Marie Bankerd
- Audrey Herman Award for passion and support of the Arts & Theatre across Baltimore
Marie Bankerd has been a costumier, hair and wig designer, and performer in the Baltimore area for thirty years. She was the resident designer/fabricator for the Baltimore Actors' Theatre and Oregon Ridge Dinner Theatre for twenty-five years, creating costumes for countless musical productions including Babes in Toyland, The Merry Widow, and the U.K. and Australian Tour of their original Phantom of the Opera.
Marie loved costuming all of the over one hundred productions that she has worked on; some of her most cherished are Romeo and Juliet and Beauty Queen of Lenane at Spotlighters Theatre, The Addams Family and Les Miz at Milburn Stone Theatre, Jacques Brel…, Reefer Madness and Rocky Horror with Factory Edge Theatre Works, The Quest at BaltiCon, Jekyll and Hyde at Third Wall Productions, Picnic at Streetlamp Productions, Trial by Jury and Iolanthe for the Young Victorians, Return to Putty at Muhlenberg College, Rena: the Musical at Montclair Opera Club, The Mehal Manuscripts at Seton Hall University, A Holiday How-to at The Pit Theatre in NYC, and an incalculable number of Revues, Special Events, and Solo Performances.
Memorable hair designs include Cats at MST, King Lear at Single Carrot, and Madame Butterfly at Annapolis Opera Company. Marie continues to teach Hair and Wig Masterclasses throughout the area.
Her favorite performing credits are Madame Giry in Phantom of the Opera, Tessie Tura in Gypsy! and Cinderella's Stepmother.
- Audrey Herman Award for passion and support of the Arts & Theatre across Baltimore
Marie Bankerd has been a costumier, hair and wig designer, and performer in the Baltimore area for thirty years. She was the resident designer/fabricator for the Baltimore Actors' Theatre and Oregon Ridge Dinner Theatre for twenty-five years, creating costumes for countless musical productions including Babes in Toyland, The Merry Widow, and the U.K. and Australian Tour of their original Phantom of the Opera.
Marie loved costuming all of the over one hundred productions that she has worked on; some of her most cherished are Romeo and Juliet and Beauty Queen of Lenane at Spotlighters Theatre, The Addams Family and Les Miz at Milburn Stone Theatre, Jacques Brel…, Reefer Madness and Rocky Horror with Factory Edge Theatre Works, The Quest at BaltiCon, Jekyll and Hyde at Third Wall Productions, Picnic at Streetlamp Productions, Trial by Jury and Iolanthe for the Young Victorians, Return to Putty at Muhlenberg College, Rena: the Musical at Montclair Opera Club, The Mehal Manuscripts at Seton Hall University, A Holiday How-to at The Pit Theatre in NYC, and an incalculable number of Revues, Special Events, and Solo Performances.
Memorable hair designs include Cats at MST, King Lear at Single Carrot, and Madame Butterfly at Annapolis Opera Company. Marie continues to teach Hair and Wig Masterclasses throughout the area.
Her favorite performing credits are Madame Giry in Phantom of the Opera, Tessie Tura in Gypsy! and Cinderella's Stepmother.
Robert H Welton
- Spotlighters Award for Volunteer Service to Spotlighters Theatre
Robert Henry Welton is a native of Cleveland Ohio but has lived in Baltimore since the mid 80's. He is the former Director of Clinical Development for the University of Maryland Medical System. He has a life-long love of cooking but until taking over the catering duties for Spotlighters had never cooked for anyone other than family and friends. He credits his grandmother and mother for teaching him how to cook, and his idols Julia Childs and Ina Gartner for continuing his culinary education through their TV shows and cookbooks. His other passion is gardening, and he grows a lot of the vegetables he uses in his recipes. He and his husband, Timoth, recently celebrated their 20th anniversary with a trip to Paris where they ate their way across the city.
- Spotlighters Award for Volunteer Service to Spotlighters Theatre
Robert Henry Welton is a native of Cleveland Ohio but has lived in Baltimore since the mid 80's. He is the former Director of Clinical Development for the University of Maryland Medical System. He has a life-long love of cooking but until taking over the catering duties for Spotlighters had never cooked for anyone other than family and friends. He credits his grandmother and mother for teaching him how to cook, and his idols Julia Childs and Ina Gartner for continuing his culinary education through their TV shows and cookbooks. His other passion is gardening, and he grows a lot of the vegetables he uses in his recipes. He and his husband, Timoth, recently celebrated their 20th anniversary with a trip to Paris where they ate their way across the city.