NEWS. Intiman Theatre announced yesterday that managing director Brian Colburn has resigned for personal reasons, and that development director Melaine Bennett has been appointed acting managing director by the board of directors. Not much else is known about Colburn’s departure; it comes just two years after he joined Intiman—hired from the Pasadena Playhouse, where he was managing director—to work alongside then-artistic director Bart Sher. He had two years left on his contract. Bennett is also relatively new to the organization: hired in March 2009, with a resume that included development work at South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse and Theater of the Stars in Atlanta. She will manage the theater’s financial operations, effective today.

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Seattle’s theater community—a nominating committee of critics, Puget Sound theatre professionals, and theatre-goers—honored its own last week at the second Gregory Awards.

Winners included:

Hans Altwies, Outstanding Actor for An Iliad, Seattle Rep; Much Ado About Nothing, Seattle Shakespeare Company
Marya Sea Kaminski, Outstanding Actress for the lead role in Electra, Seattle Shakespeare Company
Sheila Daniels, Outstanding Director for Electra and Much Ado About Nothing, Seattle Shakespeare Company; Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Intiman
Book-It Repertory Theatre’s The Cider House Rules, Part One won Outstanding Production.
ACT won Theatre of the Year.
Person to Watch: Brandon Ivie director, producer: Zanna, Don’t!, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Yellow Wood, Contemporary Classics

For more on the Gregory Awards, click here.