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No red carpet, glamorous The Carbonell Awards rank right up there with New
sequined apparel or black ties in York’s Drama Desk and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award
sight at the 44th Annual Carbonell for senior regional arts awards. It celebrates the diversity
Awards but, as always, it was fun to of our theater artists providing educational scholarships;
watch. Even though it was a virtual and certainly helps to aid in the growth of a dwindling
ceremony on television, it was well live theater audience within the tri-county area. It’s an
done. We’re so lucky to have such honor to just be nominated and certainly looks great on
great theater here in Palm Beach an actor’s resume to include winning a Carbonell.
County and South Florida.
Unfortunately Palm Beach
County theaters only received
four awards. This, despite that
fact that Palm Beach Dramaworks
was nominated for 29 Carbonell
Awards and also received the
prestigious Bill Von Maurer Award
presented to the theater company Due to the postponement of the new season during the pandemic, plans have changed
that exemplifies excellence for for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Release from Andrew Kato, managing, producing artistic
the totality of its programming director at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre: “Our expansion begins! After five years of
productions, educational outreach, planning and fundraising, our 30-million-dollar expansion will break ground at the
developmental programs and end of the month. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre will reopen in October 2021.”
audiences served.
Each season, Producing Artistic Director William Hayes The 2019 musical, The Spitfire Grill featured the talents
puts together a wonderful combination of well-known of the Lubber Family musicians. Amy Miller Brennan
classic plays, world premieres and a musical. They received took home the Carbonell for best supporting actress
a Carbonell in each category. The classic A Streetcar Named in a musical. The unusual script is about the journey a Justin M. Lewis brought home a Carbonell for best
Desire by Tennessee Williams (Anne Mendel for best scenic young woman takes after being released from prison and choreography in the production of The Hot Shoe Shuffle at
design) and Rita Cole for best supporting actress in A Raisin deciding to start a new life in rural Wisconsin. Book and the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton.
in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. David Kuwait won the music by James Vale and book and lyrics by Fred Alley.
best supporting actor for his portrayal of Philip Loeb in Great music by extremely talented musicians.
the world premiere of Ordinary Americans. It’s a stunning Farther south at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Justin
script by Joseph McDonough. It covers the fifties era of the M. Lewis won for the best choreography in the production
communist witch hunt and the McCarthyism black list and of The Hot Shoe Shuffle. Best actor in a musical went to
Gertrude Berg’s brave stand against corporate media giants Aloysius Gigi for his role as the Demon Barber in Sweeney
for her husband, Philip Loeb accused of being a member of Todd at the Zoetic Stage. The Zoetic Stage in Broward
the communist party. Elizabeth Demon (Molly Goldberg) County set a record in number of Carbonells received. A
was nominated for best actress. total of 12.

The 2019 musical, The Spitfire Grill, produced at the Palm
Beach Dramaworks, earned a Carbonell for Amy Miller
Brennan as best supporting actress in a musical.
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