The 2020 Obie Award winners have been announced. The complete list is as follows.

Playwriting
Will Arbery, Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Haruna Lee, Suicide Forest

Lifetime Achievement
Tim Sanford
Vinie Burrows

Direction JoAnne Akalaitis, MUD/Drowning
Kenny Leon, Much Ado About Nothing
Whitney White, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
Les Waters, Sustained Excellence in Direction

Choreography
Camille A. Brown, Sustained Excellence in Choreography

Performance

Liza Colón-Zayas and Elizabeth Rodriguez, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
Emily Davis, Is This A Room
Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements
April Matthis, Toni Stone
Joe Ngo, Cambodian Rock Band
Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.

Design
Yu-Hsuan Chen, Set Design, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
Mikhail Fiksel, Sound Design, Dana H.
Andrea Hood, Costume Design with Public Works
Arnulfo Maldonado, Sustained Excellence in Set Design
Jen Schriever, Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design

Special Citations
Creative Team and Ensemble of Heroes of the Fourth Turning: Jeb Kreager, Julia McDermott, Michele Pawk, Zoë Winters, John Zdrojeski (Ensemble), Laura Jellinek (Set Design), Sarafina Bush (Costume Design), Isabella Byrd (Lighting Design), Justin Ellington (Sound Design), Danya Taymor (Director)

Creative Team and Ensemble of A Strange Loop: Antwayn Hopper, James Jackson, Jr., L Morgan Lee, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Larry Owens, Jason Veasey, Elijah Caldwell (Ensemble), Stephen Brackett (Director), Raja Feather Kelly (Choreographer), Arnulfo Maldonado (Scenic Design), Montana Levi Blanco (Costume Design), Jen Schriever (Lighting Design), Alex Hawthorn (Sound Design), Cookie Jordan (Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design), Charlie Rosen (Orchestrations), Rona Siddiqui (Music Director), Michael R. Jackson (Vocal Arrangements)

David Cale, for the Writing and Performance of We’re Only Alive For A Short Amount of Time

Dave Malloy, Or Matias, and Hidenori Nakajo for their collaboration on the Music and Sound of Octet

David Neumann and Marcella Murray, for the Creation and Performance of Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed

Tina Satter, for the Conception and Direction of Is This A Room

Alexandria Wailes, for Sustained Excellence as an Artist and Advocate

AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition) for advocacy in the field of equity, diversity, and inclusion

Michael Feingold, for his Extraordinary Service to the Theater

Institutional Recognition
National Black Theatre, for Sustained Excellence in Production and continued Advocacy on behalf of Black Artists
Page 73, for Providing Extraordinary Support for Early Career Playwrights
The Tank, for Providing Extraordinary Support for Emerging Artists

The Obies are presented by the American Theatre Wing and the Village Voice.

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ALEXIS SOLOSKI

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 “Dominant Species” is getting its internet premiere this Friday, 7/10 on Short of the Week. It’ll be at the top of the homepage over the weekend so it’ll be easy to find just by going to shortoftheweek.com.

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 Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Peter Stormare are among the first to be set for the pandemic-themed thriller Songbird. Deadline revealed last month that Songbird would be shot in Los Angeles, one of the first films to begin production.

The film was set up by Adam Goodman and Andrew Sugerman’s Invisible Narratives in partnership with Catchlight Studios and Michael Bay. Adam Mason (Into The Dark) is directing a script he co-wrote with Simon Boyes. Production will utilize strict social distancing practices and innovative techniques that will allow for shooting to begin imminently. The filmmakers are providing remote training for the actors. ICM Partners and Endeavor Content are repping sales at Virtual Cannes and they have prepared a proof of concept presentation. This cast certainly will help find a home for the modestly budgeted film.

Songbird is a taut thriller in the spirit of Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield. It takes place two years in the future, and the pandemic has not gone away. Lockdowns have been rolled back and then reinstated and it becomes even more serious as the virus continues to mutate. Songbird is also a love story. Told from street level through the eyes of the characters, In a feeble attempt to keep the sickness contained, the city has been bisected into haves and have nots. The film centers around an essential worker who has a rare immunity, a delivery man who delivers goods and hope throughout the city. Like the vast majority of the population, his girlfriend is locked within her home, and the couple has no ability to physically be together. To be with the one he loves, the protagonist must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful, well connected family, helmed by a matriarch (played by Moore) who will stop at nothing to protect her family and maintain her way of life. Songbird is a story about the resilience of the human spirit and the idea that hope is worth fighting for.

Moore is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Gang, Tyre; Robinson is repped by Mark Schulman from 3 Arts, Jay Gassner at UTA and Julian Zajfen at Ziffren Brittenham. Hauser is represented by CAA, Artists First and Schreck Rose Dapello and Stormare by Davien Littlefield Management.

EMMY NOMINEES

“VIDA”
Comedy Series
Comedy Actress – Melissa Barrera, Mishel Prada
Comedy Supporting Actor – Ser Anzoategui, Carlos Miranda
Comedy Supporting Actress – Roberta Colindrez, Chelsea Rendon

“PRODIGAL SON”
Drama Series
Drama Actor – Tom Payne, Michael Sheen
Drama Actress – Bellamy Young
Drama Supporting Actor – Frank Harts, Lou Diamond Phillips
Drama Supporting Actress – Keiko Agena, Halston Sage
Drama Guest Actor – Dermot Mulroney

“LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE”
Limited Series
Movie/Limited Actress – Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon
Movie/Limited Supporting Actor – Jordan Elsass, Joshua Jackson, Gavin Lewis
Movie/Limited Supporting Actress – Tiffany Boone, Rosemarie DeWitt, Huang Lu, Jade Pettyjohn, Megan Stott, AnnaSophia Robb, Lexi Underwood

Marching today for a better America

Black Voters Matter
Campaign Zero
Color Of Change
LDF
Movement For Black Lives
NAACP
National Action Network
National Black Justice Coalition
National Urban League

C

Census Bureau Says 60.5% of Households Responded to 2020 Count

Fox picked up serial killer thriller Prodigal Son for a second season.

The network is likely to air the second season of the series, which stars Michael Sheen and Tom Payne, in midseason, as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown. The renewal comes after network unveiled its fall schedule last week and the renewal of The Resident and Last Man Standing earlier this week. The first season of the show, which also stars Bellamy Young, Lou Diamond Phillips, Halston Sage, Aurora Perrineau and Frank Harts, ends with Bright unravelling the mystery of the girl in the box in a gruesome finale, helped by his sister, played by Sage.