2008 MAC AWARDS WINNERS 2008 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARDS LINDA AMIEL BURNS BART GREENBERG’S ANY WEDNESDAY SERIES OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY LEWIS BLACK OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JAZZ GLORIA LYNNE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD MAUREEN MCGOVERN SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BRIDGET EVERETT & KENNY MELLMAN

FEMALE VOCALIST	MALE VOCALIST
JEANNE MACDONALD, Come Back to Me: Jeanne MacDonald Celebrates Miss Peggy Lee Bradstan Country Inn, Metropolitan Room	MILES PHILLIPS, Quiet Stars, The Unrest Inside Me Metropolitan Room, Cosmopolitan Club
FEMALE JAZZ VOCALIST	MALE JAZZ VOCALIST
LAURIE KRAUZ, Enzo’s Jazz Room, Iridium, Sweet Rhythm	JACK DONOHUE, Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, Cornelia Street Café
MAJOR ARTIST	MAJOR JAZZ ARTIST
BARBARA BRUSSELL, Out of the Mouths of Babes-Women Who Dared Metropolitan Room	NATALIE DOUGLAS, Birdland, The Duplex, Matthew's Mug (Vassar College)
FEMALE CELEBRITY ARTIST	MALE/DUO CELEBRITY ARTIST
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, Metropolitan Room, Birdland	STEVE ROSS, Oak Room at the Algonquin, 59East59
NEW YORK DEBUT – FEMALE	NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE
SUZANNE CARRICO, The Art of the Cahn: Music from the Sammy Cahn Songbook The Triad, Metropolitan Room	JONATHAN WHITTON, Perfect Finite The Triad, The Duplex, Laurie Beechman

STAND-UP COMIC

POPPI KRAMER
MAJOR STAND-UP COMIC – FEMALE	MAJOR STAND-UP COMIC – MALE
SUSIE ESSMAN	JIM DAVID
MUSICAL COMEDY / IMPERSONATION	DUO OR GROUP
RAY JESSEL, Songs from the Ridiculous to the Romantic Don't Tell Mama	KAREN MACK & MICHAEL HOLLAND, Gashole: Hole-O-Matic Metropolitan Room, The Duplex
JAZZ DUO OR GROUP	COMEDY/IMPROV DUO/GROUP
THE DARYL KOJAK TRIO, The Triad, Laurie Beechman, Sweet Rhythm, Metropolitan Room	CHICAGO CITY LIMITS
REVUE / SPECIAL PRODUCTION	VARIETY PRODUCTION/ RECURRING SERIES
MY FRIEND, THE CAT, created by Phil Geoffrey Bond Laurie Beechman	JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY, hosted by Jim Caruso Birdland
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – MALE	PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – FEMALE
DAVID COLBERT Helen's	SARAH MUCHO Rose's Turn, Don't Tell Mama
PIANO BAR/RESTURANT INSTRUMENTALIST	MUSICAL DIRECTOR
TRACY STARK Don't Tell Mama	STEVEN RAY WATKINS Lennie Watts, Jim Speake (The Metropolitan Room)
DIRECTOR	TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
ERIC MICHAEL GILLETT KT Sullivan, Karen Akers, Lari White (Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel), Anna Bergman , Raissa Katona Bennett (Metropolitan Room), Maureen Kelley Stewart (Laurie Beechman), Olivia Stevens-Pleasure and Peril:The Songs of Zarah Leander (Helen's)	JEAN-PIERRE PERREAUX Lina Koutrakos, Johnny Mercer A-Z ,Tom Wopat, Jimmy James, Karen Mason (Metropolitan Room)
SONG	SPECIAL MUSICAL MATERIAL
I REMEMBER Words by Shaynee Rainbolt & Russell Garcia, Music by Russell Garcia	ONE STOP SHOPPING Words by Dan Page, Michele Page, Sue Matsuki and Gregory Toroian, Music by Sue Matsuki & Gregory Toroian
RECORDING	JAZZ RECORDING
TERESE GENECCO Drunk With Love–Live (A Tribute to Frances Faye)	JOHN DEMARCO Pure and Simple