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)