	2006 - La Plata, MD
	2005 - Frederick, MD
	2004 - Frederick, MD
	2003 - Ft. Washington, MD
	2002 - College Park, MD
	2001 - Wye Mills, MD
	2000 - Wye Mils, MD
	1999 - Cheverly, MD
	1998 - Cheverly, MD
	1997 - Cheverly, MD
	1996 - Cheverly, MD

Between Mouthfuls, Colonial Players of Annapolis (Susan Struve, Nick Beschen, Jim Gunning, Duncan Hood, Dianne Hood) - photo by Walt League

Bake Off, Thurmont Thespians (Jerry Miranda, Joan Crooks and John Winston as the "Pillsbury Dough Boy") - photo by Spencer Watson

2005 - Frederick Cultural Ats Center
Frederick, MD
January 14, 15 & 16, 2005

Award Winners
Outstanding Production

Adam Brandao & Robert Heinly in Hard Bargain Players’ 2005 production of “xphiles unrequited” directed by Bob Bartlett

Winner
"xphiles unrequited," directed by Bob Bartlett - Hard Bargain Players

First Runner-Up
"Between Mouthfuls," directed by Edd Miller - Colonial Players of Annapolis

Second Runner-Up
"Bake Off," directed by Spencer Watson - Thurmont Thespians

Cliff Smith Award for Excellence in Directing

Bob Bartlett - "xphiles unrequited" - Hard Bargain Players

Ed-Ro-Char Award for Technical Excellence

Spencer Watson, Director - "Bake Off" - Thurmont Thespians

Judges Discretionary Awards

Ensemble
"Between Mouthfuls" - Colonial Players of Annapolis

Set and Costume Design
"Trifles" - Fredericktowne Players

Lighting Design
Joe Connor - "Bully" - Sandy Spring Theatre Group

Stage Movement
"In The Tank" - Silver Spring Stage

Best Original Script
Bob Bartlett - "xphiles unrequited" - Hard Bargain Players

Original Script (Honorable Mention)
Rosemary Toohey - "In The Tank" - Silver Spring Stage

Original Script (Honorable Mention)
Albi Gorn - "Double Date" - Thurmont Thespians

Outstanding Performance Awards

Adam Brandao - "xphiles unrequited" - Hard Bargain Players

Robert Heinly -"xphiles unrequited" - Hard Bargain Players

Juliette Kelsey Chagnon - "Wildwood Park" - Port Tobacco Players

Lou Swerda - "Bully" - Sandy Spring Theatre Group

Joan Crooks - "Bake Off" - Thurmont Thespians

2005 Festival Schedule

JANUARY 14, 2005

7:30 pm - Session I
- Welcome and Introductions

The Musical Theatre Factory -The Laramie Project
- Directed: William E. Morris
- Stage Manager: Elizabeth Johnson
- Technical Director: Amanda J. Panzera
- The Cast:
  - Bob Baker
  - Erin Leigh Casey
  - Andrew McClain
  - Jacki Ebbin
  - Nancy Jones
  - Katherine Lawrence
  - William E. Morris
  - Keith Purtee
Thurmont Thespians - Double Date
- Director: Steven P. Ross
- Stage Manager: Elieen Winston
- Sound: Steven Ross
- Lights: Spence Watson
- Stage Crew: Spence Watson, Beth Watson, Joan Crooks, Doris Merson
- Cast
  - Sherry Logsdon
  - Christine Miller
  - Bill Collins
  - T.J. Grable

JANUARY 15, 2005

9:00 am
- Panel Discussion with Participating Groups
10:00 am - Session II
- Welcome and Introductions

Port Tobacco Players - Wildwood Park
- Producer: Kathy Mead
- Director: Tim Treanor
- Lights: Julianna Bogdan
- Set Design, Construction, Painting, Properties, Sound: Juliette Kelsey Chagnon and Alex Zavistovich
- Cast
  - Juliette Kelsey Chagnon
  - Alex Zavistovich
Hard Bargain Players - A Game
- Director: David Standish
- Stage Manager: Janet Zavistovich
- Managing Artistic Director: Suzanne Donohue
- Cast
  - Katherine Prout
  - Lynn Fallmer Thorne
  - Lars Peter Highby
  - Susan Fischer

