The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway and were begun during the 1949-1950 theatre season. The awards are decided upon by theatre critics who review for out-of-town newspapers, national publications, and other media outlets outside of New York City. Simon Saltzman, a long-time member of the OCC executive committee and theatre reviewer, serves as president.

The first awards (for 1949-50) were: The Cocktail Party (Play); The Consul (Musical); Sheila Guyse, Performances in Supporting Roles for Lost in the Stars, and Daniel Reed, Performances in Supporting Roles for Come Back, Little Sheba.

The nominees are announced each April. The presentation of awards is made in late May at Sardi's Restaurant in Manhattan, New York City and precedes the Tony Awards by about two weeks.

The nominees for 2010-11 were announced on April 26, 2011 by Tyne Daly and Brian d'Arcy James. Winners were announced on May 16, with the ceremony on May 26.^[1] The nominees for 2011-12 were announced on April 23, 2012 by Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas; the awards were announced on May 14.^[2]

Award categories[link]

Awards are currently given in the following categories:

Outstanding Broadway Play

Outstanding Broadway Musical

Outstanding Off-Broadway Play

Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical

Outstanding New Score

Outstanding Revival of a Play

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

Outstanding Actor in a Play

Outstanding Actress in a Play

Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Outstanding Solo Performance

Outstanding Direction of a Play

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

Outstanding Choreography

Outstanding Set Design

Outstanding Costume Design

Outstanding Lighting Design

John Gassner Award, Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright

Winners and nominees[link]

2011-2012 season[link]

The nominees included nine nominations for the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, the most of any production, with the musicals Newsies and Once each receiving seven nominations and the revival of Follies receiving five. The Public Theater will receive an honorary award "on its 50th anniversary presenting free theatre at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park."^[2]

Winners include One Man, Two Guvnors as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Once as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. The Submission by Jeff Talbot received the John Gassner Award^[3]

2010-2011 season[link]

The nominees, announced on April 26, 2011, included nine nominations for the musical Sister Act, the most of any show. Anything Goes received eight nominations. The Special Achievement Awards were also announced: Ellen Barkin, Outstanding Broadway Debut in The Normal Heart; and Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Company Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for War Horse.^[1]

Award winners

Source:BroadwayWorld^[4]

• Outstanding New Broadway Musical - The Book of Mormon (which also won Outstanding New Score)
• Outstanding New Broadway Play - War Horse
• Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play - Other Desert Cities (by Jon Robin Baitz)
• Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical - The Kid (book by Michael Zam, music by Andy Monroe, lyrics by Jack Lechner)
• Outstanding Revival Of A Musical - Anything Goes
• Outstanding Revival Of A Play - The Normal Heart
• Outstanding Director of a Musical - Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker (Book of Mormon)
• Outstanding Director of a Play - Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris (War Horse)
• Outstanding Choreographer - Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes)
• Outstanding Costume Design - Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (Priscilla)
• Outstanding Lighting Design - Paule Constable (War Horse)
• Outstanding Set Design - Neil Murray (Brief Encounter)
• Outstanding Actress in a Musical - Sutton Foster
• Outstanding Actor in a Musical - Josh Gad
• Outstanding Actor in a Play - Mark Rylance
• Outstanding Actress in a Play - Nina Arianda and Frances McDormand (tie)
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Brian Bedford
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Elizabeth Rodriguez
• Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - Laura Benanti
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical - Adam Godley

2009-2010 season[link]

Nominees for the 2009-2010 season were announced on April 26, 2010 by siblings Sutton Foster and Hunter Foster, with winners announced on May 17. Seven nominations each were received by the musical Memphis and the revival of The Royal Family, the most of any production. The Scottsboro Boys was nominated for six awards, including Best Off-Broadway musical. Shows receiving five nominations were The Addams Family, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Orphans' Home Cycle, and Promises, Promises. Finian's Rainbow, La Cage aux Folles, Lend Me A Tenor, and Sondheim on Sondheim each received four nominations.^[5]

The Outstanding New Broadway Musical award was won by Memphis, which won a total of four awards. Other winners included: Outstanding New Broadway Play - Red and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play - The Orphans' Home Cycle, which won two awards. The Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical was a tie, won by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Scottsboro Boys. La Cage aux Folles won four awards: Outstanding Revival Of A Musical, Outstanding Actor In A Musical (Douglas Hodge), Director (Terry Johnson), and Costume Design (Matthew Wright). Montego Glover (Memphis) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music) tied for Outstanding Actress In A Musical.^[6]

2008-09 season[link]

Billy Elliot the Musical and Shrek the Musical each received ten nominations, the most of any show. The winners were announced on May 11, 2009, with an awards dinner on May 21 at Sardi's Restaurant.^[7]

Billy Elliot the Musical won seven awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, followed by Shrek the Musical with four. The award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical was a tie between Sutton Foster and Josefina Scaglione. Brian d'Arcy James won for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Outstanding New Broadway Play was won by God of Carnage.

The John Gassner Award (presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) was won by Gina Gionfriddo for Becky Shaw, and the Special Achievement Award was given to the three actors who share the role of Billy Elliot, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish in Billy Elliot the Musical.^[8]

All winners and nominees[link]

The complete list of winners and nominees is at the Outer Critics Official Site.^[9]

See also[link]

• Tony Awards
• Drama Desk Awards
• Obie Awards
• New York Drama Critics' Circle
• Drama League Award

References[link]

External links[link]

• Outer Critics Circle Official site
• List of 2007-08 winners/nominees at Playbill, May 12, 2008

Medal record
Competitor for  Australia
Men's Field hockey
Olympic Games
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team Competition
Champions Trophy
Gold	1999 Brisbane	Team Competition

Stephen Harris Holt (born 1974 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

He was nicknamed Shaggy by his team mates. Holt was first selected to play for Australia as one of the 'new bloods' to compete in the 1996 Champions Trophy in Madras.

References[link]

• Profile on Hockey Australia

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Lynn Nottage
Nottage reading at Occupy Wall Street, November 2011
Born	1964 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Occupation	Playwright
Alma mater	Brown University Yale University
Spouse	Tony Gerber
Information
Magnum opus	Ruined
Awards	Pulitzer Prize Obie Award

Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Grant in 2007.^[1] She won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009 for Ruined.

Early life[link]

Born in Brooklyn in 1964 to a schoolteacher and a child psychologist, Nottage attended New York's High School of Music and Art. Inspired by school productions of Annie and The Wiz, she penned her first play, The Darker Side of Verona, which told the story of an African American Shakespearean company.^[2] After attending Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Nottage worked in Amnesty International's press office for four years.^[3]

Career[link]

Her best-known play is Intimate Apparel, co-commissioned and produced at Baltimore's Center Stage (where it premiered in February 2003) and South Coast Repertory. It was highly acclaimed in its Off-Broadway production in 2004, starring Viola Davis. She wrote a companion piece to Intimate Apparel, the OBIE award winning Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, which is set 100 years later. The West Coast premiere of her Crumbs from the Table of Joy, at South Coast Repertory, earned two NAACP Theatre Awards for performance.

Nottage's play, Ruined, dramatizes the plight of Congolese women surviving civil war. It was first was performed in 2007 in the Goodman Theater New Stages Series in Chicago, and transferred to New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Ruined was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in April 2009. Her other plays include the children’s musical, A Walk Through Time; Mud, River, Stone (Blackburn Prize finalist); Por’knockers; Poof! (Heideman Award); and Las Meninas.

Nottage's plays have been produced Off-Broadway and regionally by The Acting Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Freedom Repertory Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Studio Arena Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Goodman Theater, The Guthrie, and many others.

She has been awarded playwriting fellowships from Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also the recipient of a Playwrights Horizons Amblin/Dreamworks commission and a National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group grant for a year-long residency at Freedom Repertory Theater in Philadelphia. Nottage is an alumnus of New Dramatists.

