Emerging Professional Award
Selected by the Outstanding Theatre Award recipient, this $1,000 Award is presented to a person(s) demonstrating exemplary promise in a professional theatre organization.
2018 - Raquel Nobile is currently playing the role of Shprintze in the NYTF production of Fiddler on the Roof directed by Joel Grey. She is happy to return to the NYTF after performing, most recently, in the Yiddish Vaudeville concert series. She made her off broadway debut in Amerike- The Golden Land last summer and was featured in Bucharest, Romania during the Annual Tes Fest. She sings regularly as a featured soloist at the Harvard Club NYC, and holds a masters in classical voice from the Manhattan School of Music.
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2017 - Kelley Curran graduated Fordham University with a Princess Grace Award Nomination in 2006. She began her professional career with The Acting Company, completing three national tours by 2009. She appeared Off Broadway as Elinor Dashwood in Bedlam’s Sense & Sensibility, and received a Drama League Award Nomination for playing four characters in The Pearl’s The Ding-Dong. Kelley also received the 2016 Callaway Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Classic Play (Hippolita in RedBull’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore). Other Off-Broadway credits include Angels in America (Signature) and work with LAByrinth, 59E59, the Drama League, and the Public Theater. Regional:  Portland Center Stage, the Guthrie, Shakespeare & Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre of D.C. (DC Metro Arts Best Actress acknowledgement for Lady Percy opposite Stacey Keach’s Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts 1&2).  In 2017, she made her Broadway debut opposite Kevin Kline in Present Laughter; completed work on her first feature film, The Man Who Killed Hitler; followed by The Bigfoot (executive producer John Sayles). She is currently appearing in Bedlam’s Peter Pan at the Duke through Dec. 23.
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2016 - Rebecca Remaly is Managing Director of Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC), which she co-founded in 2006. Entering its 11th season, BETC has grown from scratch to a robust, award-winning, professional theatre with an operating budget exceeding $500K. In 2015, Rebecca accepted BETC’s National Theatre Company Award from the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards. Directing credits with BETC include Cyrano, Outside Mullingar, The Aliens, Annapurna(2014 True West Award, Best Production), Mauritius, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf (2011 Daily Camera Eye Award, Best Comedy), The Clean House, Copenhagen, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, and the world premiere of Morisot Reclining (Henry Award Nomination, Best New Play 2009). Sometimes an actor, Rebecca appeared in the BETC productionsStupid F##king Bird (Mash), Doubt (Sister James), Stop Kiss (Sara),The Glass Menagerie (Laura) and Antigone (Ismene). Prior to moving to Colorado, Rebecca worked at several East Coast theatre companies, including Manhattan Theatre Club, George Street Playhouse, and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.
2015: Isabel Nelson, Diogo Lopes

2014: Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins

2013: Ed Sylvanus Iskandar

2012: Eric Lockley

2011: Terah Herman

2010: No Award

2009: No Award

2008: Kinan Valdez

2007: Jeff Carey

2006: Andi Stover

2005: Keight Gleason, Tyler Olsen

2004: Xosha Roquemore

2003: Sarah K. Bartlo

2002: Ryan McKittrick

2001: Jay Paul Skelton

2000: Andrew D. Madsen

1999: Terrance Winston

1998: Mary Grace Landiver

1997: Brendon Fox

1996: Ian Barford