Distinctions
Jobsite is honored for the recognition we’ve received over the years.
Company Distinctions
2023
- Urban Excellence Award, Arts and Culture Finalist – Tampa Downtown Partnership
2022
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company, Reader's Choice
2021
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company – Runner-up
2020
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company, Reader's Choice
2019
- Tampa Bay Times Best of the Best – Best Local Theater
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company, Reader's Choice
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Stage Director, Reader's Choice – David M. Jenkins
2018
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Live Theater You Missed Because You Were Netflix and Chilling – Tampa International Fringe Festival (presented by Jobsite Theater)
2017
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Moment When Local Theater Turned a Corner – Tampa International Fringe Festival (presented by Jobsite Theater)
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company, Reader’s Choice, Runner-up
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Local Director, Reader’s Choice Runner-up – David M. Jenkins
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Local Lighting Designer, Reader’s Choice Runner-up – Ryan Finzelber
2016
- BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award – Best Professional Theater Company
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Link with the Greater Theater World: Jobsite and Israel Horovitz
2015
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company
2014
- American Theatre Wing – National Theatre Company Grant Finalist
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Stage Director, Reader’s Poll – David M. Jenkins
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Set Designer, Reader’s Poll – Brian Smallheer
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up
2013
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Artistic Director – David M. Jenkins
2010
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up
2009
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company Editor’s Choice (also Reader’s Poll Runner-up)
2008
- Urban Excellence Award Winner – Downtown Tampa Partnership
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Artistic Director – David M. Jenkins
2007
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company
- Urban Excellence Award Finalist – Downtown Tampa Partnership
2006
- Best Theater Company (also Reader’s Pick runner–up)
- Best Artistic Direction – David M. Jenkins
2004
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company
- Business Journal of Tampa Bay 30 Under 30 – Artistic Associate, Shawn Paonessa
- Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant – Artistic Associate, Katrina Stevenson
2003
- Jobsite Theater is named official resident theater company of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center’s Shimberg Playhouse.
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company
- Business Journal of Tampa Bay 30 Under 30 – Artistic Director, David M. Jenkins
2001
- Editorial Nomination and #3 in Citysearch’s 2001 Best Performing Arts Venue or Company
- Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant – Artistic Director, David M. Jenkins
1999
- “The Mouse That Roared Like a Lion” Award – The Tampa Tribune
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best New Theater Company
Production Distinctions
2021-22
Dr. Ride’s American Beach House
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Best Show
- Outstanding Director – Play – Shawn Paonessa
- Outstanding Actor – Giles Davies
- Outstanding Actress – Nicole Jeannine Smith
- Outstanding Performance by the Ensemble
- Outstanding Fight Direction – D Granke
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Romeo & Juliet
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Best Gesamtkunstwerk
- David Jenkins, et. al.
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Fight Direction – Giles Davies
- Outstanding Sound Design – Jeremy Douglass
Animals Out Of Paper
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Best Show
- Outstanding Director – Tatiana Baccari
- Outstanding Actress – Nicole Jeannine Smith
- Outstanding Performance by the Ensemble
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Ensemble
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Best Actress
- Nicole Jeannine Smith
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Readers’ Picks Best Director
- David Jenkins
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Readers’ Picks Best Actress, runner up
- Roxanne Fay
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Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Readers’ Picks Best Playwright
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Roxanne Fay
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2020-21
Doubt: A Parable
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated
- Best Local Production
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Hand To God
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated
- Best Theatrical Production
Henry V
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Shockheaded Peter
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated
- Best Experimental Act
- Best Theatrical Production
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Ensemble
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated Best Stage Director
- Roxanne Fay
- David M. Jenkins
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated Best Actor
- Giles Davies
- Nick Hoop
- Paul Potenza
- Brian Shea
- Adam Workman
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated Best Actress
- Colleen Cherry
- Roxanne Fay
- Andresia Moseley
- Katrina Stevenson
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated Best Spoken Word Artist
- Andresia Moseley
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated Best Vocalist
- Colleen Cherry
2019-20
Meteor Shower
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated
- Best Local Production
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated
- Best Local Production
2018-19
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Local Production, Reader’s Choice Runner-Up
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Edgar & Emily
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Othello
- BroadwayWorld
- Best Performances of the Decade – Giles Davies
- Best Lead Performance in a Play – Giles Davies
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play – Spencer Meyers
- Outstanding Costume Design (under $500k) – Katrina Stevenson
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Hedda
- BroadwayWorld
- Best Performances of the Decade – Emily Belvo
- Best Lead Performance in a Play – Emily Belvo
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Lighting Design (under $500k) – Jo Averill-Snell
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Production of a Play
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Play – Emily Belvo
- Outstanding Costume Design (under $500k) – Katrina Stevenson
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Constellations
- BroadwayWorld
- Best of the Decade
- Best Performances of the Decade – Georgia Mallory Guy
- Best of 2019
- Best Lead Performance in a Play – Georgia Mallory Guy
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Production of a Play
- Outstanding Director of a Play – Summer Bohnenkamp
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Play – Georgia Mallory Guy
