Radcliffe, Fonda up for Drama Desk Awards

Bill Irwin, Daniel Radcliffe, Jane Fonda, Stockard Channing and Allison Janney were among the actors nominated for Drama Desk Awards in New York Monday.

Shortlisted for outstanding actor in a play are Irwin for Waiting for Godot, Radcliffe for Equus, Simon Russell Beale for The Winter’s Tale, Reed Birney for Blasted, Raul Esparza for Speed-The-Plow,

Geoffrey Rush for Exit the King and Thomas Sadoski for reasons to be pretty.

Up for the Drama Desk Award for outstanding actress in a play are Fonda for 33 Variations, Saidah Arrika Ekulona for Ruined, Marcia Gay Harden for God of Carnage, Elizabeth Marvel for Fifty Words, Jan Maxwell for Scenes From an Execution and Janet McTeer for Mary Stuart.

In the running for outstanding actor in a musical are James Barbour from A Tale of Two Cities, Daniel Breaker and Brian d’Arcy James from Shrek The Musical, Josh Grisetti from Enter Laughing The Musical, Sahr Ngaujah from Fela! and Will Swenson from Hair.

Nominated for outstanding actress in a musical are Channing for Pal Joey, Janney, Megan Hilty and Stephanie J. Block for 9 to 5, Sutton Foster for Shrek the Musical and Karen Murphy for My Vaudeville Man!

Janney and Channing were members of the cast of TV’s The West Wing. Fonda co-starred in the 1980 film version of 9 to 5, the basis for the award-nominated stage show, along with another West Wing alum, Lily Tomlin.