dean Goodman Choice Awards
Each year, Bay Area theatre legend Dean Goodman selects his top choices in Bay Area Theatre.
2005 Awardees
Outstanding Direction:
- Carey Perloff (The Voysey Inheritance, American Conservatory Theater)
- Jonathan Moscone (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, California Shakespeare Theater)
- George Maguire (Beauty and the Beast, Solano College Theatre)
- Anthony J. Haney (Intimate Apparel, TheatreWorks)
- Chris Smith (The Rules of Charity and The Hopper Collection, Magic Theatre)
- Richard Elliot (Judgment at Nuremburg, Willows Theatre)
- Lois Grandi (Baby, Playhouse West)
- Virginia Reed (Playboy of the Western World, Cinnabar Theatre)
- Richard E.T. White (The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia, American Conservatory Theater)
- Ron Lagomarsino (The Gamester, American Conservatory Theater)
- Patrick Dooley (The Just, Shotgun Players)
- Jay Manley (Sweeney Todd and Brigadoon, Foothill Music Theatre)
- John Kirman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hillbarn Theatre)
- Elizabeth Craven (Heartbreak House, Porchlight Theatre)
- Ron Lytle (Oh My Godmother, Altarena Playhouse)
- Linda Dunn (Once Upon a Mattress, Ross Valley Players)
- Bobby Weinapple (Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, theatre Q)
- Robert Kelley (Harold & Maude and Dolly West’s Kitchen, TheatreWorks)
- Danny Scheie (Splittin’ the Raft, Marin Theatre Company)
- Jon Jory (Pride & Prejudice, San Jose Repertory Theatre)
Original Writing:
- Trevor Allen (Tenders in the Fog, San Jose Stage Company)
- Lisa Kron (Well, American Conservatory Theater)
- Will Marchetti (The Arrangement, Phoenix Theatre)
- Ron Lytyl (Oh My Godmother, Altarena Playhouse)
2005 Dean Goodman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Will Marchetti


