August 7, 2012 - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Theatre Cedar Rapids celebrated its 2011-12 season by honoring volunteers at Ovations Saturday, August 4, 2012.
The awards program featured video montages of every production from the past season; remarks by directors and staff members; and special awards for actors and a variety of volunteers. The celebration also included naming TCR's Volunteer of the Year. Images of the event can be viewed at TCR's volunteer Facebook gallery by clicking here.
Award Recipients:
- Volunteer of the Year
- Emmy Palmersheim
- Fed Hedges Lifetime Achievement Award
- Joan Sammons
- Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Play
- Andy Lesieur as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
- Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Play
- Marty Norton as Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest
- Golden Badge Award
- Doreen Meier
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play
- David Morton as Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Play
- Lindsay Prince as Georganne Darby in Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
- Technical Volunteer of the Year
- Rachel Potthoff
- Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Musical
- Aaron Canterbury as George in The Wedding Singer
- Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Musical
- Tina Conroy as Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Musical
- Michael Holmes as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Musical
- Emma Drtina as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray
- Outstanding Performance by a Male Youth
- Josh Payne as Link Larkin in Hairspray
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Youth
- Carly Herron as Penny Lou Pingleton in Hairspray
- 2011-2012 Season Spirit Award winners:
- Lovar Davis Kidd and Conor Schulz for "13"
- Nicolette Coiner-Winn and Craig Allen for "Superior Donuts"
- Danny Mulka and Greg Smith for "Damn Yankees"
- Amy Marner and Lucie Riddell for "A Christmas Carol"
- Angela Billman, Kevin Hartnett, Nicolette Coiner-Winn for "The Importance of Being Earnest"
- David Morton and Andrew Clancey for "Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde"
- Michaela Arnold and Rob Merritt for "The Wedding Singer
- Rachel Potthoff, Andrea Kelly and Lindsay Prince for "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress"
- Theresa Alt and Len Struttmann for "Alice in Wonderland"
- Susie Streit and Shari Miller for "On Golden Pond"
- Mike Holmes and Stephen Banks for "Hairspray"
- Outstanding Play
- Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
- Outstanding Musical
- Hairspray
