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Immediate Release Contact: Jasmine Maharisi jmaharisi@gmail.com 402.609.9843 Nominees Announced for 2012 Omaha Entertainment and Arts Award Show OMAHA, Neb Nearly 200 artists, performers and musicians are among the nominees for the 2012 Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards, to be held Feb. 12, 2012 at the Hilton in North Downtown Omaha. The annual red carpet event honors supreme talent from the world of performing arts, visual arts and music. This years list was compiled from hundreds of public nominations submitted online during the open ballot session at oea-awards.com. Hancock & Dana, one of Omahas largest locally- owned accounting firms, tallied the top five nominations in each category. A few names, such as visual artist Tim Guthrie, appear more than once on the nominee list. This year, Guthrie was nominated three times, and is a hopeful in the Best Visual Artist, Best 2-D Visual Artist and Best New Media Visual Artist categories. This is crazy, I've never had so many nominations, Guthrie said. I don't know what to say. I'm flabbergasted. Embarrassed, but honored. Visual Arts Best Visual Artist Best Emerging Visual Artist Joe Broghammer Leslie Diuguid Tim Guthrie Victoria Hoyt Bill Hoover Kim Reid Kuhn Jun Kaneko Bill Sitzmann Vera Mercer Christina Renfer Vogel Ying Zhu Best 3D Visual Artist Best 2D Visual Artist Justin Beller Joe Broghammer Jamie Burmeister Tim Guthrie Jun Kaneko Bill Hoover Robert Miller Vera Mercer Larry Sosso Christina Narwicz Iggy Sumnik Kristin Pluhacek Best New Media Visual Artist Jamie Burmeister

Tim Guthrie Susan Knight Alex Myers Kjell Peterson Ying Zhu Best Group Visual Art Show

Body As Text RNG Gallery Extraordinary Rendition bemisUNDERGROUND Bienvenidos/Welcome Cathedral Cultural Center Sunderland Gallery Les Femmes Folles RNG Gallery Reunion: Old FriendsNew Work Hot Shops Art Center Science Fair Urban Storage

Performing Arts Best Show Bee," Omaha Community Playhouse Musical "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Drama Playhouse "Dark Play, or Stories for Boys," "The King and I," Ralston Community University of Nebraska at Omaha Theatre "Jacob Marleys Christmas Carol," Blue "Rooms: A Rock Romance," The Candy Barn Theatre Project "Three Tall Women," Blue Barn Theatre "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite "Tuesdays With Morrie," Omaha Care Center Community Playhouse "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater "The Year of Magical Thinking," Circle "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Theater Comedy "Beckys New Car," Omaha Community Playhouse "Distant Music," Brigit St. Brigit Theatre "Noises Off," University of Nebraska at Omaha "Steel Magnolias," Omaha Community Playhouse "A Thousand Clowns," Omaha Community Playhouse Direction Comedy or Drama Omaha Community Playhouse Carl Beck, "Tuesdays With Morrie," Amy Lane, "Beckys New Car," Omaha

Best Solo Visual Art Show Bill Hoover: Paintings from the Vision Inhabited House, Stone House Art Gallery Jun Kaneko: Outside Kaneko, Lauritzen Gardens Vera Mercer: Still Lifes, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Christina Narwicz: Fluid, Anderson O'Brien Gallery Kristin Pluhacek: Weeds/Pods/Seeds & Landscapes, Lauritzen Gardens Iggy Sumnik: On and Off the Wall, The New BLK Gallery

Community Playhouse Amy Lane, "Dark Play, or Stories for Boys," University of Nebraska at Omaha Kevin Lawler, "Jacob Marleys Christmas Carol," Blue Barn Theatre Susan Clement-Toberer, "Three Tall Women," Blue Barn Theatre Stage Direction, Musical Carl Beck, "The 25th Annual Putnam Music Direction, Musical Jim Boggess, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Jim Boggess, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community Playhouse Mark Kurtz, "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite Care Center Zach Peterson, "Rooms: A Rock Romance," The Candy Project Kevin Smith, "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Acting Musicals Actress Angela Jenson-Frey, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Shiloh Jones, "The Music Man," Papillion- La Vista Community Theatre Kirstin Kluver, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Ruth Rath, "Mame," Bellevue Little Theatre Jodi Vacarro, "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Supporting Actress Mary Carrick, "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Megan McGuire, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Jennifer Tritz, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community

