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Awards and Achievements
Awards and such from the powers that be.
Metamorphoses
Recipient - Best Director
Recipient - Best Drama
Recipient - Best Supporting Actor, John Arp
Nominee - Best Supporting Actor, William Hahn
Nominee - Best Supporting Actress, Elgin Kelley
Nominee - Best Ensemble
Recipient - Outstanding Theatrical Achievement, The Pool
-- 2004 Denver Post Ovation Awards
Recipient - Best Director
-- 2005 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine
Recipient - Best Director
Recipient - Best Production of a Play
Recipient - Best Supporting Actor - John Arp
-- 2005 Marlowe Awards, Out Front Magazine
Inventing Van Gogh
Nominee - Best Costume Design
-- 2005 Marlowe Awards, Out Front Magazine
The Mineola Twins
Nominee - Best Costume Design
-- 2004 Denver Post Ovation Awards
Bent
Nominee - Best Drama
Recipient - Best Actor, William Hahn
Nominee - Best Lighting Design, Anna Kaltenbach
-- 2003 Denver Post Ovation Awards
Recipient - Best Actor, William Hahn
-- 2003 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine
The Kentucky Cycle
Recipient, Honorable Mention - 2000 Garland Awards, BackstageWest Magazine
Recipient - Best Director
Nominee - Best Production of a Play
Recipient - Best Supporting Actress, Lori Hansen
Nominee - Best Supporting Actress, Catherine diBella
Nominee - Best Supporting Actor, Augustus Truhn
Recipient - Best Lighting Design, Anna Kaltenbach and Steven J. Deidel
-- 2000 Denver Drama Critics' Circle Awards
Recipient - Best Production of a Play
-- 2001 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine
"Best Jack-of-all-Theater-Trades"
1997 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine
"Director, costumer, actor -- you name it, Jeremy Cole does it. Because of his meticulous eye for detail and painter's sense of high design, attending one of Cole's shows is always as much of a visual treat as an aural one. Throughout the marvelous production of Good, for example, he artfully "freeze-framed" certain characters so that the protagonist could comment on the action. At other points, he trotted out the whole cast and arranged them in elegant designs against the back wall of the stage. Cole's sensitive performance as the tragic poet in CityStage Ensemble's The Common Pursuit was both a surprise and a delight, and the costumes he designed for the play were, as always, right on."
The Dead
Recipient - Best Readers Theater
-- 2002 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine
"Around Christmastime, the Hunger Artists brought James Joyce's The Dead to lyrical life amid the gleaming lamps and dark wood of the Byers-Evans House Museum in Denver. The reading was adapted and directed by Jeremy Cole, and it was a jewel, glowing and multi-faceted, communicating all the wistful power of Joyce's short story as well as the expressiveness of his language. The performers seemed to genuinely love the text, and they gave themselves to it with humility and quiet passion. Among the standout performances were those of warm-throated Nancy Solomon as Aunt Kate and Diane Wziontka as the grief-driven Gretta."
- Juliet Wittman
Recipient - Best Readers Theater
-- 1999 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine
"Far from being hampered by the constraints of the LIDA Project's small stage or hemmed in by the conventions of reader's theater itself, most of the performers in this enchanting production seemed liberated as they employed subtle glances, smallish gestures and slight vocal inflections to express the soaring lyricism of James Joyce's immortal The Dead. Director Jeremy Cole's sensitive approach served as a fitting tribute both to the author's enjoyable "epiphany" and the ensemble's accomplished interpretation. And the director's minimalist version enhanced and personalized the power of Joyce's incomparable imagery in a style that would be the envy of many a multi-media-minded auteur. Indeed, audience members' souls swooned right along with that of the leading character, Gabriel, as he stared out an imaginary window and observed the 'snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.'"
- Jim Lillie
In The Heart of America
Recipient - Best Supporting Actor, Christopher Leo
-- 1998 Denver Drama Critics' Circle Awards
Unidentified Human Remains...
"One of the Ten Best Plays of 1997" -- Thom Wise, The Rocky Mountain News
Good
"Best Political Tragi-Comedy" -- 1997 Best of Denver Awards, Westword Magazine"One of the Ten Best Plays of 1997" -- David Marlowe, Out Front
"One of the Outstanding Productions of 1997" -- Sandra Brooks-Dillard, The Denver Post
The Investigation
"Best Avant-Garde Approach to Historical Material" -- 1996 Best of Denver Awards
"Peter Weiss's play The Investigation is based on the actual transcripts from a trial of Nazi war criminals held from 1963 to 1965. At Director's Theatre, director Jeremy Cole's clever staging included dressing all the actors in identical white unisex costumes and keeping them on a bare black stage through the whole evening. Gender-blind casting and a unique use of slides also did their part. Devastating and revelatory, this was an intense piece that never exploited its subject matter with exaggeration or sentimentality."
The Mound Builders
Recipient, Best Actress in a Play, Martha GreenbergNominee, Best Supporting Actor, Matt Cohen
-- 1995 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards
The Baltimore Waltz
"Best Production of a Play" -- 1994 Best of Denver Awards
Beirut
Nominee, Best Direction
Nominee, Best Production of a Play
Nominee, Best Actor, Phillip Luna
Nominee, Best Actress, Rebecca Buric
-- 1993 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards
The Lady and the Clarinet
Recipient, Best Local Theatre Production
-- 1993 Best of Denver Awards
Recipient, Best Actress in a Play, Pamela Clifton
-- 1993 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards
Talley & Son
Nominee, Best Ensemble Performance
Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Joan Staniunas
-- 1992 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards
Eastern Standard
Nominee, Best Production of a Play
Recipient, Best Ensemble Performance
Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Peggy Russell
-- 1991 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards
for colored girls...
Nominee, Best Direction of a Play
Nominee, Best Ensemble Performance
-- 1991 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards