Awards Received by the Trap Door Company

Joseph Jefferson Award Citations:

  • 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: 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)?