Founders Award Winners
2023
Annie Dragoo
Dana Riggins
2022
Charlie Hukill
2021
No TheatreFest (Covid-19 cancellation)
2020
Yvonne Phillips Dupree
2019
Karen King
2018 (Dallas)
Phillip Morgan
2018 (Galveston)
Gloria McLuckie
2017
Marion Castleberry
Rachel Mattox
2016
Kim Blann
Missey Head
2015
Craig Hertel
Dr. Jerry Ivins
J.E. Masters
2012
David Stevens
2011
Clarence Lee Turner
2010
Royal Brantley
2009
Travis Poe
2008
Laura Bradshaw
Kathy Powdrell
2007
Alan Parker
Tal Lostracco (posthumously)
2006
Allana Patterson
2005
Kris Andrews
Kathy Barber
2004
Peter Dias
Tom Waggoner
2003
Mary Ann Fletcher
Pam Mercer-McWilliams
2002
Adonia Placette
Jeanette Filardo
2001
Patricia Baldwin
Gregory M. Schwab
Helen Lewis
2000
Becky Bailey
Oscar Brockett
Orlin Corey
The Glenn Martin Family
Cynthia SoRelle
1999
Ralph Culp
Dan Hannon
Bob Singleton
1998
Rachel Smith
1997
Laurence Binder
Krin Brooks Perry
1996
Chuck Sheffield
John Steele
Pam Wilson
1995
Jay C. Brown
Luis Munoz
Betsy Cornwell
1994
Sheila Hargett
Thelma Pate
Jim Rambo
Ray Karrer
1993
Allan Ross
Thomas J. Lyttle
Lou-Ida Marsh
1992
Vicki Bond Smith
Jody Worsham
1991
Pam Brown
Marilyn Miller
Jan Jones
James R. Miller
1990
Kay L. Coughenour
1989
Mary Jane Mingus
1988
Nancy Rowley
Jimmy Tinkle
1987
George Sorensen
1986
Jerry Long
Coleman Jennings
1985
I. E. Clark
Randall J. Buchanan
Charles R. Jeffries
Kim Wheetley
1984
Ruth Denney
Curtis L. Pope
1983
Bill Cook
Ron Lucke
Ramona Peebles (posthumously)
Frederick J. March
Peggy Mungerson
1982
Amy Freeman Lee
Jerry Worsham
1981
Charles Schmidt
Ronald Schulz
Noyce Burleson (posthumously)
1980
Perri Bell
W. Kenneth Waters
Lynn Murray
Zula Pearson
Ermine Worrell
1979
Roy Brown
Freda G. Powell
Frances Springer
Don Irwin
Alex Reeve
Jeanne Hindman
Carl Marder (posthumously)
1978
Paul Baker
Walter Volbach
Angus Springer
F. Loren Winship
James Barton
Richard Slaughter
C.K. Easton