Curious Theatre Company

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Headquarters Colorado, United States		Founded 1997

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The Curious Theatre Company is a company of artists founded in 1997 and located in Denver, Colorado. Curious has built a reputation on producing regional and world premieres for Denver audiences. They are committed to supporting the creation, development, and continued life of new plays for the American theatre, and hold membership in the National New Play Network.

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Productions

Season 1: Burn This

Season 2: How I Learned to Drive, Full Gallop, Praying for Rain

Season 3: Art, Closer, Fences

Season 4: Coyote on a Fence, Fuddy Meers, Cloud Tectonics

Season 5: An Almost Holy Picture, The Mineola Twins, The Rest of the Night, Proof

Season 6: Nickel and Dimed, Bright Ideas, Inventing Van Gogh, Yellowman)

Season 7: Trumbo: Red, White & Blacklisted, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Speer Project or Paris on the Platte and Take Me Out

Season 8: The Dead Guy, Bug, Frozen, The War Anthology, Fiction

Season 9: I Am My Own Wife, Tempodyssey, Aphrodisiac, A House With No Walls, Mall-Mart: The Musical!

Season 10: How I Learned To Drive, For Better, Heather Raffo's: 9 Parts of Desire, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Denver Project, End Days

Season 11: Curse of the Starving Class, Speech & Debate, Rabbit Hole, Eurydice, 26 Miles

Season 12: Yankee Tavern, Ameriville, Home By Dark, Opus, Up

Season 13: Dead Man's Cell Phone, Astronomical Sunset, Circle Mirror Transformation, Homebody/Kabul, A Number

Season 14: 9 Circles, Becky Shaw, Red, Collapse, Clybourne Park

Season 15: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (co-produced with TheatreWorks Colorado Springs), Time Stands Still, Maple and Vine, The Brothers Size, God of Carnage

Season 16: After the Revolution, Rancho Mirage, The Whipping Man, Good People, Venus in Fur

UPCOMING: Season 17: All the Rage/The Tricky Part, Lucky Me, Charles Ives Take Me Home, In the Red and Brown Water, Detroit, The Brothers Size (return engagement)

Awards

Henry Awards—awarded by The Colorado Theatre Guild

2008 Henry Awards

Outstanding Actor in a Play: Gene Gillette, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

2007 Henry Awards

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play - Jason Henning, tempOdyssey

Outstanding Lighting Design - Shannon McKinney, tempOdyssey

2006 Henry Awards

Outstanding New Play - The War Anthology

Outstanding Ensemble - The War Anthology

Outstanding Performance by an Actor - William Hahn, Frozen

Outstanding Performance by an Actress - Rhonda Lee Brown, Bug

Outstanding Sound Design - Brian Freeland, Bug

Ovations Awards—awarded by The Denver Post

2009 Ovations Awards

Best Year By a Company

Best Drama - Eurydice

Best Actress in a Dramatic Role - Rachel Fowler, Rabbit Hole

Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Role - Jim Hunt, Eurydice

Best Lighting - Shannon McKinney, Eurydice

2008 Ovations Awards

Best Year By a Company

Best Comedy - The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Best Year By an Actress - Karen Slack, 9 Parts of Desire

Best Director - Chip Walton, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Best Actress in a dramatic role - Rhonda Lee Brown, End Days

Best Actor in a comedic role - Gene Gillette, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Best Supporting Actor - Marcus Waterman, End Days

Best Lighting - Jacob Welch, 9 Parts of Desire

2006 Ovations Awards

Theatre Person of the Year - Bonnie Metzgar, Associate Artistic Director

Best Year by an Actor - William Hahn, Frozen

Best Actor in a comedic role - Jason Henning, tempOdyssey

Best Actress in a dramatic role - Dee Covington, The War Anthology

Best Solo Performance - Erik Sandvold, I Am My Own Wife

2005 Ovations Awards

Theatre Person of the Year - Chip Walton, Artistic Director

Best Actress in a dramatic role - Rhonda Lee Brown, Bug

Best Actor in a comedic role - Erik Sandvold, Take Me Out

Best Sound Design - Brian Freeland, Bug

2004 Ovations Awards

Best Year By a Company

Best Solo Performance - Martin Moran, The Tricky Part

Best Ensemble - The Long Christmas Ride Home

Best Supporting Actress in a comedy - Ethelyn Friend, Bright Ideas

Best Sound Design - Scott Anderson and Jesus Marquez, The Long Christmas Ride Home

