Outstanding Direction: Andi Allen, Ruthless! (Uptown Players); Phyllis Cicero, Blues for an Alabama Sky (Soul Rep Theatre Company and Stage West); Jim Covault, A Skull in Connemara (Stage West); Richard Hamburger, Of Mice and Men (Dallas Theater Center); Rene Moreno, Copenhagen (Theatre Three); Artie Olaisen, Grimm Tales (Dallas Children’s Theater); Katherine Owens, Silence (Undermain Theatre).

Outstanding Performance by an Actor:  Robert Brewer, Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre Three); Kieran Connolly, King Lear (Kitchen Dog Theater); Coy Covington, Ruthless! (Uptown); Justin Flowers, A Skull in Connemara and Lobby Hero (both Stage West); Tom Lenaghen, A Man’s Best Friend (Undermain); Keith Price, Noxide Square (Soul Rep); Matthew Stephen Tompkins, Monster (Stage West).

Outstanding Performance by an Actress: Tippi Hunter, The Old Settler (WaterTower Theatre); Andra Laine, Be My Baby (Theatre Quorum); Denise Lee, The Old Settler (WaterTower Theatre); Katie MacNichol, The Real Thing (DTC); Dana Schultes, Comic Potential (Theatre Three); Darcie Roberts, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Dallas Summer Musicals); Shelley Tharp-Payton, Happy Days (Kitchen Dog); Midge Verhein, Close Ties (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas).

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast: Cloud 9 (Echo Theatre); Copenhagen (Theatre Three); The Late Henry Moss (Undermain); Of Mice and Men (DTC); Titanic (Lyric Stage).

Outstanding Achievement in Design (Creative Contribution): Alice in Wonderland (Hip Pocket Theatre), for John Dyer’s original music and Lake Simons’ puppetry; Be My Baby (Theatre Quorum), for Gwen Ward’s costumes; A Girl’s Guide to Chaos (CTD), for Randel Wright’s set design; Grimm Tales (DCT), for Zak Herring’s set design; The Old Settler (WaterTower), for its entire design team; Titanic (Lyric), for Scott Eckert’s musical direction; Of Mice and Men (DTC), for its entire design team.

Outstanding New Play or Musical: Black Butterfly in Chloroform (Teatro Dallas); Cinderella (Lyric).

Outstanding Touring Production: Elaine Stritch At Liberty (Majestic Theatre).

Special Awards: To The Trinity River Arts Center, for providing valuable, comfortable and much needed performing space to many small local companies (Uptown Players, Theatre Britain, Classical Acting Company) as well as small, quality touring shows. To The Junior Players, for imaginatively staged and diversely cast plays, programs that encourage young artists (including PUP Fest, a playwrighting program co-produced with Kitchen Dog Theater) and free performances and lessons to children and teens throughout the Metroplex.