2:00 pm - Session III
- Welcome and Introductions
- Rockville Little Theatre - Perfectly Good Airplanes
  - Producer and Director: Barbara Scheide
  - Assistant Director & Lighting Technician: Steve LaRoque
  - Cast
    - Tanya LaShonne
    - Ted Culler
    - Jennifer Larsen
    - Vince L. Rodriguez
- Colonial Players of Annapolis - Between Mouthfuls
  - Director: Edd Miller
  - Production Manager and Stage Manager: Charlotte Robinson
  - Tech/construction: Jim Robinson
  - Cast
    - Jim Gunning
    - Duncan Hood
    - Dianne Hood
    - Nick Beschen
    - Susan Struve
- Silver Spring Stage - In The Tank
  - Director: Seth R. Ghitleman
  - Producer: Michael Kharfen
  - Stage Manager: Clare Flood
  - Cast
    - Dino P. Coppa
    - Jeff Breslow
7:30 pm - Session IV
- Welcome and Introductions
- Fredericktowne Players - Trifles
  - Director and Producer: Jana Moberly
  - Stage Manager: Jeanne Lloyd
  - Set: Lee Hebb, Mattie Darby and Jana Moberly
  - Crew: Ginny Brace, Angie Brown and Bob Causer
  - Costumes: Kathy Fay and Jana Moberly
  - Cast
    - Jerry Kray
    - Lee Hebb
    - Steve Lloyd
    - Mattie Darby
    - Amy Thoma
- Hard Bargain Players - xphiles unrequited
  - Director and Producer: Bob Bartlett
  - Managing Artistic Director: Suzanne Donohue
  - Cast
    - Robert Heinly
    - Adam Brandeo
- Thurmont Thespians - Bake-Off
  - Director: Spence Watson
  - Stage Manager: Beth Watson
  - Sound: Steve Ross and Spence Watson
  - Dough Boy Costume Designer: Pat Brennan
  - Stage Crew: Lori Stromberg, Eileen Winston, Bill Collins, Christine Miller, Sherry Logsdon, T.J. Grable and Steve Ross
  - Cast
    - Geronimo Miranda
    - Joan Crooks
    - Steve Ross
    - Doris Merson
    - John Winston

JANUARY 16, 2005

10:00 am
- Ask the Adjudicators Session – Get to know the Adjudicators
11:00 am - Session V
- Welcome and Introductions
- Laurel Mill Playhouse - Freefall
  - Directors: Kendra Simmons and Roman S. Gusso
  - Crew: Roman S. Gusso, Michelle Brooks and Jennifer Wilson
  - Cast
    - David Deal
    - Dan Stacier
- Sandy Spring Theatre - Group Bully
  - Director: Karen Dugard
  - Assistant Director and Tech Support: Melissa Esposito
  - Lighting Design and Execution: Joe Connor
  - Sound Design: Melissa Esposito and Karen Dugard
  - Cast
    - Lou Swerda
- Laurel Mill Playhouse - Freedom of Information
  - Director: Rich Espey
  - Cast
    - Rich Espey
    - Bonnie Sarf
Banquet (see menu below)
Annual Meeting
Awards Ceremony

2005 Adjudicators

Kurt Blaugher is Director of Theatre and Chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD. He has been involved in theatre since he was in second grade (otherwise known as “a VERY long time ago”), and has worked in a wide variety of positions in academic, professional, and community theatre. As an actor, he has appeared in plays as varied as Don Juan in Hell (Toledo Repertoire), The Robber Bridegroom and Our Town (Northwestern University ), and the Fantasticks and A Christmas Carol (Millbrook Playhouse, Loch Haven, PA). He has been directing since he was an undergraduate, producing plays ranging from What The Butler Saw to Cabaret to The Trojan Women to Twelfth Night. He is presently at work on a production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, to be performed at Mount Saint Mary’s in March. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University ; his dissertation concerned the history of the twentieth century community theatre in the Toledo , Ohio area. He is pleased and very honored to be a part of this festival.

Paul Donnelly has had two worksnominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, The taste of Fire (2003) and After My Own Heart (1986). His work has won the Source 10-Minutes Play Contest, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Larry Neal Writers Award for Drama, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts’ Virginia Playwriting Prize. He has directed for Cherry Red Productions, the Source Washington Theatre Festival, Charter Theatre, Madcap Players and Trumpet Vine Theatre Company. Paul was pleased to serve as Playwright-in-Residence in 1996 and from 1998-2001 for the late lamented TheatreVirginia’s New Voices program, which gave high school playwrights and actors selected from across the state the opportunity to spend three weeks in Richmond taking classes from theatre professionals and collaborating with them to present workshop productions of student plays. Paul has also taught playwriting at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda , MD and St. Mary’s College of Maryland . He is currently on the faculty of Washington DC ’s Theatre Lab.

Jennifer Plants teaches acting and theatre history at Hood College and is the director of Hood College Theatre (HCT). Directing credits at Hood include Stop Kiss (the inaugural production of the Avalon Performing Arts Studio,) Performing History: Brown vs. Board of Education (an original work,) and this spring's HCT productions: The Bald Soprano & a staged reading of The Vagina Monologues. She holds an MFA in acting from the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory, and recent local acting credits include Melissa in Necessary Targets (Olney Theatre Center/Potomac Theatre Project), Portia in Julius Caesar (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival) and Octavia in a staged reading of Antony & Cleopatra (The Shakespeare Project.)