The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle is proud to announce the award recipients for 2020 and 2021. Poor Clare (The Echo Theater Company) and The Father (Pasadena Playhouse) received the prestigious Production award, with additional honorees named in 18 other categories.
In total, 13 different productions were honored, celebrating a wide range of Los Angeles theater. Pasadena Playhouse’s The Father received the most awards for a single production and the most awards overall, with nine.
This year, out of an abundance of caution, the LADCC will once again forgo its annual event ceremony and will instead send the plaques to the honorees. Congratulations to all of the award recipients!
The complete list of award recipients for 2020 and 2021 is as follows:
Production:
- Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
- The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
McCulloh Award for Revival
- My Fair Lady, Dolby Theatre
Lead Performance
- Jordan Hull, Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
- Alfred Molina, The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
Featured Performance
- Sue Cremin, The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
- Ann Noble, Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
- Michael Sturgis, Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
Ensemble Performance
- Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
- The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
Solo Performance
- Jim Ortlieb, Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, VS. Theatre Company & Circle X Theatre Co.
Writing
- Chiara Atik, Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
- Florian Zeller (translation by Christopher Hampton), The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
Writing Adaptation
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, An Octoroon, The Fountain Theatre
Musical Score
- Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Frozen, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- David Yazbek, The Band’s Visit, Dolby Theatre
Music Direction
- John Bell, My Fair Lady, Dolby Theatre
- Andre Cerullo, Hamilton, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Adrian Ries, The Band’s Visit, Dolby Theatre
- Ryan Whyman, Lizastrata, Troubadour Theater Company
Choreography
- Jess Coffman, Suzanne Jolie, L.T. Martinez, Matt Walker, Lizastrata, Troubadour Theater Company
- Christopher Gatelli, My Fair Lady, Dolby Theatre
Direction
- Alana Dietze, Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
- Jessica Kubzansky, The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
Set Design
- David Meyer, The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
- Frederica Nascimento, An Octoroon, The Fountain Theatre
Lighting Design
- Elizabeth Harper, The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
- Natasha Katz, Frozen, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Azra King-Abadi, Poor Clare, The Echo Theater Company
Costume Design
- Christopher Oram, Frozen, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Halei Parker, Lizastrata, Troubadour Theater Company
- Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady, Dolby Theatre
Sound Design
- John Zalewski, The Father, Pasadena Playhouse
CGI/Video
- Kaitlyn Pietras, Jason H. Thompson, Revenge Song, Geffen Playhouse
- Finn Ross, Frozen, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Streaming Design
- Corwin Evans, Bree Pavey, UnRavelled, Global Brain Health Institute, based at the University of California, San Francisco; and Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland
- Andrew Schmedake, The Ballad of Emmett Till, The Fountain Theatre
Specialty
- Lily Bartenstein, Prop Design, Lizastrata, Troubadour Theater Company
- Jeremy Chernick, Visual Effects, Frozen, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Joe Seely, Puppet Design, The ODDyssey, Troubadour Theater Company
Every effort has been made to ascertain proper credits for our award recipients. We regret any errors or omissions. Any that come to our attention will be corrected on our LADCC website and (when applicable) on a recipient’s award plaque.
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle was founded in 1969. It is dedicated to excellence in theatrical criticism, and to the encouragement and improvement of theatre in Greater Los Angeles.
The 2020-2021 membership consisted of:
Lara J. Altunian, Stage Raw, L.A. Dance Chronicle
Katie Buenneke, Stage Raw, Theater Digest
Erin Conley, On Stage & Screen
Peter DeBruge, Variety
Ellen Dostal, BroadwayWorld, Musicals in LA
Lovell Estell III, Stage Raw, ArtsInLA.com
Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times
Hoyt Hilsman, Cultural Daily, Pasadena Now, Riot Material
Harker Jones, BroadwayWorld, ArtsInLA.com
Deborah Klugman, Stage Raw, Capital and Main, Gia On The Move
Dany Margolies, ArtsInLA.com, Southern California News Group
Dana Martin, Stage Raw
Myron Meisel, Stage Raw
Terry Morgan, ArtsBeatLA.com, Stage Raw
Steven Leigh Morris, Stage Raw
Melinda Schupmann, Showmag.com, ArtsInLA.com
Jonas Schwartz-Owen, Theatermania.com, BroadwayWorld, ArtsInLA.com
Don Shirley, Angeles Stage
Rob Stevens, haineshisway.com
