AUDELCO

AUDELCO, the Audience Development Committee, Inc., was established in 1973 by Vivian Robinson to honor excellence in African American theatre in New York City.

AUDELCO presents the Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards (also known as Viv awards) annually. The awards were created to promote "recognition, understanding, and awareness of the arts in the African-American community."

The AUDELCO awards recognize the following Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway:

• Productions by African-American companies
• Productions written and/or directed by African-Americans
• African-American actors in productions

Description

AUDELCO has an office in Harlem, and the current president is Jacqueline Jeffries.^[1] The board of directors includes: Tony Peterson (2nd Vice-President), Ralph Carter (3rd Vice-President), Linda Armstrong (secretary), and Cherine Anderson, A. Curtis Farrow, Bambi Jones, Donna M. Mills, Mary Seymour, Dale Ricardo Shields, Terrence Spivey, and Mary B. Davis as the Chair Emeritus.^[2] The organization has thousands of members, a newsletter, and an African-American theater collection including books, photographs, slides, and scripts, as well as an extensive clippings on file of African-American theatre.^[3]

History

A year after its founding, the Awards were designated to more specific roles in the design and production of shows such as scenic, lighting, and costume design, choreography, acting, and directing. In 1975, the Awards moved to focus on accomplishments made in particular productions. Three years later, in 1978, the rules to be nominated for an AUDELCO Award became more concrete.^[3]

The AUDELCO awards recognize productions by professional, not-for-profit theater organizations that have existed for at least two years and have had a minimum of 500 hours of rehearsal, performance, and/or training. Productions have to be performed over 12 times within the year (September 1 through August 31). Workshop productions and works-in-progress are not eligible for the awards.^[3]

These guidelines are still followed today and those nominated for Awards are chosen by a committee. In order to qualify to be a committee member, one must see an average of 100 shows in a year. Once the committee is selected, only five nominations can be considered for each category of the Awards.^[3]

AUDELCO typically hosts the award ceremony annually; however in 1996, there were no individual awards presented due to the founder Vivian Robinson passing away just a few months prior that September.^[4]

Select Awards

Previous AUDELCO awardees include: Marsha Stephanie Blake, Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, George Faison, André Holland, Sanaa Lathan, Barbara Montgomery, Anika Noni Rose, André De Shields, Denzel Washington, and many others.^[5]

AUDELCO Recognition Awards (1974)^[3]

Name	Category	Year
Shirley Prendergast	Lighting Design	1974
Joseph Gandy	Scenic Design	1974
Judy Dearing Parks	Costume Design	1974
Helaine Head	Stage Management	1974
Aduke Aremu	Producing	1974
Milo Timmons	Choreography	1974
Howard Roberts	Musical Direction	1974
Shauneille Perry	Directing	1974
Richard Wesley	Playwrighting	1974
Barbara Montgomery	Acting	1974
Dick Anthony Williams	Acting	1974

AUDELCO Recognition Awards (1975-1981, '83, '85, '87-'89, '95-'04, '06, '09-Present)^{[3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]}

