Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Pine and More Receive 2010 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards

Chris Pine, Ed Harris, Lin-Manuel Miranda and In the Heights were among the winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, presented March 14 in a ceremony at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. The awards, which recognize excellence in L.A. and Orange County theater, are voted on by regional theater critics who select at least one winner in every category.

This award and special honors recipients of the 2010 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards are as follows:

Production
Four Places (Rogue Machine Theatre at Theatre/Theater)
King Lear (Antaeus Company at Deaf West Theatre)
The Ballad of Emmett Till (Fountain Theatre)
Yellow (JD3atrical Productions at the Coast Playhouse)

McCulloh Award for Revival (for shows written between 1920 and 1980)
South Pacific (Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre)

Lead Performance
Lorenz Arnell, The Ballad of Emmett Till
Anne Gee Byrd, Four Places (Rogue Machine Theatre at Theatre/Theater)
Harry Groener, King Lear (the Antaeus Company at Deaf West Theatre)
Nan McNamara, Wit (Actors Co-op at Crossley Theatres)
Chris Pine, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum)

Solo Performance
Ed Harris, Wrecks (Geffen Playhouse)
Leslie Uggams, Uptown Downtown (Pasadena Playhouse)

Direction
Bart DeLorenzo, King Lear (the Antaeus Company at Deaf West Theatre)
Shirley Jo Finney, The Ballad of Emmett Till
Michael Michetti, The Twentieth-Century Way (Theatre @ Boston Court)

Writing
Michael Hollinger, Opus (Fountain Theatre)

Writing (Adaptation)
Jeffrey Hatcher, Cousin Bette (Antaeus Company at Deaf West Theatre)

Music Direction
Eric Heinly, A Wither's Tale (Troubadour Theater Company at the Falcon Theatre)
David O, See What I Wanna See (Blank Theatre)

Choreography
Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights (Pantages Theatre)

Musical Score
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights

Featured Performance
Gregory Itzin, King Lear
Matthew Scott Montgomery, Yellow
Agatha Nowicki, Parasite Drag (Elephant Theater Company)

Ensemble Performance
Four Places
Opus
The Ballad of Emmett Till

Set Design
Brian Sidney Bembridge, The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder (The Theatre @ Boston Court and Circle X Theatre Company)

Lighting Design
KC Wilkerson, The Who’s Tommy (Chance Theater)

Costume Design
Naila Aladdin Sanders, Neighbors (the Matrix Theatre Company)

Sound Design
Peter Bayne, Opus

CGI/Video
KC Wilkerson, The Who’s Tommy

Special Prosthetic Effects
Matthew W. Mungle, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Special Effects
Chris Bell, Absinthe, Opium & Magic: 1920s Shanghai (Grand Guignolers)
Waldo Warshaw, The Lieutenant of Inishmore