Tony Award nominees Paulo Szot ("South Pacific") and Deanna Dunagan ("August: Osage County") are among the winners of the Theatre World Awards, which are bestowed to performers who made outstanding stage debuts in New York over the past year.

Other recipients: de'Adre Aziza ("Passing Strange"), Cassie Beck ("Drunken City"), Daniel Breaker ("Passing Strange"), Ben Daniels ("Les Liaisons Dangereuses"), Hoon Lee ("Yellow Face"), Alli Mauzey ("Cry-Baby"), Jenna Russell ("Sunday in the Park With George"), Mark Rylance ("Boeing-Boeing"), Loretta Ables Sayre ("South Pacific") and Jimmi Simpson ("The Farnsworth Invention").

Honorees are chosen by a team of theater journos, including Linda Winer (Newsday) and Frank Scheck (New York Post). READ MORE