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