Winners of Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum's 2002 Awards
    Outstanding Direction: Jac Alder, Side Show (Theatre Three); Dan Day, Through the Leaves (Kitchen Dog Theater); Bill Lengfelder, Barbette (Kitchen Dog Theater); Terry Martin, Sweeney Todd (WaterTower Theatre); Katherine Owens, Cat’s-Paw (Undermain Theatre).

Outstanding Performance by an Actor: J. Brent Alford, The Great Sebastians (Theatre Three); Coy Covington, The Man Who Came to Dinner (Theatre Arlington); Bruce DuBose, Glamour (Undermain Theatre); Doug Jackson, A Class Act (Theatre Three); Joey Steakley, Barbette (Kitchen Dog Theater); Nick Sandys, Thank You, Jeeves (Stage West); Ted Wold, Sordid Lives (Uptown Players).

    Outstanding Performance by an Actress: Amanda Denton, Bash (WaterTower Theatre); Lorca Simons, Savage/Love (Hip Pocket Theatre); Cindee Mayfield, The Abandoned Reservoir (Ground Zero Theater Company); Bernardine Mitchell, Blues in the Night (Dallas Theater Center); Elizabeth Rothan, The Great Sebastians (Theatre Three); Shelley Tharp-Payton, Through the Leaves (Kitchen Dog Theater); Jere Stevens Tulk, Barbette (Kitchen Dog Theater).

    Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast: The Glass Menagerie (Sage & Silo Theatre); Putting It Together (Stage West); Some Explicit Polaroids (Kitchen Dog Theater).

    Outstanding Achievement in Design: Matthew Anderson for set design, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (WaterTower Theatre); John Coyne for set design, The Front Page (Dallas Theater Center); Zak Herring for set design, 2001-02 season (Dallas Children’s Theater); Leonard McCormick for musical direction, Putting It Together (Stage West); Joe Rogers for music composition, Alice Wonder (Jubilee Theatre); Lake Simons for puppetry & design, Molemo! (Hip Pocket Theatre); Michael Sullivan for set design, Some Explicit Polaroids (Kitchen Dog Theater).

    Outstanding New Play or Musical: Bill Lengfelder & David Goodwin, Barbette (Kitchen Dog Theater); Laurie Brooks, Deadly Weapons (Dallas Children’s Theater); Tim Hatcher, Bad Roof (Ground Zero Theater Company).

    Outstanding Touring Production: The Worst of Eric Bogosian (McKinney Avenue Contemporary); My Fair Lady (Dallas Summer Musicals).

    Special Awards: To Mark Fleischer, outgoing artistic director of Plano Repertory Theatre, for expanding the company from community to professional-level work and creating an affordable, high-quality children’s program; and to Ground Zero Theater Company, for staying true to its mission of encouraging and producing the works of Texas playwrights.