2012 Ivey Awards show a Success

The 2012 Ivey Awards show was exactly what it should be. The show was fun, strange, insider, exciting, self-indulgent, funny, surprising, and absurdly loud. Pats on the back should go to the whole production team involved in making the show happen. Including: Scott Mayer, Mitch Kelly, James Rocco, Shannon Pierce, Perrin Post, Marcus Dillard, Mike Hallenbeck, Jason Allyn-Schwerin, Linda Walen, Mary Kay Fortier Spalding, Christopher Marc, Bob Chouinard, Jay Perlman, Joe Whiteis, and Michael Pettee. This year’s award winners were: Lifetime achievement award goes to Rick Shiomi of Mu Performing arts Emerging Artist award goes to Isabel Nelson of Trans-Atlantic Love Affair. You can listen to Isabel Nelson being interviewed on the TC Theater Connection audio podcast Overall Excellence award goes to The Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Walking Shadow Theatre Company Overall Excellence award goes to Spring Awakening from Theatre Latte Da Emotional Impact award goes to Ballad of the Pale Fisherman from Isabel Nelson and Trans-Atlantic Love Affair Inventive Reinterpretation award goes to Julius Caesar from Theatre Unbound Individual award to Tracie Bennett for acting in End of the Rainbow performed at the Guthrie theatre Individual award to Hugh Kennedy for acting in Buzzer Pillsbury House theatre Individual award to Jody Briskey for acting in Beyond the Rainbow: Garland at Carnegie Hall performed at the History Theatre. Here’s a video of Jody Briskey performing a song from Beyond the Rainbow Individual award to Barry Browning for Lighting Design in Dial M for Murder performed at the Jungle theatre.Here’s Barry Browning on MN Original Individual award to Miriam Monasch for Direction in Our Class performed by the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company Individual award to Joe Vass for Musical Direction in The Soul of Gershwin: The Musical Journey of an American Klezmer performed at Park Square theatre The Funny Heaps of praise should go to this year’s show for being particularly fun and funny. Shanan Custer was used perfectly as host and comedy expert, with great assists from Sam Landman, Joseph Scrimshaw, and John Middleton. And kudos to Ivey founder Scott Mayer for bringing in Joseph Scrimshaw and Zach Curtis to write for this year’s show. Go read, watch, listen to and share all the funny and terrific things Joseph has going on at his website - Joseph Scrimshaw Dot Com Here’s an excellent and of course very funny piece Shanan wrote for us last year - For Love or Money: or how I feed my daughter Here’s an article from this past June from the Star Tribune about Zach’s relationship with the show - ”Laughter on the 23rd Floor” Check out Sam Landman’s daily blog of criticism, self-reflection, triumph and doubt - Regret-A-Day