On May 13, 2009, Nottage spoke at a public reception in Washington, DC following a United States Senate Foreign Relations joint subcommittee hearing entitled "Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones," with case studies on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan.^[4]

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark is finishing its world premiere in the 2010-11 season at Second Stage Theatre, after two extensions to rave reviews.^[5] In 2010, she was awarded the Distinguished Playwright Award. ^[6]

Works[link]

• Crumbs from the Table of Joy (1995)
• Poof (1993)
• Mud, River, Stone (1998)
• Por'Knockers
• Las Meninas (2002)
• Intimate Apparel (2003)
• Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (2004)
• Ruined (2008)
• By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2011)^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Guardian article 20 April 2010 on the play Ruined: Lynn Nottage: a bar, a brothel and Brecht Accessed 2010-04-20
• Internet Off-Broadway listing, Lynn Nottage
• Biography at New Dramatists
• "The Playwrights Database, Lynn Nottage" doollee.com

BD Wong
BD Wong in New York City, June 2008.
Chinese name	黃榮亮 (Traditional)
Chinese name	黄荣亮 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Huáng Róngliàng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Wong4 Wing4 Loeng6 (Cantonese)
Birth name	Bradley Darryl Wong
Born	(1960-10-24) October 24, 1960 (age 51) San Francisco, California, USA
Other name(s)	Bradd D. Wong Bradd Wong B.D. Wong
Years active	1983-present
Partner(s)	Richie Jackson (1988-2004)
Children	Jackson Foo Wong (2000- ) Boaz Dov Wong (2000-2000)
Awards Theatre World Award 1988 M. Butterfly

Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Dr. George Huang on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as Father Ray Mukada on HBO's Oz, Henry Wu in the movie Jurassic Park, and for his Tony Award winning role as Song Liling in the Broadway production of M. Butterfly. He starred as Dr. Lee on NBC series Awake from March to May 2012.

Early life[link]

Wong was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Roberta Christine (née Leong), a telephone company supervisor, and William D. Wong.^[1] He is of Chinese descent.^[2] Wong attended Lincoln High School before attending San Francisco State University.

Career[link]

Wong gained attention for his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly opposite John Lithgow. The play won multiple awards, including several for Wong. He is notable as the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award,^[3] Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role.^[4] In addition to his long-running stint on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as FBI psychiatrist Dr. George Huang, he has had recurring roles in All American Girl and as a prison priest on Oz, with guest appearances on The X-Files and Sesame Street. On the big screen, he has appeared in The Freshman (1990), the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel, Father of the Bride Part II, Jurassic Park (1993), Executive Decision (1996) and Slappy and the Stinkers (1997). He also provided the voice of Captain Shang in Disney's Mulan (1998) and its direct-to-video sequel. He returned to Broadway as Linus in a revival of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, alongside Anthony Rapp, Roger Bart and Kristin Chenoweth, and the 2004 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. In 2008, he starred in the one-man show Herringbone, in which he portrays 11 roles, at the McCarter Theatre at Princeton University. He brought the show to the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego the following year.^[5]

Wong announced his departure from the cast of Law & Order: SVU in July 2011, to join another NBC police drama, Awake where he currently portrays Dr. Johnathan Lee, a confrontational therapist of an LAPD detective (portrayed by Jason Issacs) who lives in two realities.^[6] Wong will guest star in an upcoming thirteenth season episode of Law & Order: SVU titled "Father Dearest" (which airs May 2, 2012).^[7]

Personal life[link]

Wong, began a long-term relationship with talent agent Richie Jackson in 1988.^[8] In 2000, Wong had twin sons: Boaz Dov, who died 90 minutes after birth, and Jackson Foo Wong. They were born through a surrogate mother, using Wong's sperm and an egg donated by Jackson's sister. In 2003, Wong wrote a memoir about his experiences with surrogacy titled Following Foo: the Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man. Wong and Jackson ended their relationship in 2004.^[8]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Video games[link]

