Awards


The Dorrys - Art



Solo Exhibit of the Year

(given to an artist or group working collectively)




Nicole Aquillano at Arch Contemporary



Joan Backes at Yellow Peril Gallery 



Juan Jose Barboza Gubo and Andrew Mroczek at AS220 Project Space 



Jodie Mim Goodnough at 186 Carpenter



John Tabor Jacobson at The Avenue Concept



Aaron Pexa at Cade Tompkins Projects



Chris Sancomb at Hunter Gallery



Paul Anthony Smith at PC–Galleries



Hank Willis Thomas at David Winton Bell Gallery



Wickerham & Lomax at Granoff Center







Two Person Show of the Year




Henry Felton Brown and Natalja Kent at 186 Carpenter



Mimo Gordon Riley and Neal Walsh at Candita Clayton Gallery



Clark McLean Graham and Ross Normandin at GRIN



Emma Hogarth and Ben Watkins at Chazan Gallery







Group Exhibit of the Year




Afterglow at 270 Westminster Street



Dead Animals, or the curious incidence of taxidermy in contemporary art at David Winton Bell Gallery



Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies at GRIN




Nimble Obscurity at Machines With Magnets




Prisoners Cinema at Jacques and Natasha Gelman Gallery



Spectrum at Hera Gallery



Surface Appeal at Dedee Shattuck Gallery







Public Art of the Year




David Barnes, Joanne Luongo, Nina Ruelle, Modern Archaeology at TF Green Airport (Warwick)



Holly Ewald, Urban Pond Procession at Mashapaug Pond (Providence/Cranston)



Urs Fischer, Untitled (Lamp/Bear), at Brown University (Providence)



Michael Kukla, Structure 3, at Dedee Shattuck Gallery (Westport)



Walker Mettling at the Dirt Palace, Olneyville Square (Providence)



Gordon Moss, Red Pencil Elbow Grease, on Empire Street (Providence)







Historical Exhibit of the Year




Are We Up To Snuff? At Gilbert Stuart Birthplace



Nina Baugh at Jamestown Art Center



Durr Freedley at Newport Art Museum 



Freedom Journey 1965 at Providence Public Library 



Todd Oldham at RISD Museum







Commercial Gallery of the Year




Arch Contemporary Ceramics



Cade Tompkins Projects



Dedee Shattuck Gallery



GRIN Contemporary



The Open Aperture



Yellow Peril Gallery 







Institutional / Non-Profit Gallery of the Year




AS220 Project Space




Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College



David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University



Chazan Gallery at Wheeler School



Hunter Gallery at St. George's School



PC–Galleries at Providence College







Museum Exhibit of the Year




A Series of Minor Miracles at Newport Art Museum



Intertribal at Warwick Museum of Art




Martin Boyce at RISD Museum




Monotype Guild of New England at Attleboro Arts Museum




Todd Oldham at RISD Museum




Willy Heeks at Bristol Art Museum







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The Dorrys - Books



Book of the Year – Fiction




Thomas Cobb, Darkness The Color of Snow




Jayne Conway, As It Seems



Corentin Corre, Thanksgiving



Rachael Mcintosh, The Big Show



Hilary Salk, Eavesdropping In Oberammergau



Dawn Tripp, Georgia







Book of the Year – Non-Fiction




Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke, Light: The Invisible Spectrum




Paul Caranci, Scoundrels : Defining Corruption Through Tales of Political Intrigue in Rhode Island




Christine Jenkins, Fake Smiles & Lasagna




Bill Reynolds, Hope: A School, A Team, A Dream




Debbie Kaiman Tillinghast, The Ferry Home







Book of the Year – Children’s / Teen




Leo Frisk Jr., A Cricket’s Thanksgiving




Rebecca Maizel, Season for Fireflies




Claudine Pepin, Let’s Cook French




Eric Sturtevant, Ducky Ducky Likes To Moo




Jean Taft, Worm Weather




Sean Fay Wolfe, Elementia Chronicles #1







Poetry Collection of the Year




Colin Channer, Providential




Kate Colby, Engine Light




Darcie Dennigan, Palace of Subatomic Bliss




Frances O'Donnell, Whispers from the Tree of Life




Kate Schapira, Handbook for Hands That Alter As We Hold Them Out




Sarah Tourjee, Body Split: When Tongue Was Muscle







Reading Series/ Literary Program of the Year




Funda Fest (Rhode Island Black Storytellers)




Goat Hill Writers




Providence Athenaeum Salon Series




Providence Poetry Slam




Point Street Reading Series




Publicly Complex







Bookstore of the Year – New




Ada Books, Providence




Books on the Square, Providence




Island Books, Middletown




Savoy Bookshop, Westerly




Wakefield Books, Wakefield




An Unlikely Story, Plainville







Bookstore of the Year – Used




Allison Goodsell Books, Kingston




Annie's Book Stop, Plainville




Cellar Stories, Providence




Mary's Book Exchange, Warwick




Paper Nautilus, Providence




Spring Street Books, Newport







Best Publication




41°N




Chronique




Clerestory




Newport Mercury




Providence Monthly



Rhode Island Monthly



Spark Mag







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The Dorrys - Drama



Production of the Year




Before We Begin (Strange Attractor)




