Billy Elliot, God of Carnage & More Win Artios Casting Awards

The casting directors for the Broadway productions of Billy Elliot, God of Carnage and All My Sons were among the winners of the Casting Society of America’s New York Artios Awards, presented on November 2 at the Times Center. Janeane Garofalo hosted the 25th annual event, with guest presenters that included Christine Ebersole, Patrick Wilson and Bill Pullman. In addition, Stanley Tucci presented the New York Big Apple Award to Nora and Delia Ephron, whose new theatrical production Love, Loss and What I Wore opened off-Broadway on October 1 featuring ever-evolving casts.

Presented yearly for outstanding achievement in casting, awards are given on the criteria of originality, creativity and contribution of casting to the overall quality of a project. The term “Artios” is from the ancient Greek word meaning “perfectly fitted.”

Theater-related awards went to the following winners:

Broadway Theater, Drama
All My Sons, Cindy Tolan

Broadway Theater, Comedy
God of Carnage, Daniel Swee

Broadway Theater, Musical
Billy Elliot, Tara Rubin, Merri Sugarman, Laura Schutzel, Eric Woodall and Nora Brennan

Off-Broadway, Comedy/Musical
Fault Lines, Howie Cherpakov

Off-Broadway, Drama
Ruined, Nancy Piccione

Regional Theater East
The Glass Menagerie, James Calleri

L.A. Theater
Once on This Island, Amy Lieberman

Regional Theater West
The Little Foxes, Michael Donovan

Awards for casting TV pilots went to two shows that prominently feature theater actors, True Blood (Junie Lowry Johnson) and Glee (Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer and Jim Carnahan). An L.A. awards ceremony was held simultaneously at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.