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Award record

2008-2009 award record

Categories
9
Honoured
9
Nominated
35
New this season
2

9 awards were given across 9 categories, chosen from 35 nominated entries listed below. The entries have been checked line by line against published records. 2 categories appear for the first time this season: Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical, Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play.

An empty stage with tall illuminated panels ranged along the right-hand side, colour washing across them through haze and reflecting off the floor.
Lit panels on the deck — the equipment that made projection design a category. Photographs on these record pages illustrate the period; they do not depict the productions listed.

Outstanding Choreography

Winner

  • Peter Darling Billy Elliot the Musical

Also nominated

  • Andy Blankenbuehler 9 to 5
  • Bill T. Jones Fela!
  • Karole Armitage Hair
  • Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Shonn Wiley My Vaudeville Man!
  • Randy Skinner Irving Berlin's White Christmas

Outstanding Costume Design

Winner

  • Tim Hatley Shrek the Musical

Also nominated

  • Carrie Robbins Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  • Martin Pakledinaz Blithe Spirit
  • Michael McDonald Hair
  • Rob Howell The Norman Conquests
  • William Ivey Long 9 to 5

Outstanding Lighting Design

Winner

  • — N/a

Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical

Winner

  • Rick Fisher Billy Elliot the Musical

Also nominated

  • Jason Lyons Clay
  • Jules Fisher and Kenneth Posner 9 to 5
  • Kevin Adams Hair
  • Richard Pilbrow A Tale of Two Cities
  • Sinéad McKenna Improbable Frequency

Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play

Winner

  • David Hersey Equus

Also nominated

  • Ben Kato Washing Machine
  • Hugh Vanstone Mary Stuart
  • Marcus Doshi Hamlet
  • Paul Pyant The Winter's Tale
  • R. Lee Kennedy Bury the Dead

Outstanding Projection Design

Winner

  • Not named in the source used here

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical

Winner

  • Tim Hatley Shrek the Musical

Also nominated

  • Anna Louizos Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  • Basil Twist Arias with a Twist
  • Hair
  • Scott Pask 9 to 5
  • Thomas Lynch Happiness

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play

Winner

  • David Korins Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

Also nominated

  • Dale Ferguson Exit the King
  • Derek McLane 33 Variations
  • Neil Patel Fifty Words
  • Rob Howell The Norman Conquests
  • Walt Spangler Desire Under the Elms

Outstanding Sound Design

Winner

  • Paul Arditti Billy Elliot the Musical

Also nominated

  • Acme Sound Partners Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  • André J. Pluess 33 Variations
  • Gregory Clarke Equus
  • John Gromada Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • John Shivers 9 to 5

Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record

29 of the 41 names on this page appear in at least one other season held here. Reading a person as a run rather than a single entry is the point of an index like this one. A designer's work shows up under two or three different category names as the headings were renamed.

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