- Outstanding Lighting Design (under $500k) – Jo Averill-Snell
- Outstanding Set Design (under $500k) – Brian Smallheer
- Outstanding Sound Design (under $500k) – David Jenkins
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Nominated
- Best Local Production
2017-18
The Threepenny Opera
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (tie) – Colleen Cherry
- Outstanding Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (tie) – Maggie Phillips
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Director of a Musical – David M. Jenkins
- Outstanding Choreography/Fight Direction – Alison Burns
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Musical – Jonathan Harrison
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Musical – Fo’I Meleah & Giselle Muise
- Outstanding Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical – Jennifer Casler
- Outstanding Lighting Design – Ryan E. Finzelber
- Outstanding Costume Design – Katrina Stevenson
- Outstanding Ensemble
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
1984
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Sound Design – Shawn Paonessa
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play – Giles Davies
- Outstanding Choreography/Fight Direction – Giles Davies
- Outstanding Lighting Design – Brian Smallheer
- Outstanding Set Design – Brian Smallheer
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
The Flick
- BroadwayWorld
- Best of the Decade
- Best Performances of the Decade – Georgia Mallory Guy
The Tempest
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress while hanging upside down on a silk – Katrina Stevenson
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Music Direction – Jeremy Douglass
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play – DeQuan Mitchell & Giles Davies
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Play – Roxanne Fay & Katrina Stevenson
- Outstanding Costume Design – Katrina Stevenson
- Outstanding Sound Design – David M. Jenkins
- Outstanding Ensemble
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
HIR
- BroadwayWorld
- Best Performances of the Decade – Roxanne Fay
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Script-Flipping on Sexual Abuse
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Director of a Play – David M. Jenkins
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Dancing at Lughnasa
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Production of a Play – David M. Jenkins
- Outstanding Sound Design – David M. Jenkins
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
2016-17
The Underpants
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Season Kickoff
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
LIZZIE
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Lead Actress Musical – Fo’i Meleah
Cloud Nine
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Ensemble in a Play
- Outstanding Costume Design – Katrina Stevenson
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
A Skull in Connemara
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Actor – Brian Shea
- Theatre Tampa Bay Award
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play – David M. Jenkins
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play – Diana Rogers
- Outstanding Lighting Design – Ryan Finzelber
- Outstanding Set Design – Brian Smallheer
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Gloucester Blue
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
2015-16
Silence! The Musical
- 2016 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Choreographer – Alison Burns
- Best Music Director – Robert Jarosh
- Best Sound Design – David Cohen
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Theatrical Production, Reader’s Poll
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Lebensraum
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
The Maids
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Production of a Modern Classic
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Time Stands Still
- BroadwayWorld Best of the Decade
- 2016 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Play
- Best Actor in a Play – David M. Jenkins
- Best Scenic Design – Brian Smallheer
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
2014-15
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
- 2014 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Featured Actress in a Play – Emily Belvo
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Actress – Ami Sallee
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
- BroadwayWorld
- Best Performances of the Decade – Zachary Hines
Twelfth Night
- BroadwayWorld
- Best Performances of the Decade – Giles Davies
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Costume Designer – Bailee Booser
Annapurna
- BroadwayWorld Best of the Decade
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Actor – Paul J. Potenza
2013-14
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Most Winningly Shameless Actor – Spencer Meyers
- Best Theater Rockers – Jobsite Theater
- Best Theater Production, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up
- Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Amy Gray
Crimes of the Heart
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
All New People
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Comedic Performance in a Drama – Jack Holloway
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Lead Actor, Play – Jack Holloway
- Outstanding Featured Actress, Play – Elizabeth Fendrick
Inventing Van Gogh
- 2014 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Director of a Play – Karla Hartley
- Best Sound Design – Karla Hartley
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Director – Karla Hartley
- Best Character Actor Who Can Do Anything – Ned Averill-Snell
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Production, Play
- Outstanding Featured Actor, Play – Ned Averill-Snell
- Outstanding Lighting Design – Kaylin Gess
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – David M. Jenkins
- Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Ensemble, Play
Return to the Forbidden Planet
- 2014 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Director of a Musical – David Jenkins
- Best Ensemble Performance in a Musical
- Best Actress in a Musical – Jaime Giangrande-Holcom
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical – Spencer Myers
- Best Set Design – Brian Smallheer
- Best Costume Design – Katrina Stevenson
- Best Lighting Design – Mike Wood
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Musical
- Best Theater Rockers – Jobsite Theater
- Most Winningly Shameless Actor – Spencer Meyers
- Best Theater Production, Reader’s Poll
- Best Lighting Designer, Reader’s Poll – Mike Wood
- Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Amy Gray
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Musical Director – Jana Jones
- Outstanding Featured Actress, Musical – Jaime Giangrande-Holcom
4.48 Psychosis
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Reason to Take Theater Seriously
2012-13
Fahrenheit 451
- BroadwayWorld
- Best Performances of the Decade – Giles Davies
Gorey Stories
- Theatre Tampa Bay – Outstanding Costume Designer – Katrina Stevenson
Behind the Gates
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best theater artist most likely born on the planet Krypton – Karla Hartley
Much Ado About Nothing
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress – Roxanne Fay
- Theater Tampa Bay Recommended
The Lonesome West
- Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated!
