Luigi Sottile as Ethan in Sex with Strangers at Signature Theatre
Matthew Sparacino as The Green Knight in The Ballad of the Red Knight at Port City Playhouse/Red Knight Productions
John Stange as Dad in Distracted at Arcturus Theater Company
Josh Sticklin performing A Midsummer Night’s Riot at The Keegan Theatre
Chris Stinson as Sam in Abominable at The Hub Theatre
Alexander Strain as Martin in Seminar at Round House Theatre
Scott Strasbaugh as Danny in Danny Boy at Unexpected Stage Company
Gerrad Alex Taylor as Petruchio (Petruchieaux) in The Taming of the Shrew at Pallas Theatre Collective
Vato Tsikurishvili as The Beast Beauty and the Beast at Synetic Theater
Christopher Tully as Denny in A Steady Rain at The Capital City Players
Craig Wallace as Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy at Ford’s Theatre
Doug Wilder as Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Michael Anthony Williams as Holloway in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Jaysen Wright as Darren Lemming in Take Me Out at 1st Stage
Elan Zafir as Thomas in Venus in Fur at Rep Stage
Alex Zavistovich as Peter Kurten in Normal at Molotov Theatre Group
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BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Megan Anderson in Grounded at Everyman Theatre
Sara Barker as Orlando in Orlando at WSC Avant Bard
Sherry Berg as Gloria in Boeing Boeing at No Rules Theatre Company
Sherry Berg as Sylvia in Sylvia at NextStop Theatre Company
Jenna Berk as Gabriella in Boeing Boeing at No Rules Theatre Company
Jen Bevan as Lenore in in Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe at Molotov Theatre Group
Carla Briscoe as Primavera in Abominable at The Hub Theatre
Katy Carkuff as Heather in Gidion’s Knot at Forum Theatre/NextStop Theatre Company co-production
Caroline Stefanie Clay as Corryn in Gidion’s Knot at Forum Theatre/NextStop Theatre Company co-production
Katie Culligan as Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler at Quotidian Theatre Company
Theresa Cunningham as Mama in A Raisin in the Sun at Compass Rose Theater
Elizabeth Darby as Frau Kurten in Normal at Molotov Theatre Group
Amy Davis as Helene Hanff in 84, Charing Cross Road at Off the Quill
Megan Dominy as Philomele in The Love of the Nightingale at Constellation Theatre Company
Jenny Donovan as Alice in Lobster Alice at Flying V
Jessica Francis Dukes as Berniece in The Piano Lessson at Olney Theatre Center.
Dane Figueroa Edidi as Madame Clessi in The Wedding Dress at Spooky Action Theater
Rebecca Ellis as Becca in Rabbit Hole at Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions
Lucy Ellinson as The Pilot in Grounded at The Studio Theatre
Maggie Erwin as Melody Bad Jews at The Studio Theatre
Dana Gattuso as Mama in Distracted at Arcturus Theater Company
Kimberly Gilbert as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Kimberly Gilbert as Ophelia in Enter Ophelia, distracted at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
Sofia Jean Gomez as Ariel in The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Jayne Houdyshell as Alma in The Shoplifters at Arena Stage
Beth Hylton as Roxanne in The Understudy at Everyman Theatre
Nanna Ingvarsson Performing The Amish Project at Factory 449
Naomi Jacobson as Bessie in Awake and Sing at Olney Theatre Center
Kashayna Johnson as Luann in How We Got On at Forum Theatre
Caitlyn Joy as Viola in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Irina Kavsadze as Belle in Beauty and the Beast at Synetic Theatre
Irene Sofia Lucio as Daphna in Bad Jews at The Studio Theatre
Alina Collins Maldonado as Selector in How We Got On at Forum Theatre
Ellie Nicoll as Neasa in Shining City at Scena Theatre
Luz Nicolas as Reme in Cancun at GALA Hispanic Theatre
Anne Nottage as Mauretta in Handbag at Scena Theatre
Jennifer Osborn as Dottie Smith in Killer Joe at SeeNoSun Onstage
Dawn Thomas Reidy as Alison in Danny Boy at Unexpected Stage Company
Nancy Robinette as Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy at Ford’s Theatre
Karin Rosnizeck as She in Happily Ever After at Ambassador Theater
Karin Rosnizeck as Beatrice in Virus Attacks Heart at Venus Theatre
Laura Russell as Grace in Faith Healer at Quotidian Theatre Company
Mundy Spears as Alaide in The Wedding Dress at Spooky Action Theater
Sarah Olmsted Thomas as Gretchen Boeing Boeing at No Rules Theatre Company
Kathryn Tkel as Vanda in Venus in Fur at Rep Stage
Irina Tsikurishvili as Viola in Twelfth Night at Synetic Theater
Holly Twyford as Olivia in Sex with Strangers at Signature Theatre
Gillian Williams as Abby in Belleville at The Studio Theatre
Shannon Listol Wilson as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew at Pallas Theatre Collective
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BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Josh Adams as Eli in The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures at Theater J
Mark Lee Adams as Johnnypateenmike in The Cripple of Inishmaan at 1st Stage
Mario Baldessari as Queen Elizabeth I in Orlando at WSC Avant Bard
Elliott Bales as Frank in Not Enuf Lifetimes at The Welders
Elliott Bales as Victor in The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Theater Alliance
Brandon Scott Boyd as Albert in Clybourne Park at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Joe Brack as Cinna the Conspirator and Titinius in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Frank Britton as Hambone in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Frank Britton as Pontius Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre
Doug Brown as West in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Louis Botelli as Cassius in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Joseph Carlson as Young Mike in Colossal at Olney Theatre Center
DC Cathro as Malvolio and Officer in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
DC Cathro as Russ in Clybourne Park at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Anthony Cochrane as Brutus in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Ronald Conner as Boy Willie in The Piano Lesson at Olney Theatre Center.
