PRODUCTION, PLAY: "Louie and Opheli...

PRODUCTION, PLAY: "Louie and Ophelia" (eta Creative Arts Foundation); "Salt in a Wound" (eta); "Stickfly" (Congo Square Theatre Company).

PRODUCTION, MUSICAL: "Don't Make Me Over: A Tribute to Dionne Warwick" (Black total effect Theater); "Home, The Musical" (eta); "Nina Simone: The High Priestess Speaks" (Black Ensemble)

ENSEMBLE: "Blaxploitation, The Mix" (MPAACT); "Fences" (Court Theatre); "Two Trains Running" (Pegasus Players).

PLAYWRIGHT: Lydia R Diamond, "Voyeur de Venus" (Chicago Dramatists); Kevin Douglas, Inda Craig Galvan and Carla Stillwell, "Blaxploitation, The Remix"; Ebony cause of gladness "Nina Simone: The High Priestess Speaks"; Melissa Maxwell, "Salt in a Wound"; Regina Taylor, "The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove" (Goodman Theatre).

DIRECTION, PLAY: Delia Gray, "Stage Directions" (Chicago Theater Company); Ron OJ Parson, "Fences"; Jonathan Wilson, "Two Trains Running."

DIRECTION, MUSICAL: Ilesa Duncan, "tick, tick...BOOM!" (Pegasus Players); Sheldon Epp "Purlie" (Goodman Theatre); Ebony delight and Jackie Taylor, "Nina Simone: The High Priestess Speaks."

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