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FL Carbonell Awards Given April 2; Hairspray, Light in the Piazza, Michael McKeever Among Nominees

By Kenneth Jones 02 Apr 2012

The Carbonell Awards, celebrating South Florida professional theatrical productions from 2011, will be handed out at an April 2 ceremony at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, FL, received the most nominations 25.

The evening will feature entertainment from shows of the year.

Actors' Playhouse earned 14 nominations followed by Broward Stage Door Theatre with 11 and Palm Beach Dramaworks with 10. Actor Avi Hoffman was nominated in two categories Actor in a Play for Superior Donuts and Supporting Actor in a Musical in Hairspray.

In a category that indicates the health of community, suggesting adventurousness on the part of producers and audiences, the nominees for Best New Work are David Michael Sirois for his play Brothers Beckett (Alliance Theatre Lab) in Miami Lakes; Michael McKeever for his play Stuff (Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton); Christopher Demos Brown, who won the award last year, for his play Captiva (Zoetic Stage in Miami); and Carter W. Lewis for his play The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider (the final production at Florida Stage in Palm Beach County; the theatre folded in 2011).

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Best New Work Brothers Beckett, David Michael Sirois Alliance Theatre Lab Captiva, Christopher Demos Brown, Zoetic Stage The Cha-Cha of the Camel Spider, Carter W. Lewis, Florida Stage Stuff, Michael McKeever, Caldwell Theatre Company

Best Production of a Play All My Sons, Palm Beach Dramaworks August: Osage County, Actors' Playhouse Clybourne Park, Caldwell Theatre Company The Pillowman, Infinite Abyss Stuff, Caldwell Theatre Company

Best Director of a Play Joseph Adler, Red, GableStage Jeffrey D. Holmes, The Pillowman, Infinite Abyss J.Barry Lewis, All My Sons, Palm Beach Dramaworks Stuart Meltzer, Captiva, Zoetic Stage Richard Jay Simon, Side Effects, Mosaic Theatre

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FL Carbonell Awards Given April 2; Hairspray, Light in the Piazza , Michael McKeever Among Nominees