CARBONELL AWARDS Welcome Four New Judges for the 2025-2026 Theatre Season

Sept. 25, 2025 - PRLog -- (South Florida – September 23, 2025) The Carbonell Awards, South Florida's most highly coveted recognition of theatrical production and performance excellence, today announced four new judges. They will bring the total number of Carbonell judges to 48, including 18 in Broward County, 11 in Miami-Dade, and 19 in Palm Beach County. Collectively, they will see and evaluate more than 100 different productions at more than 30 professional theaters. The current theater season runs between September 1, 2025, and August 31, 2026.

The four new Carbonell judges are:

+ Deborah Bigeleisen (West Boca) is an internationally acclaimed artist who in her early career was a textile print designer and founder of her own global design company in NYC. She also served as a voter/judge for the Emmy Awards in several design categories. She began her fine art career upon moving to WPB in 1998. Over the course of her 25-year art career she has had 21 solo shows and has been juried into over 65 group exhibitions. Her paintings are sold through fine art dealers, International Contemporary Art Fairs including Art Hamptons, The Palm Beach Show, and the Shanghai Art Fair, and upscale digital art platforms. They have been widely published in international lifestyle and art magazines including Architectural Digest and Fine Art Collector and have been prominently exhibited in museum exhibitions including The Boca Raton Museum of Art, The Platt/Bornstein Galleries at American Jewish University in Los Angeles, and the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

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1.   Deborah Bigeleisen

2.   Barbara Cheives

3.   Wendy Bryan Michaels

4.   Cheryl Steinthal

Media Contact:

Gary Schweikhart, President

The Carbonell Awards

561.756.4298 / gary@pr-bs.net