County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community Playhouse Gordon Cantiello, "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite Care Center Susan Baer Collins, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Jennifer Holcombe, "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Todd Uhrmacher, "The King and I," Ralston Community Theater Choreography Sue Gillespie Booton, "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Debbie Massey, "The Music Man," Papillion-La Vista Community Theatre Roxanne Nielsen, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Roxanne Nielsen, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community Playhouse Patrick Roddy, "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite Care Center Actor Steve Krambeck, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Bellevue Little Theatre Ryan Pivonka, "The King and I," Ralston Community Theatre Seth Shirley, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Mark Thornburg, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Bellevue Little Theatre Dan Tracy, "Floyd Collins," Creighton University Kirk Vaughn-Robinson, "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Playhouse Kathy Tyree, "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite Care Center Tiffany White-Welchen, "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite Care Center Supporting Actor

Gary Bosanek, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Dan Chevalier, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community Playhouse Noel Larrieu, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Acting Comedy or Drama Actor Bill Grennan, "Dark Play, or Stories for Boys," UNO Nils Haaland, "Jacob Marleys Christmas Carol," Blue Barn Theatre Bit Hutson, "Tuesdays With Morrie," Omaha Community Playhouse Scott Kurz, "Distant Music," Brigit St. Brigit Theatre Jonathan Purcell, "Someone to Watch Over Me," F-Troupe Collaborative Supporting Actor Brendan J.D. Reilly, "Dark Play, or Stories for Boys," University of Nebraska at Omaha Steve Hartman, "Dark Play, or Stories for Boys," University of Nebraska at Omaha Chris Shonka, "Tuesdays With Morrie," Omaha Community Playhouse Scott Working, "Jacob Marleys Christmas Carol," Blue Barn Theatre Brian Zealand, "Shopping and F*cking," Lilyhorn/Martin Productions Theatre Arts Original Script Monica Bauer, "My Occasion of Sin," Shelterbelt Theatre Brian Guehring, "The Misfits," Rose Theater Kirstin Kluver, Kathleen Lawler and Jennifer Poole, "Bitch," The Witching Hour Aaron Sawyer, "Red Hamlet," Red Theater Omaha Ellen Struve, "Nobody Gets Paid," Shelterbelt Theatre

Community Playhouse Eric Micks, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community Playhouse D.J. Tyree, "Smokey Joes Cafe," Childrens Respite Care Center Actress Audrey Fisher, "The Philadelphia Story," Bellevue Little Theatre Kim Jubenville, "Beckys New Car," Omaha Community Playhouse Sarah Liken, "Euridyce," UNO Ruth Rath, "Three Tall Women," Blue Barn Theatre Barb Ross, "The Year of Magical Thinking," Circle Theatre Supporting Actress Sonia Keffer, "Three Tall Women," Blue Barn Theatre Kirstin Kluver, "Three Tall Women," Blue Barn Theatre Laura Leininger, "Distant Music," Brigit St. Brigit Theatre Patricia Lilyhorn, "A Thousand Clowns," Omaha Community Playhouse Jennifer McGill, "Steel Magnolias," Omaha Community Playhouse

Scenic Design Robbie Jones, "Eurydice," University of Nebraska at Omaha Scott Kurz, "Distant Music," Brigit St. Brigit Theatre Martin Scott Marchitto, "Three Tall Women," Blue Barn Theatre Jim Othuse, "Guys and Dolls," Omaha Community Playhouse Steven L. Williams, "Twelfth Night,"

