GLAAD Nominates Billy Elliot, Road Show, Prayer for My Enemy & More

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has included Billy Elliot, Road Show and Craig Lucas’ Prayer for My Enemy among the nominees for its 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Honoring “fair, accurate and inclusive representations” in media, pop culture and the arts, the GLAAD Media Awards singled out those three shows, as well as Annie Baker’s Body Awareness and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Wig Out!, in the category of Outstanding New York Theatre: Broadway & Off-Broadway.

A second category highlighting Off-Off Broadway listed Arias with a Twist by Joey Arias and Basil Twist, The Beast of Taylor Mac by Taylor Mac, Dina Martina: Off the Charts! by Grady West, Lustre, a Midwinter Trans-Fest by Justin Bond and Play It Cool, with a book by Martin Casella and Larry Dean, music by Phillip Swann and lyrics by Mark Winkler.

A third category celebrating Los Angeles theater listed As Much As You Can by Paul Oakley Stovall, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal, He Asked for It by Erik Patterson, The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane and Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins.

The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in New York on March 28 at the Marriott Marquis, then in Los Angeles on April 18 at the Nokia Theatre, and in San Francisco on May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. For more information, please visit www.glaad.org.