Brown-Ullstrup Performing Arts Foundation

Our Awards!

Works of the people associated with the Brown-Ullstrup Performing Arts Foundation have been recognized as follows...

May, 2020	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Bronze Division The WGTD Radio Theater: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:The Murder of Professor Jeremy Clarkson Listen to the show!
May, 2020	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Silver Division The WGTD Radio Theater: The Entire Season of Detective Stories, including... Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Mounds of Delavan, Wisconsin: The Kane Shadow: Send in the Clowns The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:The Murder of Professor Jeremy Clarkson A Detective Double Header! The Thin Man!...and...Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Listen to a medley of the shows!
May, 2020	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Silver Division The WGTD Radio Theater: The New Dean Martin Show Holiday Extravaganza Listen to the show!
May, 2020	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Silver Division The WGTD Radio Theater: The Kane Shadow: Send in the Clowns Listen to the show!
May, 2020	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Silver Division The WGTD Radio Theater: Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Mounds of Delavan, Wisconsin Listen to the show!
May, 2020	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 2nd Place, Best Original Feature Music The WGTD Radio Theater: 15th Season, Detective Stories Listen to a medley of the shows!
May, 2020	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 2nd Place, Best Use of Audio (Non-News) The WGTD Radio Theater: The Dean Martin Holiday Show Extravaganza Listen to the show!
May, 2019	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 1st Place, Best Live On-site Broadcast Remote The WGTD Radio Theater: The Kane Shadow: The Louis “Gas” Derler Murder Mystery Listen to the show!
May, 2019	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 1st Place, 2018 Best Significant Community Impact The WGTD Radio Theater – The Kane Shadow: Sayonara My Friends. The Story of WWII Japanese Americans in Delavan, Wisconsin Listen to the show!
May, 2019	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 2nd Place, 2018 Best Use of Audio (Non-News) The WGTD Radio Theater: The Stagedoor Canteen (World War II Theme) Listen to the show!
April, 2019	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Silver Division The WGTD Radio Theater: 14th Season, World War II Theme
April, 2019	National Audio Theatre Festivals, HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival Silver Division The WGTD Radio Theater: 14th Season, World War II Theme
May, 2017	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 1st Place, 2016 Best Live On-Site Broadcast Remote Listen to the show!
May, 2017	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 2nd Place, 2016 Best Original Feature "The Kane Shadow - A REAR WINDOW Murder"
May, 2016	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 1st Place, 2015 Best Specialty Programming “The Eleventh Season of the WGTD Radio Theater” The shows... A Cartoons-on-the Radio Mash-up, 2015! Yes! We’re going there! A Seat by the Window The Kane Shadow: A Roaring Murder! MARS: INSIDE & OUT Summer’s Over! “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet!” “Our Miss Brooks!” “The Great Gildersleeve!” Detectives Times Two! "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" "Nora Charles, Private Detective" Sorry, Wrong Number & Three Skeleton Key Lost and Found for the Holidays! with “Yulenet”
May, 2016	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award 3rd Place, 2015 Best Significant Community Impact "A Seat by the Window" Written by... Barb Tylla
May, 2012	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award First Place, 2011 Best Original Feature “The Seventh Season of the Live WGTD Radio Theater” The shows... It's Our-50th-Show Variety Show! And on the Eighth Day: Bryan vs. Darrow The Carol Burnett Show & the Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen Show 4th Annual Cartoons on the Radio...Cartoon Families! "The Jetsons" "The Flintstones" The Adventures of Charlotte Holmes: "The Mystery of Sherlock's Death" The Enigma Covenant The Kane Shadow: "The 'Gas' Derler Murder Mystery" Lost and Found for the Holidays!
May, 2012	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award First Place, 2011 Best Use of Audio (Non-News) “The Live WGTD Radio Theater’s 50th Show Broadcast” Produced by... Steve Brown & Mike Ullstrup with Don Jensen
October, 2011	A Thank-You from the Towne Square Bar in Trevor, Wisconsin Site of the gangland killing in 1930 once again owned by the Derler family
June, 2010	State Bar of Wisconsin "Golden Gavel" Award Excerpt from press release of the State Bar of Wisconsin, 6/8/2010… State Bar of Wisconsin: Exceptional journalism that strengthens the public’s understanding of the justice system is recognized by State Bar Reporters, producers, photojournalists and other professionals from Wisconsin news organizations will receive 2009 Golden Gavel Awards and Certificates of Commendation that recognize the important contributions they made last year to the publics’ understanding of our justice system. "From Tinker to Starr to Bong Hits for Jesus" by WGTD Public Radio: Dr. Steven Brown, Executive Producer, Host and Writer of WGTD’s "Education Matters" program, and Dr. Howard Bultinck, Co-Host, will receive a Golden Gavel Award for a program that explores a series of court decisions impacting the rights of students to express themselves. Golden Gavel Awards and Certificates of Commendation provide statewide recognition of photography, published articles, radio and television broadcasts, and websites that relate to the work of the bench, bar, law enforcement agencies, corrections institutions, or to the law itself. Only materials first published, broadcast, posted or otherwise publicly disseminated between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009 were eligible for the 2009 awards. The State Bar of Wisconsin is the mandatory professional association, created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, for attorneys who hold a Wisconsin law license. With more than 20,000 members, the State Bar aids the courts in improving the administration of justice, provides continuing legal education for its members to help them maintain their expertise, and assists Wisconsin lawyers in carrying out community service initiatives to educate the public about the legal system and the value of lawyers. For more information, visit www.wisbar.org Read the entire letter here...
June, 2009	Phi Delta Kappan - The Journal for Education An article by Steven M. Brown and Northeastern Illinois University colleague Howard J. Bultinck, "From Black Armbands to Bong Hits for Jesus: The 40th Anniversary of Tinker," was accepted and published as the cover story of this prestigious monthly educational research, service, and leadership magazine. The article summarized a recent interview with John Tinker and Kenneth Starr by Brown and Bultinck on WGTD Public Radio in Kenosha, Wisconsin where these gentlemen "share[d] their divergent views about limitations on the freedom of speech in schools."
January, 2009	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award Nominations "The New Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" "The New Ozzie and Harriet: Ozzie Runs for Office" "Andy Hardy's White Christmas"
May, 2008	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Meritorious Award "It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life"
January, 2007	State Bar of Wisconsin "Golden Gavel" Award "Judged to be an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of our system of law and justice" "And on the Eighth Day: Bryan v. Darrow"
January, 2006	Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award for Excellence 2005 Best Special Interest Programming "And on the Eighth Day: Bryan v. Darrow"