Theatre Earns Standing Ovation with 27 Globe Awards

2021 season earns 27 awards

“It is always great to receive recognition from our community, and we hope it will bring an awareness to our larger goals.”

Those are the words Mark Stringham, chair and producing director of Theatre Arts, shared about the recent awards the Department of Theatre Arts received from the Alamo Theatre Arts Council. After winning five awards in Fall 2021, the department brought home an astounding 27 honors from the 2022 Alamo Theatre Arts Council Globe Awards.

The 2022 awards, presented during a gala event hosted by the Public Theater of San Antonio on Oct. 16, recognize productions in the San Antonio area from Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, the first full production season following COVID-19. The UIW productions honored this year include Ordinary Days, Tartuffe, Little Women and All Hail Hurricane Gordo.

Stringham, who won several awards, said he “is proud to stand with” the theatre faculty in their efforts to provide a strong foundation in the performing arts as they help students pursue their educational and professional goals. Additionally, through each performance, UIW Theatre faculty hope to enrich the cultural, intellectual and spiritual lives of the community.

“The hope is to foster a lifelong appreciation for creativity and a deep sense of compassion, which is a vital part of the UIW Mission of developing the whole person,” shared Stringham. “If our students walk out of our department as excellent practitioners, if our students become lifelong learners filled with compassion for others, and if our audiences begin to understand a little bit more about the human experience and thereby become a bit more empathetic, a bit kinder, a bit more loving to all, that is the greatest recognition we could ever receive.”