Name	Category	Production	Year
Sandra Ross	Lighting Design	Waiting for Mongo	1975
Joseph Gandy	Scenic Design	Cotillion	1975
Judy Dearing Parks	Costume Design	Black Picture Show, Taking of Miss Janie, and Cotillion	1975
Woodie King, Jr.	Producing	Cotillion	1975
Rod Rodgers	Producer	Prodigal Sister	1975
Bill Gunn	Playwright	Black Picture Show	1975
Robbie McCauley	Supporting Actress	Taking of Miss Janie	1975
Kirk Kirksey	Supporting Actor	Taking of Miss Janie	1975
Zaida Coles	Lead Actress	Cotillion	1975
Dick Anthony Williams	Lead Actor	Black Picture Show	1975
Sandra Ross	Lighting Design	Eden	1976
Joseph Gandy	Scenic Design	Fat Tuesday	1976
Woodie King, Jr.	Producer	for colored girls...	1976
Joseph Papp	Producer	for colored girls...	1976
Bolani	Costume Design	Soljourney into Truth	1976
Regge Life	Director	Hail, Hail the Gangs	1976
Deborah Allen	Choreography	Mondongo	1976
Ntozake Shange	Playwright	for colored girls...	1976
Barbara Montgomery	Supporting Actress	Eden	1976
Lou Meyers	Supporting Actor	Fat Tuesday	1976
Trazana Beverly	Lead Actress	for colored girls...	1976
Graham Brown	Lead Actor	Eden	1976
Shirley Prendergast	Lighting Design	Unfinished Women...	1977
Tim Phillips	Scenic Design	Winti Train	1977
Edna Watson	Costume Design	Macbeth	1977
Bill Duke	Director	Unfinished Women...	1977
Talley Beatty	Choreography	Alice	1977
Richard Wesley	Playwright	The Last Street Play	1977
Rosanna Carter	Supporting Actress	Unfinished Women...	1977
Leonard Jackson	Supporting Actor	Macbeth	1977
Brenda Brown	Lead Musical Actress	Young, Gifted, & Broke	1977
Mikell Pinkney	Lead Musical Actor	Young, Gifted, & Broke	1977
Gloria Foster	Lead Actress	Agamemnon	1977
Richard Gant	Lead Actor	Soledad Tetrad	1977
Sandra Ross	Lighting Design	The Amen Corner	1978
Ronald Walker	Scenic Design	The River Niger	1978
Karen Perry	Costume Design	Birdland	1978
Richard Gant	Play Director	The Island	1978
Glenda Dickerson	Musical Director	Magic & Lions	1978
Otis A. Salid	Choreography	High John de Conquer	1978
Ivey McCray	Playwright	Run'ners	1978
Pamela Poitier	Supporting Actress	Run'ners	1978
Flo Wiley	Supporting Actress	Sandra Lane	1978
Charles Brown	Supporting Actor	Cockfight	1978
Suavae Mitchell	Supporting Actor	The River Niger	1978
Celestine DeSaussure	Lead Musical Actress	High John de Conquer	1978
Reginald VelJohnson	Lead Musical Actor	Birdland	1978
Marc Primus	Musical Creator	High John de Conquer	1978
Frances Foster	Lead Actress	Do Lord Remember Me	1978
Helmar Augustus Cooper	Lead Actor	The River Niger	1978
Tim Phillips	Lighting Design	Inacent Black and the Five Brothers	1979
Felix E. Cochren	Scenic Design	Inacent Black and the Five Brothers	1979
Felix E. Cochren	Costume Design	The Vampire and the Dentist	1979
Mikell Pinkney	Play Director	Inacent Black and the Five Brothers	1979
Mical Whitaker	Musical Director	Simply Heavenly	1979
Dianne McIntyre	Choreography	spell #7	1979
A. Marcus Hemphill	Playwright	Inacent Black and the Five Brothers	1979
Mary Alice	Supporting Actress	Second Thoughts	1979
Robert Christian	Supporting Actor	Coriolanus	1979
Noble Lee Lester	Lead Musical Actor	Simply Heavenly	1979
Grenoldo Frazier	Musical Creator	Them Niggars Went Thataway	1979
Warren Burdine	Musical Creator	Them Niggars Went Thataway	1979
Starletta DuPois	Lead Actress	Mary Goldstein and the Author	1979
Barbara Montgomery	Lead Actress	Nevis Mountain Dew	1979
Glynn Turman	Lead Actor	Raisin in the Sun	1979
Marvin Watkins	Lighting Design	On Midnight, Friday the 13th	1980
Roger Furman	Scenic Design	On Midnight, Friday the 13th	1980
Bernard Johnson	Costume Design	The More You Get The More You Want	1980
Dean Irby	Play Director	Home	1980
Ron Stacker Thompson	Musical Director	Dunbar	1980
Otis A. Salid	Choreography	The More You Get The More You Want	1980
Samm-Art Williams	Playwright	Home	1980
Brenda Denmark	Supporting Actress	Miss Ann Don't Cry No More	1980
Adolph Caesar	Supporting Actor	La Grima Del Diablo	1980
Dyane Harvey	Lead Musical Actress	Dunbar	1980
Jeffery V. Thompson	Lead Musical Actor	The More You Get The More You Want	1980
Ayanna	Musical Creator	Dunbar	1980
Ron Stacker Thompson	Musical Creator	Dunbar	1980
Quitman Fludd III	Musical Creator	Dunbar	1980
Lonnie Hewitt	Musical Creator	Dunbar	1980
Paul E. Smith	Musical Creator	Dunbar	1980
Gloria Foster	Lead Actress	Mother Courage and Her Children	1980
Clarence Williams III	Lead Actor	Suspenders	1980
Melody Beal	Lighting Design	Rashomon	1981
Robert Edmonds	Scenic Design	When the Chickens Come Home to Roost	1981
Judy Dearing	Costume Design	Steal Away	1981
Allie Woods	Play Director	When the Chickens Come Home to Roost	1981
Charles Turner	Musical Director	Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues	1981
