Finalists: STAGE DIRECTORS (opera), 2021—The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize
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Charles Nelson Reilly was a Tony Award-winning actor and Broadway stage director, and an acclaimed opera director and teacher. Far more than the zany television personality by which he was most often identified, Reilly nurtured the creation of a whole series of unique one-person stage plays. Most famously, he directed Julie Harris in her Tony Award-winning star turn in "The Belle of Amherst", on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. Among Reilly's many Broadway directing credits were Ira Levinʼs "Break a Leg", Larry Shueʼs "The Nerd", and the revival of "The Gin Game", starring Julie Harris and Charles Durning, for which Mr. Reilly was the sole American director to be nominated for a Tony in 1997. Mr. Reillyʼs career as an opera director included productions for Chicago Opera Theater, Dallas Opera, San Diego Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Toledo Opera, Milwaukee Opera and Opera Pacific. Charles Nelson Reilly and The American Prize chief judge David Katz were friends for three decades, first meeting through their mutual Hartford voice teacher, Mrs. Friedrich Schorr. Mr. Reilly served as honorary chairperson of the Friedrich Schorr Memorial Performance Prize in Voice from the competition's founding in 1990, until his death. To read more about the career of Charles Nelson Reilly, please click here.
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From Maestro Katz:
"Why so many finalists?" Different from some other contests, The American Prize is first and foremost about encouraging artists, not about eliminating contestants. Each of the directors and productions below was judged to be worthy of further consideration as we move towards selecting winners and runners-up in the various divisions. At the end of the contest year each will receive a written evaluation. Especially during this most difficult time for the performing arts everywhere, we welcome these directors and hope the recognition conveyed by finalist status will prove valuable. —DK
We invite finalists to make the most of their selection by announcing it on their facebook page, tweeting the news, and including a link to this announcement on their website or blog. A sample announcement may be found at the end of the post.
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize in Directing—The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize, 2021, professional opera division
Rachel M. Harris
Heartland Opera Theatre
Joplin MO
Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi
Josh Miller
St. Petersburg Opera
St. Petersburg FL
Gianni Schicchi
Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn
Springfield Regional Opera
Springfield MO
La Serva Padrona
NATIONAL FINALISTS: The American Prize in Directing—The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize, 2021, college/university opera division
Belinda Andrews-Smith
Denison University
Granville OH
The Pirates of Penzance
Margaret Astrup
Western Connecticut State University
Danbury CT
The Tender Land
Melinda Brou
Texas A&M University- Kingsville
Kingsville TX
Cinderella—Viardot
Marc Callahan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC
Il Sogno di Scipione—Mozart
Ellen Denham
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi TX
Midsummer Night's Music—Purcell/Shakespeare/Denham
Tracelyn Gesteland
University of South Dakota Opera
Vermillion SD
Cendrillon
Melanie Helton
Michigan State University Opera Theatre
East Lansing MI
Orpheus in the Underworld
Kerry Jennings
DePauw University
Greencastle IN
Cendrillon
Jeffrey Stegall
Bob Jones University
Greenville SC
Cosi fan Tutte
Stella Markou
University of Missouri-St. Louis
St. Louis MO
The Pirates of Penzance
Stella Markou
University of Missouri-St. Louis
St. Louis MO
The Medium
Dugg McDonough
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge LA
Two Remain (Out of Darkness)—Heggie
Brandon McShaffrey
Temple University
Philadelphia PA
L'elisir d’amore
Samuel Mungo
Peabody Institute
Baltimore MD
The Falling and the Rising—Redler
Pride & Prejudice—Mechem
David Ronis
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison WI
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Scott Skiba
Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
Berea OH
Pelleas and Melisande
Madeleine Snow
Harvard College Opera
Cambridge MA
Die Zauberflöte
Jacque Trussel
Purchase Opera, State University of NY P
urchase NY
Dido & Aeneas
Copeland Woodruff
Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
Appleton WI
The Marriage of Figaro
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We invite finalists to make the most of their selection by announcing it on social media, and including a link to this announcement on their website or blog.
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"Great News! I've just been selected as a finalist in the (blank) division of The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. Here's the link: (copy link here). The American Prize will be announcing results in my division soon. You can learn more about this prestigious national competition here: www.theamericanprize.org or follow the news on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-American-Prize-celebrating-American-excellence-in-the-arts/214320622728 or Twitter: https://twitter.com/americanprize "
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