awards and honors

2011
Henry Award, Best Actor in a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Henry Award, Best Musical, Rent
2010
Denver Post Ovation Award — Best Actor, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best of WestwordHedwig and the Angry Inch
Denver Post Ovation Award — Best Remount, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2009
Marlowe Awards — Best Director of a Comedy, Die Mommy Die!
Marlowe Awards — Best Production of a Comedy, Die Mommy Die!
2008
Denver Post Ovation Award — Best Year for Director
2007
Henry Award, Best Director — Dog Sees God
Denver Post Ovation Award — Director of the Year
Denver Post Ovation Award — Best Production, Dog Sees God
Denver Post Ovation Award — Best Children’s Production, Frog and Toad
Rocky Mountain News, Top of the Rockies — Frog and Toad, Our Town
2006
Henry Award, Best Actor in a Musical — Rocky Horror Show
Best of Westword, Best Actor in a Musical — Rocky Horror Show
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Ensemble — Cabaret
Denver Post Ovation Award, Theater Person of the Year — Reader’s Choice
2005
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Choreographer — West Side Story
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Remount — Rocky Horror Show
Denver Post Ovation Nomination — Theater Person of the Year
2004
Best of Westword, Best Actor in a Musical — Bat Boy the Musical
2003
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Choreographer — 8-Track, the Musical
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Drama — Painted Bread
OutFront Colorado, Best Theatre Company — Theater Group
2002
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Actor in a Musical — Cabaret
Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Musical — Cabaret
Best of Westword, Best Gay Production — When Pigs Fly
2001
Best of Westword — Best Theatre Company
Denver Post Award — Best Theatre Company
Out Front Colorado, Best Production — Never the Sinner
OutFront Colorado — Best Local Theatre
Denver Post — Person to Watch in 2001
2000
Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards — Best Director of a Play, Shakespeare’s R & J
Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards — Best Ensemble, Shakespeare’s R & J
Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards — Best Production, Shakespeare’s R & J
Go-Go Magazine — Best Musical, Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly
Go-Go Magazine — Best Play, The Blue Room
Go-Go Magazine — Best Director
Best of Westword — Best Theatre Company
1999
Best of Westword — Best Action Figures, Poor Super Man
OutFront Colorado — Best Theatre Company
1998
The 1998 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
OutFront Colorado — Best Theatre Company
1997
5280 Magazine — Best Theatre Company
OutFront Colorado — Best Theatre Company
Westword, Best of Year — Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
Westword, Best of Year — Poor Super Man
Rocky Mountain News, Best of Year — Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
Denver Drama Critics Circle Nomination — Best Director, Nicholas Sugar
Denver Drama Critics Circle Nomination — Best Choreographer, Nicholas Sugar
Denver Drama Critics Circle Nomination — Best Ensemble, Howard Crabtree’s Whoop Dee Doo
Denver Drama Critics Circle Nomination — Best Ensemble, Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
1996
Westword — Best Jack of all Theatre, Nicholas Sugar
Westword — Best Company Season
Westword — Best Production, Suburbia
Rocky Mountain News — Best New Director, Nicholas Sugar
additonal honors
Awarded platinum record for work on M.C. Hammer’s “Hammer Time” selling over 10 million copies
Acknowledgement in Les Paul compilation disc, “The Legend and the Legacy”
Acknowledgement in the book “Frank Sinatra: The Man and His Music”
Bat Boy
Nick Sugar stars as Edgar in Bat Boy, the Musical at Theatre On Broadway *.