General ticket sales for the 5th annual Tommy Awards are just around the corner.  This year’s edition is set for Saturday, May 9, with dinner at 6 p.m. and the show itself beginning one hour later, all inside the Dolph Stanley Gymnasium.  Attendees for the event – meant to honor school and wider community members and organizations in a variety of areas – can buy tickets starting on Monday.  By that point, however, award nominees will have had their chance to buy tickets, with those notifications sent out this week.  Preparation for the show is an all-hands-on-deck effort to secure aesthetics, sponsorships, and more before the purple carpet is rolled out. 

Ella Hohenstein is helping produce this year’s Tommy Awards and will also serve as an emcee.  She says the Tommy Awards team is looking for enough sponsors to cover the five-figure cost the show carries. 

Grayson Craggs is another show emcee; he also serves on the show’s sponsorship committee.  He says while securing sponsorships is an arduous task, there is a high level of enthusiasm from businesses which step up to help. 

TommyTV will broadcast the Tommy Awards.  Their team’s work also entails some of the digital visual elements seen inside the Dolph. 

Craggs and Hohenstein find enjoyment in the collaborative nature of the work and in the final product and the days leading up to it. 

More information on the Tommy Awards is available at www.tommyawards.tv. 

Grayson Craggs and Ella Hohenstein appeared as guests on the WTIM Morning Show.