Winners of Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum's 2004 Awards

Outstanding Direction: Richard Hamburger, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Dallas Theater Center); Tom Kosis, Flower Drum Song (Dallas Summer Musicals); Greg Leaming, A Flea in Her Ear (Classical Acting Company); Rene Moreno, Marriage Play (WingSpan Theatre Company) and All My Sons (Classical Acting Company); Raphael Parry, Killer Joe (Hellgrammite Productions in association with The MAC); Jerry Russell, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Stage West).

Outstanding Performance by an Actor:  Regan Adair, Killer Joe (Hellgrammite Productions in association with The MAC); Akin Babatunde, Blind Lemon Blues (Documentary Arts); Matthew Gray, for his season with Classical Acting Company (Much Ado About Nothing, All My Sons and A Flea in Her Ear); Mark Nutter, Lone Star (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas); Joey Steakley, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Kitchen Dog Theater); Trey Walpole, Moon Over the Brewery (Circle Theatre).

Outstanding Performance by an Actress: Nicole Case, Steel Magnolias (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas); Marisa Diotalevi, Laundry and Bourbon (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas); Sharan Goodspeed-Keyton, Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues (Jubilee Theatre); Allison Tolman, Anton in Show Business (Second Thought Theatre); Lulu Ward, The Dining Room (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas).

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast: Closer (FireStarter Productions); The Life (Uptown Players).

Outstanding Achievement in Design (Creative Contribution): Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes (Our Endeavors Theatre Collective), for the design team (lighting by Tristan Decker; set by Russell Parkman; costumes by Patrick Johnson; makeup and hair by Ryan Matthieu Smith; puppets by David Goodwin; sound by John Flores; fight choreography by Gary Minyard; and properties by Marielle Boneau);Frankenstein (Dallas Children's Theater), for Zak Herring's set design; Hamlet (Dallas Theater Center), for Klara Zieglerova's set design; Killer Joe (Hellgrammite Productions in association with The MAC), for the design team (set by Scott Osborne; costumes by Happy Yancey; lighting by Robert G. McVay; sound by Marco E. Salinas; audio/visuals by Dave Tenney; props by Judy Niven; and fight choreography by Gary Minyard); Red Scare on Sunset (Uptown Players), for Bill Bullard and Suzi Shankle's costume design; Lone Star/Laundry and Bourbon (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas) and Marriage Play (WingSpan Theatre Company), for Randel Wright, set designs; Topdog/Underdog (Dallas Theater Center), for Kevin Rigdon's lighting design.

Outstanding New Play or Musical: Gauguin's Shadow by Fred Curchack (independently produced); Up in Auntie's Attic (A Gentle Haunting) by Johnny Simons (Hip Pocket Theatre).

Outstanding Touring Production: Big River (Dallas Summer Musicals); Urinetown (Casa Manana).

Special Awards: To WaterTower Theatre, for sponsoring the Out of the Loop Festival, which gives performance opportunities to new companies and new plays;  and to The Live Theatre League of Tarrant County, for their charitable and community work, and for setting a high standard of cooperation between league members.