2020 Submissions FEMALE VOCALIST CORINNA SOWERS ADLER Second Stories; Songs from the Heart; Winter Song The Triad, Laurie Beechman, Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center LUCILLE CARR-KAFFASHAN How the Light Gets In Don’t Tell Mama CYNTHIA CRANE This Is a Changing World, My Dear Don’t Tell Mama SALLY DARLING And Kurt Weill Begat Kander & Ebb Don’t Tell Mama, Urban Stages DAWN DEROW The House That Built Me Laurie Beechman GOLDIE DVER Back in Mama’s Arms Don’t Tell Mama RENEE KATZ When It Happens to You: Renee Katz Sings Jule Styne; How Can I Keep From Singing Don't Tell Mama, Laurie Beechman ANN KITTREDGE Fancy Meeting You Here; Movie Nite Feinstein’s/54 Below, Urban Stages, Feinstein’s at Vitello's, Beach Cafe ANGELA LEONE Mathis and More Don’t Tell Mama SUSANNE MACK Where I Belong Pangea, Don’t Tell Mama NICCI NICHOLAS Nothin’ Can Be Done Don’t Tell Mama LESLIE OROFINO Shine Don’t Tell Mama, BJ Ryan's Magnolia Room YAEL RASOOLY Glamour in the Dark; Love Must Have an End Laurie Beechman, Don’t Tell Mama WENDY SCHERL Town & Country; You’ll See Laurie Beechman, Davenport’s, BJ Ryan's Magnolia Room JILL SENTER Celebrate the Moment Laurie Beechman - 1 - MAUREEN KELLEY STEWART There Will Never Be Another You: The Songs of Harry Warren; A Gershwin Sampler; Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Music of Jule Styne Laurie Beechman, Mohonk Mountain House, Sharon Country Club, Spencertown Academy Art Center MAUREEN TAYLOR Cosmic Connections: The Lyrics of Michael Colby Don’t Tell Mama STEPHANIE TRUDEAU Chavela: Think of Me Don’t Tell Mama LISA VIGGIANO From Lady Day to The Boss Pangea, Don’t Tell Mama ROBIN WESTLE In the Summer of ‘69 Don’t Tell Mama AMY BETH WILLIAMS Meet Me at the Bar Don’t Tell Mama MALE VOCALIST ARI AXELROD A Celebration of Jewish Broadway Birdland Theater, The Kranzberg (St. Louis), Skokie Theatre (Chicago) BOB DIAMOND The Game of Life Don’t Tell Mama JOHN MINNOCK Don't Tell Mama, Feinstein's/54 Below KIM DAVID SMITH Kim Sings Kylie; Morphium Kabarett; A Wery Weimar Christmas; Live at Club Cumming Joe’s Pub, Club Cumming, Café Sabarsky, Evolution Theatre Company (Columbus, OH) STEVEN ZUMBO The Gayest Show on Earth Don't Tell Mama, Pangea MAJOR ARTIST – FEMALE SUE MATSUKI How’s That for Openers?, A Hep Happy Holiday, Ella and Me Don’t Tell Mama, Urban Stages, Maureen's Jazz Room, BJ Ryan's Magnolia Room NANCY MCGRAW In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening: Nancy McGraw Sings Johnny Mercer Laurie Beechman - 2 - GRETCHEN REINHAGEN Take It With Me Laurie Beechman, Pangea JULIE REYBURN Anywhere We Are Don’t Tell Mama MAJOR ARTIST – MALE ERIC COMSTOCK Saturdays at Birdland Birdland SPENCER DAY Green Room 42 JEFF HARNAR Carried Away: Jeff Harnar Sings Comden & Green; On the East Side of Heaven; Too Marvelous for Words: 1930s Songs; Because of You: Fifties Gold; Jeff Harnar Sings Cole Porter Birdland Theater, Beach Cafe, Laurie Beechman Theatre; BJ Ryan's Magnolia Room CRAIG POMRANZ The Power of Song; After Valentine’s Day – What Now? Pangea NEW YORK DEBUT – FEMALE JENNIFER BARNHART It’s About Time Laurie Beechman JOAN DARRAGH The Invigorated Ingenue Don’t Tell Mama ROBERTA FELDHUSEN Who’s That Woman? Don’t Tell Mama LAUREN FRAZZA Feelin’ Good Pangea JOANNE HALEV Like a Perfumed Woman Birdland Theater, Urban Stages WENDY KAUFMAN