Lisa Carr, an enthusiastic DC theatergoer who considers less than a hundred shows to be a “slow year”, has won the 2016 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award as this year’s outstanding audience member.
David S. Kessler awarded the 2015 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award
DC Theatre Scene presented its 2015 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award on Friday night, October 2nd on the stage of the Folger Theatre to David S. Kessler. About forty people, braving inclement weather, had come to hear Dr. Georgianna Ziegler’s lecture on Elizabeth I leading up to the performance of textsandbeheadings/Elizabeth R, and stayed to […]
Barbara Bear, theatre patron, 2014 outstanding audience member
One of the most recognizable faces in Washington D.C.’s theater scene isn’t an actor, isn’t a high-profile writer or even an artistic director—it’s fan and patron Barbara Bear, who regularly sees more than 100 productions a year and has totaled over 5,000 theater performances since moving from Newport News to Arlington in 1961.
2014 Gary Maker Audience Award presented to Barbara Bear
Barbara Bear, who regularly attends more than one hundred theatrical productions a year in the DC Area, has won the 2014 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award.
The Gary Maker Audience Award
Update: As of 2026, the annual recognition of outstanding audience members known as The Gary Maker Audience Award has become The Capital Theatre Audience Award and is being managed by The Alliance for New Music-Theatre under the leadership of Susan Galbraith. Follow the annual ceremonies and recipients here. The Gary Maker Audience Award 2011 – […]