Top Story Weekly

Last year Top Story! Weekly was fortunate enough to be selected as the Best Scripted Show in the 2009 Del Close Awards. Nominations for iO West’s Del Close Awards came out over the weekend, and Top Story! Weekly was thrilled to once again receive a nomination as Best Scripted Show! Here’s our cast member Sean Cowhig announcing the awards with Maggy Keegan:

In addition, we’re very excited that so many of our cast members, writers, guest stars and colleagues received votes in other categories!

The Jon Crowley Excellence in Bartending Award: Our cast member Brian O’Connell, our Sunday night bartender Molly Prather, and our guest star Nick Bush

Best Waitstaff: Our Sunday night server Vanessa Ramos (who just did an awesome set in our show!):

Also, Rebecca Stevens, who’s guested with us, and Eliana Horeczko, who’s written for us.

Hardest Working Intern: Our former house manger Lauren Miller

Best Andy Dick Black Box Theater Show: Upstate, with our cast member Tommy Bechtold

Best Loft Show: Cuban B’s Improv Fiesta with our writer and guest cast member Andy Harris

The Nick Armstrong Sexiest Player Award: You want a sexy show? Three of the five nominees for Sexiest Player are in our cast: Matt Moore, Sean Cowhig and Tommy Bechtold!

If you’d like to check out the sexiness, watch the hot Moore-on-Cowhig action in this scene from our Matthew Gray Gubler show (Sean and Matt enter around 3:00, and the sexy action starts around 4:00):

And there’s more Sean and Matt sexiness, including a striptease and some Moore-on-Garguilo action, at the beginning of this show:

Best Line: “I’m ladling water on his tail because he’s a merman,” cast member/director Mike Hughes, Those Who Oppose Us Will Stand Knee Deep in the Blood of Their Children

Coach of the Year: Cast member Brian O’Connell

Student of the Year: Our house manager Tiffani Mills

Teacher of the Year: Guest Star Aaron Krebs

Best Harold Team: Trophy Wife, featuring cast members Rachael Drummond and John Abbott and guest star Mike Coen

If you’d like to vote, and you’re a student or alumnus/a of iO West, just head over to the Del Close Awards website and cast your ballot!

And check out some photos of us at last year’s ceremony here and here!