Broadway World Regional Awards Concern

I don't know if concern is too strong a word... I support and respect the decision to remove gender identifiers from performance categories to be all-inclusive, however, in doing so only half of the amount of artists are being recognized. As two categories were combined into one, why not award the top two winners? I know it may be two of the same gender in a category, but at least the number of recipients would be the same.

Updated On: 1/14/26 at 08:21 AM

whatacharacter said: "I don't know if concern is too strong a word... I support and respect the decision to remove gender identifiers from performance catagories to be all-inclusive, however, in doing so only half of the amount of artists are being recognized. As two catagories were combined into one, why not award the top two winners? In my region all performance awards went to cis-female performers."

Do you have the same concerns with the fact that other categories don't break things out by gender or award two winners? No. Then why should actors be treated any differently?

The BroadwayWorld Awards aren’t juried or vetted. Anyone can nominate themselves, and anyone can vote whether they’ve seen the show or not. It’s a turnout contest, not an award. At this point it mostly exists to give community theatre performers something to point to, which is fine, but it has nothing to do with actual evaluation or recognition.