University of Nebraska at Omaha Lighting Design Costume Design Matt DeNoncour, "Floyd Collins," Debbie Overturff, "A Midsummer Nights Creighton University Dream," Ballet Nebraska Jane Spencer, "Beckys New Car," Omaha Lindsay Pape, "Into the Woods," Community Playhouse Creighton University Bill Van Deest, "Jacob Marleys Christmas Lindsay Pape, "A Midsummer Nights Carol," Blue Barn Theatre Dream," Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Steven L. Williams, "Dark Play, or Stories Georgiann Regan, "Guys and Dolls," for Boys," University of Nebraska at Omaha Community Playhouse Omaha Lynne Ridge, "The 25th Annual Putnam Carol Wisner, "Three Tall Women," Blue County Spelling Bee," Omaha Community Barn Theatre Playhouse Sound Design Lucas Clopton, "Talk Radio," Blue Barn Theatre Eric Griffith, "Distant Music," Brigit St. Brigit Theatre Amanda Miller, "The Year of Magical Thinking," Circle Theatre Allie Stoysich and Steven L. Williams, "Eurydice," University of Nebraska at Omaha Molly Welsh, "Shopping and F*cking," Lilyhorn/Martin Productions Youth Performance for a Youth Audience Noah Diaz, "Nobody Gets Paid," "Fantastic Mr. Fox," Rose Theater Shelterbelt Theatre "The Misfits," Rose Theater Max Hauze, "The Sound of Music," Rose "Once Upon a Mattress," Chanticleer Theater Community Theater Brock McCullough, "Mame," Bellevue "Pride Players: Project 13," Rose Little Theatre TeensnTheater Bailey Newman, "My Occasion of Sin," "The Sound of Music," Rose Theater Shelterbelt Theatre Ashton Taylor, "The Philadelphia Story," Performance by a Young Actress or Actor Bellevue Little Theatre Dance Dance Production Featured Dancer "45 Degrees Celsius," Omaha Modern Matthew Carter, "A Midsummer Nights Dance Collective Dream," Ballet Nebraska "A Midsummer Nights Dream," Ballet Matthew Carter, "Momentum," Ballet Nebraska Nebraska "A Midsummer Nights Dream," Heartland Kyan Doubet, "Spring Showcase," The Youth Ballet Moving Company "Momentum," Ballet Nebraska Erika Overturff, "Momentum," Ballet "Spring Showcase," The Moving Company Nebraska Sasha York, "Momentum," Ballet

Nebraska Slam Poet Andrew Ek Katie F-S Matt Mason Music Best New Artist Gus and Call Icky Blossoms We Be Lions The Big Deep Snake Island The Seen Best Cover Band Secret Weapon Hi-Fi Hangover Yesterday & Today Lemon Fresh Day Jerry Pranksters Best Progressive/Experimental/Funk Funk Trek In Dreama Blue Martian Tribe Machete Archive The Midland Band Satchel Grande Best Blues Kris Lager Band Brad Cordle Band Lil Slim Blues Band 112 North Duck Mojo and The Mofos Best Soul/R&B and Gospel JaSoulo Lucas Kellison and the Assembled Soul The 9s Second Chance Voices of Victory

Gage Wallace Ben Wenzl

Best Artist Galvanized Tron Emphatic Tim Kahsher Bright Eyes Matt Cox Best Ethnic Omaha Guitar Trio The Bishops Vibenhai Donneybrook Mariachi Luna y sol Best Jazz Steve Raybine Robot Baklva Matt Amandus Jazzocracy Jorge Nilla and The Jazz Ninjas Best Hip Hop Galvanized Tron Jimmy Hooligan Conchance Pflames Scru Face Jean Purveyors of the Conscious Sound Best Country/Americana Kanesville Boys Matt Cox Band Platte River Rain Jaymie Jones

Filter Kings Best DJ/EDM Somasphere Brent Crampton Gunk DJs (Kobrakyle and $pencelove) Icky Blossoms BASSthoven Best Hard Rock Against The Artificial Broken Crown The End In Red The Wreckage Aurasing Best Adult/AlternativeSongwriter Tara Vaughan Mitch Gettman Manny Coon All Young Girls Are Machine guns South Of Lincoln Eli Mardock Best Album Bright Eyes-The Peoples Key Tim Kasher-The Game of Monogamy Matt Cox-Tracks in Sound Galvanized Tron-self titled Emphatic-Damage

Best Indie Lonely Estates Noahs Ark Was A Spaceship Conduits So-So Sailors Dim Light Blue Bird Best Rock Rock Paper Dynamite Voodoo Method Vago Mitch Gettman Kris Lager Band

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