CARBONELL AWARDS Announces Expanded Team of Judges for 2022-2023 Theater Season

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Dec. 8, 2022 - PRLog -- (South Florida – December 8, 2022) Gary Schweikhart, president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida's most highly coveted recognition of theatrical and performance excellence, today announced the nonprofit organization's expanded team of judges for the 2022-2023 theater season, including seven new judges.

"We have an outstanding panel of 35 experienced judges, many of whom have been working with the Carbonell Awards for years, but also seven new volunteer judges**, all very highly qualified, who have a passion for and openness to all kinds of theater, including plays, musicals, new works, classics, immersive and multidisciplinary theater," he says. "This may be the most impressive and diverse roster of Carbonell judges in our 45-year history."

Carbonell Awards Judges 2022-2023

Broward County

+ Jerry Arbella (Wilton Manors) has been active in theater his entire life, from his early years through college in the Philippines, to his later years in Washington, D.C. and South Florida. He has been an actor, playwright, and arts journalist, and has served as a volunteer at both the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and Island City Stage.

+ R. Kent Chambers-Wilson (Lauderdale Lakes) has a varied theatrical background with experience as an actor, stage manager, assistant director, producer, sound designer, dramaturge, playwright, and the official Carbonell Coordinator. He also has been on the Ambassadors Council for the National New Play Network and served as Board President for The Theatre League of South Florida.

+ Noah Cuellar (Fort Lauderdale) received his theater training in Illinois where he was a former member of the Chicago Latino Theatre Company. Both an actor and director, he has worked at such venues as the Court Theatre, Drury Lane Dinner Theatre, Opera Factory, Remains Theatre,  and Stage 11; film/TV credits include Chicago, Losing Isiah, and Above the Law. **

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Christine LeShay

Available for Interview:

Gary Schweikhart, President

The Carbonell Board of Directors

561.756.4298 / gary@pr-bs.net

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Adrienne Arsht Center

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