Last night (March 17, 2013), at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, Washington area community theater companies celebrated their “Tony Awards” style evening: The 13th Annual Washington Area Community Theatre Honors (WATCH) Awards. 126 productions (43 musicals, 83 plays) from 33 theater companies performing from Annapolis, MD. in the east, to Fauquier County, VA in the west and covering the greater DC, MD, Northern Virginia region were adjudicated this year.
The Providence Players of Fairfax (PPF) were honored with 8 awards (the most awards for any company this year) for two productions in a year marked by the broadest distribution of nominations and awards by company since WATCH was formed. Congratulations to all PPF award winners and nominees and to all 33 WATCH member community theater companies.
The PPF 2012 WATCH Award winners were:
Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog, For Side Man
Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog, For You Can’t Take It With You
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog, For Side Man
Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Chip Gertzog, For Side Man
Outstanding Properties in a Play: Susan Kaplan, For Side Man
Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Robbie Snow, For You Can’t Take It With You
Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Beth Harrison, For You Can’t Take It With You
Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison, For You Can’t Take it With You.
PPF garnered a total of 19 nominations for three productions for the 2012 WATCH award season, again, the most of any single company. Here is the full list of PPF nominations by production:
Side Man
Outstanding Play: Jayne Victor, Producer, Mike Donahue, Stage Manager, Jimmy Gertzog, Director
Outstanding Direction of a Play: Jimmy Gertzog
Outstanding Light Design in a Play: Chip Gertzog
Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
Outstanding Properties in a Play: Susan Kaplan
Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: Chip Gertzog et al
Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Kathy White
Outstanding Set Design in a Play: Raedun Knutsen & Chip Gertzog
Outstanding Set Painting in a Play: Chip Gertzog
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Jimmy Gertzog & Chip Gertzog
Sleuth
Outstanding Properties in a Play: Robbie Snow et al
You Can’t Take it With You
Outstanding Costume Design in a Play: Robbie Snow
Outstanding Hair Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
Outstanding Makeup Design in a Play: Beth Harrison
Outstanding Properties in a Play: Chip Gertzog
Outstanding Set Construction in a Play: John Coscia
Outstanding Set Decoration in a Play: Lisa Church & Chip Gertzog
Outstanding Set Design in a Play: John Coscia
Outstanding Special Effects: Chip Gertzog
10 judges from the 33 member companies see and score each of the 126 shows, each actor and each production element. The high and low scores are eliminated and the remaining 8 scores are averaged. The top 5 or 6 scorers in each category receive nominations with the high score receiving the WATCH Award in that category.
The Providence Players first joined WATCH in 2004. Press coverage of the 2012 WATCH Awards may be viewed at:
Washington Area Community Theatre Honors