Charles Moore	Choreography	Black Nativity	1981
Charles Fuller	Playwright	Zooman and the Sign	1981
Laurence Holder	Playwright	When the Chickens Come Home to Roost	1981
Carol Mitchell-Smith	Supporting Actress	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show	1981
Herb Downer	Supporting Actor	The Trial of Dr. Beck	1981
Ebony Jo-Ann	Lead Musical Actress	Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues	1981
Paul Carter Harrison	Musical Creator	Tabernacle	1981
Thom Foster	Musical Creator	Tabernacle	1981
Ernie McClintlock	Musical Creator	Tabernacle	1981
Phylicia Ayers-Allen	Lead Actress	Zora	1981
Denzel Washington	Lead Actor	When the Chickens Come Home to Roost	1981
Lee Chamberlin	Lead Actress	Hospice	1983
Timothy Simonson	Lead Actor	The Trial of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.	1983
Ruth Brown	Lead Musical Actress	Champeen	1983
Sandra Reaves-Phillips	Lead Musical Actress	Champeen	1983
Melvin Van Peebles	Musical Creator	Champeen	1983
Melvin Van Peebles	Musical Director	Champeen	1983
Bruce Hawkins	Lead Musical Actor	Champeen	1983
Louis Johnson	Choreography	Champeen	1983
Pearl Cleage	Playwright	Hospice	1983
Frances Foster	Play Director	Hospice	1983
Bette Howard	Play Director	Parting	1983
Llewellyn Harrison	Scenic Design	Hospice	1983
Zebedee Collins	Lighting Design	Jesse and the Games	1983
Tim Phillips	Lighting Design	The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Brown	1983
Garland Lee Thompson Jr.	Sound Design	Jesse and the Games	1983
Felix E. Cochren	Costume Design	The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Brown	1983
P.J. Gibson	Playwright	Long Time Since Yesterday	1985
Bette Howard	Play Director	Long Time Since Yesterday	1985
Sheryle R. Jones	Choreography	Flat Street Sa'day Nite	1985
Lenga Tooks	Musical Creator	Flat Street Sa'day Nite	1985
Patricia A. Clement	Lead Musical Actress	Flat Street Sa'day Nite	1985
Steve Beckham	Lead Musical Actor	Flat Street Sa'day Nite	1985
Antonio Fargas	Lead Actor	Toussaint: Angel-Warrior in Haiti	1985
Anthony F. Chase	Supporting Actor	Toussaint: Angel-Warrior in Haiti	1985
Cherron Hoye	Lead Actress	Odessa	1985
Betty Vaughn	Supporting Actress	Odessa	1985
Shauneille Perry	Musical Director	Celebration	1985
Cheryl Hilliard-Hewitt	Lead Musical Actress	The Legacy	1987
Tunde Samuel	Lead Musical Actor	The Legacy	1987
David D. Wright	Musical Director	The Legacy	1987
Essene R	Lead Actress	Black Medea	1987
Mari Nobles Da Silva	Choreography	Black Medea	1987
Bonnie Devlin	Musical Creator	Black Medea	1987
A. Dean Irby	Musical Director	Boogie Woogie and Booker T	1987
LaTanya Richardson	Supporting Actress	Boogie Woogie and Booker T	1987
Judy Dearing	Costume Design	Boogie Woogie and Booker T	1987
Charles McClennahan	Scenic Design	Boogie Woogie and Booker T	1987
George C. Wolfe	Playwright	The Colored Museum	1987
Dick Anthony Williams	Lead Actor	The Meeting	1987
Lee Chamberlain	Musical Creator	Struttin'	1988
Lee Chamberlain	Musical Director	Struttin'	1988
Jillian C. Hamilton	Lead Musical Actress	Struttin'	1988
Roumel Reaux	Lead Musical Actor	Struttin'	1988
Clarice Laverne Thompson	Musical Director	Crescent Tales	1988
Elmo Terry Morgan	Play Director	The Fruits of Miss Morning	1988
Donald Lee Taylor	Lead Actor	Boogie Woogie and Booker T	1988
Brenda Denmark	Lead Actress	From the Mississippi Delta	1988
LaTanya Richardson	Lead Actress	From the Mississippi Delta	1988
Marsha Z. West	Supporting Actress	The Fruits of Miss Morning	1988
Maurice Carlton	Supporting Actor	Reunion in Bartersville	1988
M. Neema Barnette	Play Director	The Talented Tenth	1989
Richard Wesley	Playwright	The Talented Tenth	1989
Marie Thomas	Lead Actress	The Talented Tenth	1989
LaTanya Richardson	Supporting Actress	The Talented Tenth	1989
Elmo Terry Morgan	Musical Creator	Song of Sheba	1989
Clarice Laverne Thompson	Musical Creator	Song of Sheba	1989
Clarice Laverne Thompson	Musical Director	Song of Sheba	1989
Elmo Terry Morgan	Musical Director	Song of Sheba	1989
Anthony Cooper	Lead Musical Actor	Song of Sheba	1989
Johanna Daughtery	Musical Performance	Song of Sheba	1989
Judith Samuel	Choreography	Song of Sheba	1989
Melody Beal	Lighting Design	Song of Sheba	1989
Akili Prince	Lead Actor	The Forbidden City	1989
Frankie Faison	Supporting Actor	The Forbidden City	1989
Loren Sherman	Scenic Design	The Forbidden City	1989
Judy Dearing	Costume Design	The Forbidden City	1989
Janice Jenkins	Solo Performance	In Pursuit of Justice	1995
Bruce Edwin Jenkins	Play Director	In Pursuit of Justice	1995
George C. Wolfe	Play Director	Blade to the Heat	1995
Ntozake Shange	Ensemble Director	for colored girls...	1995
