Owls at the Barrymores 

Temple Owls are front and center across every category in the 2025 Barrymore Award Nominations, announced on Wednesday, August 13th. Owls represented over a dozen individual nominations and can be seen in the cast and crew of several shows across Outstanding Ensembles, Outdoor Productions, New Work, and Social Insight categories. We're excited to welcome all the nominees to the Barrymore Award Ceremony, hosted at the Temple Performing Arts Center, on October 20th!  Don't miss it! Come out and support your fellow theatrical owls!

Amina Robinson ('99, '02, Faculty) - Outstanding Direction of a Play for Intimate Apparel 

James Ijames ('06) - Outstanding Direction of a Play for King Hedley II 

Jessica Money ('19) - Outstanding Leading Performance in a Play for Our Town 

Gabe Elmore ('21) - Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play for Moreno 

Ian Rose (Faculty)- Outstanding Movement in a Play for Cyrano de Bergerac 

Ontaria Kim Wilson ('25) - Outstanding Movement in a Play for Moreno 

Kyle Metzger (Faculty) - Outstanding Direction of a Musical for Drip 

Eva Steinmetz ('24) - Outstanding Direction of a Musical for Poor Judge, Outstanding New Work for Poor Judge 

Phoebe Gavula ('18) - Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Musical for Grease 

April Thomson (‘25)  - Outstanding Set Design for Hold These Truths 

Rebecca Kanach (Faculty)- Outstanding Costume Design for Peter Panto: A Musical Panto 

Maria Shaplin ('07) – Outstanding Lighting Design for Poor Judge 

For more info on all of the Barrymore Award nominees check out this article (if we missed you and you are a Temple alum please let us know at [click-for-email])