Celebrate the best of Black non-profit theatre in NYC November 30, as the winners for Audelco’s 2020 VIV Awards are announced in a virtual ceremony. Among the leading contenders are 73’s production of Zora Howard’s Stew with nine nominations, including Best Play, and the three nominees for Best Musical: Broadbend, Arkansas; The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise of Josephine Baker; and The Wrong Man.

The ceremony begins at 7 PM ET on Facebook.

Nominations were announced November 17. Sharon Fallon Productions’ The Dark Star From Harlem is this year’s most nominated musical with eight, including Best Lead Actress in a Musical for Iris Beaumier and Best Director for Tai Thompson. The Wrong Man earned six nominations and Transport Group’s Broadbend, Arkansas scored four.

Best Play contenders The New Englanders and Reparations tied The Dark Star From Harlem for second-most nominations.

Check out the full list of nominations below.

Best Musical
Broadbend, Arkansas (Transport Group)
The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker (Sharon Fallon Productions)
The Wrong Man (MCC Theater)

Best Play
Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company)
Leaving The Blues (Tosos (The Other Side Of Silence))
One In Two (The New Group)
Reparations (Billie Holiday Theatre)
Stew (Page 73)
The New Englanders (Manhattan Theatre Club)

Best Revival of a Play
American Moor (Red Bull Theater)
A Photograph / Lovers In Motion (Negro Ensemble Company)
Blues For An Alabama Sky (Keen Company)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public Theater)
Sassy Mamas (Black Spectrum Theatre Company)

Lead Actor in a Musical
Justin Cunningham (Broadbend, Arkansas)
Joshua Henry (The Wrong Man)

Lead Actress in a Musical
Iris Beaumier (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)
Danyel Fulton (Broadbend, Arkansas)
Taylor Iman Jones (Scotland, PA)

Lead Actor in a Play
Obi Abili (Fear)
Kamal Bolden (Reparations)
Teagle F. Bougere (The New Englanders)
Chike Johnson (Run Boy Run & In Old Age)
John-Andrew Morrison (Blues For An Alabama Sky)

Lead Actress in a Play
Rosalind Brown (Leaving The Blues)
Liza Colon-Zayas (Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven)
Alfie Fuller (Blues For An Alabama Sky)
Portia (Stew)
Kara Young (The New Englanders)

Featured Actor in a Musical
James A. Pierce III (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)
Ryan Vasquez (The Wrong Man)

Featured Actor in a Play
W. Tre Davis (Seared)
Charlie Hudson III ((A)Loft Modulation)
Elisha Lawson ((A)Loft Modulation)
Benjamin Mapp (Leaving The Blues)
Khiry Walker (Blues For An Alabama Sky)
Sheldon Woodley (Blues For An Alabama Sky)

Featured Actress in a Play
Lisa Arrindell (Reparations)
Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven)
Harriett D. Foy (The Young Man From Atlanta)
Toni Lachelle Pollitt (Stew)
Nikkole Salter (Stew)

Solo Performance
Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Where We Stand)
Douglas Wade (Thurgood)
Michael Benjamin Washington (Fires In The Mirror)

Outstanding Ensemble Performance
A Photograph / Lovers In Motion (Negro Ensemble Company)
Bars And Measures (Urban Stages)
One In Two (The New Group)
Sassy Mamas (Black Spectrum Theatre Company)

Playwright
Jeff Augustin (The New Englanders)
Idris Goodwin (Bars And Measures)
Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Where We Stand)
Zora Howard (Stew)
Donja R. Love (One In Two)

Director of a Musical
Jack Cummings, III (Broadbend, Arkansas)
Thomas Kail (The Wrong Man)
Tai Thompson (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)

Director of a Play
Saheem Ali (The New Englanders)
Colette Robert (Stew)
Michele Shay (Reparations)
Stevie Walker-Webb (One In Two)
La Williams (Blues For An Alabama Sky)
Tamilla Woodard (Where We Stand)

Outstanding Musical Director
Mario E. Sprouse (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)
Alex Lacamoire (The Wrong Man)
Deah Love Harriott (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf)

Outstanding Musical Composer
Justin Ellington (Bars And Measures)
David Murray (A Photograph /Lovers In Motion)
Martha Redbone (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf)

Choreographer
Camille A. Brown (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf)
Leslie Dockery (A Photograph / Lovers In Motion)
Kim Grier-Martinez (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)
Candace Taylor (Tj Loves Sally 4 Ever)
Travis Wall (The Wrong Man)

Costume Design
Asa Benally (Blues For An Alabama Sky)
Niiamar Felder (Reparations)
Dominique Fawn Hill (Stew)
Toni-Leslie James (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf)
Ben Phillipp (Leaving The Blues)
Raymond Pizarro (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)

Lighting Design
Stacey Derosier (Stew)
Alan C. Edwards (Fires In The Mirror)
Alan C. Edwards (The New Englanders)
David Moodey (Reparations)
Cha See (One In Two)

Set Design
D’vaughn Agu (The Black History Museum…According To The United States Of America)
Isabel Curley-Clay & Moriah Curley-Clay (Reparations)
Troy Hourie ((A)Loft Modulation)
Lawrence E. Moton Iii (Stew)
Joshua Warner (The Dark Star From Harlem: The Spectacular Rise Of Josephine Baker)

Sound Design
Andy Evan Cohen ((A)Loft Modulation)
Palmer Hefferan (The New Englanders)
David Lawson (Bars And Measures)
Mikaal Sulaiman (Fires In The Mirror)
David Wright (Reparations)