Herman Lavern Jones	Musical Director	Shoehorn!	1995
Marjorie Johnson	Lead Actress	M The Mandela Saga	1995
Paul Calderon	Lead Actor	Blade to the Heat	1995
Mickey Davidson	Choreography	for colored girls...	1995
Laurence Holder	Playwright	M The Mandela Saga	1995
Johnnie Mae	Supporting Actress	Why Old Ladies Cry at Weddings	1995
Chuck Patterson	Supporting Actor	Blade to the Heat	1995
Idris Ackamoor	Lead Musical Actor	Shoehorn!	1995
Craig Harris	Musical Creator	for colored girls	1995
Paul Gallo	Lighting Design	Blade to the Heat	1995
Riccardo Hernandez	Scenic Design	Blade to the Heat	1995
Ka-Ran Bridges	Costume Design	In Pursuit of Justice	1995
Geno Brantley	Sound Design	In Pursuit of Justice	1995
Dan Moses Schreier	Sound Design	Blade to the Heat	1995
Roger Guenveur Smith	Solo Performance	A Huey P. Newton Story	1997
Woodie King Jr.	Musical Director	A Trip to Nowhere	1997
Fulton Hodges	Musical Director	A Trip to Nowhere	1997
Janice Jenkins	Lead Actress	Bolt for the Blue	1998
Gregor Manns	Lead Actor	Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again	1998
Michael Broughton	Solo Performance	Jim Beckworth	1998
Jimmy Miller	Musical Director	Satan Never Sleeps	1998
Jerome Shavers	Lead Musical Actor	Satan Never Sleeps	1998
Adrianne Lenox	Lead Musical Actress	Dinah Was	1998
Sandra Reaves-Phillips	Lead Musical Actress	Rollin' on the T.O.B.A.	1998
Kimberly Purneli	Supporting Actress	Glady's Dilemma	1998
Fulton Hedges	Supporting Actor	Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again	1998
Lillie Marie Redwood	Playwright	Imperfection Flawed	1998
George Faison	Choreography	Dinah Was	1998
Ronald Wyche	Musical Director	Satan Never Sleeps	1998
Wynn Handman	Ensemble Director	Fly	1998
Gertrude Jeannette	Play Director	Bolt from the Blue	1998
David Wright	Sound Design	Fly	1998
Marcel Christian	Costume Design	Julius Caesar Set in Africa	1998
Steve Walker	Scenic Design	Bolt from the Blue	1998
Christophe Pierre	Lighting Design	Nzinga's Children	1998
Leslie Uggams	Lead Actress	The Old Settler	1999
Adam Wade	Lead Actor	Still Such a Thing as Love	1999
Vinie Burrows	Solo Performance	Rose McClendon: Harlem's Gift to Broadway	1999
Viola Davis	Supporting Actress	Everybody's Ruby	1999
Godfrey L. Simmons	Supporting Actor	The Old Settler	1999
Marcia L. Leslie	Playwright	The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	1999
Paul Carter Harrison	Play Director	The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	1999
Nik Chamberlin	Sound Design	The American Jesus Christ	1999
Helen L. Simmons	Costume Design	The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	1999
Felix E. Cochren	Scenic Design	The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	1999
Frances Aronson	Lighting Design	The Old Settler	1999
August Wilson	Playwright	Jitney	2000
Arthur French	Supporting Actor	Romeo and Juliet	2000
Phyllis Bash	Supporting Actress	Grace in the Light	2000
Roz Davis	Lead Musical Actress	Damn Yankees	2000
Robert Turner	Lead Musical Actor	Damn Yankees	2000
Fred Carl	Musical Director	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin	2000
Kirsten Childs	Musical Creator	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin	2000
Rome Neal	Solo Performance	Monk	2000
Arthur French	Lead Actor	Ceremonies in Dark Old Men	2000
Christine Campbell	Lead Actress	Indigo Blues	2000
Wendi Joy Franklin	Lead Actress	Grace in the Light	2000
Donald Holder	Lighting Design	Jitney	2000
Shirley Prendergast	Lighting Design	The Dance on Widow's Row	2000
David Gallo	Scenic Design	Jitney	2000
Susan Hilferty	Costume Design	Jitney	2000
Rob Milburn	Sound Design	Jitney	2000
Marion McClinton	Play Director	Jitney	2000
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj	Musical Director	Damn Yankees	2000
George Faison	Choreography	for colored girls...	2000
Ah-Keisha McCants	Rising Star	Cafe Millennium	2000
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj	Musical Director	Jamaica	2001
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj	Choreography	Jamaica	2001
Charles Randolph-Wright	Choreography	Blue	2001
Al Freeman Jr.	Supporting Actor	Conflict of Interest	2001
Beatrice Winde	Supporting Actress	A Lesson Before Dying	2001
Aixa Kendricks	Lead Musical Actress	OYA	2001
Tobias Truvillan	Lead Musical Actor	OYA	2001
Vanessa A. Wright	Musical Director	OYA	2001
Stephanie Berry	Solo Performance	Shaneequa Chronicles	2001
Rubin Santiago Hudson	Solo Performance	Lackawanna Blues	2001
Willis Burks II	Lead Actor	Saint Lucy's Eyes	2001
Ruby Dee	Lead Actress	Saint Lucy's Eyes	2001
Michael Gilliam	Lighting Design	Blue	2001
Jane Reisman	Lighting Design	Saint Lucy's Eyes	2001
James Leonard Joy	Scenic Design	Blue	2001
