2023 TANYS FESTIVAL AWARDS
Best Short Production
The Beauty of Numbers
Hand to Mouth Players (Montrose, NY) and
GoJo Clan Productions (Hastings on Hudson, NY)
Best Alternate Short Production
Finding Love: The Good, the Bad, and the Silly
Harlequin Productions of Cayuga Community College (Auburn, NY)
Best Long Production
The Vagina Monologues
Aspie Works (Rochester, NY)
Adjudicators’ Performance Awards
Roberta Robinson as Mrs. Papadakis
The Beauty of Numbers
Hand to Mouth Players (Montrose, NY) and
GoJo Clan Productions (Hastings on Hudson, NY)
Albi Gorn as Borelli
The Beauty of Numbers
Hand to Mouth Players (Montrose, NY) and
GoJo Clan Productions (Hastings on Hudson, NY)
Ben Gorton as Actor 3 (Rabbi, Mike, Chris)
26 Pebbles
Sherburne Music-Theater Society (Sherburne, NY)
Kesha Sharee Hartzog
The Vagina Monologues
Aspie Works (Rochester, NY)
Adjudicators’ Discretionary Awards
Excellence in Props: Terri Fox
Finding Love: The Good, the Bad, and the Silly
Harlequin Productions of Cayuga Community College (Auburn, NY)
Excellence in Costume and Hair: Kristie Farr
Lost Girl
Indian River Thespian Troupe (Philadelphia, NY)
Excellence in Directing: Jacqueline Moe
The Vagina Monologues
Aspie Works (Rochester, NY)
Excellence in Sound Design: Joshua Wilson
Lost Girl
Indian River Thespian Troupe (Philadelphia, NY)
Technical Director’s Award
The Vagina Monologues
Aspie Works (Rochester, NY)
People’s Choice Awards
BEST ACTORS
Roberta Robinson as Mrs. Papadakis
The Beauty of Numbers
Hand to Mouth Players (Montrose, NY) and
GoJo Clan Productions (Hastings on Hudson, NY)
Albi Gorn as Borelli
The Beauty of Numbers
Hand to Mouth Players (Montrose, NY) and
GoJo Clan Productions (Hastings on Hudson, NY)
Kaydence Timerman as Wendy
Lost Girl
Indian River Thespian Troupe (Philadelphia, NY)
Penny Sterling
The Vagina Monologues
Aspie Works (Rochester, NY)
BEST PRODUCTION
26 Pebbles
Sherburne Music-Theater Society (Sherburne, NY)
BMI Supply Design Competition Awards
Best Overall Design
Terri Fox
God of Carnage
Auburn Players Community Theatre (Auburn, NY)
Best Set Design
Andrea and Nick Daszkiewicz
Arsenic and Old Lace
Penfield Players (Penfield, NY)
TANYS Awards
Ruth R. Legg Memorial Scholarship
Caitlyn Hampe, Rome Free Academy
Ivy Kos, Niskayuna High School
Sherman C. Ward Jr. Distinguished Volunteer Award
Joel Weirick, Auburn Players Community Theatre