2003 Ovations Awards

Best Year By a Company

Best Comedy - The Mineola Twins

Best Director - Chip Walton, The Mineola Twins

Best Actress in a comedic role - Elizabeth Rainer, The Mineola Twins

Best Supporting Actress - C. Kelly Leo, Proof

2002 Ovations Awards

Best Year By a Company

Best Director - Chip Walton and Christy Montour Larson, Fuddy Meers

Best Actor in a dramatic role - An Almost Holy Picture

Best Actress in a comedic role - Ethelyn Friend, Fuddy Meers

Best Scenic Design - Gan Guyette, Cloud Tectonic

2001 Ovations Awards

Best Year by an Actor - Gene Gillette, Coyote on a Fence

Best Drama - Coyote on a Fence

Best Actor in a dramatic role - Gene Gillette, Coyote on a Fence

Best of Westword—awarded by Westword Magazine

2010 Best of Westword

Best Actor in a Drama - William Hahn, Opus

Best Theatre Booster - Chip Walton, Artistic Director

2009 Best of Westword

Best Actor in a Season - Tyee Tilghman, Denver Project, Eurydice

Best Theater Production - Eurydice

2008 Best of Westword

Best Theater Season

Best Actor in a Black-Hearted Comedy - Gene Gillette, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Best Sympathetic Portrayal of a Pederast - Paul Borrillo, How I Learned to Drive

2007 Best of Westword

Best News for Playwrights

Best Direction of a Comedy - Jamie Horton, Fiction

Best Actor in a Comedy - John Hutton, Fiction

2006 Best of Westword

Best Actor in a Drama - Chris Reid, Bug

2005 Best of Westword

Best Theater Season

Best Season for a Director - Nagle Jackson, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?

Best Season for an Actress - Mare Trevathan, The Long Christmas Ride Home and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?

Best Season for an Actor - Jamie Horton, Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted

Best Treatment of a Touch Subject - Yellowman

2004 Best of Westword

Best Theater Season

Best Season for an Actor - Brett Aune, Proof

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy - Ethelyn Friend, Bright Ideas

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama - C.Kelly Leo, Proof

2003 Best of Westword

Best Theater Promotion

Best Magical Evening of Theater - Cloud Tectonics

2002 Best of Westword

Best Theater Production - Coyote on a Fence

2000 Best of Westword

Best Director - Chip Walton, Praying for Rain

1999 Best of Westword

Best Great Leap Forward

5280 Top of the Town Awards

2009 - Readers Choice - Top Theatre Company

2008 - Editors Choice - Top Theatre Company

Rocky Mountain News Top of the Rocky

2006 - Best Actress, Rhonda Lee Brown, Bug

Alliance for Colorado Theatre

Professional Theatre of the Year Award 2006

Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards

Best Production How I Learned to Drive 1999

Best Director Chip Walton, How I Learned to Drive 1999

Best Actor Paul Borillo, How I Learned to Drive 1999

Best Lighting Design William Temple Davis, How I Learned to Drive 1999

Backstage West Garlands

Best Lighting Design William Temple Davis, Praying for Rain 2000

Best Production How I Learned to Drive 1999

Best Actor Paul Borrillo, How I Learned to Drive 1999

Best Director Chip Walton, How I Learned to Drive 1999

Best Actress Deborah Persoff, Full Gallop 1999

Best Scenic Design Matthew E. Morgan & Britta Erickson, Full Gallop 1999

References

Curious Theatre Company Wikipedia

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