Debra Bauer	Costume Design	Blue	2001
Kurt Eric Fischer	Sound Design	Blue	2001
Sheldon Epps	Play Director	Blue	2001
Chadwick Boseman	Supporting Actor	Urban Transitions: Loose Blossoms	2002
Mzuri Moyo^[25]	Solo Performance	Fannie Lou Hammer Story	2002
Don Glenn^[26]	Playwright	American King Umps	2002
Robert Perry	Lighting Design	Crowns	2003
ESosa	Costume Design	Crowns	2003
Regina Taylor	Musical Director	Crowns	2003
Linda Twine	Musical Director	Crowns	2003
Ronald K. Brown	Choreography	Crowns	2003
Viola Davis	Lead Actress	Intimate Apparel	2004
Lynda Gravatt	Supporting Actress	Intimate Apparel	2004
Lynn Nottage	Playwright	Intimate Apparel	2004
Catherine Zuber	Costume Design	Intimate Apparel	2004
Derek MeLane	Scenic Design	Intimate Apparel	2004
George C. Wolfe	Musical Director	Caroline, or Change	2004
Linda Twine	Musical Director	Caroline, or Change	2004
Tonya Pinkins	Lead Musical Actress	Caroline, or Change	2004
Chuck Cooper	Lead Musical Actor	Caroline, or Change	2004
Jan Weston	Sound Design	Caroline, or Change	2004
Andre De Shields	Lead Actor	Dream on Monkey Mountain	2004
Kim Sullivan	Supporting Actor	Dream on Monkey Mountain	2004
Aaron Black	Lighting Design	Dream on Monkey Mountain	2004
Dyane Harvey	Choreography	Great Men of Gospel	2004
Joyce Sylvester	Play Director	Freeda Peoples	2004
Sarah Jones	Solo Performance	Bridges and Tunnels	2004
Zora Jhade Howard	Rising Star	Trojan Women	2004
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Play Director	Seven Guitars	2006
Charles Weldon	Supporting Actor	Seven Guitars	2006
Karen Perry	Costume Design	Seven Guitars	2006
Darron L. West	Sound Design	Seven Guitars	2006
Cassandra Medley	Playwright	Relativity	2006
Baraka De Soliel	Choreography	SANGO, Lord of Thunder	2006
Todd Davis	Lead Actor	Kingfish, Amos n' Andy	2006
Yaa Asantewe	Lead Actress	Otis and Zora	2006
Kevin Maynor	Solo Performance	Paul Robeson	2006
Marjorie Johnson	Supporting Actress	Hoodoo Love	2006
Harlan Penn	Scenic Design	Kingfish, Amos n' Andy	2006
AVAN	Lighting Design	Storm Stories	2006
Lynn Nottage	Playwright	Ruined	2009
Saidah Arrika Ekulona	Lead Actress	Ruined	2009
Quincy Tyler Bernstine	Supporting Actress	Ruined	2009
Russell G. Jones	Supporting Actor	Ruined	2009
Paul Tazewell	Costume Design	Ruined	2009
Derek McLane	Scenic Design	Ruined	2009
André De Shields	Lead Musical Actor	Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe	2009
Kim Brockington	Lead Musical Actress	Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe	2009
Kelvyn Bell	Musical Director	Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe	2009
Marion McClinton	Play Director	Pure Confidence	2009
Gavin Lawrence	Lead Actor	Pure Confidence	2009
Khalil Ashanti	Solo Performance	Basic Training	2009
Andrew C. Mayer	Sound Design	Pure Confidence	2009
Matthew Frey	Lighting Design	Zooman and the Sign	2009
James Carter	Lighting Design	Pecong	2010
Patrice Davidson	Scenic Design	What Would Jesus Do?	2010
David Withrow	Costume Design	Pecong	2010
David D. Wright	Sound Design	Oshun	2010
Imani	Play Director	Dr. May Edward Chinn	2010
Akin Babatunde	Musical Director	Blind Lemon Blues	2010
Byron Easley	Choreography	Langston in Harlem	2010
Yvette Heyliger	Playwright	What Would Jesus Do?	2010
Johnnie Mae	Supporting Actress	What Would Jesus Do?	2010
Jamil A.C. Mangan	Supporting Actor	What Would Jesus Do?	2010
Glenn Turner	Lead Musical Actor	Langston in Harlem	2010
Kenita Miller	Lead Musical Actress	Langston in Harlem	2010
Daniel Beaty	Solo Performance	Through the Night	2010
Jerome Preston Bates	Lead Actor	What Would Jesus Do?	2010
Yvonne Farrow	Lead Actress	What Would Jesus Do?	2010
André De Shields	Lead Actor	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Marie Thomas	Supporting Actress	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Charles Smith	Playwright	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Chuck Smith	Play Director	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Shirley Prendergast	Lighting Design	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Ali Turns	Costume Design	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Anthony Davis	Scenic Design	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Bill Toles	Sound Design	Knock Me A Kiss	2011
Tracy Jack	Choreography	It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues	2011
Lee Kirk	Musical Director	The Widow and Miss Mamie	2011
Stephanie Berry	Solo Performance	The Shaneequa Chronicles	2011
Ron Granger	Musical Director	The Widow and Miss Mamie	2011
Toni Seawright	Lead Musical Actress	The Widow and Miss Mamie	2011
Tommi Thompson	Lead Musical Actor	The Widow and Miss Mamie	2011
