Congratulations to this year's winners!
2023 Awards
Jack Bell Memorial Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement:
Wren Andres - writing - Emergency Contact
Willa Caspole - acting- Nora Helmer in A Doll's House, Part 2
Mairon Schumacher Award for Outstanding Contributions:
Max Tel
Previous Winners
Jack Bell Memorial Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement:
2022:
Noa Bethany Carlson - directing, writing, devision, and performance project - A Land Unkown, Remembered
Kamilah Cooper-Charles - directing project - Aleshea Harris' What to Send Up When It Goes Down
Natalya Nicole Nielsen - writing, devision, and performance project - Sometimes I Pretend
Hilary Kang-Oglesby - writing, devision, and performance project - Lyrical Escapism
2021:
Noa Carlson - stage management - Romeo and Juliet
Kai Morfin - acting - Scenes From Metamorphoses and Romeo and Juliet
Autumn Scott - stage management - Trope! (Fear Is a Villain)
2020:
Sophia Fern Brown - writing, composition, direction and performance of her multi-disciplinary
production, Pherneterity, February 28 & 29, Oxy Arts.
Zoë Speer - scenic design for Jacklyn Backhaus' Men On Boats, directed by Deena Selenow,
November 2019.
2019:
Megan Johnson - cue calling for U-R-U Fall 2018
Richard Via - original solo storytelling performance - Working Class: The Unofficial Gay Agenda
Dyoni Isom - directing community healing project - Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Elliot Davis - solo performance - Poet in New York
Megan McKiernan - directing - Ruby Rae Spiegel's Dry Land
2018:
Kylie Brakeman- writing, producing, directing and performing BEES!
2017:
Marciela Guardado-Writing, performing, & directing Las Tres Santas de Mallinali
2016:
Marina Bellizzi-Scenic Artist for Measure for Measure
Dylan Bruce- Scenic Design for Dead Man's Cell Phone
2015:
Brian Erickson- Playwrighting: Buyer's Market
Kenyon Meleney- Acting: Dorante in The Liar and the man in the chair in The Drowsy Chaperone
2014:
Savannah Gilmore-Acting: Clytemnestra in Agamemnon and Emilia in Othello
Lukecus King-Acting Othello in Othello and Directing for Slanguages
2013:
Giulia Davis-Acting: the Maniac in Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Robert Lundgren-Playwriting: Flush
Jakob Mallove-Acting: Mr. Antrobus in The Skin in Our Teeth and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, the Broadway Musical
Mairon Schumacher Award for Outstanding Contributions
2022:
Noa Bethany Carlson & Kai Alexander Morfín
2021:
Alisa Garcia & Makela Vogel
2020:
Mitch Carswell & Asher Tessier
2019:
Rachel Goodman & Megan Johnson
2018:
Elena Sánchez
2017:
Anisha Banerjee, Ada Flavin, & Nicolass Justice
2016:
Declan Meagher & Adam Roy
2015:
Savannah Gilmore
2014:
Reza Vojdani
2013:
Sara Gosschalk & Stephen Mann