O.C.T.A. FESTIVALS (OCTAFEST) HISTORY HONOREES
1970
Tulsa Little Theatre,
"We Bombed in New Haven"
By Joe Heller,
Directed by Annawyn Shamas
Chosen as MCT representative to AETA
convention, Washington, D.C.
Alternate - Lawton Community Theatre, "Snow Angel"
By Lewis John Carlino,
Directed by John Denney
1971
Tulsa
Little Theatre, "The Baptizin”
By M. Carl Holman
Directed by Madelyn Olds
RegionaI 1st
Nationals 1st
1973
Tulsa
Little Theatre, "Indians"
By Arthur Kopit,
Directed by Bob Telford
Regional 1st
1975
Ponca Playhouse, "That Championship Season"
By Jason Miller
Directed by Roger Thomas
1977
Theatre Tulsa,
"Of Mice
and Men"
By John Steinbeck,
Directed by Irby Darnell
1979
Shawnee Little Theatre, "The_Lion in Winter"
By James Goldman
Directed by Norene Tower
Regional 1st
National 2nd
1981
Theatre Tulsa,
"Stations"
By James Vance
Directed by David Voila
Regional 1st
National 1st
1983
Lawton Community Theatre, "Working"
By Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
Directed by Irby Darnell
1985
The Mummers (OKC), "Lone Star"
By James McLure
Directed by Michael Jones
Regional1st
National 1st
Monaco
1987
B.L.AC. (OKC), "Blood Knot"
By Athol Fugard
Directed by Rhonda Clark
Regional 1st
National 2nd
1989 Carpenter
Square Theatre (OKC), "On Tidy Endings"
By Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Kenneth Benton
Alternates - Edmond Community Theatre, "Disposable
Dalliance"
By Scott Hutcheson, directed by Lee Hicks
Miami
Little Theatre, "Topography of a Nude"
By Jorge Diaz
Directed by Don Nichols
1991
Watonga Community Theatre, "Last Chance Texaco"
By Peter Maloney
Directed by Patt Ward Curtin
Alternate - Center Stage Players (Tulsa), "Shade"
By Dan Taylor
Directed by Cyndi Vetter
1993
Watonga Community Theatre, "Waiting For The Parade"
By John Murrell
Directed by Patt Ward Curtin
Regional 1st
Town & Gown Theatre (Stillwater), "You Can't Take It With You"
By Moss Hart and George Kaufman
Directed by Jeri Seefeldt
1995
Muskogee
Little Theatre, "Strange Snow"
By Stephen Metcalfe
Directed by Richard Matthews
Regional 1st
Town & Gown Theatre (Stillwater),
'The Trip to Bountiful"
By Horton Foote
Directed by Jeri Seefeldt
Regional 2nd
Alternates - Watonga Community Theatre, "Day
Trips" by Jo Carson
Directed by Patt Ward Curtin
Stage Door Theatrical Co. (Norman), "Sea of Laughter"
By Todd Hawkins
Directed by T. Hawkins
1997
Lawton Community Theatre, "The Duck Variations"
By David Marnet
Directed by Cynthia Kent
Regional 1st
Alternate - Stone Soup Theatre (Norman), "All in The
Timing"
By David Ives
Directed by Chris Freilhofer
1999
Ponca Playhouse, "The Curious Savage"
By John Patrick
Directed by Jeff Stephens
Alternate - Center Stage Players ”The
Exercise"
By Lewis j. Cariino
Directed by Gary Dean Sweeney
2001
Carpenter Square Theatre (OKC), "Over the River and
Through the Woods"
By Joe DiPietro
Directed by Doobie Potter
Regional 1st
National 1st
Germany
Theatre North (Tulsa),
"for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf”
A choreopoem by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Carmen Pettie
Alternates-Gaslight Theatre (Enid), "The Woman in Black"
By Stephen Mallatratt
Directed by Catina Sundvall
Lawton Community Theatre, "The Normal
Child"
By Phil Brock
Directed by James Brock
2003
Theatre North (Tulsa),
"Having Our Say-The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years"
By Emily Mann
Directed by Willie Minor
Alternate - Lawton Community Theatre, "Bus Stop"
By William Inge
Directed by Cynthia Kent
2004
Heller Theatre (Tulsa),
"Eleemosynary"
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Julie Tattershall
Alternate - Cynthia Poteet (OKC), "Eleemosynary"
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Ben Hall
2006
Heller Theatre (Tulsa),
"The Unexpected Man"
By Yasmina Reza
Directed by Jenny Clyde
Regional Alternate
Theatre North (Tulsa),
"Who Will Sing for Lena?"
by Janice Liddell
Directed by Todd Murray
Regional 1st
Alternate - Lawton Community Theatre, "Three Billy Goats
Gruff'
By Kevin M. Reese
Directed by Cynthia Kent
