Awards and Accolades
2009
• City of Fort Collins — “Human Relations Commission Award for Organizations” celebrating our commitment to “those in our community who promote acceptance and respect for diversity.” • Northern Colorado Business Report’s Mercury 100 Awards — #6 Fastest Growing Business (revenues under $2M). 2008 • Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Award- “Outstanding Regional Theatre” • Denver Post Ovation Awards — “Theatre Person of the Year”, Wendy Ishii; “Reader’s Choice”, Wendy Ishii;“Best Remount”, A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol; “Best Sound Design”, Wings • Northern Colorado Business Report 2008 Who’s Who In Business — Wendy Ishii and Matt Strauch • Northern Colorado Business Report’s Mercury 100 Awards — #1 Fastest Growing Business (revenues under $2M). 2007 • Denver Post Ovation Awards- “Best Sound Design” Walton Jones and Dan Tschirhart, A 1940s RadioChristmas Carol • Northern Colorado Business Report 2007 Who’s Who In Business — Wendy Ishii • Northern Colorado Business Report’s Mercury 100 Awards — #5 Fastest Growing Business (revenues under $2M). 2006 • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Theatre” • Northern Colorado Business Report 2006 Who’s Who In Business — Wendy Ishii • Fort Collins Weekly - Best of the Best Awards — "Best Actor" Wendy Ishii
• Fort Collins Weekly - Best of the Best Awards — "Best Theatre"
2005 • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Theatre” • Colorado Community Theatre Coalition — “Distinguished Merit Award”, Wendy Ishii • Denver Post Ovation Awards – “Best Actress”, Laura Norman, Angels in America • Denver Post Ovation Awards — “Special Achievement”, Angels in America • Westword — Angels in America: “Best Actress in a Drama”- Laura Norman, “Best Theatrical Collaboration” - Bas Bleu Theatre Company and OpenStage Theatre & Company; “Best Crossover Performer” Leonard Barrett; “Best All Around Women of the Theatre”,Wendy Ishii, “Best Supporting Actress”, Denise Perry-Olsen, Old Times; “Best Performance by a Child”, Brittany Heileman, Tongue of a Bird • Northern Colorado Business Report 2005 Who’s Who In Business — Wendy Ishii 2004 • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Theatre” • Colorado Community Theatre Coalition Festival Awards — Beast on the Moon: “First Place Production”, “People’s Choice”, and “Best Director”, Laura Jones; “First Place Acting Competition”, Wendy Ishii, Tongue of a Bird • Allstate Awards: “Directing” Laura Jones, “Acting” Sotirios Livaditis and Gemma Aguayo, “Lighting Design” Robert Braddy, “Costume Design” Rebecca Spafford, “Sound Design” Richard Mauro Ricchiuti, “Properties Design” Matthew Strauch • Northern Colorado Business Report 2004 Who’s Who In Business — Wendy Ishii •Northern Colorado Multicultural Corporation - “Arlene Nededog Merchant Awareness Award”: 2004 2003 • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Theatre” • American Association for Community Theatre National Festival Awards- Three Viewings: “1st Runner Up Best Production”, “Best Actress” Frances Burns and Wendy Ishii; “Best Set Dressing”, Robert Braddy • Colorado Community Theatre Coalition Festival The Gin Game • Allstate Awards — Frances Burns, Actress; Annie Cleveland, Costume Design 2002 • Denver Post Ovation Awards — Three Viewings: “Best Production”, “Best Supporting Actress”, Wendy Ishii, “Critics Choice” • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Actor”, David Siever, Three Viewings • Fort Collins Coloradoan “Coloradoan’s Making a Difference Award”, Wendy Ishii • Colorado Community Theatre Coalition Festival Awards — Three Viewings: • “First Place Production”, “People’s Choice” “Best Actress” Frances Burns • Allstate Awards — Three Viewings: Director, Terry Dodd; Set Design, Robert Braddy; Costume Design, Rebecca Spafford; Acting, Frances Burns and Wendy Ishii • Fort Collins Convention and Visitor’s Bureau — “Choice City Champion Hospitality Award”, Bas Bleu Theatre • Rocky Mountain Bullhorn — “Best Theater Award”, Bas Bleu Theatre • El Pomar — “Awards for Excellence”, nominee 2000 • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards – “Best Theatre” 1998 • Rocky Mountain News “Top Ten Productions”, Molly Sweeney • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Actress”, Wendy Ishii 1997 • Colorado Community Theatre Coalition Festival Awards — A Walk in the Woods: “Best Production”; “Best Actor”, David Siever 1996 • Colorado Community Theatre Coalition Festival Awards — Happy Days: “Best Director”, Laura Jones; “Best Actress”, Wendy Ishii • International Telly Awards — Wendy Ishii, Beyond Stigma. • Fort Collins Coloradoan Best of Fort Collins Awards — “Best Actress”, Wendy Ishii National and International Invitations include: * Samuel Beckett Symposium - Sydney, Australia 2003 (The event won the prestigious Helpmann Award for “Best Special Event”, recognition comparable to the Tony Award.) * Invitation for documentation of work in the Samuel Beckett Archives in Reading, UK,U by Curator James Knowlson * An article on our production of Beckett’s Embers appears in “Drawing on Beckett: Portraits, Performances and Cultural Contexts,” recently published by the Assaph Book Series, Tel Aviv * Common Threads: Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and the Interaction of the Arts, Law and Society in Addressing Violence Against Women Tel Aviv University 2000 * Avram Theatre Southampton, New York 1999 * International Federation of Theatre Research - Kent University, Canterbury, UK 1998 * International Beckett Festival - Victoria, BC 1997 * Colorado College - Colorado Springs 1996 * International “Telly Award”: Wendy Ishii 1996 |
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