André Holland	Supporting Actor	The Whipping Man	2011
Kimberlee Monroe	Lead Actress	Nobody Knew Where They Was	2011
Sanaa Latham	Lead Actress	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark	2011
Eden Sanaa Duncan Smith	Rising Star	Fences; Lion King	2011
Jeffrey Sweet	Playwright	Court-Martial at Fort Devens	2012
Mary Beth Easley	Play Director	Court-Martial at Fort Devens	2012
Mark Bruckner	Sound Design	Court-Martial at Fort Devens	2012
Ali Turns	Costume Design	Court-Martial at Fort Devens	2012
Michael Walsh	Musical Director	Sally and Tom: The American Way	2012
Brian D. Hills	Lead Musical Actor	Sally and Tom: The American Way	2012
Ava Jenkins	Lead Musical Actress	Sally and Tom: The American Way	2012
Gabrielle L. Kurlander	Musical Director	Sally and Tom: The American Way	2012
Johnnie Mae	Lead Actress	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	2012
Reginald L. Wilson	Lead Actor	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	2012
Peter Jay Fernandez	Supporting Actor	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	2012
Thurston Reyes	Lighting Design	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	2012
Kimberlee Monroe	Solo Performance	Arye	2012
Marsha Stephanie Blake	Supporting Actress	Hurt Village	2012
David Gallo	Scenic Design	Hurt Village	2012
Lainie Munro	Choreography	Sweet Charity	2012
Rui Rita	Lighting Design	The Piano Lesson	2013
Michael Carnahan	Scenic Design	The Piano Lesson	2013
Karen Perry	Costume Design	The Piano Lesson	2013
David D. Wright	Sound Design	The Importance of Being Earnest	2013
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Play Director	The Piano Lesson	2013
Keith Lee Grant	Musical Director	Dreamgirls	2013
Mercedes Elington	Choreography	Storyville	2013
Colman Domingo	Playwright	Wild With Happy	2013
Chuck Cooper	Supporting Actor	The Piano Lesson	2013
Sharon Washington	Supporting Actress	Wild With Happy	2013
Dion Millington	Lead Musical Actress	Dreamgirls	2013
Michael Leonard	Lead Musical Actor	Storyville	2013
Ryan Touhey	Musical Director	Dreamgirls	2013
Jeannette Bayardelle	Solo Performance	Shida	2013
Brandon J. Dirden	Lead Actor	The Piano Lesson	2013
Rosalyn Coleman	Lead Actress	Breakfast with Mugabe	2013
Thom Weaver	Lighting Design	August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned	2014
Patrice Andrew Davidson	Scenic Design	Maid's Door	2014
Ali Turns	Costume Design	The Fabulous Miss Marie	2014
Jackie Alexander	Play Director	Maid's Door	2014
Cheryl L. Davis	Playwright	Maid's Door	2014
Nate James	Supporting Actor	Maid's Door	2014
Dee Bridgewater	Lead Musical Actress	Lady Day	2014
Derrick Baskin	Lead Musical Actor	Piece of My Heart	2014
Leslie Dockery	Choreography	Ugly Is A Hard Pill	2014
Roscoe Ormond	Lead Actor	The Fabulous Miss Marie	2014
Scottie Mills	Lead Actress	Maid's Door	2014
Helena D. Lewis	Solo Performance	Call Me Crazy	2014
Antoinette Tynes	Lighting Design	Dutchman	2015
Chris Cumberbatch	Scenic Design	Black Wall Street	2015
Emily Rebholz	Costume Design	Our Lady of Kibeho	2015
Matt Tierney	Sound Design	Our Lady of Kibeho	2015
Jo Bonney	Play Director	Father Come Home from the Wars	2015
Lawrence Floyd	Musical Director	Flambeaux	2015
Katori Hall	Playwright	Our Lady of Kibeho	2015
Kevin Mambo	Supporting Actor	Brothers From the Bottom	2015
Toccarra Cash	Supporting Actress	Brothers From the Bottom	2015
Althea Alexis	Lead Musical Actress	Flambeaux	2015
J. Bernard Calloway	Lead Musical Actor	Flambeaux	2015
Juson Williams	Choreography	Flambeaux	2015
Jeff Bolding	Musical Director	Flambeaux	2015
John Douglas Thompson	Lead Actor	Tamburlaine, Parts I and II	2015
S. Epatha Merkeson	Lead Actress	While I Yet Live	2015
Keith Hamilton Cobb	Solo Performance	American Moor	2015
Alan C. Edwards	Lighting Design	Macbeth	2016
G.W. Mercier	Scenic Design	Head of Passes	2016
Rachel Dozier-Ezell	Costume Design	Macbeth	2016
Obadiah Eaves	Sound Design	The Total Bent	2016
Sten Severson	Sound Design	The Total Bent	2016
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Play Director	Skeleton Crew	2016
Jeff Calhoun	Musical Director	Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life	2016
Dominique Morisseau	Playwright	Skeleton Crew	2016
Kim Sullivan	Supporting Actor	The Piano Lesson	2016
Alana Arenas	Supporting Actress	Head of Passes	2016
Tina Fabrique	Lead Musical Actress	The First Noel	2016
Maurice Hines	Lead Musical Actor	Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life	2016
Maurice Hines	Choreography	Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life	2016
Reginald L. Wilson	Solo Performance	Sugar Ray	2016
Joe Morton	Lead Actor	Turn Me Loose	2016
Marjorie Johnson	Lead Actress	Dot	2016