Day of Absence (Mixed Magic Theatre)




Dry Land (Wilbury Group)




Frost/Nixon (CounterProductions)



Happy Birthday Old Faithful: The National Park Plays (Manton Avenue Project)



Happy Birthday Wanda June (Burbage Theatre Company)



The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Rep)



Island of Love (Tenderloin Opera Company)



The Love of the Nightingale (Brown/Trinity Rep)



The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry (Brown University Theatre)







Performance of the Year (Lead)




Marianna Bassham as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire (Gamm)




Tammy Brown as Rita in Educating Rita (2nd Story)




Phyllis Kay as Maxima Terrible Segundo in The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Rep)




Crystal Kim as Mary South in The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry (Brown University Theatre)




Evan Kinnane as Harold in Harold and Maude (2nd Story)




Christopher Shane Crider-Plonka as David Frost in Frost/Nixon (Counter-Productions)







Performance of the Year (Supporting)




Karen Carpenter as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Gamm)




Rebecca Gibel as Ado Annie in Oklahoma! (Trinity Rep)




Emeline Herreid as Wanda June in Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Burbage)




Dana Hunter as Anita in West Side Story (Theatre By The Sea)




Anne Scurria as Espanta in The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Rep)




Nicole Villamil as Infanta Juana in The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Rep)







Director of the Year




Kevin Broccoli, American Strippers (Epic Theater Company)




Michael Ducharme, Frost/Nixon (Counter-Productions)




Taibi Magar, The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Rep)




Kym Moore, The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry (Brown)




Wendy Overly, Happy Birthday Wanda June (Burbage)




Mark Peckham, Stupid Fucking Bird (Wilbury Group)







Season of the Year




Epic Theater Company (Kevin Broccoli)




Trinity Rep (Curt Columbus)




Mixed Magic Theater (Jonathan Pitts-Wiley)




2nd Story Theatre (Ed Shea)




Wilbury Group (Josh Short)




Manton Avenue Project (Meg Sullivan)







Production Team of the Year (for sets, lighting and costumes)




Animal Farm (Epic Theatre Company)




Damn Yankees (Ocean State Theatre)




Dangerous Corner (2nd Story Theatre)




The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Rep)




Mr. Burns (Brown University Theatre)




Stupid Fucking Bird (Wilbury Group)







Play of the Year

(awarded to a playwright)




Andy Boyd, The Trade Federation




Kevin Broccoli, Total Strangers




Diane Exavier, A Big House




Andy Hoover, Narragansett Valkyrie




Nikteha Salazar, The Red Paint




Lenny Schwartz, The Social Avenger







Touring Production of the Year




Roundabout Theatre Company, Cabaret




Strange News, db




Total War Puppets, Fire With Fire




Salzburg Marionette Theatre, Peter and the Wolf/ Little Red Riding Hood




Company One, We’re Gonna Die







Curveball of the Year

(for a show that ran for a single performance or weekend)




Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin, Prisoner's Song (Everett)



Christopher Johnson and Elizabeth Keiser, Ask Asha (AS220)




Mixed Magic Theatre, A Dramatic Reading of Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham City Jail




Strange Attractor and Lightning Rod Special, Sans Everything (AS220)




Tenderloin Opera Company, Island of Love



Trinity Rep, Every 28 Hours







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The Dorrys - Film



Cinema of the Year




Cable Car Cinema, Providence




Cinemaworld Lincoln



Empire Theater, Block Island



Galactic Theater, Warren



Jane Pickens Theater, Newport




Rustic Tri-Vue Drive-In, North Smithfield







Film Series of the Year




Cuban Film Series, Brown University




Italian Film Festival, Dante Society of Westerly




Magic Lantern Cinema




Movies on the Block




Projections, RISD Museum




Flashback to 1965, Warwick Public Library







Film Festival of the Year




NewportFILM




Providence Children’s Film Festival




Providence French Film Festival




Rhode Island International Film Festival



Rhode Island Nature Video Festival




Womanimation







Feature Film of the Year




Female Forces: Women In RI Art (Holly Gaboriault)



Hope City (David Angell)




My Father's Vietnam (Søren Sørensen)




Spring Break Zombie Massacre (Robert Carnevale)




Woven In Time: The Narragansett Salt Pond Preserve (Marc Levitt)







Short Film of the Year




Dueling Double Divas: A Comic Micro-Opera (Judith Lynn Stillman)




Musee Mecanique, A Wish We Spoke (Rachel Blumberg)



No Eyes With Which To Cry (Planchette)




Where They Slept: Slave Quarters In Rhode Island (Jamie McGuire)




Echo Dweller (Benjamin Shack-Sackler and Jacob Nelson)







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The Dorrys – Performance



Performance of the Year – Classical / Opera




Aurea Ensemble, Chromatic Fantasy: The World of Čiurlionis



Community MusicWorks, Tacos and Strings at La Lupita




RI Philharmonic Orchestra, Dvorak's New World




Bach To The Future 3




Verdant Vibes Ensemble, Verdant Vibes Spring Festival




Community MusicWorks, Melody Unchained







Performance of the Year – Dance




Doppelgänger Dance Collective, The First Four



Festival Ballet, Up Close On Hope: House of Bernarda Alba / The Lady of the Camellias



Island Moving Company, Moment To Moment




Betsy Miller, happy birthday. (you're never coming back, are you?)




Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, A Familiar Sense of Slip



Sokeo Ros, From Refugee Camp To Project







Performance of the Year – Choral




Chorus of Westerly, Verdi Requiem




Providence Gay Men’s Chorus, 20th Anniversary Concert




Providence Singers, The British Are Coming!




Rhode Island Civic Chorale, Britten & Fauré




RPM Voices of Rhode Island, Precious Memories 2




Sine Nomine, L’amfiparnaso







Festival of the Year




Dot Air (Machines With Magnets)



Great Friends Dance Festival (Island Moving Company)



Kingston Chamber Music Festival (URI)



Modern Movements Festival (AS220)



Music on the Hill



Newport Music Festival







Ensemble of the Year




AfriManding



Aurea Ensemble



Ensemble Parallax




Providence Research Ensemble



Traveling Bubble Ensemble



Verdant Vibes Ensemble







Company of the Year (awarded to an artistic director)




Aurea Ensemble (Consuelo Sherba)




Everett (Aaron Jungels)




Festival Ballet (Mihailo Djuric)




Fusionworks (Deb Meunier)




Island Moving Company (Miki Ohlsen)




Providence Singers (Christine Noel)







Performance of the Year – Touring




Arneis Quintet, Symphony for the City of the Dead (Providence Public Library)




Lara Kramer, Native Girl Syndrome (Brown University)



Nakatani Gong Orchestra (Aurora)



Northern Harmony, Village Harmony (Jamestown)



Tenet, The Secret Lover (George Kent Performance Hall)



Urban Bush Women, Walking With 'Trane (FirstWorks / Vets RI)







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The Dorrys - Music



Album of the Year




Greg Abate & Phil Woods, Kindred Spirits (Live)




AraabMuzik, Dream World




Bellerophon, Teosinte	




Black Oil Incinerator, Built In Space




Allysen Callery, The Song The Songbird Sings




DJ Richard, Grind



Duncan Laurie, Induction Furnace




The Low Anthem, Eyeland	




O.B. Howard, O.B. Howard




Obaku, Circles In The Desert








EP of the Year




Apollo Cred, No Johns




Claves, Between The Pine




Container, Treatment




Flinstones, 6 66




Halbwome, Collected Emotions




Mis(s)invader, whywouldtheydoitlikethat




pôrs(ə)lən/, L'appel du vide







Song of the Year




Bellerophon, "Sabrosona"



Cottaging, "Headhunter"



B Dolan, "Safety Theater"



Khary, "Find Me"



Lovesick, "Hey Mama"



A. Ros, "All I Wanted"



Way Out, "Arrival"







DJ of the Year




Andy Morris



DJ Cookie Policy



Music Please



DJ Travieso



Where's Nasty?







Event of the Year




Dot Air




Foo Fest




Newport Folk Festival




Pronk!



PVDFest



Revival Fest II



Rhythm and Roots Festival







Loud Act of the Year




Bloodpheasant



Creeping



Flinstones



Gila Monster



Hussy



Obaku



Vomit Arsonist







Quiet Act of the Year




Dites-Le Avec Les Fleurs



Halbwome



Ethan Kerrigan



Mem1



Sianna Plavin



Shores of Latency







Rock Act of the Year




Arc Iris



Cannibal Ramblers



Downtown Boys



Lovesick



Ravi Shavi



Snowplows



Whore Paint



Willow







Electronic Act of the Year




Bellerophon



Container




Favourite




Snowbeasts




Unicorn Hard-On




Virusse







Rap/Hip-Hop Act of the Year




Bothered



Couture



Jon Hope



Medusah Black



Young Kaii



ZuKrewe







Roots/Folk Act of the Year




Allysen Callery



Ian Fitzgerald



The Gnomes



The Huntress and Holder of Hands



Joey



Last Good Tooth







Record Store of the Year




Analog Underground (Providence)



Armageddon Shop (Providence)



In Your Ear (Warren)



Olympic Records (Providence)



Sunset Records (Somerset)



Vinyl Guru (Newport)



What Cheer? (Providence)







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A couple of notes:

Don’t forget to vote in all the other categories, too! And get your tickets to the September 27 ceremony.
This is not a popularity contest! All nominees in the write-in categories will be reviewed individually so there’s no need to vote more than once. So don’t.

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