Awards Received by the Trap Door Company
Joseph Jefferson Award Citations:
- Best Actress in a Principal Role (Nicole Wiesner, First Ladies)
- Best New Work (Ken Prestininzi, Beholder)
- Best Ensemble (Nana)
- Best Supporting Actress (Sharon Gopfert, Lebensraum)
- Best Supporting Actor (Eric Johnson, Lebensraum)
- Best Ensemble (Lebensraum)
- Best Ensemble (Porcelain)
After Dark Awards:
- Best Original Incidental Score (Beholder)
- Best Ensemble (Emma)
- Best Ensemble (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant)
- Best Costumes (Beata Pilch, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant)
- Best Production (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant)
- Best Lighting (Richard Norwood, Old Clown Wanted)
- Best Director (Michael Pieper, Lebensraum)
- Best Production (Lebensraum)
- Best Actress (Marzena Bukowska, My Liver is Senseless)
- Best Production (My Liver is Senseless)
- Best Sound Design (Bob Rokos, Sugar Down, Billie Hoak)
- Best Production (Porcelain)
Orgie Awards:
- Best Director (Tracy Letts, People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless)
- Best Actress (K.K. Dodds, AmeriKafka)
The Cultural Programs of the French Embassy Award:
- First Place: Deathwatch
- First Place: The Automobile Graveyard
- First Place: The Architect and Emperor of Assyria
Other Acknowledgments:
- Chicago Tribune: Best Fringe Theatre of 2010 (Chaste)
- Chicago Sun Times: Best Theatre of 2010 (Chaste)
- Huffington Post: Best of Chicago Theatre 2010 (Chaste)
- Chicago Tribune: Top Five Shows of 2008 (Beholder)
- Chicago Tribune: Top Five Shows of 2006 (The Fourth Sister)
- Chicago Tribune: Top Ten Chicago Theater Performances of 2005 (K.K. Dodds in AmeriKafka)
- Windy City Times: Best Scenic Design (No Darkness Round My Stone)
- Windy City Times: Best Ensemble Award, 2004 (Katzelmacher)
- Gay Chicago Magazine: “Best of Stage” for 2007 (Emma)
- New City Magazine: Top Five Shows of 2008 (No Darkness Round My Stone)
- New City Magazine: Top Five Guilty Pleasures for 2007 (Eva Peron)
- Performink: End of Year Review for 2008: “Best Production” (No Darkness Round My Stone)
- Performink: 2002, “Best Theatre Making the Best of It.”
- Chicagocritic.com: Best Production of the Year (People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless)
- Performink: End of the Year Round-up “Best Production” (Request Program) and “Best Performance” (Carolyn Shoemaker, Request Program)
- Steadstyle: Best Production of the Year Award for (Morocco and Quills)?
