The Alamo Theatre Arts Council (ATAC) annually recognizes excellence in live theatre throughout the San Antonio area through the ATAC Globe Awards.
The Globes recognize outstanding achievement across 35 competitive categories, including production, direction, performance, music direction, choreography and technical design in local dramas, comedies, musicals and college productions. In addition, ATAC presents two special achievement awards honoring significant contributions to the local theatre community.
Each season, ATAC selects a dedicated cohort of judges who are carefully reviewed and approved by the ATAC Board of Directors.
Judges serve a one-year term and are selected based on their theatre experience, community involvement and ability to provide thoughtful, impartial evaluations.
Before judging, all judges participate in required training and agree to follow ATAC’s Code of Ethics and judging policies. Judges must also avoid evaluating productions in which they, their immediate family members, partners or current students are involved.
Only productions submitted by their producing theatre for judging are eligible for Globe Award consideration.
The producing theatre submits its production for Globe Award consideration.
Judges attend eligible productions in their assigned categories throughout the season.
Following each performance, judges evaluate the work and submit their digital ballots within a defined period.
Ballots are submitted to an independent third-party tabulator, which maintains the season’s scoring data.
After the season concludes, the ATAC Judging Committee and the third-party tabulator independently review the results for accuracy and fairness.
The highest-scoring eligible artists and productions in each category receive Globe Award nominations, with the number of nominees determined according to ATAC’s established judging procedures.
At the annual ATAC Globe Awards Gala, the Globe is presented to the nominee receiving the highest average score in each competitive category.
The Globe Awards are presented each fall at ATAC’s annual gala, where San Antonio’s theatre community comes together to celebrate the year’s outstanding work.
Globe recipients receive an award trophy and recognition for their contribution to the San Antonio theatre community.
The first Globe Awards were presented in 1991. Since then, ATAC has celebrated thousands of theatre artists and productions and has presented more than 2,500 Globe Awards.
For more than three decades, ATAC has helped encourage, recognize and celebrate excellence throughout the San Antonio theatre community.
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Overall Production
Direction
Lead Actor
Lead Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Overall Production
Direction
Lead Actor
Lead Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Choreography
Musical direction
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Sound design
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