HARPER Stay on the Ride Don’t Tell Mama MARGE HELENCHILD I’m Not That Girl Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex - 3 - BARBARA HELLER The Love Show Don't Tell Mama TERRI LEVY Once in a Lifetime Don’t Tell Mama LIORA MICHELLE The Greedy Soprano Don’t Tell Mama PAMELA MORGAN One Singular Sensation Laurie Beechman Theatre ROE PICCOLI Little Things Mean a Lot Don’t Tell Mama MARY ELLEN RYAN No Apologies Don’t Tell Mama GERRILYN SOHN Something Cool Don’t Tell Mama REGINA ZONA Becoming the Queen 2.0 The Triad, BJ Ryan's Magnolia Room, SOTA NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE BRUNO GIRALDI This Is Bruno Don’t Tell Mama SEAN PATRICK MURTAGH Mario! A Salute to The Great Lanza Green Room 42 SCOTT RANERI Marvelous Mr Marzo Don’t Tell Mama MARK WILLIAM Come Croon with Me Green Room 42, The Actor’s Temple CELEBRITY ARTIST CHARLES BUSCH Native New Yorker Feinstein’s/54 Below - 4 - REEVE CARNEY Green Room 42 NATALIE DOUGLAS Tributes series: Roberta Flack, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Nancy Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell Birdland, Feinstein’s at the Nikko, The Pheasantry (London) JOANNA GLEASON Show Title(s) Feinstein’s/54 Below LESLIE JORDAN Exposed Green Room 42 ANDREA MCARDLE AND DONNA MCKECHNIE Show Title(s) Feinstein’s/54 Below LINDSAY MENDEZ Feinstein’s/54 Below MARK NADLER The Old Razzle Dazzle Laurie Beechman, Café Sebarsky EVA NOBLEZADA Ballad of a Broadway Twenty-Something Green Room 42 FRANCES RUFFELLE Frances Ruffelle Live(s) In New York Green Room 42 IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/DRAG ARTIST DORIS DEAR More Gurl Talk; Doris Dear Christmas Special Don’t Tell Mama, Music Theater of CT, Cherry Grove Community House Theater, The Triad LEOLA Leola’s Lady Land Green Room 42 DOTTIE MARASCHINO The Dottie Maraschino Show Laurie Beechman SUTTON LEE SEYMOUR Dragflix Laurie Beechman CISSY WALKEN The Invasion; Trans Awareness Week Kickoff; Crown It Stonewall Inn, Rockbar - 5 - MAJOR IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/DRAG ARTIST JOEY ARIAS Strange Fruit Laurie Beechman JACKIE BEAT Jerk in Progress; Illuminati or Nite? Laurie Beechman BENDELaCREME Ready to Be Committed Laurie Beechman HONEY DAVENPORT Raw and Unfiltered; Stocking Stuffer Laurie Beechman MIZ CRACKER American Woman Laurie Beechman JINKX MONSOON The Ginger Snapped Joe’s Pub LATRICE ROYALE Here’s to Life Laurie Beechman MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER – FEMALE ANDREA AXELROD After the Bawl Don’t Tell Mama LESLIE CARRARA-RUDOLPH Bizarre Brunch Laurie Beechman, Casita del Campo (L.A.) JUDI MARK Laughing Through Life Don’t Tell Mama LENA MOY-BORGEN Glam Girl in a Grunge World Don’t Tell Mama LYNDA RODOLITZ Animal Magnetism Don’t Tell Mama MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER – MALE JOHN BURNS John Burns Is a Sexy Beast The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama - 6 - MICHAEL KIRK LANE Just Because Don’t Tell Mama DOMINICK PUPA Dom We Now Our Gay Apparel The Duplex MICHAEL WEST Kenn Boisinger: Tonight I’m Gonna Sing for You Green Room 42 DUO/GROUP THE CHAMLINS The Marvelous Mr. Mercer Laurie Beechman, Oceanside Library, Mahwah Library, Long Beach Library DRINKWATER BROTHERS Don’t Tell Mama, Green Room 42, Birdland Theater, West End Lounge THE ELEGANT IVORY