Best Supporting Actress in a Play

Having set Nothing Comes to Sleepers on the day Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated, playwright and director Jacqee Gafford knew she had to massage the inherent drama delicately. What could be more offensive than a rotten play about such an event? For this summer production at the InPlay Theatre, she proceeded gracefully and, with Donette Coleman-Reese's formidable assistance, managed to make the first act justifiably humorous. Coleman-Reese is an actor with enviable timing and a way with comic writing that disguises obvious punch lines. Someone should write a one-woman show for her pronto.