And the award goes to...

Congratulations to this year's Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards recipients...

VISUAL ARTS

Best 2D Artist - Vera Mercer

Best 3D Artist - Jun Kaneko

Best Emerging Visual Artist -Ying Zhu

Best Group Visual - "Extraordinary Rendition" - bemisUNDERGROUND

Best New Media Artist - Ying Zhu

Best Solo Show - Vera Mercer - "Still Lifes" - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Best Visual Artist - Vera Mercer

PERFORMING ARTS

Best Actor: Comedy/Drama - Scott Kurz “Distant Music” - Brigit Saint Brigit

Best Actor: Musical - Steve Krambeck - “Dirty Rotten Scoundrals” - Bellevue Little Theatre

Best Actress: Comedy/Drama - Ruth Rath - "Three Tall Women” - Blue Barn Theatre

Best Actress: Musical - Kirstin Kluver “Guys and Dolls” Omaha Community Playhouse

Best Choreography - Roxanne Nielsen - “Guys and Dolls” - Omaha Community Playhouse

Best Comedic Play - “Distant Music” - Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre - 

Best Director: Comedy/Drama - Kevin Lawler - “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” - Blue Barn Theatre

Best Dramatic Play - “Three Tall Women” - Blue Barn Theatre

Best Featured Dancer - Erika Overturff - “Momentum” - Ballet Nebraska

Best Local Dance Production   “Momentum” - Ballet Nebraska

Best Local Slam Poet - Matt Mason

Best Musical - “The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” - Omaha Community Playhouse

Best Musical Direction - Mark Kurtz - ”Smokey Joe’s Café” - Children’s Respite Care Center

Best Supporting Actor: Comedy/Drama - Scott Working - “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” - Blue Barn Theatre

Best Supporting Actor: Musical - Dan Chevalier - “The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” - Omaha Community Playhouse

Best Supporting Actress: Comedy/Drama - Laura Leininger - “Distant Music” - Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre

Best Supporting Actress: Musical - Jennifer Tritz - “The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” - Omaha Community Playhouse

Costume Design - Georgiann Regan - “Guys and Dolls” - Omaha Community Playhouse

Lighting Design - Steven L. Williams - “Dark Play, or Stories for Boys” - University of   Nebraska – Omaha

Original Script - Monica Bauer - “My Occasion of Sin” - Shelterbelt Theatre

Performance by Young Actors - Bailey Newman - “My Occasion of Sin” - Shelterbelt Theatre

Performance for A Young Audience - “Pride Players: Project 13” - Rose Teens ‘n’ Theatre

Scenic Design - Scott Kurz - “Distant Music” - Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre

Sound Design - Amanda Miller - “The Year of Magical Thinking” - Circle Theatre

LIVE MUSIC

Album of the Year - Bright Eyes- The Peoples Key

Alternative/Indie - Conduits

Artist of the Year - Galvanized Tron

Best Progressive/Experiment/Funk - Satchel Grande

Best Soul/ R&B/ Gospel - Lucas Kellison and the Assembled Soul

Blues - Kris Lager Band

Country/Americana - Matt Cox Band

Cover Band - Yesterday and Today

DJ/ Electronic - Icky Blossoms

Ethnic/World - The Bishops

Hard Rock - Broken Crown

Hip Hop/Rap - Galvanized Tron

Jazz - Jazzocracy

New Artist - Snake Island!

Rock - Rock Paper Dynamite

Singer-Songwriter/Adult Alternative - All Young Girls Are Machine Guns