Fountain Theatre Earns 8 Ovation Award Nominations, including Best Season and Best Production of a Play

“In the Red and Brown Water”, Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre has been honored with 8 Ovation Award nominations, including the prestigious categories of Best Season and Best Production of a Play, it was announced last night at an event hosted by LA Stage Alliance. The Ovation season ran from September 2012 to August 2013 and includes the Fountain productions of The Blue Iris, In the Red and Brown Water, On the Spectrum and Heart Song.

Founded in 1989 and considered to be LA’s version of the Tony Awards, the LA STAGE Alliance’s Ovation Awards are the only peer-judged theater awards in Los Angeles. Each year over 400 productions in the region compete for Ovation Award consideration.

This marks the 4th time that The Fountain Theatre has been nominated for Best Season since the category was created 5 years ago, winning the award in 2011. The Fountain Theatre has the distinction of earning more Ovation Award nominations and winning more Ovation awards overall than any other intimate theatre in Los Angeles.

“We are particularly pleased with our Best Season nomination because it reflects the overall excellence and diversity of our work year round,” says Fountain Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs. “We’re delighted that In The Red and Brown Water earned such recognition and proud to be the first theatre to introduce the work of playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney to LA audiences.”

The 2013 Ovation Award nominations for the Fountain Theatre are:

Best Season (The Blue Iris, In the Red and Brown Water, On the Spectrum, Heart Song)
Best Production of a Play (In the Red and Brown Water)
Best Director (Shirley Jo Finney, In the Red and Brown Water)
Best Ensemble in a Play (In the Red and Brown Water)
Best Lead Actress in a Play (Diarra Kilpatrick, In the Red and Brown Water)
Best Featured Actress in a Play (Peggy Blow and Iona Morris, In the Red and Brown Water)
Special Ovation Honor to Jeff Teeter for video design (On the Spectrum)

The Ovation Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, November 3 at 7 pm at San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, 320 S. Mission Drive in San Gabriel. For more information, visit www.OvationAwards.com.

For a full list of all nominees click here.