Awards
AMERICAN THEATRE CRITICS ASSOCIATION/STEINBERG NEW PLAY AWARD NOMINATIONS (only 24 plays each year are nominated nationwide for the Best New American Play Produced Outside New York):
Matthew Ivan Bennett, 2011, MESA VERDE
Mary Dickson, 2007, EXPOSED
SALT LAKE CITY WEEKLY ARTY AWARDS (FORMERLY SLAMMY AWARDS)
Best Local Production 2006: AMERIKA
Best Original Play 2006: Aden Ross, AMERIKA
Best Under-The-Radar Theatre Hero 2006: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Best Arts Fundraiser To Get You Hot Under The Collar 2006: AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON
Best Angry Incher 2006: Aaron Swenson, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (revival)
Best Local Production 2007: FACING EAST
Best Original Play 2007: Carol Lynn Pearson, FACING EAST
Best Theatre Performance 2007: Ensemble of FACING EAST
Best Instant Theatre 2007: SLAM
Best Local Production 2008: GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!
Best Original Play 2008: Mary Dickson, EXPOSED
Best Individual Performance 2008: David Spencer, THE TRICKY PART
Best Portrayal of An Artist 2008: David Fetzer, THE END OF THE HORIZON
Best Season-Filler 2009: Matthew Ivan Bennett, RADIO HOUR: FRANKENSTEIN, BLOCK 8, DI ESPERIENZA
Best Local Production 2010: AMERIGO
Best Individual Performance 2010: Kirt Bateman, AMERIGO
Best Local Production 2011: BORDERLANDS
Best Individual Performance 2011: Kirt Bateman, BORDERLANDS
Best Original Play 2011: Eric Samuelsen, BORDERLANDS
Best Theatre Production 2012: THE THIRD CROSSING
Best Individual Performance 2012: Kalyn West
SALT LAKE CITY WEEKLY SLAMMY AWARDS (BECAME ARTY AWARDS)
Best Director 2000: Tobin Atkinson, A PLACE IN THE SKY
Best Acting Company 2001
Best Local Production 2001: THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Best Director 2001: Jerry Rapier, THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Best Actor 2001: Charles Lynn Frost, THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Best Actress 2001: Joyce Cohen, MOLLY SWEENEY
Best Playwright 2001: Moisés Kaufman, THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Best Acting Company 2002
Best Local Production 2002: MY LEFT BREAST
Best Director 2002: Jerry Rapier, MY LEFT BREAST
Best Actress 2002: Betsy West, MY LEFT BREAST
Best Playwright 2002: Susan Miller, MY LEFT BREAST
Best Local Production 2003: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Best Actor 2003: Aaron Swenson, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Best Actress 2003: Jeanette Puhich, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Best Acting Company 2004
Best Local Production 2004: ANIMAL FARM
Best Director 2004: Jerry Rapier, ANIMAL FARM
Best Original Play 2004: SLAM
Best Acting Company 2005
Best Local Production 2005: TRAGEDY: A TRAGEDY
QSALTLAKE
Best Theatre Company 2005 (as SLMetro)
Best Theatre Company 2006 (as SLMetro)
Best Concert Event 2006 (as SL Metro)
Best Play 2006: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (revival)
Best Actor 2006: Aaron Swenson, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (revival)
Best Theatre Company 2007
Best Play 2007: FACING EAST
Best Actor 2007: Charles Lynn Frost, FACING EAST
Best Play 2008: GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! and FACING EAST (tie)
Best Theatre Company 2008
Best Actor 2009: David Spencer, THE TRICKY PART
Best Play 2009: THE TRICKY PART
Best Theatre Company 2009
Best Theatre Company 2010
Best Theatre Company 2011
Best Theatre Company 2012
Best Play or Musical 2012: BORDERLANDS
DESERET NEWS (awards discontinued 2010)
Best Local Production 2001: THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Best Fundraiser 2003: AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON
Best Drama 2003: BASH: LATTERDAY PLAYS
Best Actor 2003: Carl Nelson, BASH: LATTERDAY PLAYS
Best Solo Actor 2004: Yaron Schweizer, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK
Best Actress 2005: Colleen Lewis, PATIENT A
Best Drama 2006: FACING EAST
Best Actress 2006: Jayne Luke, FACING EAST
Best Drama 2007: EXPOSED
Best Comedy 2007: GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!
Best Actor (Professional) 2008: David Spencer, THE TRICKY PART
Best Actor (Professional) 2009: Kirt Bateman, DI ESPERIENZA
Best Professional Production of a Play 2010: AMERIGO
Best Original Play 2010: AMERIGO and SHE WAS MY BROTHER
In December of 2007, Ivan Lincoln, Deseret News theatre critic for more than 20 years, retired. He published a list of the 10 best dramas he'd seen during his career - three were Plan-B productions: MOLLY SWEENEY, THE LARAMIE PROJECT and FACING EAST.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
(awards defunct December 2001, although at least one Plan-B production has been mentioned singled out in the year-end wrap-up every year since)
Best Local Production 2001: THE LARAMIE PROJECT
NOWSALTLAKE (formerly IN THIS WEEK - ceased publication 2012)
Best Child Actress In A Play 2009: Emma Munson, RADIO HOUR: ALICE
Best Set Design 2009: Randy Rasmussen, BLOCK 8
Best Marketing 2009
Best Theatrical Event 2009: CELEBRATING COMMON GROUND: THE ARTS COMMUNITY SUPPORTS EQUALITY and AND THE BANNED SLAMMED ON
Best Performance: Female 2010: April Fossen, SHE WAS MY BROTHER
One of the Year's Five Best Plays 2011: BORDERLANDS
UTAH BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION
Gold Award 2008: Best Radio Feature Story or Program, RADIO HOUR: FRANKENSTEIN
UTAH THEATER BLOGGERS ASSOCIATION
Two of the Three Best Equity Productions in 2011: MESA VERDE and BORDERLANDS
ORGANIZATIONS
2007: Equality Utah's Allies for Equality Award for Organization of the Year
2007: Producing Director Jerry Rapier listed 6th among Utah's Top 25 Cultural Power Brokers by The Salt Lake Tribune
2008: Producing Director Jerry Rapier received Salt Lake City's Mayor's Artist Award in the Performing Arts
2009: Producing Director Jerry Rapier named an Alternative Pioneer by City Weekly
2010: Producing Director Jerry Rapier named one of Community Foundation of Utah's Enlightened Fifty
2010: Transgender Education Advocates of Utah's Organization of the Year Award
2011: Human Rights Campaign's Equality Award for Organization of the Year