Daniel Corey as Finch in Lobster Alice at Flying V
Daniel Corey as Stanley Stubbers in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Liam Craig as Trinculo in The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Matt Dewberry as Signor Sirelli in ABSOLUTELY! {perhaps} at Constellation Theatre Company
Ron Dortch as Hedley in Seven Guitars at No Rules Theatre Company
Adam Downs as Mason Marzac in Take Me Out at 1st Stage
David Dubov as Hortensio (Horensieaux) and as Vincentio (Vincentieaux) in The Taming of the Shrew at Pallas Theatre Collective
JaBen Early as Avery in The Piano Lesson at Olney Theatre Center
Daniel Flint as Saturninus in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Ricardo Frederick Evans as Sterling in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Andrew Ferlo as Shel in Orlando at WSC Avant Bard
Richard Gallagher as Daniel in Tribes at The Studio Theatre
Dave Gamble as the Earl of Northumberland in Richard II at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Avery Glymph as Ferdinand in The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Patrick Gorirossi as Rocky in We Are Samurai at Venus Theatre Company
Robert Grimm as Jason in Rabbit Hole at Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions
Robert Grimm as Bartley McCormick in The Cripple of Inishmaan at 1st Stage
Jay Hardee as Archduchess/Archdukein in Orlando at WSC Avant Bard
Ron Heneghan as Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy at Ford’s Theatre
Christopher Henley as Rudolph Peterson in Judgment at Nuremberg at The American Century Theater
Christopher Herring as Tom and Phyllis in Sylvia at NextStop Theatre Company
DeJeanette Horne as Lloyd Boateng in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Noah A Hughes as Travis Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at Compass Rose Theater
Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, and Ben Williams as the Justices in Arguendo at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Erik Jones as Toby in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Maurice Jones as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Jim Jorgensen as Satan in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre
Irakli Kavsadze as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at Synetic Theater
John Keabler as Hotspur in Henry IV Part 1 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Matt Kline as Feste in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
James Konicek as The Revolutionary and The Guard in Marie Antoinette at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Manu Kumasi as Aaron in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Ron Litman as John in Shining City at Scena Theatre
Tom Majarov as Sheriff Orsinio in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Matthew Marcus as Chris Smith in Killer Joe at SeeNoSun Onstage
Séamus Miller as Fiver in Pol Pot & Associates, LLP at Longacre Lea
Alex Mills as Sebastian in Twelfth Night at Synetic Theater
Toby Mulford as Marcus in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Steve Ochoa as Damon in Colossal at Olney Theatre Center
Kevin O’Reilly as Laurence in Shining City at Scena Theatre
Kevin Orton as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus at CENTERSTAGE
Scott Parkinson as ‘M’ in Cock at The Studio Theatre
Matthew Pauli as Lucius in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Joe Paulik as Jonah in Bad Jews at The Studio Theatre
Clayton Pelham, Jr. as George Murchison in A Raisin in the Sun at Compass Rose Theater
Michael Replogle as Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg at The American Century Theater
Charlie Retzlaff as Alan Dangle in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Kenyatta Rogers as Wolf in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Jefferson A. Russell as Brother Rashad in Fetch Clay, Make Man at Round House Theatre
Robert Sheire as Phil in Handbag at Scena Theatre
Robert Bowen Smith playing Multiple Characters in Love is a Battlefield at Flying V
John Stange as Babbybobby Bennett in The Cripple of Inishmaan at 1st Stage
Harold Surratt as Wining Boy in The Piano Lesson at Olney Theatre Center
Jason Tamborini, Toby Mulford, Noah Schaeffer, and Jon Jon Johnson as Waiters in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Keith A. Thomson as Veteran who Buries the Dead in Healing Wars at Arena Stage
Michael Tolaydo as Avigdor in The Admission at Theater J
Michael Tolaydo as Christopher in Tribes at The Studio Theatre
Rafael Untalan as Marcus G. Dahlman in Yellow Face at Theater J
William Vaughan as Lucius in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Ted von Griethusen as Owen Glendower in Henry IV Part 1 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Ted von Griethusen as Shallow in Henry IV Part 2 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Gray West as David in Handbag at Scena Theatre
Delaney Williams as Otto in The Shoplifters at Arena Stage
Stephen Lorne Williams as Willie in Happy Days at Scena Theatre