Kate Bashore	Lighting Design	The Three Musketeers	2017
Christopher Swader	Scenic Design	The Three Musketeers	2017
Justin Swader	Scenic Design	The Three Musketeers	2017
Rachel Dozier-Ezell	Costume Design	The Three Musketeers	2017
Luqman Brown	Sound Design	The Three Musketeers	2017
Walter Dallas	Play Director	Autumn	2017
Robert O'Hara	Musical Director	Bella: An American Tall Tale	2017
Richard Wesley	Playwright	Autumn	2017
Count Stovall	Supporting Actor	Autumn	2017
Paulette Washington	Supporting Actress	Autumn	2017
NaTasha Yvette Williams	Lead Musical Actress	Bella: An American Tall Tale	2017
Norm Lewis	Lead Musical Actor	Sweeney Todd	2017
Darius Smith	Musical Director	Raisin	2017
Camille A. Brown	Choreography	Bella: An American Tall Tale	2017
Jerome Preston Bates	Lead Actor	Autumn	2017
Elizabeth Van Dyke	Lead Actress	Zora Neale Hurston	2017
Timothy Simonson	Solo Performance	Adam	2017
Adam Honore	Lighting Design	Carmen Jones	2018
Chris Cumberbatch	Scenic Design	Harriet's Return	2018
Ali Turns	Costume Design	A Soldier's Play	2018
Luqman Brown	Sound Design	The Peculiar Patriot	2018
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Play Director	Paradise Blue	2018
Lee Summers	Musical Director	On Kentucky Avenue	2018
Dominique Morisseau	Playwright	Paradise Blue	2018
Gil Tucker	Supporting Actor	A Soldier's Play	2018
Joniece Abbott-Pratt	Supporting Actress	The House That Will Not Stand	2018
Ty Stephens	Lead Musical Actor	On Kentucky Avenue	2018
Anika Noni Rose	Lead Musical Actress	Carmen Jones	2018
Count Stovall	Supporting Musical Actor	On Kentucky Avenue	2018
Andricka Hall	Supporting Musical Actress	On Kentucky Avenue	2018
Shelton Becton	Musical Director	Carmen Jones	2018
Richard Cummings Jr.	Musical Director	On Kentucky Avenue	2018
Bill T. Jones	Choreography	Carmen Jones	2018
Sharon Washington	Solo Performance	Feeding the Dragon	2018
David Roberts	Lead Actor	The Black Babe Ruth	2018
Harriett D. Foy	Lead Actress	The House That Will Not Stand	2018
Antoinette Tynes	Lighting Design	Looking for Leroy	2019
Chris Cumberbatch	Scenic Design	Looking for Leroy	2019
Carolyn Adams	Costume Design	The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda	2019
Justin Ellington	Sound Design	Fireflies	2019
David Wright	Sound Design	The Savage Queen	2019
Petronia Paley	Play Director	Looking for Leroy	2019
Larry Muhammad	Playwright	Looking for Leroy	2019
Kenny Leon	Musical Director	Much Ado About Nothing	2019
Robert Turner	Supporting Actor	The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda	2019
Roz Fox	Supporting Actress	The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda	2019
Grantham Coleman	Lead Musical Actor	Much Ado About Nothing	2019
Danielle Brooks	Lead Musical Actress	Much Ado About Nothing	2019
LaChanze	Lead Musical Actress	The Secret Life of Bees	2019
Chuck Cooper	Supporting Musical Actor	Much Ado About Nothing	2019
Eisa Davis	Supporting Musical Actress	The Secret Life of Bees	2019
Jason Hart	Musical Director	The Secret Life of Bees	2019
Camille A. Brown	Choreography	Much Ado About Nothing	2019
Richarda Abrams	Solo Performance	First by Faith: The Life of Macy McLeod Bethune	2019
Keith Randolph Smith	Lead Actor	Lockdown	2019
Jessica Frances Dukes	Lead Actress	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark	2019
Alan C. Edwards	Lighting Design	The New Englanders	2020
Isabel Curley-Clay	Scenic Design	Reparations	2020
Moriah Curley-Clay	Scenic Design	Reparations	2020
Toni-Leslie James	Costume Design	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf	2020
David D. Wright	Sound Design	Reparations	2020
Michele Shay	Play Director	Reparations	2020
Tai Thompson	Musical Director	The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker	2020
Leslie Dockery	Choreography	a photograph/lovers in motion	2020
Donja R. Love	Playwright	One in Two	2020
Benjamin Mapp	Supporting Actor	Leaving the Blues	2020
Lisa Arrindell	Supporting Actress	Reparations	2020
Joshua Henry	Lead Musical Actor	The Wrong Man	2020
Iris Beaumier	Lead Musical Actress	The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker	2020
James A. Pierce III	Supporting Musical Actor	The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker	2020
Mario E. Sprouse	Musical Director	The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker	2020
Martha Redbone	Musical Composer	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf	2020
Douglas Wade	Solo Performance	Thurgood	2020
Kamal Bolden	Lead Actor	Reparations	2020
Teagle F. Bougere	Lead Actor	The New Englanders	2020
Rosalind Brown	Lead Actress	Leaving the Blues	2020
Liza Colon-Zayaz	Lead Actress	Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven	2020

