CARBONELL AWARDS Announces Finalists for 2024-2025 Theater Season

BOCA RATON, Fla. - EntSun -- (South Florida – September 16, 2025) Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida's Theater & Arts Honors, today announced the top finalists in 20 competitive categories for the 2024-2025 theater season. More than 100 professional productions at 33 theatres were evaluated by a diverse group of more than 40 judges representing all three participating counties (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach).

Maltz Jupiter Theatre earns 24 nominations, Slow Burn Theatre Company grabs 23, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre and GableStage garner 11 each, Miami New Drama nets 9, Arca Images wins 8, and getting 7 each are Broadway at LPAC, New City Players, and Theatre Lab.

Also, winning 5 nominations is Zoetic Stage; 3 each for Island City Stage, Palm Beach Dramaworks and Ronnie Larsen Presents/Plays of Wilton; receiving 2 each are Area Stage, ArtBuzz Theatrics, and The Wick Theatre; with Brévo Theatre, Loxen Entertainment, and the Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center each gaining a nomination. Collectively, 129 nominations were distributed among 36 professional productions at 19 different theaters.

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Appropriate at GableStage is the show that earned the most individual nominations (10), followed by Lincoln Road Hustle by Miami New Drama (9), with Anastasia at Slow Burn Theatre Company, Jersey Boys at the Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, and The Lehman Trilogy at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, all getting 8 each.

Four productions are represented by 7 finalists each: All My Sons (New City Players), Once (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), The Bodyguard (Slow Burn Theatre Company), and Tres Veces Cruz/Three Times Cruz (Arca Images). Frozen at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre earned 6 nominations, and The Pillowman at Zoetic Stage picked up 5.

Carbonell finalists with double nominations are Michael McKeever, Carlos Silva, and Laura Turnbull.

Available for interview:

Gary Schweikhart, President

The Carbonell Awards Board of Directors

561.756.4298 / gary@pr-bs.net