Fourth Annual Phoenix Festival Awards Announced

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble is pleased to announce the 2025 award recipients for the Fourth Annual Phoenix Festival: Live Arts in Nyack, a multi-week curated performing arts festival featuring theatre, music, comedy, and dance.

Phoenix Festival: Live Arts in Nyack is a program of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. The curated 2025 Festival October 2–16,  2025 presenting 14 performances across six venues throughout the Village of Nyack, New York.

Festival judges have determined the following award recipients:

Outstanding Production

Larry Parks’ Day in Court by Ron Marquette

Produced by The Drilling Company

Outstanding Performance in a Musical

Tracey Conyers Lee in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill – Redux

by Lanie Robertson

Produced by Nomad Theatrical Productions

Outstanding Revival

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

A Public Works Production

Produced by Firebird Project and Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Outstanding Performance in a New Work

Joseph Medeiros in The Odyssey in Ancient Greek (Book II) by Homer

Outstanding Performance in a Revival

Reggie Wilson in Sugar Ray by Laurence Holder

Produced by Reginald Wilson

Outstanding Unique Theatrical Performance – Musical

Sermons on Miranda Lambert by Jenn Allen

Produced by Blessed Unrest

Outstanding Unique Theatrical Performance – Non-Musical

Help Me!

Produced and performed by Leo Lion

Outstanding Ensemble

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Produced by Shakespeare in a Parking Lot

Outstanding Direction of a Play

Karen Case Cook – Afterplay by Brian Friel

Produced by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Outstanding Non-Profit Venue

The Angel Nyack

Outstanding Business Venue

Rose Hall at Prohibition River