The Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Reader’s Poll is now open. May we suggest a few ideas in A&E?
Best Actor: DQ Monte (Tempest), Ned Averill-Snell (HIR) or Salem Brophy (HIR)
Best Actress: Roxanne Fay (Tempest, HIR), Colleen Cherry (Threepenny Opera), or Jen Casler (Threepenny Opera, 1984)
Best Lighting Designer: Jo Averill-Snell (Dancing at Lughnasa) or Ryan Finzelber (Threepenny Opera, HIR)
Best Set Designer: Kristen Garza (Dancing at Lughnasa)
Best Stage Director: David Jenkins (Threepenny, Tempest, HIR, Lughnasa)
Best Theater Company: Jobsite Theater
Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/2ODGeZJ
Also, a shout-out to some friends in other categories:
Best Gallery (non-museum): Tempus Projects
Best Fiction Writer: Christopher Buehlman
Best Instrumentalist: Woody Bond (Threepenny Opera, also appearing soon in Hedwig and The Angry Inch) or Rebecca Zapen (vocalist on the Masque track composed and recorded by Jeremy Douglass for The Tempest — Rebecca is also Jeremy’s better half)
Best Local Record Label: New Grenada (remember their dope sountrack to As You Like It?)
Best Performing Arts Center: Straz Center
Best Record Store: Microgroove
We’ll be sure to give some shout-outs to our friends in other categories soon!