PLAYBILL
ONLINE
11-DEC-2002
By Andrew
Gans
Celeste
Ciulla and Evan Robertson are this year's recipients
of the Joe A. Callaway Awards, presented annually by the Actors' Equity
Foundation.
Ciulla and
Robertson will be presented with the award for
best performance by a female/male actor in a "professional production of
a classic play (one written prior to 1920) in the New York metropolitan
area." Ciulla will be honored for her performance in the Pearl Theatre
Company's production of She Stoops to Conquer, and Robertson will
receive his award for his work in another Pearl production,
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Ray Virta,
who appeared as Benedick in the aforementioned
Pearl mounting of Much Ado, will be presented with the St. Clair
Bayfield Award, which honors non-featured actors in a Shakespearean
production in the New York metropolitan area. All awards will be
presented on Jan. 10, 2003, at the Eastern Regional meeting of the
Actors' Equity Association, held at the Equity offices on West 46th
Street.
This year's
judges' panel includes Irene Backalenick, Back
Stage; Betty Corwin, Director of Special Projects, Theatre on Film &
Tape Archive of the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts;
Charles Isherwood, Variety; Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press; Douglas
Watt, The Daily News; and Carl Harms, President of the Actors' Equity
Foundation.