Awards[link]

• 1988 Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Male – M. Butterfly
• 1988 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Debut Performance – M. Butterfly
• 1988 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play – M. Butterfly
• 1988 Theatre World Award – M. Butterfly
• 1988 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play – M. Butterfly
• 2003 GLAAD Davidson/Valentini Award^[9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• BD Wong at the Internet Broadway Database
• BD Wong at the Internet Movie Database
• BD Wong at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Billie Joe Armstrong
Armstrong performing at Madison Square Garden on July 28, 2009.
Background information
Birth name	Billie Joe Armstrong
Also known as	Wilhelm Fink Reverend Strychnine Twitch Fink
Born	(1972-02-17) February 17, 1972 (age 40) Oakland, California, U.S.
Genres	Punk rock, alternative rock, rock, pop punk, garage rock, new wave, heavy metal
Occupations	Singer, musician, songwriter, guitarist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, drums, percussion, saxophone, harmonica, mandolin, bass, violin
Years active	1987–present
Labels	Reprise, Lookout!, Adeline, Recess
Associated acts	Green Day, Pinhead Gunpowder, The Network, Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Boo
Notable instruments
Gibson USA Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Jr. Fernandes Stratocaster (Blue) Gibson Les Paul Junior Gibson Les Paul Custom Gibson ES-335 Gibson SG Standard Gretsch Hollowbody Fender Stratocaster Fender Telecaster Guild D55 Taylor 514C Fender Jaguar

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter and lead guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side project Foxboro Hot Tubs.

Raised in Rodeo, California, Armstrong developed an interest in music at a young age, and recorded his first song at the age of five. He met Mike Dirnt while attending elementary school, and the two instantly bonded over their mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Children when the two were 15 years old. The band changed its name to Green Day, and would later achieve massive commercial success. Armstrong has also pursued musical projects outside of Green Day's work, including numerous collaborations with other musicians as well as serving as the primary vocalist for the bands Pinhead Gunpowder and Foxboro Hot Tubs.

Early life[link]

Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Piedmont, California, a small town surrounded by the city of Oakland, and was raised in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of six children to Andrew "Andy" Armstrong^[1] and Ollie Jackson.^[1] His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982.^[1] The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit^[1] restaurant in El Cerrito. Armstrong and Mike Dirnt's first live performance was at Rod's Hickory Pit in 1987; their first performance under the name Green Day was in Davis, a college town approximately an hour's drive northeast of San Francisco Bay.

Armstrong's interest in music started at a young age. He attended Hillchest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled "Look for Love" at the age of five on the Bay Area label Fiat Records.^[1][2] After his father died, his mother married a man whom her children disliked, which resulted in Armstrong's further retreat into music. At the age of 10, Armstrong met Mike Dirnt in the school cafeteria and they immediately bonded over their love of music.^[1] He became interested in punk rock after being introduced to punk rock by his brothers.^[3] Armstrong has also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements and Hüsker Dü as major musical influences.

Armstrong attended John Swett High School, also in Crockett, and later Pinole Valley High School in Pinole, California, but then dropped out to pursue his musical career.

Career[link]

Armstrong in 1994

In 1987, aged 15, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt. In the beginning, Dirnt and Armstrong both played guitar, with John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante, on drums,^[4] and Sean Hughes on bass. After a few performances, Hughes left the band in 1988; Dirnt then began playing bass and they became a three-piece band. They changed their name to Green Day in April 1989, allegedly choosing the name because of their fondness for marijuana.^[5] That same year, they released their debut EP 1,000 Hours through Lookout! Records. They recorded their debut studio album 39/Smooth and the extended play Slappy in 1990, which were later combined with 1,000 Hours into the compilation 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours in 1991. Tré Cool eventually became Green Day's drummer in late 1990 when Sobrante left Green Day in order to go to college. California punk band Rancid's lead singer Tim Armstrong asked Armstrong to join his band, but he refused owing to the progress with Green Day. Cool made his debut on Green Day's second album, Kerplunk. With their next album, Dookie (1994), the band broke through into the mainstream, and have remained one of the most popular rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s with over 60 million records sold worldwide.^[6] In 2009, their hit American Idiot became a musical on Broadway.^[7]