DUO Imperfections of Love Don't Tell Mama MAMA’S BOYS (Tommy J. Dose, Brian Kalinowski, Paul Pilcz, Jon Satrom) Mama’s Boys Don’t Tell Mama MIMI LINES AND FRANK MITCHELL Two for the Road Don’t Tell Mama, Long Wharf Theatre LENA MOY-BORGEN AND CHEO BOURNE Moy-Borgen and Bourne's Office Party Don’t Tell Mama THOSE GIRLS (Eve Eaton, Rachel Hanser, Karen Mack, Wendy A. Russell) Those Girls Sing The Boys; An Evening with Those Girls; Those Girls Sing The Boys Volume 1.2 Unplugged Laurie Beechman, BJ Ryan's Magnolia Room, Pangea MAJOR DUO/GROUP THE CARNEY FAMILY: REEVE CARNEY, PARIS CARNEY, ZANE CARNEY Green Room 42 ERIC COMSTOCK AND BARBARA FASANO various shows Beach Café, Café Sebarsky, Birdland, many other venues KIM GROGG AND LENNIE WATTS Hometown Heroes Laurie Beechman, Beach Cafe SEAN HARKNESS, MARCUS SIMEONE, LINA KOUTRAKOS Clearly Now Season 2 Don’t Tell Mama, Urban Stages - 7 - KT SULLIVAN AND JEFF HARNAR Sullivan and Harnar sing Harnick and Strouse Laurie Beechman Theatre PIANO BAR INSTRUMENTALIST NATE BUCCIERI Don’t Tell Mama, Brandy’s GERRY DIEFFENBACH Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex DARIUS FROWNER The Duplex WILLIAM TN HALL Don’t Tell Mama, Brandy’s, The Duplex MICHAEL ISAACS Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex, Brandy’s BRIAN J. NASH The Duplex JOE REGAN Don’t Tell Mama ELLIOT ROTH Brandy’s MARK WEISER Shake Rattle and Roll Dueling Pianos PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER FEMALE ANNA ANDERSON Don’t Tell Mama ELAINE BRIER Don’t Tell Mama LIZ LARK BROWN Brandy’s LADONNA BURNS Brandy’s MICHELLE DOWDY Don’t Tell Mama MARIA GENTILE The Duplex TINA HIMAYA The Duplex THEA LAMMERS The Duplex - 8 - TARA MARTINEZ Don’t Tell Mama LAUREN MUFSON Brandy’s ALISON NUSBAUM Don’t Tell Mama JENNIFER PACE Brandy’s LAURA PAVLES Don’t Tell Mama PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER MALE JOE ARDIZZONE Brandy’s BOBBY BELFRY Brandy’s ADAM CHANDLER The Duplex TOMMY J. DOSE Don’t Tell Mama GREGG GOODBROD Brandy’s MICHAEL HUNSACKER Brandy’s BRIAN KALINOWSKI Don’t Tell Mama JUSTIN GREGORY LOPEZ Brandy’s PAUL PILCZ Don’t Tell Mama JOSEPH REDD Don’t Tell Mama JON SATROM Don’t Tell Mama, Brandy’s RESTAURANT/HOTEL LOUNGE/HAPPY HOUR ENTERTAINER CLARE COOPER Don't Tell Mama ALEX FREDERICK Don't Tell Mama RICKY RITZEL Don't Tell Mama - 9 - SHEREE SANO Don’t Tell Mama, Spoonfed NYC BILL ZEFFIRO La Rivista, Parnell’s ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTALIST PETER CALO, guitar Lorna Luft/Great American Songbook (Feinstein's/54 Below), Carole J. Bufford/Come Together (Feinstein’s/54 Below), Dawn Derow/The House That Built Me (Laurie Beechman), Dean Benner/Country Jukebox (Don’t Tell Mama) SEAN HARKNESS, guitar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 25th Anniversary Show (Feinstein’s/54 Below), Lucille Carr-Kaffashan/How the Light Gets In (Don’t Tell Mama), Kathleen Turner/Finding My Voice (Arena Stage), Vocalmania (Birdland Theater, Zinc Bar), Ronny Whyte Quartet (Jazz at Kitano) TOM HUBBARD, bass Marilyn Maye/I Wish I Were 90 Again (Feinstein’s/54 Below), Tony Yazbeck/The Floor Above Me (Appel Room, Feinstein’s/54 Below), Isabelle Georges/Oh, La, La! (Feinstein’s/54 Below), Rosemary Loar/Everything’s Coming Up Rosie (Don’t Tell Mama), Sue Matsuki/How’s That for Openers? (Don’t Tell Mama, Urban Stages)