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VOTE: BroadwayWorld Awards highlight CCM excellence

Students, faculty & alums are featured prominently in this year’s nominations; voting closes Dec. 31

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5 minute read December 5, 2023

Story by CCM Graduate Assistant Lucy Evans

Each year, the BroadwayWorld Awards honor excellence in the performing arts. This year's nominations acknowledge CCM excellence on stage, in the pit and behind the scenes.

This year in the Cincinnati BroadwayWorld Awards, CCM students and faculty are nominated 20 times in 11 categories —including Best Musical, Best Opera, Best Choreography, Best Sound Design and more!

CCM alumni and faculty members also earned nominations in nine different categories of the Off-Broadway BroadwayWorld Awards. These include multiple CCM-affiliated nominations for the Off-Broadway productions of Walking with Bubbles and A Musical About Star Wars.

Voting is free and open to the public through Dec. 31, 2023. You can vote for CCM's student and faculty nominees in the 2023 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards here and vote for our alumni and faculty nominees in the 2023 BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Awards here.

Below, check out the students, alumni and faculty who are nominated for this year. The awards honor productions which had their first performance between Oct. 1, 2022 and Sept. 30, 2023.

BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Award Nominees

CCM's production of Spring Awakening (directed by Hannah Ryan, guest artist) and CCM’s production of Fellow Travelers (co-directed by former CCM Opera Professor Greg Eldridge and CCM student Daria Zholnerova) both received nominations for Best Ensemble, Best Music Direction, Best Direction and Best Scenic Design. CCM's production of Something Rotten! (directed and choreographed by CCM Musical Theatre professor Diane Lala) received a nomination for Best Choreography of a Play or Musical.

Best Ensemble

Best Musical

  • Spring Awakening

Best Production of an Opera

  • Fellow Travelers

Best Music Direction & Orchestra Performance

  • Julie Spangler+, Musical Director for Spring Awakening
  • William Langley, Alumni Guest Conductor for Fellow Travelers

Best Performer in a Musical

  • Erik Nordstrom*, who played Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travelers
  • Henry Benson*, who played Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers
  • Logan Wagner*, who played Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers
  • Michael Pandolfo, Alumni Guest Artist who played Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travelers

Best Direction of a Musical

  • Hannah Ryan, Director of Spring Awakening
  • Greg Eldridge and Daria Zholnerova*, Co-Directors of Fellow Travelers
  • Brant Russell+, Director of As You Like It at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; view the production website

Best Choreography of a Play or Musical

Best Scenic Design of a Play or Musical

  • Mark Halpin+, Scenic Designer for Fellow Travelers
  • Charlie Calvert+, Scenic Designer for Spring Awakening

Best Costume Design of a Play or Musical

  • Brittanie McKenna Travis*, Costume Designer for Fellow Travelers

Best Lighting Design of a Play or Musical

  • Baron Leon*, Lighting Designer for Fellow Travelers

Best Sound Design of a Play or Musical

  • Kaitlin Barnett*, Sound Designer for Fellow Travelers

*CCM Student
+ CCM Faculty

BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Award Nominees

CCM alumni and faculty members were also included in BroadwayWorld's award nominations for Off-Broadway productions. Those nominations include:

Best Direction of a Musical

Best Lighting Design

Best New Book of a Musical

Best New Musical

Best New Score of a Musical

Best Production of a New Musical

Best Scenic Design

Best Solo Performance (Non-Cabaret)

Best Performance in a Musical (Off-Broadway)

+ CCM Faculty 
~ CCM Alumni

There's More To Explore!

Watch CCM alum Stone Mountain discuss his role in A Musical About Star Wars and his experience at CCM on the Walk N Talk With Gerald YouTube program.

Vote for CCM in BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards Vote in BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Awards

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Lucy Evans

CCM Graduate Assistant, Marketing + Communications

Lucy Evans is an artist diploma student studying Opera-Vocal Performance at CCM. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, and was recently an Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera.

Featured image at the top: CCM's production of Fellow Travelers. Photo by Mark Lyons.

Additional Contacts

Curt Whitacre | Director of Marketing/Communications | UC College-Conservatory of Music

| 513-556-2683

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