Apart from working with Green Day and side-band Pinhead Gunpowder, Armstrong has collaborated with many artists over the years. He has co-written for The Go-Go's ("Unforgiven") and former Avengers singer Penelope Houston ("The Angel and The Jerk" and "New Day"), co-written a song with Rancid ("Radio"), and sung backing vocals with Melissa Auf der Maur on Ryan Adams' "Do Miss America" (where they acted as the backing band for Iggy Pop on his Skull Ring album ("Private Hell" and "Supermarket"). Armstrong has produced an album for The Riverdales. He has also been confirmed to be part of a side project called The Network, which released an album called Money Money 2020. Money Money 2020 was released on Adeline Records, a record label co-owned by Armstrong.^[8] Armstrong also provided lead guitar and backing vocals on 3 songs for The Lookouts' final extended play IV (1989).

Hoping to clear his head and develop new ideas for songs, Armstrong traveled to New York City alone for a few weeks, renting a small apartment in the East Village of Manhattan.^[9] He spent much of this time taking long walks and participating in jam sessions in the basement of Hi-Fi, a bar in Manhattan.^[10] However, the friends he made during this time drank too much for his liking, which was the catalyst for Armstrong's return to the Bay Area.^[10] After returning home, Armstrong was arrested on DUI charges on January 5, 2003, and released on $1,200 bail.^[10]

In 2010, Armstrong joined the cast of American Idiot, which won two Tonys, for one week in the role of St. Jimmy. He replaced the original Broadway cast member Tony Vincent from September 28 to October 3. American Idiot is an adaption of Green Day's concept album of the same name.^[11][12] Armstrong returned to the role of St. Jimmy for 50 performances beginning January 1, 2011.^[13]

Instruments[link]

Armstrong performing in 2009 with a replica of "Blue".

Armstrong's first guitar was a Cherry Red Hohner acoustic, which his father bought for him. He then received his first electric guitar, a Fernandes Stratocaster that he named "Blue" when he was eleven. His mother got "Blue" from George Cole who taught Armstrong electric guitar for 10 years. Armstrong says in a 1995 MTV interview, "Basically, it wasn't like guitar lessons because I never really learned how to read music. So he just taught me how to put my hands on the thing." Cole bought the guitar new from David Margen of the band Santana. Cole gave Armstrong a Bill Lawrence Humbucking pickup and told him to install the pickup in the bridge position. After the pickup was destroyed at Woodstock '94, Armstrong then used a Duncan JB model. "Armstrong fetishized his teacher's guitar, partly because the blue instrument had a sound quality and Van Halen–worthy fluidity he couldn't get from his little red Hohner. He prized it mostly, however, because of his relationship with Cole, another father figure after the death of Andy."^[14] He toured with this guitar from the band's early days and still uses it to this day.^[15] "Blue" also appears in a number of its music videos such as "Longview", "Basket Case", "Brain Stew/Jaded", "Hitchin' a Ride", and most recently in "Minority".

Today, Armstrong mainly uses Gibson and Fender guitars. Twenty of his Gibson guitars are Les Paul Junior models from the mid- to late-1950s.^[16] His Fender collection includes: Stratocaster, Jazzmaster, Telecaster, a Gretsch hollowbody and his copies of "Blue". He states that his favorite guitar is a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Junior he calls "Floyd". He bought this guitar in 2000 just before recording their album Warning.^[17]

Armstrong also has his own line of Les Paul Junior guitars from Gibson, modeled closely after "Floyd", Armstrong's original 1956 Les Paul Junior.^[18]

He plays several other instruments as well. He recorded harmonica and mandolin parts in the past, piano parts on 21st Century Breakdown, and plays drums live from time to time.

Personal life[link]

In 1990, Armstrong met Adrienne Nesser at one of Green Day's early performances in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They married on July 2, 1994, and the day after their wedding, Adrienne discovered she was pregnant. Their first child, Joseph Marciano Armstrong, who was born on February 28, 1995, plays drums in a Berkeley-based band named Emily's Army. Their second child, Jakob Danger Armstrong, was born on September 12, 1998.^{[citation needed]} Billie Joe is the co-owner of Adeline Records, along with his wife.^[8]

Armstrong has identified himself as bisexual, saying in a 1995 interview with The Advocate, "I think I've always been bisexual. I mean, it's something that I've always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing."^[19] In a later interview for Out magazine's April 2010 issue, Armstrong stated: "There were a lot of people who didn't accept it, who were homophobic." Armstrong continued, saying, "The fact that it's an issue is kind of phobic within itself. At some point, you gotta think, this should be something that's just accepted." Armstrong added: "I don't really classify myself as anything. And when it comes to sex, there are parts of me that are very shy and conservative. I want to respect my wife."^[20]

Armstrong was arrested in January 2003 for drinking and driving after being pulled over for speeding.^[21] He received a breathalyzer reading of 0.17%, more than twice the nation-wide legal limit of 0.08%.^[22]

In April 2007, Armstrong and his wife Adrienne sent photos of their spring break working with Habitat for Humanity and a diary to GreenDay.net.^[23]

Armstrong supported Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.^[24]

On September 1, 2011, Armstrong was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for "saggy pants". Armstrong tweeted "Just got kicked off a Southwest flight because my pants sagged too low!" According to an eyewitness on the flight, who also happens to be a television news producer, a flight attendant asked Armstrong to pull his pants up. Armstrong said, "Don't you have better things to do than worry about that?" The flight attendant's response was, "Pull your pants up or you're getting off the plane." Southwest Airlines saw his tweet, rebooked Armstrong on another flight and released this statement, "We reached out to apologize. We followed up ... and understand from the customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction."^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

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Awards[link]

Green Day portal

Green Day[link]

• 39/Smooth (1990) – lead vocals, guitar
• Kerplunk! (1992) – lead vocals, guitar, drums on "Dominated Love Slave"^[25]
• Dookie (1994) – lead vocals, guitar, percussion on "All by Myself" (hidden track)
• Insomniac (1995) – lead vocals, guitar
• Nimrod (1997) – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica^[26]
• Warning (2000) – lead vocals, mandolin, guitar, harmonica^[27]
• American Idiot (2004) – lead vocals, guitar
• 21st Century Breakdown (2009) – lead vocals, guitar, piano
• American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010) – vocals, guitar, piano

Pinhead Gunpowder[link]

Vocals and guitar on all

• Jump Salty (1994)
• Carry the Banner (1995)
• Goodbye Ellston Avenue (1997)
• Shoot the Moon (EP) (1999)
• Compulsive Disclosure (2003)
• West Side Highway (EP) (2008)

The Network[link]

• Money Money 2020 (2003) – guitar, vocals

Foxboro Hot Tubs[link]

• Stop Drop and Roll!!! (2008) – lead vocals^[28]

Other media appearances[link]

• King of the Hill (TV series, 1997) – Face
• Haunted (TV series, 2002) – Irv Kratser (cameo)
• Riding in Vans with Boys (film, 2003) – himself
• Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (film, 2006) – "Charles Hanson"
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (video game, 2006) – himself
• The Simpsons Movie (film, 2007) – himself
• Heart Like a Hand Grenade (film, 2008) – himself
• Green Day: Rock Band (video game, 2010) – himself (Singing voice, archive footage, & Virtual likeness/avatar)
• American Idiot (musical) (2010, 2011) – St. Jimmy

References[link]

External links[link]

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