Coronation Leads Jeff Award Nominations for Non-Musicals

For the second year in a row, Refracted Theatre Company leads the nominations for non-musicals, with seven nominations.

Refracted is honored to receive 7 Jeff Award nominations, and thrilled to celebrate Chicago’s 2023 theatrical season with other nominees at the awards ceremony on March 23.

Production - Play - Coronation

NEw Work - Laura Winters

Performer in a Supporting Role - Jodi Gage

Costumes - Gregory Graham

Sound Design - Ethan Korvne

Lighting Design - GArrett Bell

Projection Designer - Abboye Lawrence

Tambo & Bones Lead the Jeff Awards with 10 Nominations -- The Most for a Single Production

Refracted Theatre Company's 2023 fall production, Tambo & Bones

is the MOST JEFF AWARD NOMINATED PRODUCTION 

OF THE ENTIRE SEASON, with 10 NOMINATIONS. 

Refracted is honored to receive 10 Jeff Award nominations, and thrilled to celebrate Chicago’s 2023 theatrical season with other nominees at the awards ceremony on March 25.

Best Production - Play - Tambo & Bones

Best Director - Mikael Burke

Performer in a Principal Role - BOTH Patrick Newson Jr. & William Anthony Sebastian Rose II

Scenic Design - Sydney Lynne

Costumes - Kotryna Hilko

Sound Design - Ethan Korvne

Lighting Design - Eric Watkins

Original Music in a Play - Ethan Korvne

Projection Designer - Eme Ospina-López

Co-Artistic Directors Tova Wolff and Graham Miller named as Players Who Perform For Chicago

Photo by Joe Mazza

NewCity Stage has announced it’s annual “Players 50: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago,” and Refracted Theatre is honored that our co-artistic directors, Tova Wolff and Graham Miller, were chosen as “Rising Stars and Storefront Stalwarts.”

“After two seasons in New York City, Refracted Theater Company co-founders and co-artistic directors Tova Wolff and Graham Miller moved the company to Chicago in 2021. “Chicago always felt like the place where we could build the kind of community where you can be true to what you stand for,” says Miller. Last year’s production of “Tambo & Bones” showcased Refracted’s goal of producing works that find the gray in the black-and-white. “Our mission,” says Wolff, “is to ask our audience to wrestle with divisive questions in order to analyze their own biases and engage in an empathic discourse with one another.” (Tristan Bruns)”

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