First, I want to take this opportunity to thank Sean Samuels, Jessica Becker and Curtis Sabir for taking such fabulous pictures of the BOTOC: Romance shows! Y’all were a GODsend and did an amazing job, as I’m sure you’ve seen in the past few weeks’ posts. Thank you!!!!

Reminder:  If this whole acting career thing is ONLY about winning for you, you should think about quitting nowish.  Because most people lose.  If they’re lucky, they come in fifth.  But FIFTH on the call sheet is STILL A SERIES REGULAR, PEOPLE! So get in the gaaaame!  Get in the game, start fucking up and losing and not booking and being bad and sucking up the room and making a mess and being awful and having fun and trying stuff out and losing your mind and being in the game!  You won’t EVER have a chance of WINNING if you’re not in the gaaaaaaaaammme!

With that said, I want to congratulate everyone who DID get in the game and participated in BOTOC: Romance. You are all already ahead of those who sit on the sidelines.

And now, without further ado, here are the 2014 BOTOC: Romance Awards!

Best Costume

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Alex Quijano with Jim Mahoney

Best Adapted Material

COUPLE’S THERAPY, Lesly’s Thursday Night, by Alison Turner
Laura Hartley, Rob Silver, Ryan Caltagirone, Alison Turner, Jaclyn Becker, Marieve Herington
 

 
Best Original Material

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night

Most Ambitious Production

LOVIN’ CHAOS, Kristy’s Tuesday Night

Best Accommodation For Potential Disaster

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Jay Hayden showed up to do the show after working all day, having an accident on set, going to the hospital and having a zillion stitches in his face.

Most Impressive Performance by a Newish Class

LOVIN’ CHAOS, Kristy’s Tuesday Night, Ensemble

Best Performance by an Ingenue

PRETTY IN PINK, Kristy’s Monday Day
Hayes Beyersdorfer

Best Kiss(es)

COUPLE’S THERAPY, Lesly’s Thursday Night
Claire Byrne and Seth Cassell, Alison Turner and Jaclyn Becker, Matty “Ice” Iseman and Molly McQueen

Best Supporting Actor

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Galen Gering

Best Supporting Actress

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Alex Quijano

Best Use of God-Given Physical Attributes

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night

Best Premise (or Kahncept)

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Dan Sanders-Joyce, Hay Hayden, Galen Gering, Jim Mahoney

Best Choreography

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Trisha LaFache, Fever (Sally Pressman & Trisha LaFache)

Best Cinematography & Editing

A Tie!

LOVIN’ CHAOS, Kristy’s Tuesday Night
Madeline Peters, Sarah Beth Comfort, Brandon Alan Makovy & Marri Savinar

ROMANCE IN LA, Trisha & Lesly’s Monday Evening
Andrew Pierno

Best Director

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Trisha LaFache

Best Prop

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
The Tinder Frame (Angelique Cabral, India DeBeaufort, Alex Quijano)

Best Use of Strobe Lighting

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
The Pornographic Film with Jay Hayden, Alix Gitter, Jeff Meacham and Ginifer King

Best Ending

UNTITLED, Helen & Mal & Les’ Friday Day
Linda Friedman’s LOVE, ACTUALLY cards

Best Daring to Suck (in some cases, literally)

ANNIE, THE SEXICAL, Alison & Lesly’s Tuesday Evening
Ensemble (Nate Grams, Chris Ferro, Chase Gabrielson, Patrick Cragin, Taylor Zakhar and the girls)

Best Musical Accompaniment

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Cody Porter (not pictured) and guest accompanist Greg Nabours

Best Musical Number

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Bathtime with Alix Gitter, Eden Riegel, Angelique Cabral, Galen Gering, Ginifer King, Helen Highfield, India deBeaufort’s Hair and Dan Sanders-Joyce

Best Scene

COUPLE’S THERAPY, Lesly’s Thursday Night
Seth Cassell & Jaclyn Becker

Best Program & Credits

A Tie!

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Helen Highfield

ANNIE, THE SEXICAL, Alison & Lesly’s Tuesday Evening
Monique Kim

ROMANCE IN LA, Trisha & Lesly’s Monday Evening
Jim Festante

Best Script

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Eyal Podell, Trisha LaFache, Jim Mahoney, Dan Sanders-Joyce
 

Cleverest Bit

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
The RomanceIsDead Title (each person had a letter on the cell phone; they turned off all the lights and somehow managed to show their letters concurrently!)

Most Clean

AN ANATOMY OF AN ‘80’S ROMANCE, Lesly’s Monday Night
Briana Lane, Ben Schrader & Briana Lane, Kelly Frye

Most Pornographic

A Tie!

ANNIE, THE SEXICAL, Alison & Lesly’s Tuesday Evening
Jessica Kinsella & Patrick Cragin

LOVE, BASICALLY, Lesly & Vikki’s Thursday Day
BROTHERS with Ray Zomer, Kildare Riordan and Molly Cerne

LOVE, BASICALLY, Lesly & Vikki’s Thursday Day
THE SWEETEST THING with Tara Phillips, Breanne Loveland and Rene Lovit

Best (and only) Original Song (No Kahntest)

LOVIN’ CHAOS, Kristy’s Tuesday Night

Best Ensemble

AN ANATOMY OF AN ‘80’S ROMANCE, Lesly’s Monday Night
Lisa Linke, Ashton Holmes, Sal Nesleusan, Ben Schrader, Briana Lane, Vinoj Zachariah, Alison Haislip, Corbin Reid, Olivia Applegate, Khaleesi Potato Chip Kahn, Grant Steven Jordan, Matthew Bohrer, Kristy Johnson, Emily Peck, Jacqueline Zook, Kelly Frye, Tim Davis, Sarah Siadat, Jack Jack Merrill

Most Cohesive Production

A KAHNMAS CAROL, Lesly & Jolie & Eric’s Friday Day

Best Actor

A Tie!

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Jay Hayden

LOVIN’ CHAOS, Kristy’s Tuesday Night
Tommy Brown

Best Actress

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Sally Pressman

Best Filmed Material

COUPLE’S THERAPY, Lesly’s Thursday Night
Mallory McGill

And COUPLE’S THERAPY, Lesly’s Thursday Night, Trailer: “I’m All About Thursdays” by Mallory McGill, vocals by Gwen Hollander & Conroe Brooks, with the Ensemble (PICTURED:  Monty Geer, Gwen Hollander, Rob Silver)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnqfnKTmT0&feature=youtu.be

And finally?

Best Show Overall

#RomanceIsDead, Lesly’s Tuesday Night
Trisha LaFache, Jim Mahoney, Ginifer King, Alex Quijano, Angelique Cabral, Helen Highfield, Jeff Meacham, Alix Gitter, Galen Gering, Sally Pressman, India de Beaufort, Jay Hayden

 Kahngratulations to EVERYONE!