- Outstanding Ensemble (play)
- Outstanding Director (play) – Paul Potenza
- Outstanding Lead Actor (play) – David Jenkins
- Outstanding Featured Actor (play) – Brian Shea
- Outstanding Featured Actress (play) – Caitlin McDonald Eason
- Outstanding Sound Design – Shawn Paonessa
- Outstanding Choreography/Fight Direction – Giles Davies
The Ballad of Hipster McBigballs
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Playwright, Reader’s Poll – Christen Hailey
2011-12
The Guys
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor – Paul Potenza
Closetland
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor Reader’s Poll – David M. Jenkins
2010-11
The Odd Couple
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor – Paul Potenza
Einstein’s Dreams
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Lighting Design – Brian Smallheer
Yellowman
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Play
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress – Fanni Green
2009-10
And Baby Makes Seven
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress, Reader’s Poll – Alison Burns
Boom!
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Summer Bohnenkamp
What the Butler Saw
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – David Jenkins
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Most Consistently Surprising Actress – Meg Heimstead
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Steve Garland
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Summer Bohnenkamp, Meg Heimstead
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Most Consistently Surprising Actress – Meg Heimstead
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Summer Bohnenkamp, Meg Heimstead
2008-09
Blackbird
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Director – Karla Hartley
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Scenic Design – Scott Cooper
Rabbit Hole
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Reader’s Poll Best Actress Finalist – Meg Heimstead
- Creative Loafing 2009 Top 10 Production
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Reader’s Poll Best Actress Finalist – Kari Goetz
Pericles
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay 2009 – Best Theatrical Composer – Joe Popp
- Creative Loafing 2009 Top 10 Production
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay 2010 – Best Theater Production, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up
2007-08
Gorey Stories
- 2008 Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Costume Designer – Katrina Stevenson
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actress (tie) – Summer Bohnenkamp
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Overall Design – Brian Smallheer (Scenic/Lights) & Katrina Stevenson (Costume)
Eleemosynary
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actress (tie) – Molly Jacobson
A Dream Play
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Actress – Kari Goetz
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Creative Loafing Top 10 Plays of the Decade
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Play
- Creative Loafing 2008 Top 10 Production
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actor – Paul J. Potenza
Embedded
- Creative Loafing 2008 Top 10 Production
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Play
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Director – David M. Jenkins & Shawn Paonessa
2006-07
The Pillowman
- Creative Loafing 2006 Top 10 Production
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor – Steve Garland
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Play
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Director – David M. Jenkins
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Actor – Steve Garland
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actor – Paul Potenza
This is How it Goes
- Creative Loafing 2007 Top 10 Production
The March of the Kitefliers
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Design – Brian Smallheer (set), John Lott (lights), Katrina Stevenson (costume) & Kari Goetz, David Jenkins and Shawn Paonessa (sound)
Woman in Mind
- Creative Loafing 2007 Top 10 Plays
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress – Ami Sallee
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Costume Designer – Katrina Stevenson
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Actress – Ami Sallee
- Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actress – Kari Goetz
Hurlyburly
- Creative Loafing 2007 Top 10 Production
2005-06
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
- Weekly Planet 2005 Top Ten Production
The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
- Creative Loafing Top 10 Plays of the Decade
- Creative Loafing Top 10 Shows of 2006
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Play
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor – Steven Clark Pachosa
2004-05
The Complete History of America (abridged)
- Weekly Planet Best of the Bay – Best Hilarious Theater Production
- Weekly Planet 2005 Top Ten Production
The March of the Kitefliers
- Creative Loafing 2005 Best of the Bay Staff Pick – Best Impassioned Theater Fans – Jobsite devotees
2003-04
Bloody Poetry
- Weekly Planet 2003 Top Ten Production
- Best of 2003 – The Tampa Tribune
2002-03
Titus Andronicus
- Tampa Tribune Top 10 Performance of 2002
- 2002 Tampa Tribune “Tribbie” Award
Cloud Nine
- Creative Loafing Top 10 Plays of the Decade
- Weekly Planet Best of the Bay
- Best Play
- Best Director – Ami Sallee
- Best Set Designer – Dickie Corley
- Weekly Planet 2003 Top Ten Production
- Tampa Tribune Best of 2003
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)
- Weekly Planet 2003 Top Ten Production
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Weekly Planet Best of the Bay – Best Costume Designer – Katrina Stevenson
- Weekly Planet 2003 Top Ten Production
- Tampa Tribune Best of 2003
2001-02
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Weekly Planet 2002 Top Ten Production
subUrbia
- Weekly Planet 2002 Top Ten Production
2000-01
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
- Weekly Planet Top 10 Performance of 2001
- Tampa Tribune 2001 Season Highlight