David Lamont Wilson as Dante and Ronnie in Not Enuf Lifetimes at The Welders
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BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Nora Achrati as Loretta, Mother Teresa, and Mary Magdalene in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre
Bev Appleton as Silence in Henry IV Part 2 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Marilyn Bennett as the Duchess of York in Richard III at NextStop Theatre Company
Cathryn Benson as Elias in We Are Samurai at Venus Theatre Company
Katy Carkuff as Rachel Crabbe in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Kelley Curran as Lady Percy in Henry IV Part 1 at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Catherine Deadman as Signora Sirelli in ABSOLUTELY! {perhaps} at Constellation Theatre Company
Lois Sanders-DeVincent as Sheila in Danny Boy at Unexpected Stage Company
Shannon Dorsey as Risa in Two Trains Running at Round House Theatre
Dane Figueroa Edidi as Madame Chessi in The Wedding Dress at Spooky Action Theater
Kayla Ferguson as Constanze Weber in Amadeus at CENTERSTAGE
Sarah Ferris as Thea Elvsted in Hedda Gabler at Quotidian Theatre Company
Melissa Flaim as Cheryl in Not Enuf Lifetimes at The Welders
Amanda Forstrom as Sasha in Orlando at WSC Avant Bard
Amanda Forstrom as Suzanne in Handbag at Scena Theatre
Christina Marie Frank as Tamora in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Ann Fraistat as Josephine in We Are Samurai at Venus Theatre Company
Anne Funke as Ruth in Tribes at The Studio Theatre
Megan Graves as Pauline Clench in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage
Megan Graves as Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan at 1st Stage
Laura C. Harris as Izzy in Seminar at Round House Theatre
Helen Hedman as Berthe in Boeing Boeing at No Rules Theatre Company
Julie Herber as Bev in Clybourne Park at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Lisa Hodsoll as Jane in The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Theater Alliance
Maggie Hoffman as Rebecca Jackson in Arguendo at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Haely Jardas as Lorraine in Handbag at Scena Theatre
Joy Jones as Amina in Belleville at The Studio Theatre
Renata Veberyte Loman as Narrator/Witch “Emmeranne” in Beauty and the Beast at Synetic Theater
Mary Beth Luckenbaugh as Maria Wallner in Judgment at Nuremberg at The American Century Theater
Briana Manente as Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid at Annapolis Shakespeare Company
Sarah Marshall as Sheep in Marie Antoinette at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Miranda Medugno as Lavinia in Titus Andronicus at Faction of Fools
Rona Mensah as Francine in Clybourne Park at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Rachel Mewbron as Miranda in The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shanta Parasuraman as Majit in Not Enuf Lifetimes at The Welders
Joniece Abbott-Pratt as Vera in Seven Guitars at No Rules Theatre Company
Tamara Hurwitz Pullman as Clara Barton in Healing Wars at Arena Stage
Daven Ralston as Regan in We Are Samurai at Venus Theatre Company
Nancy Robinette as Beth in Tribes at The Studio Theatre
Jewell Robinson as Mary in The Old Masters at Washington Stage Guild
Karin Rosnizeck as Frau Bertholt in Judgment at Nuremberg at The American Century Theater
Kimberly Schraf as Signora Frola in ABSOLUTELY! {perhaps} at Constellation Theatre Company
Lisa Seltzer as Olivia in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Susie Sokol as a Member of the Justices in Arguendo at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Jenna Sokolowski as Phyllis in The Shoplifters at Arena Stage
Amanda Spellman as Maria in Twelfth Night at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Deidra LaWan Starnes as Calphurnia in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Krenee A. Tolson as Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun at Compass Rose Theater
Katherine Renee Turner as Sonji Clay in Fetch Clay, Make Man at Round House Theatre
Stacy Whittle as Madeline Usher in Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe at Molotov Theatre Group
Nikole Williams as Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun at Compass Rose Theater
Liesel Allen Yeager as ‘W’ in Cock at The Studio Theatre
LINKS
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Special Awards.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Musicals in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Musicals in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Plays in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Plays in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts: Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Musical in Professional Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts: Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Musical in Community Theatres.
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Play in Professional Theatres.