The Production of the Year AUDELCO Awards (1975-1981, '83, '85, '87-'89, '95-'01, '03-'04, '06, '09-Present)^{[3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]}

Production	Category	Year
Black Picture Show	Best Play	1975
Eden	Best Play	1976
Young, Gifted, & Broke	Best Musical	1977
The Last Street Play	Best Play	1977
Unfinished Women...	Best Play	1977
High John de Conquer	Best Musical	1978
The River Niger	Best Play	1978
Them Niggars Went Thataway	Best Musical	1979
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers	Best Play	1979
Dunbar	Best Musical	1980
Home	Best Play	1980
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost	Best Play	1981
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues	Best Musical	1981
Hospice	Best Play	1983
Champeen	Best Musical	1983
Long Time Since Yesterday	Best Play	1985
Flat Street Sa'day Nite	Best Musical	1985
The Legacy	Best Musical	1987
Black Medea	Best Play	1987
Struttin'	Best Musical	1988
The Fruits of Miss Morning	Best Play	1988
The Talented Tenth	Best Play	1989
Song of Sheba	Best Musical	1989
Blade to the Heat	Best Play	1995
Shoehorn!	Best Musical	1995
for colored girls...	Best Ensemble Production	1995
Joe Turner Has Come and Gone	Best Play	1997
Bolt from the Blue	Best Play	1998
Fly	Best Ensemble Production	1998
Satan Never Sleeps	Best Musical	1998
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	Best Play	1999
The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	Best Ensemble Production	1999
Jitney	Best Play	2000
Jitney	Best Ensemble Production	2000
Damn Yankees	Best Musical	2000
Blue	Best Ensemble Production	2001
Blue	Best Play	2001
OYA	Best Musical	2001
Crowns	Best Musical	2003
Crowns	Best Ensemble Production	2003
Intimate Apparel	Best Play	2004
Caroline, or Change	Best Musical	2004
Great Men of Gospel	Best Ensemble Production	2004
Seven Guitars	Best Play	2006
Real Black Men Don't Sit Cross-Legged	Best Ensemble Production	2006
Ruined	Best Play	2009
Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe	Best Musical	2009
Zooman and the Sign	Best Play Revival	2009
Home	Best Ensemble Production	2009
What Would Jesus Do?	Best Play	2010
Langston in Harlem	Best Musical	2010
August Wilson's Women	Best Ensemble Production	2010
Pecong	Best Play Revival	2010
Knock Me A Kiss	Best Play	2011
The Widow and Miss Mamie	Best Musical	2011
Ain't Nothin' But the Blues	Best Musical	2011
Court-Martial at Fort Devens	Best Ensemble Production	2012
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Best Revival	2012
Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale	Best Ensemble Production	2012
Sally and Tom: The American Way	Best Musical	2012
Dreamgirls	Best Musical	2013
Choir Boy	Best Ensemble Production	2013
Wild With Happy	Best Play	2013
The Piano Lesson	Best Revival	2013
The Old Settler	Best Revival	2014
Sassy Mamas	Best Ensemble Production	2014
Maid's Door	Best Play	2014
Ain't Misbehavin'	Best Revival	2015
Fences	Best Revival	2015
Carnaval	Best Ensemble Production	2015
Our Lady of Kibeho	Best Play	2015
Flambeaux	Best Musical	2015
Dead and Breathing	Best Ensemble Production	2016
In White America	Best Revival	2016
Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life	Best Musical	2016
Skeleton Crew	Best Play	2016
Daughters of the Mock	Best Ensemble Production	2017
Autumn	Best Play	2017
Bella: An American Tall Tale	Best Musical	2017
Two Trains Running	Best Revival	2017
Paradise Blue	Best Ensemble Production	2018
Sugar in Our Woods	Best Ensemble Production	2018
Carmen Jones	Best Musical Revival	2018
A Soldier's Play	Best Play Revival	2018
The Old Settler	Best Play Revival	2018
On Kentucky Avenue	Best Musical	2018
A Small Oak Tree Runs Red	Best Play	2018
The House That Will Not Stand	Best Play	2018
Looking for Leroy	Best Ensemble Production	2019
Caroline, or Change	Best Musical Revival	2019
Reunion in Bartersville	Best Play Revival	2019
The Secret Life of Bees	Best Musical	2019
Looking for Leroy	Best Play	2019
Native Son	Best Play	2019
The Dark Star from Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker	Best Musical	2020
One in Two	Best Ensemble Production	2020
Sassy Mamas	Best Ensemble Production	2020
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf	Best Play Revival	2020
Reparations	Best Play	2020

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External links

• AUDELCO site
• AUDELCO awards on Harlem KW Project
• https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/audelco-picks-winners-article-1.1605167
• New York Times coverage of 1981 awards
• New York Times coverage of 1989 awards
• Additional New York Times coverage of 1989 awards
• Black American Literature Forum Article on "The First Ten Years of AUDELCO".
• Theater Mania
• Google Maps 133 W. 130th Street, New York, NY, 10027 / (212) 368 - 6906