Best Playwright


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Readers' picks

Best Bartender
 Cat, The Poor House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Club DJ
 DJ Kid Fresh

Best Radio Personalities
 Paul Castronovo and Young Ron Brewer, Big 105.9

Best Athlete
 Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat

Best TV Personality
 Jade Alexander, WFOR-TV (Channel 4)
 
Teo Castellanos
www.teocastellanos.com

 A moving and dramatic work, Miami playwright Teo Castellanos' Scratch and Burn premiered in May at the Byron Carlyle Theater. Using six dancers from his D-Projects urban arts collective, Castellanos and choreographer Ricardo "Speedy Legs" Fernandez seamlessly meshed tribal ritual with break-dancing and the Brazilian martial art of capoeira. The show traced the roots of mankind's aggression from hunters killing a bull to the death and destruction wrought by modern warfare in the Middle East to create an emotional plea for peace. The dancers, almost all of whom were street-trained, delivered extremely athletic and affecting performances after Castellanos put them through their paces with intensive physical and philosophical training. Commissioned by the Miami Light Project, the hip-hop theater piece premiered at the not-for-profit arts organization's Miami/Project Hip-hop event. The Fringe First Award-winning Castellanos and D-Projects presented their latest work, Glossy Page Pimps, this month at the MLP's Light Box theater.