Outstanding News

I have been nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design for Cupid and Psyche by the Innovative Theatre Awards. My fellow designer on the show (and NYU alum) Michael Moore was also nominated for Outstanding Set Design. He is a fabulous designer and infinitely pleasant to work with. One of the most cheerful under pressure personalities I have ever encountered. His work was truly fantastic on the show. I sadly do not have any pictures of Cupid and Psyche yet, so if you did not see it you will have to imagine.

I did not stay very long at the event as the air conditioning was broken and it was uncomfortably hot inside. Too bad because it could have been quite a fun evening, but it seems that most of the folk left shortly after the announcements. I ran into my director for Ajax on the way out. One of her actors was nominated for best solo performance for In Delirium. The three of us left right after the announcements and got food across the street at the falafal place formerly known as Cinderella on 2nd Ave. They do an amazing falafal, I survived on them for two years when I worked for the NYU Dance Department.

The greatest thing about the evening was seeing a new misspelling of my name. I have seen Lukas, Luca, Benjamin, Kreche, Kresh, Crech, Krecsch and Kresch. This new one was a misspelling of my middle name, it was "Bengaminh." For the record, the correct spelling of my name is "Lucas Benjaminh Krech." I once had a program corrected three times by two different people and they still got it wrong in the final printing. So much for cut and paste.