 It has also won the 2004 OOBR award and a 2008 Snapple/Mayor of NY City Award, as well as a 2008 NY Innovative Theatre Award.The company's unusual name stems from a young boy the artistic director met in Romania in the 1990s when working with abandoned children there.Nicu's Spoon productions have been the original work "Displaced"; "To Kill a Mockingbird"; Eric Overmyer's "In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe"; "Nineteen Eighty-Four"; Mac Wellman's "Murder of Crows"; Eric Bogosian's "SubUrbia"; a play adaptation of "Ordinary People" by Nancy Gilsenan (from the book by Judith Guest); Elizabeth Egloff's "The Swan"; a play adaptation of "Le Petit Prince" by Ric Cummins and John Scoullar; Mark Medoff's "Stumps"; Gary Henderson's "Skin Tight"; Ken Duncum's "Cherish"; "Buried Child"; Constance Congdon's "Tales of the Lost Formicans", "Shakespeare's Richard III", and most recently their highly successful run of "Elizabeth Rex", which after its run moved to New York's Center Stage in August 2008 for a one-month limited Off-Broadway engagement.